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28-09-09, conference “Urban renewal: what is it?”

Posted in 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

(image: wikipedia) Under the term “urban renewal” we can find lots of different projects started by different entities (citizens, public authorities, developers) and with completely different visions. Some project will bring derelict industrial areas back to the city (as in Malley), some others will throw away most of the ancients inhabitants and look for completely [...]

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Café Écoquartier on September 23, 2009

Posted in 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , , on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Are you looking for your dream house? Is there something in (y)our city you’d like to be improved? Come and discuss at the Café Écoquartier: a meeting to talk about co-housing, eco-habitat and urbanism. The Association Écoquartier waits for you on September 23, 2009, at 20.00 at the Café Restaurant de l’Ouest, Av.de Morges 119, [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Transit Art: CEVA

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , , , on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here in Switzerland, the ultimate decision on infrastructure and urban planning comes from people, so a good communication campaign is essential in order to promote a project. So, public administrations always put a big effort on promotion and communication, as in the case of CEVA, the new underground link between the Swiss and French railway [...]

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Transit Art: Transformers

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , , on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Mobility week is almost over: for ten days, walking, cycling and public transport have been the main topic of a long list of events in Lausanne. One of the event of this week was the shooting of Transformers 02, by NOTsoNOISY and Retrobus:

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Lausanne metro line 2 (Le Temps)

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The opening of Lausanne Metro line 2, by Marco Danesi (Le Temps) source: domaine public

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Lausanne Metro line 2: it’s open!

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Voila! Since last Thursday (and till Sunday, since the last tests will go on till the final opening on october 27), Lausanne Metro line 2 is open: Here is the official video from TVRL And here, the complete video of the trip, by skylop:

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Mobility Week – 18 to 28 september 2008

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , , , , , on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

(video: transformers 01 by NOTsoNOISY) From 18 to 28 september 2008, Lausanne will host the Mobility Week. Lausanne public transports’ network will turn itself in a big show: – Metro Line 2 will be open from 18 to 21 September, from 15h30 to 20h00 on the first day, from 10h00 to 20h00 on the other [...]

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from “Adapt the city to cars” to “Adapt the city to social networks”

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.4 - cars, 3 - events, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , , on September 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In 1971, Georges Pompidou said: “Adapter la ville à la voiture” (adapt the city to cars), in a world where people wanted to go faster and further, and reach in a reasonable amount of time more and more places. A new world was born, made of countryside houses, motorways, shopping centers, big buildings: a world [...]

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