Michael Marriott
Peripatetic urban researcher; far too opinionated but generally optimistic fledgling landscape architect disguised (presently) as PhD student.
A Myth of Urban Design: The ‘Sense of Enclosure’ Theory. Pacifying Police Unit. Behind the back of the attentive Christ the Redeemer the UPP guards the entrance and the water tank of the favela Santa Marta The Pacifying Police Unit (Portuguese: Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora, also translated as Police Pacification Unit), abbreviated UPP, is a law enforcement and social services program pioneered in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which aims at reclaiming territories, more commonly favelas, controlled by gangs of drug dealers.
The program was created and implemented by State Public Security Secretary José Mariano Beltrame, with the backing of Rio Governor Sérgio Cabral. The stated goal of Rio's government is to install 40 UPPs by 2014. By May 2013, 231 favelas had come under the UPP umbrella. Background[edit] Peter Sloterdijk. Peter Sloterdijk (German: [ˈsloːtɐˌdaɪk]; born June 26, 1947) is a German philosopher, cultural theorist, television host and columnist.
He is a professor of philosophy and media theory at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe. He co-hosted the German show Im Glashaus: Das Philosophische Quartett until 2012. Biography[edit] Sloterdijk's father is Dutch. He studied philosophy, German studies and history at the University of Munich and the University of Hamburg from 1968 to 1974. Philosophy[edit] What is the opposite of "meta"? ETHZ - Computer Vision Lab: About the Lab. Esri GIS Education Community. PORTO ALEGRE...ANTES e AGORA......SURPREENDENTE !!! Society for International Development Forum. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks.
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The Centre for Subtropical Design - sense of home, sense of place. Popular West End market slashed. West End's Green Flea Market supporters take their protest to Brisbane City Hall.
Photo: Tony Moore West End's popular Green Flea Market will be scaled back in size by its new Sydney-based operators, Brisbane City Council has confirmed. Current market operator and local identity Peter Hackworth, whose supporters crammed into Brisbane City Hall in an emotional protest this morning, has allowed 180 stallholders to set up shop at Saturday's popular market. Teresa caldeira. Crowdmap. Munity-based organisatons in different parts of the world. World wide community organisations database. Www.e-urbs.net - European Master in Comparative Urban Studies. Maps » Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v3. A. / Alvito, M. ( Ed. ) Zaluar. Monoactivité. Development and Dreams: The Urban Legacy of the 2010 Football World Cup. Global Civic Policy Society. Greeting Fluency Salon 2013 Wednesday September 25th, 2013. 3:00 – 4:30 pm followed by light refreshments.
Performance Centre at the Roundhouse Community Centre 181 Roundhouse Mews $10.00 CASH at the Door RSVP lzanatta@globalcivic.org. Community Networking Resources. Community networks go through distinct phases of evolution and each phase is marked with distinct opportunities and challenges.
Nobody knows the precise formula for successfully developing and sustaining community networks. Crimes em Niterói. Brisbane Between the Wars : A History by Design. T.R.
Hall's and G.G. Blog Taking the Reigns: Slum Dwellers Drive the Upgrading Process in Pune, India. By Ariana K.
MacPherson, SDI Secretariat In March I came across Mukta Naik’s piece for Global Urbanist blog on her firm’s involvement in a project to redevelop two slum clusters in Delhi as part of the national Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) housing scheme. While her piece highlights a number of key principles in the creation of cities that include rather than marginalize the urban poor – arguing, for example, for in situ upgrading rather than relocation, and the central participation of slum dwellers in the planning process - I felt as though in the end, there was at least one critical departure from my take on the role of slum dwellers in the production of future cities.
How do we reconcile the planner's perceptions with the slum dwellers' reality? India's Rajiv Awas Yojana. The Government of India has launched the Rajiv Awas Yojana, a grand housing scheme for a 'slum-free India'.
But can grand schemes work when planners and policymakers neither understand the reality of the urban poor nor connect to their aspirations? The urban housing shortage in India, officially pegged at 24.7 million in 2007 and unofficially at about 40 million, largely exists in the low-income segment. Indian policymakers stubbornly refused to acknowledge urbanisation as a reality for decades; as a result all aspects of city development, including housing, have been neglected for far too long, and poor people have had no option but to 'squat' on interstitial land tracts. Around 110 million Indians live in slums in tiny makeshift homes, with variable access to basic services like water, sanitation and sewage, uncertain tenure and even more uncertain futures.
Following RAY's guidelines, our design scheme was developed through a series of community interactions. The four keys to urban expansion identified at the World Urban Forum. At the World Urban Forum in Naples last week, both global urban policy and quantitative research efforts converged on a single conclusion: that the spatial planning of massive new urban expansion areas surrounding their cities is one of the most important things any government can do to make urbanisation sustainable.
