How the Layout of Urban "Cells" Affects The Function and Success of Neighborhoods. Learn to Design an Urban Block With This Set of 50 Cards. Learn to Design an Urban Block With This Set of 50 Cards We know perfectly well that learning in architecture and urbanism can take on multiple forms. Just think of all the modeling, drawing, plans, theoretical classes, workshops, 3D models and even virtual reality exercises. In this same line, the team at a+t architecture publishers have put together a collection of cards that seek to facilitate the designing of an urban block with 50 design styles.
Each card measures 13 x 8 cm and is printed on both sides, with a version in English and Spanish. Also, each design includes its axonometric profile, general layout, shade patterns, use coefficient and total built space in both meters and feet. The creators at a+t research group see the set as “50 strategies for organizing spaces”, or, “50 reflections about the use of space. " Via: a+t architecture. Explore urban open data. Espacio público.
Infografía: 10 principios para un Transporte Urbano Sostenible, Plataforma Urbana. 9 de Febrero, 2017 Haz click para agrandar. © Cortesía de GIZ para Plataforma Urbana El Proyecto de Transporte Urbano Sostenible (SUTP) es una iniciativa que promueve el transporte sostenible para que las ciudades tengan medios de desplazamiento más eficientes, limpios, que no congestionen y que sean seguros como una manera de convertirse en lugares más habitables. Creado en 2003 por Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), a través del Ministerio Federal para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación Económica, este proyecto comparte experiencias de movilidad urbana de todo el mundo y asesora a los gobiernos de las ciudades en la elaboración de políticas públicas sobre transporte.
De esta manera busca implementar un paradigma de movilidad centrado en las personas y en medios de transporte no contaminantes bajo el enfoque de “¡Movamos personas, no autos!”. 1. Si deseas descargar la infografía, haz click aquí. The Global Cities With the Worst Traffic Problems. The Global Cities With the Worst Traffic Problems Earlier this year, Dutch company TomTom(TOM2) released a detailed report that uncovered the cities around the world *that have the most traffic congestion, based on the results of the TomTom Traffic Index 2017. According to the latest analysis, Mexico City will retain its crown as the "most traffic congested city" in the world.
Drivers in the Mexican capital are expected to spend an average of 66% extra travel time stuck in traffic any time of the day, and up to 101% in the evening rush hours adding a whopping 227 hours of extra travel time per year. Next in the global rankings are Bangkok (61%), Jakarta (58%), Chongqing (52%) and Bucharest (50%), making up the top five most congested cities in the world. You can find out more about the TomTom Traffic Index, and discover where your home city ranks here. News via: TomTom. Descarga estas ciudades del mundo en alta resolución para CAD.
Descarga estas ciudades del mundo en alta resolución para CAD Mapacad es un sitio web donde se pueden descargar decenas de ciudades de todo el mundo en formato .dwg para Autocad. Tras recopilar 200 urbes, sus fundadores han compartido con nosotros un set con las ciudades más descargadas por cada continente. Cada uno de los archivos contiene múltiples capas como edificios, calles, autopistas, limites o caudales, formados por polilineas cerradas.
Todas listas para empezar a usar con programas especializados en CAD, como Autocad, Rhino, BricsCad o SketchUp. Para activar las descagas gratuitas, debes iniciar sesión en Mapacad.com y introducir el cupón "Mapacad" al momento de pagar. También hay un cupón extra ("PlataformaArquitectura"), por si te interesa descargar otra ciudad con un descuento de 25%. Haz click en cada imagen para redireccionar a Mapacad. Manual de mapeo 2013 by iconoclasistas. Treepedia: la enciclopedia de los árboles de ciudades de todo el mundo, Plataforma Urbana. 20 de Marzo, 2017 © Treepedia Los beneficios de tener áreas verdes en las ciudades son numerosos tanto para sus habitantes como para el medio ambiente. En este sentido es posible mencionar su capacidad para controlar la temperatura ambiental, mitigar la contaminación acústica y atmosférica, reducir los niveles de ansiedad y estrés, e incluso disminuir los niveles de delincuencia (Kuo, FE & Sullivan, 2001).
