Sigo con la serie de post “Ciudad Híbrida|Smart Cities”, después de la entrevista a Mª José Miralles Jordá y a Paco Gonzalez (www.radarq.net), hoy publico la entrevista a Manu Fernandez autor del blog “Ciudades a Escala Humana“.
urbanism
August 8, 2009
July 27, 2009
“Now, the first thing we need to recognize is that this is not just a time of challenge for America’s cities; it’s also a time of great change. Even as we’ve seen many of our central cities continuing to grow in recent years, we’ve seen their suburbs and exurbs grow roughly twice as fast — that spreads homes and jobs and businesses to a broader geographic area. And this transformation is creating new pressures and problems”.
“So what’s needed now is a new, imaginative, bold vision tailored to this reality that brings opportunity to every corner of our growing metropolitan areas” (Obama)
June 24, 2009
It’s a rare day indeed when we see [specially in urban scale] a brave project that amazes all of us, and I think this is one of those…
Apart from the “cool” new-yorker look, is some kind of relief that one of many awesome urban-scale proposals has been carried out. It had to happen in New York and lead the way in the U.S. of recycling and not demolishing when a construction stops being in use or is not profitable anymore. I suppose this frecuent situation is due to a lack of legislation to protect buildings that has special interest, but I think this is a cultural issue…
April 21, 2009
P2P and Urbanism 3.0
Category: english+ new technologies+ urbanism
Agatino Rizzo and Michail Galanakis, are organizing participating in the conference in Helsinki in May 2009 (Urban Studies Days, University of Helsinki, 7-8th May), to discuss the evolution towards new forms of urbanism, that will be strongly impacted by p2p influences, as explained here:
April 20, 2009
urban proposals competition
Category: competitions+ english+ urbanism
UrbanSOS invites you to develop proposals for urban space improvement all around the world. Urban restructuring, neighbourhood rehab, enviromental degradation… searching for creative solutions, all kind of urban improvements are requested…
March 17, 2009
fisheye sessions #13
Category: creatividad+ english+ urbanism
Glorieta de Quevedo. Top View.
March 9, 2009
Palacio de congresos, escaleras mecánicas, auditorio, parking, plaza pública… estos son los usos que auna este ambicioso proyecto para dinamizar la ciudad. El pasado fin de semana se inauguró una 1ª fase para poner en uso el parking, las escaleras mecánicas y la cubierta pública…
February 26, 2009
fisheye sessions #12
Category: city+ creatividad+ english+ proyectos+ urbanism
more office work on Fuencarral Special Plan… this time:
Glorieta de Quevedo. fisheye view from the gruond
February 17, 2009
Through the public bid won by means of the project presented to the aids to the investigation regarding architecture in the year 2007, from the old Ministry of Public Works and Transportation and today dependent on the Ministry of Housing and Planning of the Territory of Junta of Andalusia, a line of investigation is defined regarding the manners of coexistence and habitation in the Andalusian territory in the near future, within 20 and 40 years, that shape evolutions and generate possibilities according to variables that today, each day, we can perceive as determinants of cultural transformation.
February 16, 2009
For a long time now I’ve been obsessed with suburban and exurban master-planned communities and how to make them better. But as the economy and the mortgage crisis just seem to get worse, and gas prices continue to plunge, the issues around housing have changed dramatically. The problem now isn’t really how to better design homes and communities, but rather what are we going to do with all the homes and communities we’re left with.
February 11, 2009
Exploring New Visualisation Tools for Community Participation in the
Transformations of the Built Environment
Pop-Up Landscapes and Wiki Urban Planning Workshop
26-27-28 Feb 2009 – Hangar Barcelona
February 8, 2009
What’s the smarter solution for bringing mobility to 21st century cities: bus rapid transit (BRT) or light rail? With questions this big, it’s important to consider all the perspectives.
February 7, 2009
Architects Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson confront the challenge of redeveloping abandoned suburban retail space in their new book, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley Press, 2009). The detailed text also explores several creative solutions in which progressive planning has reinvigorated suburban communities nationwide. PM spoke to Dunham-Jones about the challenge of replacing dying malls and the culture of the car with pedestrian-centered residential and retail development.
—Harry Sawyers
February 5, 2009
from http://www.benettontalk.com/
“The geography of happiness
Where does one find happiness? Whether you live in Puerto Rico or in Latvia (the nation with the highest suicide rate) can make a difference. One usually tends to think of happiness as something personal: individuals, not nations, are (or can be) happy. So the question is: is happiness a subjective reality (“feeling good”) or do objective conditions exist (“being fine”) that let us define a common standard?
February 1, 2009
[bracket]: call for entries
Category: architecture+ english+ internet+ urbanism
[bracket] is a collaboration of Archinect and InfraNet Lab, and is composed of a collection of diverse editors and an open-source contributing membership.
