General @ 28 Aug 2008 08:45 am by Robert Schmidl
We found a cool article on city structures by Bricoleurbanism, a Canadian blog which focuses on the city, the landscape and the fields that manipulate them from the perspective of urban design and landscape architecture.
The article refers to a publication by the Star, a Canadian newspaper, called ‘Beyond Density’. This publication deals with on the efforts of a Canadian city called Mississauga to create a more vibrant and pedestrian-friendly downtown. To prove the city’s problem – the large scale of the block patterns – the article includes urban forms or fabric drawings of 9 cities in order to compare the scales of the fabric of the street network.
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General @ 03 Jul 2008 06:00 am by Robert Schmidl
Today it is popular to create city ranking corning very different aspects. We appreciate the interest into this topic very much. Now, Monocle magazine will publish the 2008 edition of the 20 Most Livable Cities index in their July/August issue. Monocle’s unique ranking goes beyond the usual metrics that only look at housing costs and schools to include the possibility of getting a good glass of wine at one in the morning, the quality of new architecture, the ease of setting up a business and even the number of cinema screens. They write “Months of good-natured, frequently late-night and jetlagged debate have produced Monocle’s definitive (and just a little subjective) guide to the world’s most liveable cities. Correspondents were dispatched worldwide to assess the cities. The entire issue is devoted to the concerns, forces, people and policies that make our cities work.”
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While I was doing a little research, I stumbled upon an interesting article by the Los Angeles Time. This article was on guerrilla gardening and I have never heard of this before. So, what is guerrilla gardening?
Guerrilla gardening is political gardening, a form of non-violent direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists to reclaim the cities. It is related to land rights, land reform, and permaculture. Activists take over and squat an abandoned piece of land which they do not own to grow crops or plants. Guerrilla gardeners believe in re-considering land ownership in order to reclaim land from perceived neglect or misuse and assign a new purpose to it. To summarize, guerrilla gardening is the act of seeding useful plants in public spaces.
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General @ 07 Mar 2007 12:28 pm by Maximilian Thumfart
Last week the government of Schleswig Holstein (Germany) decided to agree to the controversial project of building a bridge between the island of Fehmarn in Germany and the city of Roedby in Denmark. The highway+railroad containing bridge will shorten the distance between Copenhagen and Hamburg about 180 kilometers by a distance of 20 kilometers over the baltic sea. (more…)
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General @ 29 Jan 2007 06:38 pm by Robert Schäfer
2006 marks the third time the European Landscape Award has been granted on the occasion of the 2007 Urban Design Fair in Munich on 19 January. This time the distinction went to the landscape architecture firm of GROSS.MAX. in Edinburgh. (more…)
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