Doors of Perception. CAD Block Exchange Network - Free Online AutoCAD Block Library- LAURA FORLANO. Open urbanism: why the information economy will lead to sustainable cities. On Monday this week I attended the World Bank’s “Rethinking Cities” Symposium in Barcelona.
I was asked to give presentations to the Symposium on the contributions technology could make to two challenges: improving social and physical mobility in cities; and the encouragement of change to more sustainable behaviours by including “externalities” (such as social and environmental costs) in the prices of goods and services. (In her speech ahead of the Rio +20 Summit, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, said that one of the challenges for achieving a sustainable, equitably distributed return to growth following the recent economic challenges was that these externalities are not currently included in prices).
These two topics are clearly linked. The lack of access that some city communities have to economic and personal opportunity is in part a social consequence of the way that systems such as education, transport and planning operate. Open Thinking. Edge : Conversations on the edge of human knowledge. Polis. Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited. Essays: An edible urbanism.
Video of egg & bacon muffins via first floor apartment window / Ravintolapäivä (Blog admin: keen-eyed readers will have noted I posted the following piece as part of my post on Ravintolapäivä a few weeks ago.
But I thought it is better off filed on its own, for the sake of both pieces. Occasionally, reader, you have to suffer my filing whims.) In the midst of all our (Sitra's) field work on street food in Helsinki, and its wider context, I was asked by Artek to write a short piece for a new magazine—Manifest—that they were co-producing for Helsinki World Design Capital (also to be deployed at the Salone design show in Milan.) Here's the article I wrote, or rather, the slightly longer original edit of what is a short piece. An edible urbanism Last summer, Helsinki witnessed two culinary insurgency movements in quick succession. The first was the 'Camionette', and sold coffee and crepes. The second incursion was 'Ravintolapäivä' (RP). For one thing, there was barely any organisation there. Tutorials. About The GRID Blog.
Home : Ruderal. Landscape urbanism bullshit generator. URBAN ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY - RANDOM. Grand Opening Miami Beach SoundScape / Lincoln Park. Designed by the Dutch urban design & landscape architecture firm West 8, Miami Beach SoundScape is a new 3-acre urban park in the cultural and civic heart of downtown Miami Beach.
Click above image to view slideshowMiami Beach SoundScape / Lincoln Park by West 8 (Photo: West 8 urban design & landscape architecture) Capturing the spirit and vitality of Miami Beach, it is a flexible, multi-use space adjacent to the new Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, and serves as both an urban oasis and a gathering place for cultural and special events. In 2009, West 8’s winning design for Lincoln Park was unanimously chosen by the Miami Beach Commission.
The park is part of the New World Symphony Campus, which includes a concert hall and a conservatory where young talent coming to study and perform. ZARAGOZA MILLA DIGITAL. Urban digital media The organic, responsive qualities of the water wall Digital bus stops The digital and programming systems necessary for the functioning of the urban spaces that comprise Milla Digital Water wall: An interactive fountain system in which falling streams of water can be controlled by digital means.
The wall will be urban-scaled, like a canal running through the city, but twisted into the vertical plane, so that it can be observed from a distance. (+ information PDF) Digital bus stops: an interactive model that will provide information and maps about the route that each citizen wishes to take, it will permit the use of display screens, activated by touch or by mobile phone and it will provide wireless connectivity.
C-Lab Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting. BLDGBLOG. Cityofsound. Flow-n. Faslanyc. Copenhagenize.com - Bicycle Culture by Design. New Blogs. As I mentioned, there is a virtual explosion of blogs covering topics of landscape and urbanism... meaning my reading list at one point topped 150 sites.
As I steadily pared this down (right now I consistently read only 3 feeds along with some targeted google alerts), I found much more time to actual read books, articles, and other media - and better yet, found some room to reflect and respond to these texts in a meaningful way. Tomorrow's Thoughts Today. Lunch : The University of Virginia School of Architecture. Introduction: Extending Landscape Urbanism’s History In practice, landscape and urbanism have often been held apart by the professional boundaries between them, which are reinforced by divergent tactics and working scales. Joining these two terms into a hybrid methodology, as landscape urbanist practitioners have recently done, can be generative, sparking new ways of approaching the condition of cities as vast horizontal networks.
Landscape urbanism promotes a “disciplinary realignment where landscape supplants architecture’s role as the basic building block of urban design.”1 This collision of terminology and methodology has contributed greatly to current design discourse. At the same time, what seems to be a prevailing effort to present landscape urbanism as a new, emergent discipline obscures a lineage of thought that would only bolster its credibility, if not its claim for originality. Landscape Architecture Works. Yeni Mimar. The Dirt. Dandelion Times.