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Commentary: When Tokyo Was a Slum – The Informal City Dialogues
This essay touches on many of the themes that we will be exploring in the Informal City Dialogues: The way cities develop incrementally and at the hands of ordinary citizens, the role of government in planning and infrastructure, and how neighborhoods integrate with the larger urban system. Through examples like this one, we hope to gain a greater understanding of how to build more inclusive, resilient cities for all. First-time visitors to Tokyo may arrive with one of two fantasies dancing in their heads.
Le Corbusier’s plan may not have had such power if he hadn’t put it on paper. The French modernist architect wanted to reform the polluted industrial city by building “towers in a park” where workers might live high above the streets, surrounded by green space and far from their factories. His idea was radical for the 1930s, and it was his diagrams of it that really captured the imagination.
The Evolution of Urban Planning in 10 Diagrams - Design
Una polémica norma que autoriza la mezcla de usos urbanísticos en toda la ciudad y que, según el secretario de Planeación, Gerardo Ardila, implica que no haya zonas exclusivas residenciales ni de ningún otro tipo fue incluida en el proyecto de reforma del Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial (POT) que presentará esta semana el alcalde Gustavo Petro. Además de invertir las prioridades en el POT, para que se consolide primero la ciudad construida, especialmente el centro, y que la expansión en los bordes de la ciudad se haga "solo si es necesario" -en palabras de Ardila-, la Administración le apostará al "polifuncionalismo ", es decir, la mezcla de usos del suelo, que hoy está prohibida en algunos sectores. Una ciudad con monofuncionalismo no funciona.
Secretario de Planeación habla sobre barrios en Bogotá - Noticias de Bogotá - Colombia
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Don’t worry about what’s going to power the car of the future, there is a bigger problem on the horizon: where to park it. The world’s biggest car makers are growing increasingly concerned about population growth and the emergence of “mega cities” of more than 10 million people. Population experts estimate that by 2050 more than 60 per cent of the developed world will live in high-density areas. And the more high-rise apartments there are, the less room there is to park cars. Advertisement
High rises put squeeze on cars
Shared Space
The concept of building shared space within the public realm is a radical one here in the United States, where automobiles are not only given priority, but completely dominate most public spaces.
La velocidad de la ciudad del futuro >> I Love Bicis
En el imaginario colectivo, influenciado por las películas de Hollywood, las ciudades del futuro vuelan con tranvías y coches flotantes moviéndose a una velocidad supersónica.
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Ciudades superdotadas · ELPAÍS.com
Dicen que la mejor manera de limpiar una casa es no ensuciarla y que la energía más barata es la que no se gasta. ¿Y si el objetivo es mantener limpia una ciudad o rebajar la factura de la luz en una autopista?
El futuro es la inteligencia · ELPAÍS.com
Mejorar las infraestructuras de agua, ahorrar energía, reducir drásticamente el tráfico, adelgazar el alumbrado público o vestir de verde los espacios son algunos de los gestos de decenas de Ayuntamientos y municipios de todo el mundo que empiezan a tomar conciencia del reto que representa el éxodo planetario a la ciudad para mejorar la calidad de vida de sus ciudadanos y, de paso, crear una nueva cultura económica que apueste por el más es menos.For Professor Wulf Daseking, the City of Freiburg's Head of Urban Planning, longevity and continuity aren't just buzzwords on a whiteboard but themes to live and plan by. After 26 years at the helm of Germany's Environmental Capital, Daseking embodies the notion of sustainability in a city that has seen only four planning directors since World War II. However, the secret ingredient that earned Freiburg the Academy of Urbanism's European City of the Year Award in 2010 is Daseking's flair for bold and unconventional thinking.
Universal Principles for Creating a Sustainable City
Global Reports on Human Settlements | 2011
Climate change is one of the most dangerous threats ever faced by humankind. Fuelled by two powerful human-Induced forces that have been unleashed by development and manipulation of the environment in the industrial age, the effects of urbanization and climate change are converging in ways which threaten to have unprecedented negative impacts on urban quality of life, and economic and social stability.For a kid who spent much of his childhood outdoors—alternately splitting time between the wooded park down the street, my friends’ backyards, and a patch of countryside my parent’s tended—I have been spending a lot of time in rather large cities as an adult.
This is your brain in the city « Per Square Mile
Village Towns
Vandana Shiva, an internationally recognized Indian activist and philosopher, explains that planning for the human being rather than the automobile can liberate space and create community within a city.“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9) preface
The Continued Relevance of Reclaiming the Urban Memory
Future Cities
Back to the Future | James Howard Kunstler
A road map for tomorrow's citiesmovilidad
Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia. - By Annie Lowrey
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