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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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 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 [...]
Shared Space
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.4 - cars, C - Tips, D - reflections, tagged cars, pedestrians, public spaces, reflections, tips on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two kind of space exist: The highway, regulated by signs, and the public realm, regulated by social rules. But lots of public realms are designed as highways. source: shared space
Obama promotes urban life
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.4 - cars, A - News, tagged downtown, news, obama, politics, suburbia, USA on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“…All of our politics was built around the idea that there are cities, and there are suburbs, and the suburban people don’t like the city people, and the city people don’t like the suburban people, and usually the suburban people are republicans, and the city people are democrats…our politics was built around that idea. Except [...]
protection against the motorway noise: Croisset Student House
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 2 - transports, 2.4 - cars, C - Tips, tagged cars, France, housing, paris, tips on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Croisset Student House is a good example of how to protect a building from the noise of a motorway and give at the same time a public image to the building. The complex is made of 3 residential blocks, oriented perpendicularly to the motorway, and a continuous screen which runs between the blocks and [...]
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