Inflatable Buildings That Could Earn $10 Million a Year

Using clever, super-green construction methods, Woods Bagot proposes a building system that would make use of the stalled sites littering New York.

Read full article here.

Source: http://www.fastcompany.com/1662273/stalled-sites

Is that really a car park?

Check out these cool car park designs – concrete jungles I think not.

Source: The Coolhunter

http://www.thecoolhunter.com.au/design/Is-That-Really-A-Car-Park-/

Resources for Urban Design Information – RUDI

RUDI (Resources for Urban Design Information) is a one stop shop for anyone interested in urban design by bringing together high quality text content, directory information and reference sources on one web site.

Chock full of case studies, best practice, images, etc, use it find information for:

• project design
• finding a consultant or manufacturer
• writing technical reports
• academic research and writing
• tracing people and organisations
• sharing information with others
• new developments in urban design
• reviewing new publications

QUT Library subscribes to RUDI – access it via the database record at http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/fullrecord.jsp?id=4971. Follow the prompts and enter the alternative username and passwords listed on the alternative passwords page.

Urban Studies Abstracts – New short term trials via EBSCOhost

A new short term trial to Urban Studies Abstracts is available until 6 June 2008.

This database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 40,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Urban Affairs Review, Urban studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1973. Check it out!

Access via http://www.library.qut.edu.au/db/5399f