(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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘events’
28-09-09, conference “Urban renewal: what is it?”
Posted in 3 - events, A - News, tagged events, lausanne, news on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Café Écoquartier on September 23, 2009
Posted in 3 - events, A - News, tagged events, lausanne, news, urbanism 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, [...]
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, [...]
Mobility Week – 18 to 28 september 2008
Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, tagged events, lausanne, metro, party, renens, trains, vevey 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 [...]
Lake parade
Posted in 3 - events, A - News, tagged events, fun, geneva, news, party, switzerland 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)
Sunday street in Bogotà: la Ciclovia
Posted in 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged bikes, bogota, colombia, events, streets, traffic, trends 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)
Free hugs campaign: the best example of the Flash Mob test
Posted in 1.4 - public spaces, 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged community, events, flash mob, pedestrians, spaces, streets, trends on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This video shows a classic of flash mobs, the Free Hugs Campaign, and shows us how the flash mob test reveals the different visions of public space carried by different actors: police officers viewed it just as a circulation space, while users viewed it as a place to meet and as an informal stage. It’s [...]
dancing flash mob
Posted in 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged community, events, flash mob, trends on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is another example of flash mob, from various locations around the world. (source: where the hell is matt?, urban prankster)
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