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Appel à projet de recherche lancé par l'ADEME : Urbanisme durable et environnement sonore Le présent appel à proposition de recherche (APR) s’inscrit dans le cadre de la mise en oeuvre de la stratégie "Développement durable de la ville" et du plan de "Lutte contre les nuisances sonores des transports terrestres". Il vise à réaliser l’observation critique et dynamique de la recherche et des pratiques pour une meilleure prise en compte des ambiances sonores dans les projets d’urbanisme par une approche positive intégrée, ainsi qu’à évaluer les attentes des différents acteurs, et enfin à permettre une meilleure prise en compte de la problématique du bruit et de l’environnement sonore dans les référentiels "développement durable de la ville" et les projets d’urbanisme... via Alexandra Rios @Al_Rios_ RT : Crévilles.org, centre de ressources électroniques sur les villes et les études urbaines...
Le concept de « villes en transition » est peu connu. Cependant énormément de citoyens combinent leurs efforts en Nouvelle Zélande, pour que les villes puissent s’adapter aux changements inévitables du futur.
A l'ouest de l'île de Manhattan se trouve le secteur de Hudson Yards : situé entre la 42nd Street et la 28th Street, la 8th Avenue et l'Hudson River.
La manifestation s’intitule le Grand Détournement, mais le grand débarquement aurait aussi convenu. Mille étudiants venus de toute l’Europe, mais aussi d’Israël et du Mexique, sont attendus aujourd’hui à L’Ile-Saint-Denis pour participer jusqu’à dimanche soir au festival d’architecture Bellastock, organisé par l’association du même nom, avec Plaine Commune, sur la friche industrielle des anciens entrepôts du Printemps, cœur du futur écoquartier de la commune.
Project by Candy Chang, co-founder of Civic Center, a civic design studio in New Orleans. Candy Chang is passionate about public space and the ways we can make it our own. She has worked with street art stickers, fill-in-the-blank post-it notes, temporary sidewalk stencils and and community chalkboards, all of them community activators to provide cheap and flexible platforms of communication. The following selection of projects are a fantastic example of direct and quickly implementable public installations in which existing resources, people, and energy can come together in new and empowering ways.
Un chercheur en climatologie urbaine mesure les températures à une échelle très fine : celle des quartiers de la ville.
Via Lockall
Limite* à métrique* topologique*. Notion allant apparemment de soi, la frontière connaît une existence concrète dans une fenêtre historique déterminée. Avant que l’État n’existe, elle n’a pas d’objet. Avant qu’il n’ait les moyens de la tracer et de la défendre, elle demeure un rêve. Dans un monde démilitarisé ouvert aux échanges, elle perd son sens. (...)
Via Géographie de la ville en guerre
Inspired by the beautiful and elegant Interactive Wind Map created by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg I have begun to explore the flow of people within a city. An ideal dataset to do this would include the GPS traces from thousands of people wearing trackers for weeks as they go about their daily lives. Organizations such as crowdflow.net and OpenPaths collect voluntarily donated data of this type and might be fruitful to explore. I decided, instead, to use geolocated tweets to try and see how the movement of people is affected by the urban landscape. The image below shows an area of Manhattan roughly from Houston Street north to 72nd Street which corresponded to the region with the most geolocated tweets that I collected. It includes Times Square, Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the southern portion of Central Park, and many other well known landmarks. The blue and red markings are an attempt to show the flow of people based on the data.
