Found an interesting article on what makes a city perfect on Times Online.
The author, Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum "gives a menu for the paradise metropolis".
Here is a short preview:
The perfect city simply doesn’t exist: it would have an underground railway as organised as Tokyo’s, with a bus service as inspiring as the vaporetti of Venice. It would have a setting as beautiful as Stockholm’s. It would have New York’s museums and its 24-hour culture, with Berlin’s cheap, high-ceilinged apartments, and Hong Kong’s energy. It would have London’s tolerance of utterly different ways of life, coexisting side by side. It would have the street life of Naples, and the street cleaning of Zurich.
Read the entire article here.
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AskMen.com has published the inaugural edition of its “Top 29 Cities to Live In”. This ranking is especially addressed to men. Compiled solely by editors, Chicago topped the list as the most inhabitable city in the world for the everyday man. The editorial team chose this year’s best cities by applying a statistical formula to eight lifestyle categories. Selection criteria for the top cities included, among other factors, the rate of employment, ratio of single women to men, frequency of cultural activities and sporting events and the cost of a pint of beer.
And the Top 29 best cities for men to live in are the following: (more…)
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Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), held on the last Saturday of March.
Earth Hour asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.
According to EH’s homepage, the aim for 2009 is the following: This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. (more…)
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The German capital has founded a new initiative – The big hearts & big mouths Berlin Friendliness Initiative – to show visitors from all over the world that Berliners are friendly and dedicated citizens even though they have always had a reputation for having their own unfriendly, rude and nevertheless “unique” character.
This is what the initiative’s homepage say: (more…)
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The harbour of the Danish capital Copenhagen is in the midst of a transformation from an industrial port and traffic junction to being the cultural and social centre of the city. The Harbour Bath, a project by Danish architects BIG and JDS, has been instrumental in this evolution. The Harbour Bath offers an urban harbour landscape with dry-docks, piers, boat ramps, cliffs, playgrounds and pontoons. As a terraced landscape, the Harbour Bath completes the transition from land to water, making it possible for the citizens of Copenhagen to go for a swim in the middle of the city.
Find a lot more about that project on archdaily or JDS (it is quite complicated to find that project but its code is BAD). (more…)
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For the last few years, there has been a heavy building activity in the capital of Germany. And now, Berlin even gets its historically, backwards-looking, baroque-style palace including a cupola.
The Stadtschloss, a royal palace in the centre of Berlin, has a history. It was the principal residence of the Kings of Prussia from 1701 and of the German Emperors from 1871. In 1918 is became a museum due to the fall the fall of the German monarch. During World War II, it was damaged by Allied bombing. The ruins were removed later by German Democratic Republic authorities and replace by a large modernist building, the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic), which occupied most of the site of the former Stadtschloss. (more…)
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It is this time of the year again. Millions of people stroll the streets of our cities in search for the perfect Christmas gift.
While we share this enthusiasm of the people we have recognized a trend to do some of the Christmas shopping abroad. Famous Christmas shopping destinations include New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Beijing, Moscow, Krakow etc.
To help you, as our readers, to plan your future Christmas shopping trips we are giving away two Wallpaper* City Guides from Phaidon Press – Barcelona and Beijing. The Wallpaper* City Guides allow you to put a whole city in your pocket. It is a fast-track guide for smart travellers, easy-to-use and discreet so that you don’t feel like a tourist. (more…)
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Nuit Blanche is an annual all-night cultural festival. The festival lasts from sundown until sunrise on the first Saturday and Sunday in October and has, since its premiere in Paris 2002, spread to many other cities internationally, including Brussels, Chicago, Toronto and many more.
During this festival, an interesting project came to light in Toronto this year – an installation called Stereoscope. Stereoscope is an interactive light installation at Toronto City Hall. This installation by the German group Project Blinkenlights transforms the landmark towers into a huge display screen by arranging lamps behind each of the 960 windows of the building. From October 4th – October 12th, 2008 (from dusk till dawn) the façade served as an ever-changing and evolving kaleidoscope of graphic animations automatically generated. Through a variety of interfaces including smartphones, the web and physical controllers located at Nathan Phillips Square, the public could influence the installation. In other words the City Hall’s windows were turned to pixels to create a giant interactive LED display. (more…)
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General @ 18 Sep 2008 07:18 am by Fabio Lamanna
I would like to introduce you my research project called Time=net.work. The latter has got the purpose to extend complex networks theories to transportation systems under a new time-related point of view. Coupled biological and chemical systems, neural networks, social interacting species, the Internet and the World Wide Web are only a few examples of complex networks, i.e. systems composed by a large number of highly interconnected dynamical units. During the last ten years these kinds of systems have been the subject of many studies related to comprehend their common structural properties and their dynamics.
Complex networks are supposed to be very stable and robust structures in case of failures or deliberate attacks on the system. Moreover, due to their well-known properties, they allow to model several real networks in order to find the key elements for a complete and efficient communication activity between nodes. (more…)
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