The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog: Copenhagen, Jan Gehl and Contested Streets. Leannamanning: Teaser of Prince Charles’ Zero Waste educational materials « Freshkills Park Blog. Public Space. Nearly everywhere in the livable streets world you look, the sneckdown phenomenon is growing - with hundreds of photos tagged #sneckdown on Twitter in the last month. Although the majority of news articles & blogging sites have done a commendable job spreading the word, there's still a bit of confusion about the origin of the term and how it all started up. So let's clear that up. About me: I've been shooting video since the late 1990s, always looking for interesting ways to explain transportation concepts to people. At first it was a hobby. In 2003, it morphed in to a full time job.
(And if we want to delve back further, I've been told by friends that they had professors in urban planning courses talking about observing the patterns of footprints and vehicles in the snow, some as early as the mid-1990s. I lived in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. I got a lot of positive feedback on that short. It was perfect. Credit: Nels Nelson (more…) San Francisco Does Sunday Streets. La ville : un milieu naturel pour l'homme - une vidéo Actu et Politique. City Life - Drama. L’intermodalité : une réponse au besoin des populations - une vidéo Campus. Bâtir vert pour mieux construire - une vidéo Hi-Tech et Science. Eco-quartiers à Paris : enfin ! - une vidéo. Malmo : une reconversion durable - une vidéo Actu et Politique. Beau, écolo et rigolo, les idées déco d'Elisabeth Laville - une vidéo Art et Création.
Un logement social parisien : l'Astrolarbre - une vidéo Art et Création. Jardins partagés - une vidéo Vie pratique. Ma vie sans carbone (15): un village bio et social - une vidéo Actu et Politique. Le développement durable à la Cité - une vidéo Actu et Politique. La Maison du développement durable à Montréal - une vidéo Art et Création. Belcier / épisode 9, nature espaces verts et jardins partagé - une vidéo Art et Création. Une idée pour changer votre quartier ? - une vidéo. Voynet à Fribourg quartier Vauban - une vidéo.
Vauban, un quartier vert de 5 000 hab sans aucune voiture - une vidéo Vie pratique. Interview d'Alain Jund, adjoint (Verts) sur l'éco-quartier - une vidéo Actu et Politique. Quartier vert de Montmartre - une vidéo. Lausanne en roue libre | Reportage urbanisme 09. Barometre des quartiers. Built To Last. Artisans du Changement | Site officiel des Artisans du Changement. Makdreams. Fixing the Great Mistake: Autocentric Development. "Fixing the Great Mistake" is a new Streetfilms series that examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th Century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions continue to affect our lives today. In this episode, Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White shows how planning for cars drastically altered Park Avenue.
Watch and see what Park Avenue used to look like, how we ceded it to the automobile, and what we need to do to reclaim the street as a space where people take precedence over traffic. Paul White. [0:07] I am sitting on what is left of the park of Park Avenue. As its name might imply, Park Avenue used to be a real park. In the late '20's, early '30's it became all cars, all the time.
. [0:30] In the '30's and '40's, virtually all major streets in New York were widened, so that the sidewalks that used to be 20, 25 feet wide, become 15 and 10 feet wide. . [1:00] This was a wrong turn that New York made. Inspiration Wall. In The Street – New York in the 1940′s With footage from the late 1940′s, this documentary titled “In The Street” by James Agee, Janice Loeb and Helen Levitt captures the poetry in the streets of urban New York.
The text at the beginning reads, “The streets of the poor quarters of great cities are, above all, a theater and a battleground. There, unaware and unnoticed, every human being is a poet, a masker, a warrior, a dancer: and in his innocent artistry he projects, against the turmoil of the street, an image of human existence. The attempt in this short film is to capture this image.” It has been divided into two parts, both of which are below… Helen Levitt, a New York photographer known for her amazing work in documenting the urban experience within the streets of New York City, passed away this year at the age of 95. Images via stephen daiter gallery,masters of photography and ground glass No Comments so farLeave a comment. Seeing Daylight. The idea of daylighting streams is compelling as an urban intervention - unearthing the natural drainage from the buried pipes and. A new project from Seattle offers a unique vision of the potential in action. Some background: "A large, paved lot once devoted to overflow mall traffic and RV parking has been replaced with a landscaped, open space that allows the beginnings of Thornton Creek to flow above ground for the first time in decades.
Before, a large underground pipe diverted the water to an outfall several blocks away. This project now lets water in the creek's south fork flow as it should above ground and nourish its new stream bed before exiting under Fifth Avenue Northeast into the existing creek. " :: image via The Seattle Times The design, adjacent to Thornton Place, was completed for Seatle Public Utilities and the great Seattle firm SvR Design which has a history of innovative work in the region. :: Site Plan - image via inspiration wall.