
Urbanisme & Architecture
Quelles villes seront habitables et souhaitables ? Soutenabilité, transition, mutation, autonomie, vivre-ensemble .... Feb 26
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The Future is Urban. Will it be Green or Grunge? « Climate Denial Crock of the Week
Almost every day of his childhood, He Xin remembers the skies in his hometown of Shenyang being gray. “If I wore a white shirt to school, by the end of the day it would be brown,” recalls He, who was born in 1974, “and there would be a ring of black soot under the collar.” He grew up in Shenyang (population 8 million), the capital of northeastern China’s Liaoning province, a city famous for its heavy industry and manufacturing — and soot and pollution. Growing up, the view he remembers most vividly was looking out over Shenyang’s fabled Tiexi industrial district, home to several large iron and steel plants and the site of China’s first model workers village: “When I was a teenager, if I climbed a tall building to look out over Tiexi, all I would see was a forest of large smokestacks, chimneys, and dark, billowing smoke.” But today all that is gone.
A Once-Polluted Chinese City Is Turning from Gray to Green by Christina Larson: Yale Environment 360
Metropolis II est un projet artistique un peu fou réalisé par l’américain Chris Burden. L’installation a demandé 4 ans de travail à 12 personnes pour mettre en place 18 pistes de voitures, 40 grattes-ciel et 1110 voitures qui circulent en simultanée, simulant le trafic automobile de Los Angeles sur 9 mètres de long et 3 mètres de haut. Chris Burden est surtout connu pour une performance intitulée « Shoot », réalisée en Californie en 1971, où il s’était fait tirer une balle dans le bras gauche par un assistant à une distance d’environ cinq mètres. Depuis il s’est calmé, même s’il a du quand même démissionner de l’Université de Californie en 2004 pour une autre performance utilisant un pistolet chargé « qui aurait mis en danger la vie d’autres professeurs »…
Metropolis II ou la mainmise de l’automobile sur nos villes et sur nos vies
Landscape+Urbanism
Kerb is one of best journals out there for landscape architecture - and you can be part of their next issue around the topic 'speculative narrative'. Here's the call for submissions: Speculative narrative and the potential of imagination are important factors in creative production.Article - Il faut repenser la ville dans son ensemble - Villes - Le Monde.fr : Supplément partenaire
The Omnibus is all about ideas. From the beginning, Urban Omnibus has been a showcase of good ideas for the future of cities, conceived in the public interest and tried and tested in the five boroughs of New York. So, we have decided to surface some of the ideas that have appeared on Urban Omnibus over the past two years and broadcast them around the city. Starting in late April, look out for a series of Idea Posters on fences, scaffolds and storefronts from Jamaica, Queens to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and many places in between. With this poster campaign, we want to turn the tactics of ubiquitous marketing — in which every bus, taxi or construction barrier is a canvas for advertising anything and everything — upside down by using a similar language to share examples of creativity and innovation in the urban realm.
Urban Omnibus | 50 Ideas for the New City
L'immeuble du futur : un écosystème au service de l'homme - Fiscalité environnementale
In the competitive world of attracting new and growing businesses to a community a positive public image is quite important. Here on Cape Cod there are those who get it, and those who don't. The advent of so many ways of communicating to the world creates many challenges.
Just A Town Planner
Villes du futur, futur des villes : quel avenir pour les villes du monde ? (Enjeux)
Agriculture urbaine
Jean-Yves Barrier - architecte
Paul Virilio
Eloge de la ville dense ou le déclin du paradigme urbain américain » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism
Cités en transition
Climate cities
Eco - Design
James H Kunstler
En autarcie ?
Efficacité énergétique

