June 2011
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Why eco-cities are not the solution to climate... →
A post by humanscalecities:
Eco-cities have appeared for some time as the promise to bring sustainability to cities. They are presented as integrated projects to construct Utopian spaces for the development of a new inhabitable areas that fully comply with the requirements of reduced CO2 emissions (zero emissions), and less waste (zero waste), etc. They embody an optimistic vision (an urban...
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Visualizing alternatives for China's urban growth →
A great visualization of possible growth scenarios of urban China:
5 scenarios: trendline, supercities, hub and spoke, distributed groth and townization
Crossed with different indicators: GDP, flor space, transportation, jobs, water,…
/via humanscalecities
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A selection of 75 videos about cities and urban... →
humanscalecities collected these links some months ago and he will find the time some day to update it to reach at least 100, as he founds some other videos afterwards.
Public spaces
Sustainability
Colaborative urban narratives
Digital cities
Urban economy
Urban planning
Quality of urban life
Urban mobility
/via smartercities
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James Howard Kunstler ofrece un análisis profundo de los suburbios
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Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
Architectural critic Reyner Banham explores Los Angeles in this 1972 BBC documentary.
/via @laperiferia
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OMA “Three in One” – Lecture at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas
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On Rem Koolhaas - Antonio Negri →
“Of the writings collected together in the book Junkspace, ‘Bigness’ (1994) is for me the most important. Rem Koolhaas’s other essays, ‘The Generic City’ (1994) and ‘Junkspace’ (2001), are partly coherent, partly paradoxical complements to it. But I agree with what is argued in ‘Bigness’. Indeed I would go even further and say that ‘Bigness’ and Delirious New York (1978) are basic texts for...
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Sobre el diseño de medialabs
El siguiente es un post de Ramón Sanguesa en el que aparecen sus reflexiones compartidas en la presentación del MediaLab USAL.
1. Media: los media ya no son lo que eran. De los viejos tiempos del multimedia, hemos avanzado hacia la transmedialidad. Todo lo digitalizable se ha digitalizado. Digital es también computacional. Cada vez más, estamos no ya en lo remezclable de la cultura del remix y la...
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communityplanning.net →
“Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment. This website is an essential starting point for everyone concerned. It provides easily accessible how-to-do-it best practice information of international scope and relevance.” About communityplanning.net
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