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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 3/7

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In the beginning of the XX century, steamships were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Each one of them could carry 2000 passengers for a 15-days trip between Europe and America, and in these days it became for them a sort of new house. The image of all these people living, loving, fighting, making business, all in [...]

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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 2/7

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In the beginning of the XX century, steamships were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Each one of them could carry 2000 passengers for a 15-days trip between Europe and America, and in these days it became for them a sort of new house. The image of all these people living, loving, fighting, making business, all in [...]

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Tysons Corner turns into a downtown

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 2.4 - cars, A - News, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“From ancient times, what made a city a city was how it functioned, not how it looked. And this is especially true today, for we have not built a single old-style downtown from raw dirt in seventy-five years.” (Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, Chapter 2) This is how Joel Garreau described [...]

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New shopping area opens in downtown Lausanne

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, A - News, tagged , , , , , , , on November 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On November 26th, a new shopping area has opened in the Flon area in downtown Lausanne. The new complex includes a supermarket (Migros) and some smaller shops, and is located close to Lausanne-Flon subway station (lines M1, M2 and LEB), making it a perfect example of Transit-Oriented-Development. With the opening of the new complex, Flon [...]

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The 21st Century Medieval City

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

When we think of medieval cities, we assume it was something like this: (image: Siena, from wikipedia) while, at that time, it was more likely to be something like this: (image: Rio de Janeiro, from wikipedia) This is the thesis of Robert Neuwirth, who studied from (and lived in) what he calls “the 21st Century [...]

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A coworking space starts in Lausanne

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), A - News, tagged , , on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Imagine a place in which you can have all comforts of your own house, the sociability of a café, the synergies of an office… a place like this exists, and it’s called coworking. And finally, it has arrived to Lausanne. From the 5th of november, Espace Coworking Lausanne will offer office spaces in a friendly, [...]

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Crowdsourcing the eco-district of Lausanne Blécherette: consuming

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, A - News, B - Trends, tagged , , , , on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On september 10, another crowdsourcing session has taken place in Lausanne. This time, the theme was “consuming”: shops, energy, water, wastes. Here is a list of the wishes that came out during the session: – Small independent shops rather than big chain suburban supermarkets (Most of people had few hopes that this would have been [...]

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Nightlife in Nyon

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), D - reflections, tagged , , on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of the things that make the difference between a suburb and a downtown is the presence of great third places: bars, cafés, pubs, discos, places to hang out and meet new people, establish new connections and put some serendipity in your life. Living in Geneva or Lausanne gives you access to lots of third [...]

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from “Adapt the city to cars” to “Adapt the city to social networks”

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.4 - cars, 3 - events, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , , on September 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In 1971, Georges Pompidou said: “Adapter la ville à la voiture” (adapt the city to cars), in a world where people wanted to go faster and further, and reach in a reasonable amount of time more and more places. A new world was born, made of countryside houses, motorways, shopping centers, big buildings: a world [...]

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Spatial organization and human nature

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 2.4 - cars, 3 - events, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If we think, like Le Corbusier, that human nature is bad, social interactions can only lead us away from the Truth, thus shall be discouraged. A “bad human nature city” will have freeways with no sidewalk, windows on nature, shopping centers with security guards preventing unwanted behaviours… If we think, like Jane Jacobs, that human [...]

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