On Reinventing Parking, a post wonders about the possibility of turning parking spaces into something else. A good case study is Rome: here, zoning laws and parking requirements are rarely enforced and so, as soon as the land values rise, parking spaces turn into something more profitable. Here are a few examples: a gym a [...]
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The major of Rome is on Flickr!
Posted in 2.3 - public transports, A - News, tagged internet, news, politics, rome on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just discovered that Mr. Gianni Alemanno, Major of Rome, is on Flickr. Here we see his set about te opening of the new BRT in Rome. Good to see that more and more politicians are entering the blogosphere!
Mixed-use Suburbs
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, [...]
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 cars, public spaces, urbanism on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 cars, cohousing, community, coworking, housing, reflections, trends 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 – [...]
the whistle stop train tour
Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, tagged obama, trains, USA on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Following the same route that Abraham Lincoln rode 150 years ago, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden made their way to the inauguration on a whistle stop train tour that wove its way from Philadelphia through Delaware and Maryland on its way to Washington. “To the [...]
The future of automobile infrastructure: Antonio Segni Bridge, Rome
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.2 - cycling, 2.4 - cars, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged highways, pedestrians, reflections, rome, streets, trends on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Usually, a highway is a mono-functional road, designed to carry cars from one place to another at a maximum speed. But, sometimes highways don’t carry so many cars as expected, and other uses start to appear. An example of the re-use of highways was the Antonio Segni Bridge in Northern Rome, the east-west road in [...]
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