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Urban Beaches

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, B - Trends, tagged , on June 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Summer approaches, time to pack our stuff, fill our car and leave for a long long trip, that wil take us, after several hours, to a nice beach very far away… (image: wikipedia) Or maybe not. Why do we have to travel so much to find a place that makes us feel good? There is [...]

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Basel, Gundeldinger Feld

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, A - News, B - Trends, E - Reportages, tagged , , , , , , , on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Today, I’ll take you to Basel, at Dornacherstrasse 192,where an old factory has been transformed into a neighborhood center, Gundeldinger Feld. The history of this place could be the same as many other places around the world: a 19th century factory in the inner city suddenly moving to the suburbs in order to look for [...]

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New BRT under construction in Rome

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, A - News, E - Reportages, tagged , , , , on August 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Wandering around the web, I discovered today a good news from Rome: A brand new BRT opening in the south-east of the city. The new infrastructure will start from ANAGNINA subway station and extend further east, passing through Cinecittà Est and Tor Vergata. All details of this infrastructure are here (PDF). (image: Roma Metropolitane) Almost [...]

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Mixed-use Suburbs

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.4 - cars, 3 - events, D - reflections, tagged , , on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Some days ago, at the conference “desperate houses” at the EPFL, I heard about a  research, realized by the architectural firm Raumbureau, saying that, in the suburbs, around 1 over 5 houses is refurbished as office space. If this tendence goes on: Little by little, suburbs will become true villages with offices, shops, post offices, [...]

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New Urbanism vs. Suburbanism

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 2.4 - cars, tagged , , on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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retrofitting suburbia in 3 steps

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.4 - cars, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , , on April 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »

(photo: flickr) This month, everybody talks about suburbs (and about the prominent feature of suburbs, cars): some posts on RSR website (here, here and here), the last edition of the forum Ecoparc: So, it’s the right moment to talk about this subject, and to propose a strategy to align autorities and developers’ interests. 1 – [...]

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Ada Lovelace day: Jane Jacobs

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, A - News, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , , on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Today is Ada Lovelace day, a day in which each blogger should talk about a woman who changed the world in her field: a good occasion to talk about the person who gave the biggest contribute to contemporary urbanism, Jane Jacobs. XIX and early XX century were the century of machines, a century in which [...]

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Refurbishing the 60’s masterpieces: two examples from Rome

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The city within a building – Mario Fiorentino In the last 50 years, we have built a massive amount of buildings, experimenting techniques and philosophies as never before. Reinforced concrete, cheap energy and cars allowed us a freedom to build that we never experienced before. Now, many of the ideas behind them look outdated, and the building themselves are approaching the [...]

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

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 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

50 years after the first Unité, this model seems already belonging to another era. The strong separation between the building and its surroundings, the sensation of living in an all-artificial environment, and an almost complete identification of the Unité d’Habitation with social housing have made this model quite undesirable. The destiny of the millions of [...]

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The rise and fall of the “Unité d’Habitation” – 6/7

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 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Promoted as a standard, easy-to-build product, The Unité d’Habitation concept spread all over the world after WWII. The first 5 units (Marseille, Firminy, Rezé, Briey and Berlin) built by Le Corbusier himself became the standard for almost all public housing project between 1950 and 1990. The more the model was spread along the world, the [...]

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