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Crowdsourcing the eco-district of Lausanne Blécherette: growing up

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , , on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

(source video: OLA Métamorphose) The city of Lausanne is promoting a serie of crowdsourcing sessions for the new eco-district of Pontaise-Blecherette. Last Tuesday I was in the first of them, called “Grow Up”, and heard lots of interesting ideas. First of all, people wanted a small-scale district: small roads that will help random meetings, small [...]

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Spatial organization and human nature

Posted in 1 - spaces, 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, 3 - events, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If we think, like Le Corbusier, that human nature is bad, social interactions can only lead us away from the Truth, thus shall be discouraged. A “bad human nature city” will have freeways with no sidewalk, windows on nature, shopping centers with security guards preventing unwanted behaviours… If we think, like Jane Jacobs, that human [...]

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Transit needs some creativity

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged , , , on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today, on All About Cities, I found an interesting post on improvements in public transports. What if people with longer commutes could sit in a luxury coach, fully stocked with amenities, including: Wireless internet (like the google bus in San Francisco) A personal TV with a variety of programs (as on many airlines, especially in [...]

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sheer transit pleasure: historical trains

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, B - Trends, C - Tips, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

(photo via flickr) One of the nice surprises you can find while riding public transports, is finding yourself into a special, historical train. Ancient rolling stock, old fashioned staff, special festive ambiance… in a while, the trip loses its tmosphere of boring daily commute and turns itself into an improvised party: everybody starts to talk, [...]

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Lake parade

Posted in 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , , , , on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last saturday, the city of Geneva turned into an immense disco for the lake parade! From 4PM to 3AM, 250,000 people danced and had fun on geneva lakeside. For those who missed it, meeting point in Zurich for the street parade!!! (source: 20 minutes)

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commuter party spreads all over the world!

Posted in 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged , , , on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

More and more people want the city to change, from an anonymous grid to a big playground, In order to help people to make this change, New Mind Space has publied Metromorphosis, a guidebook about throwing a street party or subway party. Enjoy!

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Sunday street in Bogotà: la Ciclovia

Posted in 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged , , , , , , on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Once famous just for its internal wars, Colombia is experiencing big changes in its architectural and social life. In its capital, Bogotà, quality of life has improved dramatically in the last years: one of the examples of this improvements is Bogotà’s sunday street, the famous “Ciclovia”. (source: streetfilms)

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inflatable street art

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged , , , , on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

After having become famous for blowing up Marilyn Monroe skirt, subway air grates come again, this time to give birth to Joshua allen Harris’s works of art.  in normal conditions, Harris’s artworks seems to be just garbage left on the road,  but when a subway train pass under the grate, air blows up and turns [...]

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Dirty Car Art

Posted in 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged , on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Some posts ago, I was talking about Green Graffiti. Another example of the same style can be found here. (source: urban prankster)

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Green graffiti

Posted in 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged , , on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

(source: wikimedia commons) Graffiti are one of the most controversial phenomena that characterize the urban environment. Street art for somebody, vandalism for somebody else, they continue to be a big argument of debate. In this debate, Green Graffiti adds a new and different point of view. As a form of viral marketing, they make graffiti [...]

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