Via rccc, Karen Bastien
Lewis Mumford’s The Culture of Cities is a classic: the editors of The City Reader (3rd edition) go so far as to say that, “Lewis Mumford’s magisterial The Culture of Cities (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1938) was the first and remains the best book on the culture of cities” (2005, 10). Yes and no. Mumford advocated ‘decentralization’ and earned a reputation for hating large cities. Jane Jacobs, for example, had a different opinion. In her Death and Life of Great American Cities, in a discussion of “orthodox modern city planning and city architectural design” she directs readers to Mumford for “a sympathetic account which mine is not” (1992, 17). On Mumford’s The Culture of Cities, specifically, Jacobs writes that it “was largely a morbid and biased catalog of ills. The great city [for Mumford and others] was Megalopolis, Tyrannopolis, Nekropolis, a monstrosity, a tyranny, a living death. It must go” (Jacobs 1992, 20-21; also 207). The notion of “culture” invoked throughout Mumford’s book–despite earning a place int he title–is somewhat simplistic and vague–amounting to a generalized sign of human prosperity… e.g. Mumford speaks of a “non-metropolitan culture,” “human culture,” “advanced cultures,” “cultural impoverishment.” via
http://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/
Ron Huldai, Mayor of Tel Aviv, and Jack Bennett, deputy manager of Skolkovo City, represent different strategies aimed at emulating the success of Silicon Valley in becoming a global innovation center. @thepolisblog via @manufernandez
'Zéro émission', villes durables, éco-constructions, urbanisme vert et responsable, des appellations diverses pour un même constat, des mini-cités qui depuis dix ans se multiplient et métamorphosent la ville traditionnelle. Le quartier BedZed, au sud de Londres, réalisé par l’architecte Bill Dunster, fait figure de pionnier. Chronique de Sipane Hoh.
Via Vincent Athias
I recommend listening closely to this speech by Adam Greenfield, founder of Urbanscale and one of the people with the clearest ideas about the role technology can play in urban life. As a pioneer of urban computing, his book Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing -you can read a review I wrote some weeks ago- is a reference on ubiquitous computing and its presence in constructed environments. A brief work in the form of an interview, Urban Computing and its Discontents, is also required reading for anyone approaching these issues, in order to understand the dilemmas in the interaction between the digital and physical space in a city. They are works that have been around long enough to understand, in the first place, that nothing falling under the label of smart city is new (here you have a good selection of books on the subject in the last ten years that gives some perspective) and, in second place, let us see how many promises have been fulfilled and how much there has been and remains of exaggerated optimism about the value of digital technologies in cities.
Denser cities are more productive, more innovative, and more energy efficient. Density is all the rage these days. Urban economists, some of whom could be heard extolling the praises of "sun, skills, and sprawl" just a few years ago, now see increasing density as the key to improving productivity and driving economic growth. In his story for The Atlantic, "How Skyscrapers Can Save the City," Harvard University’s Edward Glaeser put it this way: "As America struggles to regain its economic footing, we would do well to remember that dense cities are also far more productive than suburbs, and offer better-paying jobs ... tall buildings enable the human interactions that are at the heart of economic innovation, and of progress itself." Well-intentioned planners and preservationists drive up prices when they stand in the way of taller and taller buildings, he argues. Overly restrictive height limitations not only impede economic progress, but make cities less, not more, liveable. There can be no doubt that density has its advantages. In general, denser cities are more productive, more innovative, and more energy efficient. But only up to a point.
Via paradoxcity
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By bringing together all types of information about species distributions, providing model-based integration, and providing a system for users to build upon our knowledge, the Map of Life project hopes to support our community in understanding and...
Via Territori
Plusieurs projets victimes du bras de fer incessant entre l'Etat et la Mairie de Paris, pourraient être débloqués suite à l'élection de François Hollande.
Facture en hausse, démêlés judiciaires, doutes architecturaux : le pharaonique chantier du centre de Paris crée la polémique.
The race to build the tallest building in the world has been going on ever since the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, was built in Chicago in 1885 (it was demolished in 1931). The Empire State Building was the first building to have more than 100 floors and the tallest building in the world until 1973 when it was surpassed by the World Trade Center. Willis Tower (then Sears Tower), Petronas Twin Towers and Taipei 101 followed. At 828 meters or 2,717 feet, Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world, but according to recent news, it might not be long until it gets surpassed. Kingdom Tower, the proposed building in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is expected to reach 1,000 meters (3281 feet) by the time it is completed in 2017. Iker Gil and André Corrêa dig in the archives of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat to visualize the new current situation around the world and trends during the last 100 years.
