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Café Écoquartier on September 23, 2009

Posted in 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , , 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, [...]

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New Urbanism vs. Suburbanism

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 2.4 - cars, tagged , , on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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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 Now, many of the ideas behind them look outdated, and the building themselves are approaching the [...]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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How to create a private space without using fences

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.4 - cars, C - Tips, tagged , , , , , , on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This image (Geneva, square Pradier, via Microsoft Virtual Earth) shows how to create a calm square and give privacy to a block without using fences or corner buildings. The four external building act as a screen and separate the square from the through traffic of the surrounding roads. Access to the backside of the external [...]

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Sustainable district: from idea to reality

Posted in 1 - spaces, 2 - transports, A - News, tagged , , , on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If you are interested in living into a sustainable district, and want to know more about the path that leads to the realization of such a district, the University of Lausanne is organizing a seminar about sustainable urbanism on september 4-5, 2008. some issues that will be dealt in the seminar are: – How to [...]

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