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Bogotá tiene la ventana rota. Hace un tiempo hubo una polémica muy fuerte acerca de la creciente inseguridad en Transmilenio, de la falta de civismo de los usuarios, de los vendedores, los cantantes, limosneros, ladrones, etc. Todos los días había una noticia nueva, un atraco nuevo, pero al parecer a los medios de comunicación ya se les volvió paisaje el tema, como todo. En un tiempito se nos olvidará la emergencia ecológica en Tumaco. En fin, desde ese entonces yo quería escribir esta entrada y hasta ahora vengo a hacerlo.

Ahí tienen lo incumplido que me he vuelto. Fuente: rcnradio.com No sé si conozcan aquella historia (teoría, fábula, mito, no sé) que habla de un experimento en el que ponen un simio con unas bananas en el árbol, y que cada vez que el simio este va a coger bananas lo mojan y se cae. Lo mismo es con nosotros. Cambiemos de ejemplo, algunos quizás han escuchado mencionar la Teoría de las Ventanas Rotas. En otras palabras, lo que se mantiene bonito, se queda bonito. Fuente: taringa.net Bonito, ¿no? What If You Didn't Need A Bike Lock, Because The Bike Rack Locked Your Bike For You? After his bike was stolen, product design student Mason Holden started combing Amazon for a better lock. The problem: It didn't exist. Even the best lock on the market was easily breakable with a few simple tools.

So Holden teamed up with fellow Glasgow School of Art student Daniel Harking to design an alternative. The heavier a bike lock, the better it works. "The way we saw the problem was that there's a limit to the weight cyclists are willing to carry, and that's the limit of bicycle security," says Harking. In the new design, called the BikeVault, the lock is built into the bike rack. The rack was designed to look better than the typical industrial steel loops. That has an important advantage: The more public the space, the less likely a thief is to try to take off other removable parts like a light, saddle, or a quick-release front wheel. They hope for the rack to cycle through six ads a minute, running for four weeks. Harking compares it to the shift from cash to plastic. The steep costs of living so far apart from each other. Courtesy of Flickr user David Wilson under a Creative Commons license.

In strictly economic terms, sprawl is inefficient. Spread people out, and it takes them longer to drive where they need to go, and it costs them more in gas money to get there. Disperse a few people over a lot of land, and that land is used inefficiently, too. Then give those people roads and sewers — you’d need a lot more of both to serve 20 households living over a square mile than 20 on the same block. These costs add up, in both private budgets and public ones. So take this number as more of a starting point than a final answer: A new analysis authored by Todd Litman at the Victoria Transport Policy Institute concludes that sprawl costs the U.S. economy more than $1 trillion every year.

More than half of that, Littman calculates as part of a New Climate Economy research project lead by the London School of Economics, is borne by people living in sprawling places who have to drive more, among other things. Litman. LSD Magazine | Art – Music – Life. This Startup Wants To Turn Your City Into An Electric Scooter Heaven. The world's cities are rapidly getting larger. By 2050, more than 70% of the world's population will live in urban areas. All of those people will need effective, reliable transportation—and unless we want to live on a planet where every city is as smog-choked as China's, that transportation will have to largely be emissions-free.

A mysterious startup, called Gogoro, wants to provide that form of transportation. Armed with $150 million in funding, the company—which has been teasing "a more intelligent and adaptive system for today’s most dynamic cities" for months—has finally gotten specific about its idea: a slick electric scooter that's compatible with a network of battery swap stations deployed every few blocks across a city. That's just the beginning. Horace Luke, co-founder and CEO of the company, calls this system the Gogoro Energy Network.

