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The City of the Future
The authors of The Endless City put urban expansion into perspective, hoping to cast cities as a "source of mutual strength rather than mutual estrangement" The steady, centuries-long migration of people into cities passed a crucial milestone last year. More than half of humanity now lives in cities—and that figure will likely reach 75% by 2050.
The architecture of science fiction has profoundly changed urban design. When building cities of the future, our best guides may be places like comic book megalopolises Mega-City-1 or Transmet. In February of this year I gave a talk at webstock in New Zealand, entitled "The Demon-Haunted World" - which investigated past visions of future cities in order to reflect upon work being done currently in the field of 'urban computing'. In particular I examined the radical work of influential 60's architecture collective Archigram, who I found through my research had coined the term 'social software' back in 1972, 30 years before it was on the lips of Clay Shirky and other internet gurus. Rather than building, Archigram were perhaps proto-bloggers - publishing a sought-after 'magazine' of images, collage, essays and provocations regularly through the 60s which had an enormous impact on architecture and design around the world, right through to the present day.
The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future
Quelles villes ont pris la mesure de la puissance des opportunités et défis des intelligences de la ville ? Nous tentons ici une lecture critique et comparée de deux documents qui posent les bases de stratégie numérique urbaine ambitieuse - New York City City et Melbourne. Le premier, rendu public au printemps 2011, a été commis sous la responsabilité de Rachel Sterne , Chief Digital Officer de la ville de New York.
Comment devenir une ville intelligente ? - Dossiers - Themas - Groupe Chronos
Many of the world’s largest cities from London and New York City to Rio de Janeiro and Abu Dhabi have recently launched ambitious sustainability initiatives structured around various information and communications technologies. In large part, these initiatives will only achieve their policy goals if the various stakeholders involved can figure out how to translate a deluge of data about the use and abuse of energy into cost savings and carbon emissions reductions. But those policy objectives are chump change compared to other low-carbon solutions and services these initiatives could create, according to a new report by The Climate Group, Accenture , Arup and the University of Nottingham .
Data Deluge Makes Smart Cities Smarter - Forbes
Avec la fin de la voiture d'une tonne au sein des villes, les petits véhicules seront roi et surtout, surtout, le piéton va reprendre sa suprématie.
Exosquelette : la révolution piétonne en marche - Yet Another Blog Politique
ESTUARY OF THE THAMES, A NEXT EUROPEAN HUB ?
L'estuaire de la Tamise peut-il devenir d'ici une vingtaine d'années le grand hub multimodal de l'Europe ?
L’écologie graphique de la ville et sa disparition » OWNI, News, Augmented
Publicité, graffiti, signalisation, affiches politiques...
[Rapide article pour la revue Urbanisme (dans laquelle j'ai déjà eu le plaisir d'intervenir), sur l'arrivée dans la cité de ces "hipsters" dont tout le monde parle... Publié dans le numéro 383 , consacré à la diffusion globalisée de modèles urbains.] Hipster (n. m.) : terme désignant à l’origine les amateurs de be-bop des années 1940, et aujourd’hui un jeune individu urbain de classe moyenne, appartenant le plus souvent aux classes créatives. Si le vocable connaît un formidable essor outre-Atlantique depuis les décennies 1990-2000, véhiculé notamment par les cultures populaires , ce n’est que plus récemment qu’il a contaminé le langage français. En quelque sorte, dans la catégorie des stéréotypes urbains, le hipster est aux années 2010 ce que fut le “bobo” aux années 2000.
[pop-up] urbain - [pop]servatoire d'urbanités
Over the next 15 years, 600 cities will account for more than 60 percent of global GDP growth. Which of them will contribute the largest number of children or elderly to the world’s population? Which will see the fastest expansion of new entrants to the consuming middle classes? How will regional patterns of growth differ? Explore these questions by browsing through the interactive global map below, which contains city-specific highlights from the McKinsey Global Institute’s database of more than 2,000 metropolitan areas around the world. (For assumptions underlying the data in this interactive, see sidebar, “Urban world uncertainties and assumptions.”)
Global cities of the future: An interactive map - McKinsey Quarterly - Economic Studies - Productivity & Performance
Self–Repairing Architecture « NextNature.net
All buildings today have something in common: They are made using Victorian technologies. This involves blueprints, industrial manufacturing and construction using teams of workers. All this effort results in an inert object, which means there is a one–way transfer of energy from our environment into our homes and cities. This is not sustainable. I believe that the only possible way for us to construct genuinely sustainable homes and cities is by placing them in a constant conversation with their surroundings.* Urbanshit.de | Blog for street art and urban culture
Auf Kampnagel ist diesen Monat die argentinische / berliner Choreografin Constanza Macras mit dem Stück OPEN FOR EVERYTHING zu Gast. Klingt spannend! Die großformatigen, rasanten Tanztheaterproduktionen der gebürtigen Argentinierin Constanza Macras sind Exportschlager des deutschen Tanzes und wurden vielfach mit Preisen ausgezeichnet.Let’s Paint The World’s Ugliest City — The Pop-Up City
With the project Couleurs Carolo , the Dutch company AkzoNobel aims to support the Belgian city of Charleroi to become a bit more colorful.In the last months, we lived through DARPA engaging MAKE Magazine and Otherlab to teach high school students how to “build robots, drones and other low- and medium-tech gadgets” and DARPA Director Regina Dugan (see this video about her work at DARPA) deciding to move to Google. Meanwhile the National Security Agency, USA, resurrected a world-domination-by-data-tracking programme called ‘Total Information Awareness’ and the Federal Government of USA announced extensive funding for big data research’ across fields like science, engineering, education, commerce and government. The USA government seems to have realised that physical surveillance (such as by drones) is rather suitable for low-digital terrains of Afghanistan (see Andrew Cockburn’s ‘Drones Baby Drones’ , sorry for LRB membership barrier), while ‘big data’ is the future of surveillance in networked societies of USA and elsewhere.
The Pop-Up City
City Crawlers Berlin
Cities can be viewed as information architecture systems. The term makes sense not in reference to the the design of buildings, but rather to the components of a complex system that interact with each other. In a paper… January 3, 2011 Read More We're organizing the Berlin edition of the global Open Data Hackathon.City OS
Image courtesy of author's blog Pedestrians and cyclists can breathe easier on Washington, DC’s streets, according to Mayor Vincent Gray, because of what he describes as a plan to “cover the entire city” with traffic cameras. Cameras slow down traffic, and slower cars would make it safer to walk and bike around the capital.In many ways, DC is already leading the... [read more]