Some 8,000 registered participants and 16,000 exhibition visitors made their way to the World Urban Forum 6 in Naples last week, the flagship biennial event organised by UN-HABITAT. Round tables of ministers, mayors, parliamentarians and other leaders were convened, hundreds of discussions on everything from accelerating housing supply to slowing down cities were hosted, and thousands of chance encounters ensured an impossibly busy week for everyone. Much of the material presented was naturally very self-promotional, but a few strands of discussion stood out for us that we will share over the course of the week. Planning and Development - Brisbane City Council. Welcome to Brisbane City Council’s PD Online, an online Planning and Development System containing the following services PD Online may be subject to intermittent lapses of the availability of the service.
As a result, users seeking to view Development Applications may experience some delays during peak times. Should you experience any performance issues and you would like to make a submission (or feedback), please email your submission to Dalodgement@brisbane.qld.gov.au. Please ensure your email clearly identifies the development application to which the submission relates (with Council reference number and street address), and include the name and address of each person who is making the submission.
July 2011. The next essay in the Landscape Urbanism Reader, following 'Terra Fluxus' and the initial 'Reference Manifesto' is a longer essay by Waldheim exploring the idea that landscape is most suited to the modern metropolis, being "uniquely capable of responding to temporal change, transformation, adaptation, and succession... a medium uniquely suited to the open-endedness, indeterminacy, and change demanded by contemporary urban conditions. " (39) This idea could be considered one of the formative structures on which landscape urbanism is built, explained by many writers as a response the failings of architecture and urban design to cope with the complexity of the urban situation, leading to Waldheim's apt, but somewhat hyperbolic statement that "the discourse surrounding landscape urbanism can be read as a disciplinary realignment in which landscape supplants architecture's historical role as the basic building block of urban design.
" (37) Sustainability of informal settlement. Grey Street EOI: QATA X South Bank Corporation. South Bank Corporation has developed and approved a Grey Street Place Management Strategy to realise its goal of creating one of Brisbane’s great streets. As Grey Street is not the sole domain of the Corporation, it requires a place making approach to developing a self organising community for the future that actively participates in co-creating the street. South Bank wants to engage the many diverse communities who use the street to share in the shaping of an integrated design approach and participate in creating ideas for a shared future.
Geography Department. Urban report: Brick and Gold. The Urbanism and Architecture of Informal Belgrade. Text: Milica Topalović Photo: ETH Studio Basel & Bas Princen This text is an excerpt from an essay “Brick and Gold: The Urbanism and Architecture of Informal Belgrade” by Milica Topalović in Belgrade. Formal / Informal: A Research on Urban Transformation. The book was initiated in 2006 and produced by the ETH Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute and published in 2011 by Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess from Zürich. Periphery Streets are quiet, pedestrian friendly, and yet a pedestrian pavement is missing. Actually, an entire bandwidth of street connected elements is missing; there are no green strips, bicycle paths, or painted traffic lines, no concrete curbs, parking places, or raised and lowered surfaces. Backbones. Dissertations, Chair of Sociology, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich.
The Mega-city in Latin America (UNU, 1996, 282 pages) 1. The Latin American mega-city: An introduction. Contents - Previous - Next This is the old United Nations University website. List of metropolitan areas in Europe. This is a list of metropolitan areas. For a list of urban areas, see Largest urban areas of the European Union. List of Latin American cities by population.
File:Total resident population in Urban Audit core cities, 2008 (inhabitants).PNG. Planetary Urbanization, Chair of Sociology, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich. Theory project. Urban Population Map. Close Source. The Urban Flâneur Guidebook: The technique of being a Suburban Flâneur (revised 15 September 2012) Visualizing Density. File:Australia (orthographic projection).svg. Cancel Edit Delete Preview revert. GRIFFIN LEGACY KINGS AVENUE OVERPASS. Institute Without Boundaries. IPHS - International Planning History Society. REFLECTIONS ON THE POLITICS OF SPACE - Lefebvre - 2006 - Antipode. 10 of the Best Volunteer Abroad Organizations. Internships — Australian Council For International Development. Act for Peace Act for Peace is the international aid agency of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA), a council of 19 member churches. Volunteer Abroad - IEP Australia - Working Holidays for Australians. Concurso de arquitectura concurso innatur_2.
Segunda edición de este concurso de ideas abierto convocado por Opengap en busca de propuestas innovadoras que apuesten por una estrategia contemporánea y vanguardista de implantación de arquitectura en un entorno natural protegido; planteamientos que provoquen sinergias entre el contexto natural y el edificio mismo. Se invitó a los participantes a encontrar espacios que promuevan una profunda comprensión y asimilación de la naturaleza, induciendo a través de la arquitectura, sensibilidad, conciencia, entendimiento, entusiasmo y compromiso hacia el paisaje que les rodea. Cada concursante o equipo pudo definir el entorno natural en el cual ubicar su proyecto, justificando en la propuesta la elección del lugar de implantación y la forma en que el proyecto interactúa con el mismo. Concurso dirigido a todos los arquitectos, profesionales del diseño, estudiantes de arquitectura y personas interesadas de cualquier parte del mundo.
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