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Urban Beaches

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, B - Trends, tagged , on June 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Summer approaches, time to pack our stuff, fill our car and leave for a long long trip, that wil take us, after several hours, to a nice beach very far away… (image: wikipedia) Or maybe not. Why do we have to travel so much to find a place that makes us feel good? There is [...]

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Basel, Gundeldinger Feld

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, A - News, B - Trends, E - Reportages, tagged , , , , , , , on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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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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 – [...]

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Refurbishing the 60’s masterpieces: two examples from Rome

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The city within a building – Mario Fiorentino In the last 50 years, we have built a massive amount of buildings, experimenting techniques and philosophies as never before. Reinforced concrete, cheap energy and cars allowed us a freedom to build that we never experienced before. Now, many of the ideas behind them look outdated, and the building themselves are approaching the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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luxury trains come back to Italy

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, A - News, B - Trends, tagged , , , on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

(source image: flickr) Luxury trains have come back to Italy. in 2005, SeaTrain has renewed some trains from italian companies FCU and Vesuviana and turned them into Roma Express and Napoli Express. (source image: flickr) Rome Express runs from Civitavecchia Harbour to Rome S. Pietro Railway station, leaving passengers in the very heart of Rome, [...]

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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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Why place matters (Richard Florida)

Posted in B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

(source: Creative Class)

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Crowdsourcing the eco-district of Lausanne Blécherette: consuming

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, A - News, B - Trends, tagged , , , , on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On september 10, another crowdsourcing session has taken place in Lausanne. This time, the theme was “consuming”: shops, energy, water, wastes. Here is a list of the wishes that came out during the session: – Small independent shops rather than big chain suburban supermarkets (Most of people had few hopes that this would have been [...]

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