Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

What if...you could design a city?

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:05:17 +0200

urbnist: humanscalecities: Making the best of vacant...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:40:37 +0100

humanscalecities:

Making the best of vacant commercial spaces with temporary strategies.

This “Airbnb For Storefronts” Is Creating New Opportunities In A New York Neighborhood

Creative, diverse, and temp programming for vacant storefronts. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the sort of business that helps us build better cities.

lark-landscape: + La grande cantine, Forme Publique, La...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:46:31 +0100

lark-landscape:

+ La grande cantine, Forme Publique, La Défense, Paris. (Talking Things, 2012) http://www.jbhardoin.fr/La-Grande-Cantine

humanscalecities: Cities and Climate Change By Harriet Bulkeley

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:31:17 +0100

humanscalecities:

Cities and Climate Change

By Harriet Bulkeley

(via The Demand for Public Wi-Fi on Mass Transit [#Infographic]...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:18:00 +0100

(via The Demand for Public Wi-Fi on Mass Transit [#Infographic] | StateTech Magazine)

"In the absence of informal public life, living becomes more expensive. Where the means and..."

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:31:43 +0100

““In the absence of informal public life, living becomes more expensive. Where the means and facilities for relaxation and leisure are not publicly shared, they become the objects of private ownership and consumption.””

- Ray Oldenburg | Project for Public Spaces (via thenewthirdspace)

(via z-black - Product - Cover Bike)

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:08:00 +0100

(via z-black - Product - Cover Bike)

Trend 5: Local Urban Culture Goes Global — The Pop-Up City

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:55:48 +0100

Trend 5: Local Urban Culture Goes Global — The Pop-Up City

Shifting Suburbs, Examines Creative Use And Adaptation Of Infrastructure To Support Compact Development In America’s Suburbs

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:19:04 +0100

Shifting Suburbs, Examines Creative Use And Adaptation Of Infrastructure To Support Compact Development In America’s Suburbs

(via How To Brand A City Park — The Pop-Up City)

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:21:32 +0100

(via How To Brand A City Park — The Pop-Up City)

Jan Gehl, Danish Urban Planner, Visits Moscow Posted by Sally...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:55:25 +0100

Jan Gehl, Danish Urban Planner, Visits Moscow
Posted by Sally McGrane, newyorker.com

A Danish Urban-Planning Guru vs. Moscow
When Jan Gehl looks at Tverskaya, Moscow’s broad main street, whose decorative Stalinist blocks and Art Nouveau department stores lead straight toward the Kremlin (thanks to Joseph Stalin, who to…

greenguerrilla: (via FARM:shop - FARM:)

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:49:51 +0100

greenguerrilla:

(via FARM:shop - FARM:)

CITY BREATHS: UK cities: from privatized dystopias to fertile soils for community projects?

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:43:45 +0100

CITY BREATHS: UK cities: from privatized dystopias to fertile soils for community projects?:

citybreaths:

How citizens and communities taking control of their neighbourhoods are outlining hopeful urban futures

Cardinal Place, London. A great example of not so great urban development

Ah, Britain. I had the privilege to visit London for two days, as a result of the kind invite by …

humanscalecities: Global MetroMonitor 2012

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:05:11 +0100

humanscalecities:

Global MetroMonitor 2012

liveurbn: Cool bikeNYC.org campaign!

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:45:38 +0100

liveurbn:

Cool bikeNYC.org campaign!

more by André Rocha

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:54:10 +0200

more by André Rocha

Last call. Apply to Strelka Institute in Moscow for a 9 month...

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:06:00 +0200

Last call. Apply to Strelka Institute in Moscow for a 9 month program where you’ll have opportunity to make a change starting from yourself and ending (if it ends!) in the city of Moscow. Go for it if you are not sure if trial-error is or not method of research in architecture, media and design but be sure that if everyone wants to make a change, you must embrace that change.

Go for it, until August the 1st. Click on the image to apply.

Building the (New) New York

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:51:19 +0200

Building the (New) New York

Public spaces in Britain’s cities fall into private hands Jeevan...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:02:00 +0200

Public spaces in Britain’s cities fall into private hands
Jeevan Vasagar, guardian.co.uk

Projects such as London’s new outdoor space, Granary Square at King’s Cross, favour business over community, say critics
• Help us create a map of privatised public spaces in Britain to see how much land is under corporate control
When it open…

“Buy” by Antoine Corbineau for the new book edited...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 08:35:00 +0200

“Buy” by Antoine Corbineau for the new book edited by LeCool, A Smart Guide to Utopia.

In this book, through five chapters: live, eat&drink, buy, work and play, the authors bring some urban utopian ideas back to reality in a series of discoveries of projects that have changed our behavior in the city.

This chapter written by Maria Popova, from Brain Pickings, who writes also for The Atlantic and Wired UK, faces the age of collaborative consumption and how different currencies, fair trade, creative shopping and sustainable design are changing the way we shop, or should I say share!