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
Winners of the European Prize for Urban Public Space
Winners have been announced for the seventh edition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, a biennial competition created in 2000 and organized by six European institutions with the aim to recognize and encourage the recovery projects and defense of public space in our cities. The competition is organized by Barcelona’s Centre de Cultura Contemporània … Read more
Next American City Launches Forefront
Next American City, the popular website and non-profit organization dedicated to connecting cities and informing the people who work to improve them has just launched a new website that delivers content on a subscription-based delivery model called Forefront: “A weekly series of long-form, in-depth articles about cities around the world. Each Monday morning…a story concerning … 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
10 urban infrastructure regeneration projects
There’s no doubt that the High Line‘s success pushed urban renewal to the forefront and made its mark on public awareness. In our fourth installment of case studies related to our program’s field of research and practice, we’ve decided to highlight similar projects involving infrastructural renewal that are perhaps less known but just as significant … 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
