Friday, 8 June 2007

New York 2106

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[via City of Sound's excellent coverage of the Postopolis event] Great work by Terreform - a studio formed by Mitchell Joachim and Mic...
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Friday, 1 June 2007

Modern movements in Mass Transit

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While the idea of a Car Free Helsinki might be a little ambitious, there seems to me to be a growing sense that we have let cars dominate ou...
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London 2071

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"Perched between brooding mountains and surrounded by vineyards, the Portuguese town of Vila Real may seem a world away from the chaos ...
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Thursday, 17 May 2007

London 2066

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When you start looking, you find urban visions of the future everywhere. Here's a drawing of London 2066, as envisioned by Zaha Hadid fo...
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Real Time Rome

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First exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Real Time Rome from MIT's SENSEable City Lab is an attempt to map the city via it's network...
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Monday, 16 April 2007

Car free Helsinki

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Could Helsinki be the first major city besides Venice to forbid personal automotive transport? While small scale car-free zones exist such a...
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Thursday, 12 April 2007

Tokyo Fibercity 2050

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Issue 63 of JA magazine projects possible pathways of development for Tokyo, Created by Prof. Ohno Hidetosh and his laboratory at the Unives...
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Friday, 23 March 2007

City as Playground

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A generation of children are growing up totally disconnected from their environment. A great article at BoingBoing highlights some new init...
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Team Helsinki

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Thursday, 22 March 2007

SWOT: Business & the Economy

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Strengths Metropolitan area centre of Finnish economic activity. Rapid economic growth has put Finland in a strong economi...
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SWOT: Transport

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Strengths Clean and efficient public transport system with international reputation. Good park and ride system. Low ticket ...
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SWOT: Housing

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Strengths Relatively low number of areas with concentrations of poverty. High quality, inclusive public sector housing with stro...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Soft City

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Quoting from this article about Amsterdam ; According to the French urbanist Lefebvre ‘the right of the city signifies the right of citizens...
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open source

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Kosmograd opened the discussion of the potential for the city to manifest as an operating system. Currently a city runs a number of applica...
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Thursday, 15 March 2007

urban planning and the design of fear

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Not so long ago, architects were obsessed with the notion that globalism, the Internet and sophisticated new building technologies were open...
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