[bracket] is an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and, now, the internet. It is no coincidence that the professional term architect can also now refer to information architects, and that the word community can also now refer to an online community. [bracket] is a publishing platform for ideas charting the complex overlap of the sphere of architecture and online social spheres.
January 23, 2009
fisheye sessions #10
Category: city+ creativity+ english+ urbanism
Glorieta de Bilbao [Madrid]
-fisheye view from top-
January 21, 2009
Nocturnal dub ambiances, pollution as echo chambers, drumming traffic noises, singing street lights… Scratching tramway bells by approaching walls, grabbing metallic railing as guitar strings, turning corners towards a chorus… Music creation with Sonic City is a co-production of user actions and urban conditions. It is experienced as a dynamic improvisation in context and continual rediscovery of everyday urban settings. Encounters, events, architecture, (mis)behaviours… all affect the music and become means of interacting with or ‘playing the city’.
January 19, 2009
Urbania Festival 29-30-31/01/2009 Bologna Italy
The Festival is focused on “the Hell and Paradise” of life in contemporary cities. Urbania, the Bologna urbanism festival, proposes to gather urbanists, landscape architects, artists and politicians from Italy and abroad. Lectures, talks and meetings held for three days in order to discuss about urban economy, town life and urban writing. Here, some of the preeminent international figures of architecture, economics, public administration, art and literature aim to exchange views on several themes.
January 9, 2009
Welcome to this new project of the Architectural League of New York. Come see what we’re all about. Explore, read, listen, watch, and join in the conversation. We encourage your input – this is a soft launch, and we will be relying on your feedback to help us keep making the site better.
December 10, 2008
fisheye sessions #9
Category: creativity+ cultura abierta+ english+ urbanism
Jacinto Benavente Square, Madrid [Top view]
urbanism symposium
Category: english+ events+ medioambiente+ sustainability+ the environment+ urbanism
November 25, 2008
fisheye sessions #8
Category: city+ cultura abierta+ english+ urbanism
Here we go with “fisheye sessions” issue #8…
Puerta del Sol [Madrid] -top view-
November 17, 2008
fisheye sessions #7
Category: creatividad+ english+ urbanism
Plaza del Carmen [Madrid]
October 23, 2008
another “hot spot” we are working on…
[Jacinto Benavente Square, Madrid]
October 9, 2008
fisheye sessions #4
Category: architecture+ english+ sustainability+ urbanism
[Ludic-Tree. EcoBoulevard, Vallecas]
October 6, 2008
hi there! to continue showing nice pictures from the work we are developing about Fuencarral urban axis…
[Sol square, Madrid]
October 3, 2008
The 1st of October – it happened! What many citizens of Copenhagen have been looking forward to. The day when they shut down one of the most busy streets for cars, Norrebrogade, Copenhagen N. The street is one of the main thoroughfares of the capital – and it will be permanently closed for three months.
October 1, 2008
September 24, 2008
Hi! I’m going to start up a new thematic post series called “fisheye sessions” to show homemade views that can show other ways to interpret or analyze urban or suburban space.
In this case, in relation to the work about Fuencarral axis that we are developing in the office, I shall show a fisheye view of the Gran Vía & Montera crossroads in Madrid.
July 14, 2008
zoomarchitecture: Wikibivouac
Category: english+ internet+ new technologies+ urbanism
Official website HERE, full description of the project THERE
The Wikibivouac is a collaborative map which reappropriates space to create new uses of the city. The wiki element of contibutions from anyone aggregates information for improved transient occupancy of place. We understand the value of a local resident’s recommendations and guidance – when this infomation is pooled and accessed a visitor attains a greater understanding of the true availability of resources and locations shown on a static map.
May 16, 2008
BURB.TV is a collaborative research wiki focusing on the urbanization of China. Each article is a topical blog or BURB into which texts, images, and discussion are submitted. Each BURB grows to expand into the larger knowledge of The Chinese Dream, a project that investigates the goal to build 400 new cities by 2020. The research is produced with visionaries, architects, planners and social scientists invited by the Dynamic City Foundation.
May 15, 2008
URBAN AGE es una serie de conferencias que investigan el futuro de las ciudades a través del estudio de la vida, la evolución y el crecimiento de una serie de ciudades por todo el mundo:
NUEVA YORK – SHANGAI – LONDRES – CIUDAD DE MEJICO – JOHANNESBURGO – BERLIN – BOMBAI – SAO PAULO – ESTAMBUL
es un proyecto de seis años de duración organizado por la london school of economics y dirigido por el profesor ricky burdett. explora los procesos económicos, medioambientales, sociales, políticos y culturales que dan forma a la vida en la ciudad.
