February 2009
101 posts
Grand ensemble - Wikipédia →
“Companies might try to encourage people to telecommute: save money on space, and...”
– Lift09 Workshop: Where will you work tomorrow? (Pierre Belcari)
“Traditional architecture and urbanism require a sense of modesty and humility...”
– Nikos Salingaros, Fractals in the New Architecture
“In the last few decades, urban sprawl, once regarded as largely a U.S....”
– The New Urbanists: Tackling Europe’s Sprawl by Bruce Stutz: Yale Environment 360
“And yet, city life isn’t easy. The same London cafes that stimulated Ben...”
– How the city hurts your brain - Boston.com
Watch“Slumdog Millionaire” grand vainqueur des Oscars
“L’association écoquartier a publié lundi 140 recommandations urbanistiques...”
– 20minutes.ch - Ecoquartier publie ses recommandations urbanistiques - Vaud
Paris →
“In many ways, Dharavi is the ultimate user-generated city. Each of its 80-plus...”
– Slumdog Urbanist « Emergent Urbanism
“An enduring bailout, or a new deal for Detroit, would be different. It would be...”
– Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society? - The New York Review of Books, via Creative Class
“Despite their appearance of mess and squalor (and struggles with sewage and...”
– What if Jane Jacobs had directed “Slumdog”? | Congress for the New Urbanism
“Hasn’t anyone thought of allocating money to work with the residents to...”
– squattercity: villa 31, or area 51
“Charles said squatter neighborhoods have “an underlying intuitive grammar...”
– squattercity: Prince Charles salutes squatters
“There seems to be some fairly strong evidence that the price of an average home...”
– CoolTown Studios
“I think this illustrates all too clearly how that great but irreplaceable stock...”
– The Urbanophile: Preserving Our Mid-Century Heritage
“Les projets d’éco-quartiers qui fleurissent un peu partout en Suisse romande...”
– RSR - Les Urbanités » Les éco-quartiers s’adressent-ils aux privilégiés?
“Change never begins from the top down. It begins from the bottom up.”
– Barack Obama (via ambivalence) (via steph) 