La importancia de las áreas verdes cada vez se está extendiendo más en ciudades de todo el mundo, pero aún es necesario aumentar su alcance. Por esto, un equipo de investigadores del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), en colaboración con el Foro Económico Mundial, desarrolló el proyecto Treepedia que le permite a ciudadanos, investigadores, planificadores y a cualquier interesado en el tema conocer la cantidad de árboles y la vegetación que hay en ciudades de todo el mundo. Boston, EE.UU. © Treepedia 1. Tel Aviv, Israel. © Treepedia Toronto, Canadá. © Treepedia. Cómo elegir qué árbol plantar - UNIDIVERSIDAD. La amplitud de los sitios y su disponibilidad de agua son los factores principales que definen la elección.
Si bien no hay una especie perfecta, existen muchas adecuadas para el mayor número de situaciones posibles. Como explica el ingeniero agrónomo y presidente del Consejo de Defensa del Arbolado Público de Mendoza, Sergio Carrieri, hay árboles para sitios amplios como avenidas o veredas de 5 metros, para sitios medio,barrios o calles y veredas de 3 a 5 metros y para sitios angostos es decir calles o veredas menores de 3 metros. Otra recomendación es tener en cuenta la disponibilidad de agua. En el siguiente interactivo podés conocer las especies recomendadas, sus características y los sitios adecuados para plantarlas. Además la selección debe basarse en el siguiente orden de prioridades: Ser perfectamente adaptable a las condiciones presentes y futuras de suelo, microclima, ambiente, interrelación con otros servicios y prioridades reales de riego. Free Online Course on Urban Challenges in Emerging Countries is Open for Enrollment. Free Online Course on Urban Challenges in Emerging Countries is Open for Enrollment "Rethink the City; New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges" is a free online course given by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, starting on March 28, 2017.
The course aims to address urban challenges in emerging countries to provide a new perspective in understanding and analyzing the southern hemisphere. For this reason, the content is structured in the following three thematic axes: "Spatial Justice," "Housing Provision and Management," and "Urban Resilience". Enrollment is now open through the Edx.org online education platform. The course has a duration of six weeks between 3 to 4 hours per week and is aimed especially at undergraduate students, especially those in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, according to the course content.
The summer school program will be held between the 17 - 28 of July this year at Delft. Jan Gehl's 5 Rules for Designing Great Cities. Jan Gehl's 5 Rules for Designing Great Cities Danish architect Jan Gehl is a world renowned expert in all things related to urban design and public spaces. He obtained this expertise by publishing numerous books, and later, from his consulting firm Gehl Architects that he founded in Copenhagen, his hometown, to make cities for people. The firm celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2016. During a recent visit to New York, Gehl gave a lecture at the Van Alen Institute, which takes a very similar approach to the importance of design in the quality of life of people.
The 5 points he mentioned are: 1. Climate change and public health are two factors that Jan Gehl says should be of utmost importance to planners, especially considering that "for 50 years, we made cities in such a way that people are almost forced to sit down all day in their cars, in their offices, or in their homes. What causes that? 2. 3. 4. Promoting equality in cities has become a mission in various parts of the world. 5. The Planners' Guide to Trees in the Urban Landscape. The Planners' Guide to Trees in the Urban Landscape Tree and Design Action Group is a group that “shares the collective vision that the location of trees, and all the benefits they bring, can be secured for future generations through better collaboration in the planning, design, construction and management of our urban infrastructure and spaces.”
“Trees make places look and feel better, as well as playing a role in climate proofing our neighborhoods and supporting human health and environmental well-being, trees can also help to create conditions for economic success.” The Trees in the Townscape guide presents a modern approach to urban forestry, providing officials and professionals with the principles and references needed to realize the potential of vegetation in urban areas. This is an approach that keeps pace with and responds to the challenges of our times.
Who should use the 12 principles? How were the 12 principles developed? Here is a brief description of each of the 12 principles: These Are the 3 Bus Stop Types Needed For Sustainable Transit Solutions. These Are the 3 Bus Stop Types Needed For Sustainable Transit Solutions The latest publication of the National Association of City Transportation Officials, NACTO, is the "Transit Street Design Guide" in which tips and proposals are presented on how to improve streets through urban design. The ideas are centered on prioritizing sustainable mobility so that both the member cities of the organization and those that have access to this document can improve their practices in relation to public spaces, mobility, and transportation. From these recommendations, the organization made a series of designs classified according to the style of stops that are defined as somewhere "to do more than just wait.
