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, sall hospitals… [...]
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.4 - cars, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged cars, cohousing, community, coworking, housing, reflections, trends 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 – Complete the [...]
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, A - News, D - reflections, tagged ald09post, jane jacobs, news, public spaces, reflections, spaces, urbanism on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 the [...]
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, C - Tips, D - reflections, tagged housing, procedure, reflections, tips, urbanism on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things that create a great built environment is complexity. When facing big projects, most of the architects have tried to recreate a complexity in their buildings, with a big effort and not very satisfying results.
Moshe Safdie, Habitat 67 (image: wikipedia)
Frank Gehry, MIT Stata Center (image: wikipedia)
Another option allows a better result with [...]
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.2 - cycling, 2.4 - cars, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged highways, pedestrians, reflections, rome, streets, trends 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 the [...]
Posted in D - reflections, tagged politics, reflections, smart growth, suburbia, travel on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The continent, as far as it is subject to the monarch of the flying island, passes under the general name of BALNIBARBI; and the metropolis, as I said before, is called LAGADO. I felt some little satisfaction in finding myself on firm ground. I walked to the city without any concern, being clad like one [...]
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.4 - cars, C - Tips, D - reflections, tagged cars, pedestrians, public spaces, reflections, tips on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two kind of space exist: The highway, regulated by signs, and the public realm, regulated by social rules. But lots of public realms are designed as highways.
source: shared space
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged metro, paris, reflections, rome, trains on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Following a discussion about Rome Metro, I found a comapraison between Rome B line and Washington Metro. According to different surveys, Rome Metro is considered one of the most unwelcoming ones: in order to change its perception, lots of long and expensive plans are currently going to improve comfort (see here and here). Anyway, some [...]
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