Walk Score has ranked 2,508 neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. cities to help people to find a walkable place to live. Walk score is a web-based service that helps you to find walkable places to live by calculating a Walk Score for any address. They score the walkability of an address on a scale of 1 to 100 based on access to amenities, groceries, transportation display it graphically (the more green, the more walkable, red being the least).
To get their ranking they have a special methodology. They sampled the Walk Score of 1,123,855 locations in the largest 40 U.S. cities to create walkability heat maps and rank 2,508 neighborhoods.
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General @ 21 Aug 2008 06:00 am by Robert Schmidl
This could be a funny alternative to plain old walking. “Liber Toit”, a concept by Aureline Ranson transforms the neighborhood into a giant hamster-like jungle gym! Designed to utilize the full abilities of our bodies, a network of ramps, obstacles, walls, slides and tubes connects locations throughout a city. Instead of sidewalks and stairs, you can climb, crawl, jump and zoom your way to where you are going.
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After having reported on American cities which could be lost or become wastelands in the future, we found a list of 20 cities that are already lost. The WebUrbanist blog, a blog on urban design, travel, architecture and alternative art, has composed a list of 20 abandoned cities from around the world.
There are many reasons why cities get lost; some, like the ghost towns of the American West, have become tourist destinations while others have been condemned or simply forgotten. A list of 20 abandoned cities of the world share an eerie, haunted quality that is part of what makes them so fascinating. When you are interested in more amazing abandoned places by region, visit the WebUrbanist abandonments archive.
These are the 20 lost cities:
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PerfectCity Charter @ 14 Aug 2008 02:41 pm by Eurohypo
Finally, the analysis of the factors of the PerfectCity Charter issue “Economic environment” is finished and online. The dossier no. 4 is to find in the “PerfectCity Charter” section in the sidebar.
We are looking forward to your comments and thoughts about this dossier.
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In the light of our current PerfectCity poll it is time to focus on another factor. When we are talking about “Social security” we mean protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others – including public insurances, pensions and child allowances.
To support this issue we would like to present an interesting report from ISSA to you. The ISSA, International Social Security Association, is an international organization bringing together government departments, social security administrations and agencies.
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In May, we have reported on a competition by A Vision of Europe called The European prize 2008 for the best urban neighbourhood in Europe.
Now, we got a comment which advised us of the results of the competition (thanks to Bertille Amaudric from Fondation pour l’Architecture).
The International jury of the 2008 Philippe Rotthier European announced the TOP-10 urban neighbourhoods. The 88 selected neighbourhoods come from 30 European countries and from big cities such as Lisbon, Bilbao, Paris, London, Glasgow, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Bologna, Palermo, Tirana, Istanbul, etc., as well as from beautiful medium-size cities such as Santiago de Compostela, Hammamet, Gladbeck, Alessandria, Hoje Tarstrup, Knokke, Dorchester, Brandevoort, etc. Among the 88 entries selected, these are the best New Urban Neighbourhood built in Europe in the last 25 years:
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It has pretty much become universally accepted that global warming is having an effect on global ocean levels. With sea levels rapidly rising, millions of coastal and island inhabitants are threatened to loose their homes. Major cities including London, New York and Tokyo are seen as being at huge risk from oceans which could rise by as much as 3ft by the end of this century. To be prepared for this, new solutions must be found.
The ultimate solution to rapidly rising sea levels are so called “Lilypad Islands” by the award-winning Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut. Based on the design of a lilypad, they could be used as a permanent refuge and a new place to live for those whose homes have been covered in water.
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General @ 31 Jul 2008 07:20 am by Robert Schmidl
Urban civilizations continue to evolve and history is testimony that great civilizations have crumbled either due to the onslaught of natural disasters or gradual shift in economic trends. Environmental Graffiti, a blog with an eclectic mix of the most bizarre, funny and interesting environmental news on the planet, takes a look at such cities in the United States that may be endangered. News editor Ben Ray explores cities, which in the distant future could be reclaimed by nature. Like before, climate change and changing economies continue to influence the state of our cities.
In the latest article on Lost Cities of the Future, five American cities were listed. According to Ben Ray, these cities are:
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One factor of the current poll is “Gardening and landscaping”, which is defined as maintenance of public green areas. It also means creating and building new public green areas and there is an interesting project to find in New York City: A defunct stretch of railroad on the Far West Side of Manhattan is destined to become a park in the sky.
The High Line is an abandoned 2.33 km (1.45 mile) section of the former elevated freight railroad of the West Side Line, along the lower west side of New York City borough of Manhattan between located in the West Village. The High Line was built in the early 1930s by the New York Central and has been unused by freight service since 1980. It is in a state of disrepair, although the elevated structure is basically sound. Wild grass and plants grow along most of the route.
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