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The major of Rome is on Flickr!

Posted in 2.3 - public transports, A - News, tagged , , , 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!

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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 all the [...]

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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, sall hospitals… [...]

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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 – Complete the [...]

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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 this [...]

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the whistle stop train tour

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , 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 children [...]

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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 , , , , , 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 the [...]

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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 in 1991 [...]

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New bus network in Lausanne

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, A - News, tagged , , on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

(image: wikimedia commons)
From Sunday december 14,  the new bus network will be operational in Lausanne.  The main changes will be:

Lines 5,6 and 45 will be suppressed or re-routed in oder to avoid superopsitions with the metro,
Lines 4,6 and 15 will be merged into the new lines 4 and 6,
New line 21 will connect Blécherette and [...]

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