Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Here are this week’s Friday Faves! Foodlogic – A short documentary that looks into alternatives and the possibility to use local food as a tool to define new urban transport standards, by exploring the logistics of food from the surrounding countryside to the city of Amsterdam and the impact on urban environment. Agroperifèrics – Besides … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Here are this week’s Friday Faves…enjoy! Dutch Landscapes – Mishka Henner analyzes the peculiarly (or predictably?!) stylistic method of censorship employed by the Dutch on its sensitive sites on Google Earth imagery, “imposing bold, multi-coloured polygons…rather than the subtler and more standard techniques employed in other countries. The result is a landscape occasionally punctuated by … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things To Watch and Read
This week in Friday Faves… MVRDV – Almere Oosterwold – MVRDV proposes this development strategy for Almere Oosterwold, titled ‘Estate for Initiatives’ a Dutch urban planning scheme that steps away from governmental dictate and invites organic urban growth where inhabitants create their own neighbourhoods including public green, urban agriculture and roads. Is DIY urbanism possible? … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
This week in Friday Faves: Waterline: 12 Designers, 12 Visions – Waterfront regeneration being one of our main interests, here is an interesting video summarizing the proposals of GSD students for the transformation of the South Branch of the Chicago River. Rehaul of Popular Singapore Park Restores Urban River – More on river regeneration: Read … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
This week in Friday Faves: Philadelphia E-Lane Initiative April 1, 2012 – A hilarious little April Fool’s joke on Philadelphia’s pedestrians, who were witness to the unveiling of a new “E-Lane” for the exclusive use of texting addicts. Just one of the city pranks highlighted over at Atlantic Cities. Critical Cities - While cities are expanding, … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Here are this week’s Friday Faves… The Social Costs of Car Use in Mexico – ITDP Mexico produced a video with Emigre Films on the social costs of the car use in Mexico, and how reducing the excessive use of the automobile and its external consequences depends on better infrastructure and management. Stamen’s Watercolor Maps … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Happy Friday! Here are this week’s top urbanism picks… Enjoy! From the Netherlands to America: Translating the World’s Best Bikeway Designs – Urban planners and policy makers from the U.S. visit the most advanced city in the world for cycling infrastructure to gather clues and best practices for implementing similar designs in American cities. Urban … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Our Friday Faves this week: Downtown is for People (Fortune Classic, 1958) – Every week, Fortune.com publishes a favorite story from its magazine archives. Here is one we found by Jane Jacobs in which the urban activist laid out the case against modernist planners. Why Apple’s New Campus Is Bad for Urban America – Read about … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Here are this week’s Friday Faves: A Manifesto for Looseness – This lecture by Kazys Varnelis, director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, challenges the notions of the smart city and addresses the threat of complexity in our lives at an urban scale. The talk … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
This week in Friday Faves… Interview with urbanist Manuel de Solà-Morales – A homage to one of our favorite architects and urban planners, Manuel de Solà-Morales, who sadly passed away just a few days ago. For those of you who speak or understand Catalán, here is an interview with him last year in which he … Read more
