Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, A - News, B - Trends, E - Reportages, tagged basel, car-free, community, downtown, pedestrians, public spaces, switzerland, trends on December 20, 2009 | 1 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 more [...]
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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 buses, italy, news, public spaces, rome 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 all the [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.4 - cars, 3 - events, D - reflections, tagged events, reflections, suburbia 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, sall hospitals… [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 2.4 - cars, tagged cars, public spaces, urbanism on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, A - News, D - reflections, tagged ald09post, jane jacobs, news, public spaces, reflections, spaces, urbanism 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 the [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged le corbusier, reflections, rome, trends, urbanism 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 end of [...]
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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 housing, le corbusier, ships, streets 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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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 housing, le corbusier, ships, streets 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 more [...]
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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 housing, le corbusier, ships, streets on February 10, 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 more [...]
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