Looking4Affinities

publicdesignfestival:

Turning places into public spaces _ Public Design Festival’s manifesto with clear and simple instructions for an everywhere enforceable and repeatable experience.
To learn more: here.

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Human Scale Cities: Week 16 - 2012

Preparations for the workshop on urban apps are over and it is ready to be launched. In fact, the website is public and main info is there. URBAPPS will take place on the 9th of June in Valladolid. Next weeks will be dedicated to raise more support and confirm the last details of the programme…

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Free city

thisbigcity:

In Tallin, residents and visitors get free wifi and free public transport. What, if anything, does your city give away for free?

在愛沙尼亞首都塔林，居民與遊客都能享受免費無線網路與免費大眾運輸，各位的城市提供哪些免費服務？

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mynameispeter:

theatrumorbisterrarum:

Swedish home furniture giant IKEA is taking a bold step toward urban planning, by acquiring 11 hectares of land in East London to build its very own neighborhood.
The Strand East, as it is called, will feature 1,200 rental homes—all of which will be priced to appeal to a range of incomes.
The development will also boast 480,000 square-feet of commercial office space, a “hub area” with shared space for the community, a creative zone intended for creative-minded businesses to take root, a restaurant, a hotel, pedestrian walkways, cycle routes, and a new bus route.
The ‘IKEA Land’ will also be free of vehicle traffic, except for buses and ambulances (during emergencies). Upon entering the neighborhood, drivers will be directed straight to an underground garage.
Trash will be removed from the homes by a series of underground suction tunnels, and a hydroelectric plant will provide power to the neighborhood.
“We have a very good understanding of rubbish collection, of cleanliness, of landscape management,” says project manager Anthony Cobden.
Cobden adds that they further plan to “create a sense of place” that will be shaped rather than forced through promotion of community events, farmers’ markets and outdoor flower shops.
“We would have a fairly firm line on undesirable activity, whatever that may be,” says Cobden. “But we also feel we can say, okay, because we’ve kept control of the management of the commercial facilities, we have a fairly strong hand in what is said in terms of the activities that are held on site.”
With construction set to begin in 2013, seems like IKEA is well on its way to build its version of a utopian neighborhood.

Whaaaaaat?

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elcontexto:

Sphere Network by Tomas Saraceno at Art Basel (2011)

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ae-ther:

Ideas Circus by Archigram, 1968
“Proposal for a mobile educational facility to stage and feed back information from seminars, screening, exhibitions etc. Transported by one or several vehicles” via Archigram Archival Project

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thisbigcity:

Think twice before throwing away your bottles.
保特瓶回收再利用。

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nomadicity:

Instant favelas is an Art-Lab Experiment, an intervention in the urban life. The construction of a city within a city with Low-tech materials.
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