The used battery is quickly removed and inserted into the modular swap station, which is about the size of an ATM machine. Walkability Is Good for You. Ever since Jane Jacobs' classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, urbanists have extolled the ideal of the dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhood, contrasting it with the dull and deadly cul-de-sacs of car-oriented suburbs. If walkability has long been an “ideal,” a recent slew of studies provide increasingly compelling evidence of the positive effects of walkable neighborhoods on everything from housing values to crime and health, to creativity and more democratic cities. A key research advance has been the development of the Walk Score metric (we have written about it here before), which provides a baseline measure for walkable communities. Walk Score uses data from Google, OpenStreetMap and the U.S.

Census to assign any address a walkability ranking from zero to 100 based on a its pedestrian friendliness and distance to amenities such as grocery stores, restaurants, public transit, and the like. Other research has examined the connection between walkability and health. Www.sostenibilidad.semana.com/tendencias/articulo/cicloruta-inspirada-van-gogh-iluminada-energia-solar/32153. Pintura foto-lumínica, que absorbe la energía solar durante el día, y miles de bombillas LED se unen para crear uno de los paisajes nocturnos más hermosos que se pueden en la actualidad. La pequeña localidad de Nuenen (Holanda) es el lugar donde el arte, la naturaleza y el uso eficiente de la energía crean una maravillosa experiencia para los ciclistas, quienes circulan en medio de patrones inspirados por la pintura ‘La noche estrellada’.

El diseñador Daan Roosegaarde, quien ya había utilizado esta tecnología para hacer algunas autopistas más seguras en la noche, es el artífice del ciclopaseo que tiene como objetivo celebrar el 125 aniversario de la muerte del pintor holandés Vincent Van Gogh. Según Roosegaarde el camino utiliza un método de iluminación que es "más suave a la vista y respecto naturaleza que lo rodea", esto responde a la autosuficiencia de la iluminación que cuenta además con un panel solar para dar energía a las luces LED.

(Vea: Un sol LED para disipar la oscuridad) Urbanista brasileño Jaime Lerner le aconseja a Bogotá no hacer metro - Bogotá. El famoso arquitecto y urbanista Jaime Lerner, tres veces alcalde de Curitiba y exgobernador del Estado de Paraná, en Brasil, a quien Naciones Unidas le otorgó el Premio Máximo de Medio Ambiente, le sugirió a Bogotá no construir un metro subterráneo, pues señala que ese sistema "es una cosa del pasado". Su recomendación consiste en “innovar” con un sistema de buses eléctricos de gran capacidad, por la superficie, sin necesidad de rieles.

Lerner, quien se dio a conocer en el mundo por haber concebido el primer sistema tipo TransMilenio, en 1974, en Curitiba, habló con EL TIEMPO en Cartagena, a donde asistió como invitado especial del XI Congreso de la Cámara Colombiana de la Infraestructura. En la entrevista, comparó el uso desmedido del carro particular en las grandes ciudades del mundo con el consumo de cigarrillo. A su juicio, se trata de dos vicios similares, difíciles de dejar, que atentan contra el aire y la calidad de vida.

En Bogotá, TM fue una gran conquista. Ellos no son expertos. Nueva York demuestra que las pistas protegidas para bicicletas son un beneficio para todos. La introducción de carriles protegidos para bicicletas en muchas ciudades, por lo general suscita objeciones por parte de los automovilistas que creen que dedicar toda una pista de la calzada a los ciclistas, restringirá el flujo vehicular y sólo aportará más congestión. Sin embargo, un estudio de las calles de Nueva York en las que se implementaron los primeros carriles protegidos para bicicletas en 2007, ha demostrado recientemente que la realidad es opuesta: al separar los diferentes tipos de tráfico, los automóviles pueden moverse más rápido.

Eso es antes incluso de comenzar a discutir los beneficios de seguridad de los carriles protegidos para bicicletas, con el estudio que muestra que el riesgo de lesiones a los ciclistas, los conductores y los peatones, ha disminuido considerablemente en las calles donde se instalaron los carriles protegidos. Más información sobre este estudio, después del salto Historia via Fastco Exist. The Public Library Wants To Be Your Office | Fast Company | Business + Innovation. It’s 9:45 on a Monday morning, and Jonathan Marino has just arrived at his tech startup in D.C.’s Chinatown neighborhood. The 30-year-old director of content for Map Story--which aims to be the Wikipedia of interactive maps--greets his two interns with a huge smile, joins them at an open table tucked inside a glass-walled pod, and fires up his laptop.

