Urban climate. Subtropical Cities 2011 Conference - Venue & Transportation. TUM Fakultät für Architektur’s Videos. Think Space • Think Space. Ecosistema Urbano. Ecosistema Urbano combine expertise in architecture, civil engineering and landscape architecture, focusing on designing sustainable urban environments. Based in Madrid, they have developed projects for the regeneration of urban areas through a focus on social activity and increasing biodiversity. Their EcoBoulevard project in a Madrid suburb was designed to mitigate the effects of rampant urban development with little concern for environmental and social conditions.
Consisting of a number of 'air trees', these self-sustaining structures powered by solar energy create public space whilst also tempering the hot climate through climbing plants and atomisers that cool and moisten the air. Any excess energy is sold back to the grid and helps fund the maintenance of the structures. Being demountable, the idea is that the 'air trees' can be moved to different locations as and when needed. References About Javier Arpa, 'Ecosistema Urbano. Connections. POLITICAL EQUATOR 3. Search - Urban Morphology Lab. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr., 1976), pp. 113-124. School of Architecture hosts “The Value of Urban Complexity” featuring former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist. Complex geometry and structured chaos.
Fractal geometry has infiltrated popular culture since it was formalized in the early 80's from the works of Benoit Mandelbrot. While it has been used to study the form of cities by researchers such as Pierre Frankhauser and Michael Batty, the insights to be drawn from this field of mathematics have not yet penetrated the field of urbanism, defined as the construction of cities. Connecting the fractal city by Nikos Salingaros approaches the topic by asking what type of city is fractal, without going into depth as to how a fractal is made. Christopher Alexander, in his second tome of The Nature of Order, The Process of Creating Life, begins to develop profound ideas on the topic, which he had hinted to in The Oregon Experiment and A New Theory of Urban Design. The basic quality of fractal geometry is that it is recursively-defined geometry; it must be described in terms of itself.
The words generate and infinite are very important. This is what I refer to as structured chaos. EIU.com. The Economist Intelligence Unit's liveability survey How the rating works The concept of liveability is simple: it assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. Assessing liveability has a broad range of uses, from benchmarking perceptions of development levels to assigning a hardship allowance as part of expatriate relocation packages. The Economist Intelligence Unit's liveability rating quantifies the challenges that might be presented to an individual's lifestyle in any given location, and allows for direct comparison between locations. Each city is assigned a rating of relative comfort for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability; healthcare; culture and environment; education; and infrastructure.
The scores are then compiled and weighted to provide a score of 1–100, where 1 is considered intolerable and 100 is considered ideal. Category 1: Stability (weight: 25% of total) S 2011 Quality of Living ranking highlights. MONU - Issues. News Issues Order About Mailing list Support Submit Contact ©MONU (browse the entire issue #19 on Youtube) Unlimited Greatness - Interview with Antoine Grumbach by Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer; Greater Moscow by Anton Ivanov; From Utopia to Real World by Fabrizia Berlingieri and Manuela Triggianese; Grand Paris by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners; Greater Singapore: Exporting the Model City-State by Calvin Chua; Metro-Detroit Faith Territories by McLain Clutter; Out of Obscurity by Magorzata Kuciewicz and Simone De Iacobis; Metrocology: The City Unseen by Tom Marble; Fragmentation vs.
(Bernd Upmeyer, Editor-in-Chief, October 2013) (Cover image: 'The 'Étoile' of Grand Paris - The Radiant Typologies of Greater Paris' is courtesy of STAR strategies + architecture and BOARD. The image, featuring the Arc de Triomphe surrounded by the typologies of Grand Paris, is part of their research project "Construisons le Grand Paris Ensemble - Or the Story of How Paris Became Greater". ABC's of Urbanism. MAURO NORMANDO MACÊDO BARROS FILHO: October 2008. From 31 July to 29 August 2008, Mauro Normando M. Barros Filho participates on the Land Management and Informal Settlement Regularization course at the Institute for Housing and Development Studies (IHS), an international centre of excellence associated with the Erasmus University Rotterdam that, since 1958, offers specialized postgraduate education, training, advisory services and applied research in the fields of urban management, housing and urban environment.
The principal aim of the course was to develop human resources together with institutional capacities, offering a thorough understanding of urban theory and best practices to face the increasingly complex challenges relating to social, economic, physical and environmental concerns of land management and informal settlement regularization. From left to right: Merle Salgado, Paulo Glória, Marigoh Helene, Shuaibu Ali, Priscilla Achakpa, Annalyn Jagunos, Mauro Barros Filho, and Filipe de Souza.
