humanscalecities
The article is good but the fascinating piece is the photoshoped image of Vancouver if built with Parisian density.
http://oldurbanist.blogspot.ca/2011/09/skyscrapers-cause-and-effect.html
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My name is Sandy Wang. I am simultaneously a student, a designer, and a Canadian. Not too many people outside of the provincial boarders know about Burnaby, so I tell people I live in Vancouver.
This is my third attempt at maintaining a blog.
This is my third attempt at maintaining a blog.
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Gordon Matta-Clark and Fake Estates
In the early 1970s, Matta-Clark discovered that the City of New York periodically auctioned off “gutterspace”—unusably small slivers of land sliced from the city grid through anomalies in surveying, zoning, and public-works expansion. He purchased fifteen of these lots, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. Over the next years, he collected the maps, deeds, and other bureaucratic documentation attached to the slivers; photographed, spoke, and wrote about them; and considered using them as sites for his unique brand of “anarchitectural” intervention into urban space. Matta-Clark died in 1978 at the age of 35 without realizing his plans for Fake Estates, and ownership of the properties reverted to the city. The archival material that he had assembled went into storage and was not rediscovered until the early 1990s, when it was assembled into exhibitable collages.
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Bicycle Culture by Design: Actively Learning from Copenhagen’s Transport Successes (Part II)Mikael Colville-Andersen is known as Denmark’s bicycle ambassador. His approach to urban cycling promotion are well known through his blog Copenhagenize.com, and his Copenhagen cycle chic blog helped launch the global bicycle boom. He was born in Fort McMurray and grew up in Calgary.
He will speak on his four goals for promoting urban cycling, and about “bicycle culture by design” — how the current traffic planning mindset is outdated and how design can create a mainstream bicycle culture.From Copenhagenize.com:
Forty years ago Copenhagen was just as car-clogged as anywhere else but now 37% of commuters crossing the city boundary ride bicycles each day. That number rises to 55% in the city proper. They use over 1000 km of bicycle lanes in Greater Copenhagen for their journeys. Copenhagenizing is possible anywhere.
Register today for a seat at the June 28 event where perhaps we’ll get the favour of learning how Mikael believes Vancouver can Copenhagenize, at SFU Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
I’ve been following his blogs for years now and am looking forward to meeting the man himself. Join me!
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Regional Strategy for the Öresund Region between Sweden and Denmark.
Research accredited to Edda Ívarsdóttir, Nasos Alexis, and Kristina Stenström.
Thanks guys.
Assignment: Toolbox for sustainable urban design
Location: Amsterdam
For my friends back home. Explanation coming soon, stop bleeding and sleep first.
