November 2010
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A city is not a T-shirt (and why Richard Florida's...
A city is not a T-shirt, the ”Making Competitive Cities” book review by citybreaths:
In the era of rapid urbanization, we are all trying to understand how numerous processes and phenomena shape our cities: globalization, post-industrialization, entrepreneurial cities, creative classes, clustering industries, networked societies, etcetera. All cities are in need of grand theories...
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The City's Brutalist cross-patch
One of the finest examples of an architectural style we now call ‘Brutalism’, the Barbican still is an eye catcher amidst the more recent glass and steel constructions of London’s City. Not only the monotonous grey concrete slabs of the residential towers makes the development stand out. It is one of the very few exclusively housing developments in the City’s Cripplegate area, with the inner...
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The top 20 urban planning successes of all time
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Billerica Garden Suburb, Massachusetts (“the country’s first garden suburb designed specifically for workers”)
Camden Town, London (“There is no one age group, race, gender or socio-economic group that outnumbers another”)
Chicago Boulevard System
Eugene, Oregon (“plans to be carbon neutral with no waste by 2020”)
Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri
Granville Island,...
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Sugieren al DF remodelación
El modelo es conocido como ‘constalación urbana’ y es recomendable para ciudades grandes y caóticas Ciudad de México (15 octubre 2010).- Liu Thai-Ker, uno de los creadores del plan maestro de remodelación de Singapur, recomendó a la Ciudad de México un cambio que incluya la creación de varias ciudades de menor tamaño dentro del territorio que actualmente ocupa. El modelo conocido como...
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Urban Platform Citymine(d) →
For 5 years, City Mine(d) has been connecting urban gardeners to cyclists, DIY-ers to urban planners, and kitchen chefs to IT-ers through projects in public space. What these people have in common is their use of their creativity to make daily life in cities more enjoyable.
These initiatives don’t exist to make money or to impose power, but they emerge according to desires or in response to local...
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Saskia Sassen ‘Making public interventions in... →
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“There is no truly ecological city in the traditional sense of the word city....”
– Jeb Brugmann
/via: @GammaCounter : pdsmith
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City Managers
La función de un alcalde es la de un representante de su ciudad y su estructura, pero es igual de necesaria la labor de un gestor de la misma (funcionario city manager).
En Finlandia, por ejemplo, no hay alcaldes. El gobierno de los municipios recae en funcionarios públicos con experiencia en la administración de entidades de esa índole y puede ser despedido o reemplazado por el Consejo...
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WatchA Necessary Ruin: The Story of Buckminster Fuller and the Union Tank Car Dome
Upon its completion in October 1958, the Union Tank Car Dome, located north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was the largest clear-span structure in the world. Based on the engineering principles of the visionary design scientist and philosopher Buckminster Fuller, this geodesic dome was, at 384 feet in diameter, the...
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#pdf La Estructura Veloz: Emilio Pérez Piñero →