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Mixed-use Suburbs

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.4 - cars, 3 - events, D - reflections, tagged , , 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, [...]

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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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Ada Lovelace day: Jane Jacobs

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, A - News, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , , 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 [...]

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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 Now, many of the ideas behind them look outdated, and the building themselves are approaching the [...]

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Architecture and complexity

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, C - Tips, D - reflections, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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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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Lagado and Balinarbi

Posted in D - reflections, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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The 21st Century Medieval City

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

When we think of medieval cities, we assume it was something like this: (image: Siena, from wikipedia) while, at that time, it was more likely to be something like this: (image: Rio de Janeiro, from wikipedia) This is the thesis of Robert Neuwirth, who studied from (and lived in) what he calls “the 21st Century [...]

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Shared Space

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.4 - cars, C - Tips, D - reflections, tagged , , , , 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

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Paris RER E vs. Rome Metro B: same spaces, different comfort

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged , , , , 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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