Perceptions of density often miss the mark « City Block. Photo from cacophony76. Density is one of the most important elements of any city, but also one of the most misunderstood. However, the density of a site is often not what it initially seems – people will key on things like height, design, maintenance, and context rather than actually looking at what density means to them. It’s a natural, emotional reaction – but often misses the underpinning reality. Educating people on what density looks like is vitally important, as density is a crucial element of sustainable, urban places.
In Washington, DC, like many other places, people often have a visceral reaction against density. Dan Zack is a planner for Redwood City, CA. Density often gives rise to fears from neighbors about traffic congestion, crime, environmental quality, and many other factors. Height, for example, is only one factor in density. Just as height is only a factor in density, density itself is only a factor in the overall health of a city. The entirety of Mr. Modelling dynamic spatial processes: simulation of urban future scenarios through cellular automata 10.1016/S0169-2046(02)00218-9 : Landscape and Urban Planning.
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, CCR-TP 261, 21020 Ispra (VA), Italy Corresponding author. Tel.: +39-332-789429; fax: +39-332-789085. Received 15 October 2002 Accepted 22 October 2002 Available online 2 December 2002 View full text 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Acknowledgements References Abstract One of the most potentially useful applications of cellular automata (CA) from the point of view of spatial planning is their use in simulations of urban growth at local and regional level. This paper addresses from a theoretical point of view the question of why to use CA for urban scenario generation. The second part of the paper presents an application of an urban CA in the city of Dublin.
Keywords Cellular automata ; Land use dynamics ; Urban and regional planning ; Scenario simulation ; GIS Figures and tables from this article: Table 1. Notice that one matrix of weight has been produced for each of the passive and active states. View Within Article Table 2. TechTV – Changing cities (Keynote Session)
TechTV – Case-studies from around the world. Landscape urbanism « Olson Planning & Urban Landscapes. This past Saturday evening, I attended a much-anticipated discussion about landscape urbanism, sometimes referred to as ecological urbanism, at the annual Congress organized by the CNU, or Congress for the New Urbanism, in Madison, Wisconsin. The Landscape Urbanism’s own Charles Waldheim led the discussion with a lecture on the history of the movement and how it does, and does not, relate to the new urbanism. According to Mr. Waldheim, Landscape Urbanism is a movement that is ten years old and was created in large part by the Harvard GSD, or Graduate School of Design. Charles Waldheim presents the Landscape Urbanism at the closing plenary session at the Congress for the New Urbanism in Madison. 4 June 2011.
Much of what Mr. One of the very few examples of constructed work includes the High Line in New York City. Le Corbusier's Towers in the Park.
Suburbia/Sprawl. Housing. Collective Urbanism. Urbanismo/Arte etc. de America Latina. How Our Brains Navigate the City - Commute. To navigate certain parts of New York City — namely Queens and much of Manhattan — all you need to be able to do is count. In Manhattan neighborhoods like the West Village, and most of Brooklyn, things get a good bit trickier. You can no longer depend on the logical numbered progression of streets and avenues, and must instead rely on some other picture inside your head. For a while now psychologists have debated just what that picture looks like. Some believe we need to orient ourselves by local reference points. Under this theory, we're lost until we see that certain street or certain landmark, at which point the rest of the grid emerges in our minds. A third alternative suggests that our internal GPS system is informed by frequently looking at maps. Frankenstein and colleagues recruited 26 people from Tübingen to participate in a test of spatial knowledge of their home.
Camillo Sitte. Camillo Sitte Camillo Sitte (17 April 1843 – 16 November 1903) was a noted Austrian architect, painter and city planning theoretician with great influence and authority of the development of urban construction planning and regulation in Europe. Life[edit] Camillo Sitte was born and died in Vienna. He was an art historian and architect. Sitte founded the Camillo Sitte Lehranstalt and the Camillo Sitte Gasse in Vienna, and also the magazine Städtebau in 1904. City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889)[edit] The work of Sitte is not exactly a criticism of architectural form, it is more precisely an aesthetic criticism of the nineteenth century's end urbanism.
His theories were widely influential for many practiticians, like Karl Henrici and Theodor Fischer. Books by him[edit] City Planning According to Artistic Principles, 1889The Birth of Modern City Planning. Literature[edit] Karin Wilhelm, Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg (Hrsg.): Formationen der Stadt. External links[edit] [IFoU] International Forum on Urbanism.