September 2011
67 posts
August 2011
33 posts
WatchAlex Steffen delivers a TED talk on the Sharable Future of Cities. He starts off with our “clean energy problem”- that we cannot possibly generate enough to replace the fossil fuels we use in our cars.
WatchPicnurbia/VIVA Vancouver
See spacingvancouver.ca/2011/08/25/2365/ for more on Picnurbia/VIVA Vancouver The Vancouver Public Space Network have a petition drive to keep traffic off Robson Square; please show your support if you have not already done so: vancouverpublicspace.ca/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=197&cntnt01returnid=129
WatchRem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman on today’s (2007) architectural issues.
Recorded June 2007 at the Center for Canadian Architecture.
WatchPublic bikes in places like Hangzhou are a normal, safe part of the urban scene, and people don’t think twice about swiping a card or inserting a membership key to get a quick ride any time of the day. Dozens, even hundreds, of bike-share programs have popped up across the world, as theInstitute for Transportation & Development Policy has documented [PDF]. Almost every one of them...
WatchJane Jacobs compares Toronto & Montreal, 1969 From CBC TV’s “The Way It Is” program, circa 1969, urbanist and author Jane Jacobs compares late 1960s Toronto and Montreal on how they have been planned and built, while condemning major highways planned for GTO.
WatchSmart Cities Speaker Saskia Sassen states systems so need sensitivity, simplicity + sustainability, not sci-fi.
A leading researcher on globalization, global cities and new technologies Saskia Sassen discusses the current hype around smart cities. She reminds us that “It is the need to design a system that puts all that technology truly at the service of the inhabitants—and not the other way...
WatchBike lane buy-in boasts “baby-step” bursts of “busyness” and business in bits of video.
Vancouver’s bike lanes - room and reason for growth.
Composed out of a few hours filming on Thursday, July 28, 2011, this video for Spacing Vancouver takes a look at the year-old (Dunsmuir) and six-month-old (Hornby) separated bicycle lanes through downtown....
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MÖBIUS from ENESS.
Möbius is a nomadic public sculpture, made fluid and vagrant through stop-motion video. Australian environmental design outfit Eness placed 21 green triangles of various sizes throughout Federation Square in Melbourne.
WatchDesigner People S2 Zaha Hadid
WatchProfile on Danish architect Bjarke Ingels as part of series #2 of DESIGNER PEOPLE
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Vancouver’s Celebration of Light—and Crowds!
Commissioned as a crowd study during the Celebration of Light Fireworks show in Vancouver to illustrate how the crowd forms and disperses over the course of the day.
