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Today, I’ll take you to Basel, at Dornacherstrasse 192,where an old factory has been transformed into a neighborhood center, Gundeldinger Feld. The history of this place could be the same as many other places around the world: a 19th century factory in the inner city suddenly moving to the suburbs in order to look for [...]

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(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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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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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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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 [...]

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These days, lots of people have asked me for addresses and ideas for sunday and evening shopping. And so, here is the list: Lausanne Dimanche

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Today is Ada Lovelace day, a day in which each blogger should talk about a woman who changed the world in her field: a good occasion to talk about the person who gave the biggest contribute to contemporary urbanism, Jane Jacobs. XIX and early XX century were the century of machines, a century in which [...]

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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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“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 [...]

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(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 [...]

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