Urbanisme
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The Urbanophile
Thursday, April 12th, 2012 Last week the Census Bureau released 2011 county and metro area population estimates that showed overall slowing population growth and particularly showing slow to halting growth in exurban counties. I’ll come back to the exurbs in a minute, but first a look at a map of metro area growth last year:London forges ahead with multi-decade plan, using 2012 Olympics profits, to create new parks, housing, schools and job opportunities within socially diverse communities.
Citiscope
Intelligent Cities
For as long as we have lived in cities we have reflected on their form, feel, and function. From the launch of the first hot air balloon to the creation of geospatial information software, we have developed technologies that enable us to assess what we have done, what we are doing, and what we wish to do. Today, the scale and complexity of neighborhoods, towns, and cities are unprecedented, and so are our tools for understanding them. Intelligent Cities , an initiative of the National Building Museum, supported by its partners TIME and IBM and funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, explores the intersection of information technology and urban design to understand where we are, where we want to be, and how to get there.
Jane Jacobs, OC , OOnt (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay . She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times. Along with her well-known printed works, Jacobs is equally well known for organizing grassroots efforts to block urban-renewal projects that would have destroyed local neighborhoods.
Jane Jacobs - Wikipedia
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Planetizen | Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Morgan Clendaniel reports on a Minneapolis artistic intervention, Urban Plant Tags, that call attention to often overlooked amenities in the built environment. Josh Stephens describes the fierce battle raging between Beverly Hills and Metro, the region's transportation authority, over the proposed route of the long-planned westward subway extension. Vauhini Vara explains what a new upscale eatery could mean for the future character of low-income communities like Bayview and Hunter’s Point and their residents. A new report by Kevin Watkins tries to make visible the horrifying threat to children's health that road traffic presents. It is the leading cause of death globally for young people between the ages of 10 and 24, reports Sarah Goodyear.
BLDGBLOG
[Image: From Papillon , courtesy of Warner Brothers ]. Breaking Out and Breaking In: A Distributed Film Fest of Prison Breaks and Bank Heists —co-sponsored by BLDGBLOG, Filmmaker Magazine , and Studio-X NYC —continued recently with Papillon (1973), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.Megalopolis | Le journal du très grand Paris
Retour sur la frénésie qui entoure le Burger King dans la capitale, alors que le dernier whopper a été vendu il y a plus de 15 ans. À peine rénovée, la tour du Bois-le-Prêtre, située porte Pouchet dans le 17e arrondissement, a remporté fin 2011 l’Équerre d’argent, le Goncourt de l’architecture. Un prix pour une réhabilitation innovante qui fera date? Depuis le Fouquet’s le choix du resto pour fêter sa victoire est devenu hautement symbolique.
Paris est sa banlieue
Je viens de raccrocher le téléphone d’avec mon père. La grande nouvelle, c’est qu’il a réussi à amener ma mère au laboratoire pour lui faire une radio panoramique de la mâchoire, pour être sûr qu’il n’y a rien qui se prépare. Ma mère était dans son fauteuil roulant, mon père était accompagné de Jacinta qui veille sur ma mère avec lui depuis déjà plusieurs années. Ils sont passés par les sous-sols et les parkings parce que rien n’est aménagé dans les immeubles, pourtant dans le très bourgeois 15ème arrondissement de Paris, pour les fauteuils roulants.
Jim Lau shares the landscape architecture work of the New York State Department of Transportation, including a skatepark under the BQE, a waterfront park in Inwood, and an extensive greenway along the Bronx River.
Urban Omnibus
Streetsblog New York City
A study released today finds that two out of three motorists speed on Brooklyn’s McGuinness Boulevard [ PDF ], a notorious Greenpoint thoroughfare where locals have for years called on the city to take action to prevent pedestrian and cyclist injuries and deaths. Since 2005, no fewer than five pedestrians and cyclists have been killed by drivers on McGuinness Boulevard. Image: CrashStat The McGuinness Boulevard Working Group — comprised of Transportation Alternatives, Neighbors Allied for Good Growth, Community Board 1 and area residents — conducted four surveys between Norman and Nassau Avenues in February and early March. Clocking cars and trucks with a radar gun, the group found 66.25 percent of all drivers exceeding the 30-mph speed limit, with 36 percent speeding by 5 mph or more.IMAGE: “Penguin Interviews,” from Frederick Cook’s Through the First Antarctic Night, 1896-1899 , via Peter Smith , Food & Think . Very good news: my former colleague at GOOD , Peter Smith , has joined the Smithsonian’s Food & Think blog as a regular contributor. Among his early posts is this one , on a highly effective scurvy prevention technique pioneered by Frederick Cook , an American surgeon and polar explorer.
Edible Geography
I was asked to write an article around ‘bottom-up planning’ by Architectural Review Australia a while ago. It was published in the last issue, and I’m re-posting here. ‘Bottom-up’ is hardly the most elegant phrase, but I suspect you know what I mean.
Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’
Posted on Thursday December 22nd by Daniel Lippman • The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday new limits on mercury emissions from oil- and coal-burning power plants and said the rules will save thousands of lives and bring other economic and health benefits. (NYT) (AP) • Police officers Read more › Posted on Wednesday December 21st by Daniel Lippman • Because of a tightening in lending standards by the Chinese government, the white-hot housing market in that country appears to be slowing down after years of record sales and high prices. (LATimes) (Bloomberg) • A small plane headed to Read more ›
INFRASTRUCTURIST
Filmmaker Derrick Jones documented his own family's history in one house in Youngstown, Ohio. The film "631" chronicles the many good times over the years, as well as the difficulties in maintaining the house with little income, especially after two fires. It is the story of one house, now abandoned, that was once filled with life.