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Thinking Cities: A wonderful short film on how Cities Drive...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:20:42 +0000

Thinking Cities: A wonderful short film on how Cities Drive Global change and innovations to make them better, smarter, and faster made by Ericsson as part of their Networked Society series. Features Geoffrey West, physicist and professor at Santa Fe Institute, Mathieu Lefevre of New Cities Foundation; and Carlo Ratti, Director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab speaking on what the city means for the future. Film sourced from the excellent Co.Exist (www.fastcoexist.com)

Christopher Alexander at the Urban Design Group in London on ...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:48:13 +0000

Christopher Alexander at the Urban Design Group in London on the 23rd of November 2011. The great man speaks at a relaxed evening talk, introduced by John Worthington; a memorable talk for all who were there. There are 9 clips in all… worth having a listen. With thanks to Brian Hamilton for posting these.

archiveofaffinities: Land Value Model, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:58:02 +0000

archiveofaffinities:

Land Value Model, Copenhagen, Denmark

"Pattern 134. Zen View. If there is a beautiful view, don’t spoil it by building huge windows that..."

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:56:37 +0000

“Pattern 134. Zen View. If there is a beautiful view, don’t spoil it by building huge windows...

Project Update

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:03:06 +0000

Urb has been appointed by Digital Realty Trust to provide professional planning advice as part of...

Autolib, Une révolution Urbaine The Vélib’Bike Sharing scheme...

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:01:05 +0000

Autolib, Une révolution Urbaine

The Vélib’Bike Sharing scheme has had a huge impact on cities throughout Europe. Now the next step with the electirc car. Paris is taking the lead again with the commencement of Autolib; the electric car sharing scheme. Links to website and articles:

http://www.autolib.eu
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15134136
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/business/global/paris-tests-short-term-rentals-of-electric-cars.html?_r=1

(Posted by Edésio Elias Lopes M.Sc Eng at UFSC - on Portogente.com with link to LInkedIn Urbanist Group)

TIF redevelopment projects

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:08:09 +0000

TIF redevelopment projects

Los Angeles Street Lighting Project Incredible impact of small...

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:36:51 +0000

Los Angeles Street Lighting Project

Incredible impact of small measures on a city-wide scale.

The Clinton Foundation is working with the city of Los Angeles to retrofit more than 140,000 streetlights with LEDs — the largest retrofit project of its kind in the world. When complete, the project will reduce carbon emissions by up to 40,500 tons annually, the equivalent of taking 6,700 vehicles off the road every year. Video courtesy of the mayor’s office of the city of Los Angeles.

(Posted by Robert A. Garcia BSCM Founder, Construction Management and Sustainability Assc. on LinkedIn Urbanist Group)

Project Update:

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:14:00 +0000

Urb brings success to National Roads Authority (NRA) at arbitration. Urb has provided professional...

citymaus: nytimes. click to view large. Taming the mean...

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:48:34 +0100

citymaus:

nytimes. click to view large.

Taming the mean streets: A talk with NYC transportation chief Janette Sadik-Khan.
grist.org, 21.12.10.

Photo

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:10:32 +0100

The Crisis of Capitalism. Last week I heard Colm Toibin...

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:00:06 +0100

The Crisis of Capitalism. Last week I heard Colm Toibin forcefully tell an audience of architects in Dublin that the only way a city could change and improve itself was by being Socialist (politically). So why not follow that up, with a Marxist analysis of the Crisis of Capitalism by the one and only David Harvey. As he says himself theres not too many marxist economist around these days, but it makes a refreshing change from our economist pop stars who all say the same thing all the time. A superb presentation delivered in April, 2010 from theRSA.org.

An Ode to the City

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:16:48 +0100

An Ode to the City

Complete Streets: Its about more than bikelanes A nice short...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:07:50 +0100

Complete Streets: Its about more than bikelanes

A nice short film on the amazing changes in NYC in recent years by Clarence Eckerson, Jr. published on May 9, 2011 on Street Fils.org

nationalpost: The Week That Wasn’t: Redevelopment Viability...

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:39:57 +0100

nationalpost:

The Week That Wasn’t: Redevelopment Viability Matrix

The Know-Nothing Executives

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:22:00 +0100

Who are the KNEs? The Know-Nothing Executives are a special breed who rise to the top of...

irishboyinlondon: An amazing talk by Jan Gehl on creating...

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:20:51 +0100

irishboyinlondon:

An amazing talk by Jan Gehl on creating Cities for People! Definitely worth a watch on a Sunday afternoon!

He covers a vast amount of content throughout the talk including; the pressing need to plan for people, walking and cycling; the damaging effects cars have on the scales of planning; the phenomenon of “bird-shit” architecture and ”perfume bottle” sky scrapers and the confusion of building scales! Gehl is eager to point out that good architecture is not about form, but about the interaction between form and life and that life is much more difficult to define and study. Later he mentions that humans seem to know much more about creating the perfect habitat for mountain gorillas than they know about building good urban habitats for mankind!

The Q&A is worth watching also with some nice points on density toward the end!

"One building standing alone in the countryside is experienced as a work of architecture, but bring..."

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:45:44 +0100

“One building standing alone in the countryside is experienced as a work of architecture, but...

Council to de-zone 500 hectares?

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:54:38 +0100

Council to de-zone 500 hectares?

Save McInerney?

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:19:20 +0100

McInerney Homes was Ireland’s largest volume house builder/developer. It is also a plc which...