Hunched over their computers, the group looks like any other early-stage startup, with one key distinction--their “office” is merely a meeting area inside Washington, D.C.’s main public library. Home to nearly 784 million printed books, U.S. public libraries aren’t just a place to peruse them in silence anymore. Over the past decade, dozens of reading rooms have been reincarnated as de facto coworking spaces. Some, including D.C.’s Digital Commons and Scottsdale, Arizona’s Eureka Loft, cater expressly to startups by helping them find funding, mentors, and other resources to advance their business plans. Refreshing The Mission D.C. Gentrification, Inc. It is Sunday in Brooklyn, the July air oppressive. You get on the subway, heading for the depths of the borough, someplace no one you know lives--yet. Off the train, phone and maps app in hand, you walk toward the pedestrian underpass of the noisy Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, meandering through a mix of residential buildings, bodegas, factories, and abandoned buildings.

And then you find it: a huge, shady courtyard between two towering manufacturing buildings, strung with twinkling lights and tricked out with bars serving sangria, a taco stand, a dance floor, and most importantly, a DJ table. You’ve arrived at Mister Sunday, one of the best daytime dance parties in New York. A sweaty, multi-ethnic tangle of scantily clad twenty- and thirtysomethings in barely-there rompers and jorts rub shoulders and butts on the dance floor with young parents with babies on their hips and aging disco-era veterans.

Follow That Hipster! The Chelsea Market Method Pickle It And They Will Come A New Wave. 4 | The Real Scandal In NYC Real Estate? Not Enough Poor Doors. Over the past couple weeks, a media tempest has swirled up, devoted to the notion that there is discrimination against poor people in New York City real estate. Scandalous! The rich and poor residents of a building under construction on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, in a high-end development called Riverside South, will have to use separate entrances to their collective home. Outlets ranging from Forbes to Al Jazeera jumped on the story. Google News turns up over 17,000 results for the term “poor door.” And newspapers like London’s Guardian have discovered examples of class segregation in their own cities. Again: shocking!

The building in question, One Riverside Park, is such a potent symbol of all that we fear about the plutocratization of New York City, that if it didn’t exist, some editorial cartoonist would have to draw it. This is far from the first building in New York where issues of class play a prominent role. Living PlanIT and the Development of the 'PlanIT Urban Operating System™: The Geographies of an Innovation. Portugal – 09 June 2014 Luís Carvalho European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (Euricur) & Department of Urban, Port and Transport Economics (RHV b.v.), Erasmus University Rotterdam. Inês Plácido Santos Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), Coimbra. Mário Vale Centre for Geographical Studies & Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon Abstract This case study explores the development of the PlanIT OS™ and PlanIT Urban Operating System™ (or PlanIT UOS™), a complex software platform designed to link a city´s sub-systems (e.g. built environment, safety & security, communications, energy, water, waste, mobility ) and harmonizing resources flows towards manifold efficiency gains thus enabling creation of urban environments that are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.

Introduction Over the last decades, the emphasis on “green” or “sustainability” has grown in the policy agenda of many cities worldwide (BETSILL and BULKELY, 2007). The Next Big Thing In Urban Planning? Backyard Cottages. As the days of suburban sprawl give way to those of urban density in U.S. metros--"smart growth," most call it--providing sufficient housing remains a challenge.

Decades of planning regulations and highway patterns support single-family homes built far outside a city center. Even in areas where big residential towers make sense, developing them takes a long time and costs a lot of money. Manhattan wasn't built in a day. Planning scholar Jake Wegmann, who's in the process of moving from Berkeley to the University of Texas at Austin, believes there's another way: backyard cottages.