Essay by Brendan Crain, founder of the Where blog and Communications Manager at Project for Public Spaces. Writer and urbanist Brendan Crain writes about the role of new digital tools in preservation efforts. In the existing conflict between preserving buildings to slow the process of loss and the dynamic nature of people, digital layers can maintain a sense of urgency around long-passed events that lend the built environment much of its import.
The team headed by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of WORKac asked, "What if we could live sustainably and close to nature?" Their proposal, Nature-City, reinvents British urbanist Ebenezer Howard's 1899 concept of the Town-Country, a classic feature of the Garden City that combines the conveniences of urban life with the health benefits and access to agriculture of country living. Nature-City integrates density, diversity, a mixture of uses, and a variety of housing types ranging in affordability, and incorporates ecological infrastructure, sky gardens, urban farms, and public open space, including large swaths of restored native habitats.
Via Lockall
"La problématisation de la cartographie (dans lequel s'inscrit le countermapping) émerge à la fois comme une nécessité de renouveler les modes de représentation du capitalisme globalisé et comme une remise en question de ce qui est représenté – des savoirs produits par les cartes." ( … ) C'est quoi le countermapping ? A la lecture de cet article, j'ai noté qu'ils mentionnaient deux collectifs que je connaissais de loin, Hackitectura et Bureau d'Etudes, et qu'ils étaient estampillés "countermapping", qui peut se traduire par contre-cartographie ou cartographie subversive souvent lié à des luttes.
Via tiriad
Rento van Drunen’s Gridcollages on pytr75′s blog put my mind back to Albert Pope’s book, Ladders which was published in 1996. This book was very influential on my work and my thinking about urban structures and the systems that are used to put and keep them in place. In Ladders, Pope suggested that the pre war urban grid, when it was first conceived, was an open system. via: http://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/
«El espacio público es el principal patrimonio que nuestras ciudades poseen, y devolvérselo al ciudadano está en la base de un modelo de ciudad más sostenible.
Actualmente, el vehículo privado copa la mayor parte del espacio público, relegando al peatón a las aceras y causando importantes disfunciones. Frente a esta realidad, la Agencia de Ecología Urbana de Barcelona propone un rediseño de la ciudad basado en el nuevo concepto de Supermanzana.» El artículo ha sido publicado en el número 11 de la revista trimestral Ciudad Sostenible. via @arquitec_hash RT @paistransversal
From May 14th-May 16th, participants from across the world met in Paris for the inaugural New Cities Summit.
Hace tiempo leí Ciudades muertas. Ecología, catástrofe y revueltas. Algunas de las historias que detalla Mike Davis son espeluznantes, especialmente en todo lo que tiene que ver con la utilización del desierto central de Estados Unidos como territorio oculto para la realización de pruebas nucleares. El libro es un compendio de relatos desiguales sobre Las Vegas, Los Ángeles, y contiene también una historia sorprendente. El barrio alemán del desierto de Utah, construido a principios de los años 40 del siglo pasado en el campo de pruebas de Dugway (el libro se puede leer en PDF y el capítulo se titula El esqueleto de Berlín en el armario de Utah). CIUDADES A ESCALA HUMANA Manu Fernandez BLOG via @manufernandez
It is likely you have heard about this project of building a new city from scratch to test new urban technologies, but no people will be living there. In fact, we first heard about it some months ago (I wrote some paragraphs linking this with my memories from Dead cities and other tales, by Mike Davis, in which he depicts the construction of a german town in Utah to test the destruction potential of city centres aerial bombing). Now it seems there is a second wave of public relations campaign to celebrate the development of this site in Nuevo Mexico conceived as a test bed for companies and researchers of new technological solutions to be deployed in cities. I can even remember how in a forum promoting open innovation for urban contexts this project was mentioned as the latest breakthrough of the discourse of smart cities, when actually it implies how top-down research approaches can even pretend to be the last idea in the rrom.
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