In September 2021 Richard Lambert, the founder of Natural Walking Cities, wrote a commentary piece titled ‘Greening Asia’s City Streets: Why all cities should prioritise green walking’ – that was featured in FuturArc: The voice of green architecture in Asia-Pacific in their 3rd Quarter 2021 edition. The piece explains the trajectory that Asian cities have been on in terms of …
At The Nature of Cities Festival 2021 Richard Lambert, founder of Natural Walking Cities, gave a short presentation on how urban green infrastructure enhances walkability. Contributing to the TNOC Festival that pushed boundaries to radically imagine our cities for the future. A virtual festival that covered 5 days with programming across all regional time zones and provided in multiple languages. …
We have published a chapter titled ‘Walkability in Asian Cities’ in The City at Eye Level Asia book published in October 2020 by STIPO as part of their City at Eye Level series of industry best practice publications. The City at Eye Level series is focused on promoting place making and how to plan and create cities, streets and places …
Singapore has been known as a city in a garden ever since the government coined the vision and term “garden city” in the 1967. It has pursued policies to expand new green infrastructure and replace any that is lost due to urban development – taking advantage of its tropical environmental; and they have been successful. In 2020 46.5% of Singapore’s …
In 21st Century Malaysian cities pedestrians are often neglected, with general dominance of motor vehicles in terms of space, volume and priority. Combined with the country’s tropical climate, often urban walking environments are hostile. However, some Malaysian cities are working to enhance their walking environments and one tool that is being used is utilising their existing natural infrastructure of blue …
All across Asia, streets and in particular footways, that are typically the domain of pedestrians in Western urban spaces, are used for a huge variety of activities that sustain and maintain the life blood of a city and street. Whether that’s social space for gathering and meeting; economic spaces – where local businesses ply their service or sell their item; …
As of 2020, five of the most important cities and towns in Vietnam and Laos have introduced both temporary and permanent pedestrian and walking zones. Ho Chi Minh’s (HCMC) walking street shows how combining both permenant pedestrianised streets with temporary timed car free areas provides great flexibility to people orientated urban areas and allows for Hoi An’s temporary historical zone …
As part of Indonesia’s second largest cities’ (10 million Greater metropolitan residents) green city initiatives the mayor of Surabaya has prioritised reducing the cities’ temperatures Since Surabaya is close to the equator and at sea level it experiences high average temperatures which when influenced by the urban heat island effect result in even more uncomfortable temperatures. Surabaya has for over …
This medium sized temperate city in Eastern Java has taken advantage of its milder climate and existing green infrastructure to increase its total amount of greenery – the cities green strategy has increased its proportion of urban green space to more than 30%. One of the most successful elements of the cities plan to increase urban green space has been …
As one of the world’s largest mega cities (Greater Jakarta over 30 million) Jakarta’s transport network is under a lot of pressure and is currently dominated by private vehicles, both cars and around 15 millions motorbikes, leading to heavy congestion and non-pedestrian friendly street environments. As part of initiatives to develop more people and sustainable oriented transport networks community engagement …