Hear him out. Individual micro-units on single-family properties don't require much time or money to build. In other words, backyard cottages may not scream Manhattanization or even necessarily smart growth, but implemented over a wide swatch of a metro area they might achieve a similar end. Next they looked at backyard cottages. The concept goes well beyond the theoretical realm of academia. Why Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wants You To Disagree With Him. Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel's work day consists of meetings and decisions that affect millions of lives--no big deal to someone who's not a stranger to high-stakes politics. Emanuel is a veteran politician who served in the Clinton White House as one of President Clinton’s senior advisers.

Before winning the Chicago mayoral election in 2011, he was President Obama’s White House chief of staff for two years. Fast Company Editor-in-Chief Bob Safian sat down with the mayor and asked him how he makes it all work. His secret? Getting people to disagree with him. “[I] have to create an atmosphere where . . . my cabinet and staff can challenge me and challenge what we think we’re gonna do,” Emanuel says. He might take their head off, he jokes, but he will listen to what they have to say. He draws some inspiration from the two presidents he’s worked for--President Clinton and President Obama--who encouraged the same spirit of debate in the office.

“You don’t continue to debate,” he says. How Crowdsourcing And Machine Learning Will Change The Way We Design Cities. In 2011, researchers at the MIT Media Lab debuted Place Pulse, a website that served as a kind of "hot or not" for cities. Given two Google Street View images culled from a select few cities including New York City and Boston, the site asked users to click on the one that seemed safer, more affluent, or more unique.

The result was an empirical way to measure urban aesthetics. Now, that data is being used to predict what parts of cities feel the safest. StreetScore, a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab's Macro Connections and Camera Culture groups, uses an algorithm to create a super high-resolution map of urban perceptions. The algorithmically generated data could one day be used to research the connection between urban perception and crime, as well as informing urban design decisions. The algorithm, created by Nikhil Naik, a Ph.D. student in the Camera Culture lab, breaks an image down into its composite features--such as building texture, colors, and shapes. "La gente rica debe acostumbrarse a usar el transp.

The Best Bus Stops In The World Are Hiding In This Tiny Austrian Village. Awesome Neon Maps Of City Landmarks. The 15 Most Popular Cities For Riding Your Bike To Work. This 10-Mile Loop Of Parks Would Protect New York From Rising Water. Can't Handle The Steep Hill? Take A Ride On This Bike Elevator. Road deaths: Driving to an early grave. The Economist explains: Why Sweden has so few road deaths. Take A Stroll On New York's New High Line, Coming Soon To Queens. The East Coast’s Wintry Mess Is The Perfect Weather For A Good Sneckdown. This Enormous Moscow Park Used To Be A Four-Lane Highway. Why The World's Largest Experiment In Free Public Transportation Failed. 14 | Watch Mumbai Explode Into A Shiny City Of Skyscrapers. These Are America's 10 Best Bike Lanes. A Simple Math Equation Could Solve Highway Traffic Jams Forever. 12 | New York's Love Affair With Citi Bike, Visualized.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser. HUNDERTWASSER y sus cinco pieles. HUNDERTWASSER HOUSES | Hacia la Otra Arquitectura. 9 | A Hurricane-Ready New York Waterfront, Built From Sunken Ships. Michael Bloomberg And Janette Sadik-Khan On The Future Of Walking, Biking, And Driving. Why Social Sustainability Should Be Part Of Every Business. When You Talk To The Lamppost And It Talks Back: Smart Cities Get Playful.

New York City's Bike-Share Hits 100,000 Rides. Four Freedoms Park: Louis Kahn's Memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Every park should have its own awesome 170-foot long trampoline. Transforming Freshkills Park from Landfill to Landscape | Design Decoded. San Francisco's Makeathon Leads the Way for Hacking the Urban Landscape | Design Decoded. Plant Paradise: Artificial Pavilion Extends Dutch City into Lake.