" We talk about three such designs for bus stops below. 1. Bus stops on sidewalks are probably the most common due to their low economic cost and how quickly they can be made. 2. 3. Streets referred to as terminals can be those close to intermodal stations or where a bus routed begins or ends. What's the Difference Between a Road, a Street and an Avenue? New York City Mapped All of its Trees and Calculated the Economic Benefits of Every Single One. New York City Mapped All of its Trees and Calculated the Economic Benefits of Every Single One Public spaces, squares, and parks in New York City are administered by the city’s Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks). In recent years, the agency has been responsible for creating new programs to help children, youth and adults be aware of the importance of caring for their urban landscape. One of these programs is a TreesCount! Which in 2015 gathered 2,300 volunteers to learn about the trees in their environment, what state they are in, what care they need, what their measurements are, and how they benefit the surrounding community, etc.
For months, they walked the streets of the five boroughs together with a group of monitors who previously trained them to recognize what trees they were studying and their characteristics. Now the information gathered on these walks, which gave rise to an urban forest registry, is available on the New York City Tree Map. Planos de ciudades en DWG - Mapacad.com. 10 Amazing Aerial Views of cities ⋆ ArchEyes. Aerial Photography is particularly difficult to do. First, you’re generally going to be in a moving aircraft with windows.
Considering the cost of plane and fuel, this makes waiting around for better lighting somewhat less of an option. To get a good aerial shot, you need to plan to be in the sky at the right time, know how to avoid window reflection, and be able to take the photo at a quick enough shutter speed that the motion of the airplane doesn’t make the image blurry. For all these reasons, a good aerial shot is that much more impressive than a good shot taken on land. In this article we have selected 10 Amazing Aerial Views from cities to learn from the best Urban Planned metropolis. 01. . © Yann Arthus-Bertrand Paris, France is a major European city and a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy and culture. 02. Nördlingen is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, with a population of approximately 24,000. 03.
. © freewallpaperr 04. New York City, USA. 05. Urban Lectures. SEASON 1: See all lectures below, find a PDF with a summary of all lectures from season one here. SEASON 2: See all lectures below, download a PDF with all synopses, biographies and links here. SEASON 3: At the end of the 2nd season, the Global Urban Lectures had over 50,000 views, was used in university courses across the world, had been mentioned independently as one of the best MOOCs on cities and was in the process of being translated to Arabic.
It is one of UN-Habitat’s most successful outreach initiatives and is being shared across the globe, with a viewer gender balance of 46% women and 54% men, ages spanning 18-65+ the largest group 25-34 year olds, and top ten viewer countries spreading from the US to India, Colombia and France. A new lecture is released every 2 weeks – find the upcoming releases below. The Unreal, Eerie Emptiness of China’s ‘Ghost Cities’ The Kangbashi district of Ordos, China is a marvel of urban planning, 137-square miles of shining towers, futuristic architecture and pristine parks carved out of the grassland of Inner Mongolia.
It is a thoroughly modern city, but for one thing: No one lives there. Well, almost nobody. Kangbashi is one of hundreds of sparkling new cities sitting relatively empty throughout China, built by a government eager to urbanize the country but shunned by people unable to afford it or hesitant to leave the rural communities they know. Chicago photographer Kai Caemmerer visited Kangbashi and two other cities for his ongoing series Unborn Cities. The photos capture the eerie sensation of standing on a silent street surrounded by empty skyscrapers and public spaces devoid of life. “These cities felt slightly surreal and almost uncanny,” Caemmerer says, “which I think is a product of both the newness of these places and the relative lack of people within them.” Go Back to Top. The Street Plans Collaborative - Better Streets, Better Places. New York Miami.
Planos Urbanos | Tienda de Arte Cartográfico Contemporáneo. Ciudades para la Vida. Mapnificent - Dynamic Public Transport Travel Time Maps. Roosegaarde Studio's Bike Path is a Twinkling Road Inspired by Van Gogh. Studio Roosegaarde is known for its mind-bending designs, from a solar-powered glowing highway to a ring made out of smog, but this project takes things to an incredible new level. Inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, the designers have created a gorgeous illuminated bike path made out of swirling solar-powered LEDs and light-collecting paint. At night, the path is lit by thousands of twinkling stones, creating a beautiful night sky on the ground.
The path is illuminated LED lights powered by a nearby solar array that charges during the day which, along with a light-collecting paint, creates a stunning nighttime display. The project is a part of Roosegaarde’s smart roads projects to create safer, more efficient roads. Related: Studio Roosegaarde’s Lotus Dome is a Marriage of Science Fiction and Nature The path connects van Gogh heritage locations in the Netherlands and it was created for the van Gogh 2015 international theme year. . + Studio Roosegaarde.