DesignNYC – Exhibition [VIDEOS] « World Landscape Architect designNYC currently has an exhibition at Pratt Manhattan Gallery at 144 West 14th Street New York displaying the their progress and impact of their first 12 pilot projects. The exhibition is on from June 17 to July 31, 2010. The first 12 projects include pro-bono work by well known landscape architects Balmori Associates with Broadway Mall + Joel Sanders,,Domingo Gonzalez on Master plan for 100-block ecological corridor. Also Robin Key Landscape Architecture with Enterprise Community Partners/FBHC work on Intergenerational garden at Serviam Gardens. desigNYC’s mission is to improve live in NYC by connecting nonprofits, community groups and city agencies serving the public good with passionate, professional pro bono designers. They have also posted 7 videos on a Vimeo Channel including desigNYC: Broadway Mall + Sanders, Balmori and Gonzalez from ESI Design on Vimeo. desigNYC: Serviam Gardens from ESI Design on Vimeo. Spotted via Core77 – design magazine & resource
UCL Urban Laboratory Cities Methodologies 2014 06 March 2014 Led by UCL Urban Laboratory, Cities Methodologies is an ongoing programme of events and exhibitions dedicated to presenting, sharing and experimenting with new methods of urban research. Each iteration takes a new form ... Future City: Doha 10 December 2013 Clare Melhuish, UCL Urban Laboratory Research Associate, is speaking in a forum on December 13th-14th 2013 that investigates the intersections between geographical, social and cultural memories in the way that cities are reproduced ... View all news
Milwaukee’s Park East Freeway In the 1960s, highway designers planned to surround the Milwaukee central business district with an expressway. Despite public protest, more than half of the highway loop was built, including a 0.8-mile stretch in 1969 that separated the north side from the rest of downtown, known as the Park East Freeway. Enough opposition emerged to stop the Park East from continuing east to the waterfront of Lake Michigan--but damage was already done. The Park East displaced multiple blocks of development, ultimately occupying 16 acres. In 1999, the Park East Freeway carried an estimated 54,000 vehicles on an average weekday. Freeway Removal In the 1990s, a new Riverwalk system stretching along the Milwaukee River through the entire downtown renewed interest in the riverfront and sparked a downtown housing boom. The Boulevard The freeway was replaced with McKinley Boulevard and the previous urban grid was restored. Economic Development Before and after plans for the Park East footprint.
Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Lecture/Debat/symposium | 17/10/13 19:30 - 22:00 ‘How can culture exist in a stream of Photoshopped incontinence?’ That was the rhetorical question in Sam Jacob’s column for e-zine Dezeen. Sites such as Dezeen have opened the floodgates to a daily inundation of messages and reports about design and architecture. Countless projects are fed to us through sets of enticing images accompanied by slick press write-ups. The activities in the Auditorium of The New Institute will be communicated on the website of The New Institute. www.hetnieuweinstituut.nl We look forward to welcoming you to our events. Lecture/Debat/symposium | 22/10/13 19:30 - 21:30 In the 1920s and 1930s, Dutch architects, artists and intellectuals maintained close links with their Russian colleagues. Vrijburcht is a collective residential project with private commissions. The Boswijk is a care centre for the elderly with dementia, designed in close collaboration with the client and with a strong vision as starting point.
Rethinking Urban Planning Education, by Alexa Mills Urban planning has long excelled at integrating different fields of study because cities, by nature, demand multidisciplinary thinking. Yet addressing the world’s most critical problems, such as urban poverty and energy efficiency, require a dynamism that moves beyond combining academic disciplines, and into a space that recognizes the knowledge generated by local people who live these issues first hand. With this in mind, I've outlined three potential avenues through which communities and universities might engage in more meaningful collaboration. 1. 2. 3. Communities at the margins, those who experience water shortages and transportation failures, develop solutions faster than the distant university is able. Alexa Mills works at the Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) at MIT. Credits: Photo of students participating in CoLab's Cartagena project, by Alexa Mills.
Urban Planet: Emerging Ecologies Tuesday, April 10th 2012 at 6pmFrederick P. Rose Auditorium41 Cooper Square NY, NY 10003 Prior to the event, there will be a reception on the Alumni Roof Terrace at 5pm This event is free and open to the public.Seats are limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.No registration or RSVP is needed For the first time in human history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. The rise of urban growth over the last decade raises important questions for our planet’s future: How can we adapt to an increasingly urban planet? The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (CUISD) will host URBAN PLANET: EMERGING ECOLOGIES, a one-night event featuring a unique series of lectures and discussions with internationally known thought leaders in development and design. Alfredo Brillembourg, Urban-Think Tank and S.L.U.M. is made possible through a collaboration with CUISD and ETH Zurich, the Swiss Consulate and EPF Lausanne. Schedule: Discussion with all participants
Progressive Urbanism? US in this case is a double entendre - referring both to the nation it is intended to rebuild and reimagine (through better urbanism, city building and a rethinking of the American Dream) and to the actors involved- the proverbial us. But one question that was rarely asked, at least not in any serious way, was who is this us? The irony of a group calling itself "CEO's for Cities" launching a "for us, by us" campaign in the name of everyday Americans seemed lost on everyone. If everyone wasn't so earnest and nice, I would have felt as if I was in a live-action parody of a David Harvey book. Yet the issue here is not simply whether this group - which is more university president and foundation head than corporate titan - should be spearheading a popular campaign to reinvent how we live. It is an issue which goes beyond urbanism to broader questions of development and democracy, and which is far more important than simply a question of labels or semantics.
Manufacturing Circle | Home A view obstructed: The urban plan as social contract The Museum of Fine Arts’ (MBAM) newest pavilion, which is to open next September, is topped with a glass-walled lookout over Mount Royal. But a proposed condo development, which is nearly double the building height limit for this area, would obscure a good chunk of the view. MBAM's model shows the 7-storey condo building (in red) obscuring the view from their newly-constructed lookout point. This is not a debate about density, aesthetics or heritage preservation; it is a breach of contract. In designing the new pavilion, the museum’s architects worked within city’s zoning regulations, which limited the volume of the new structure. But if the museum took it for granted that the same rules would apply to others, they were sorely mistaken. «Le Musée s’est astreint à concevoir son projet d’annexe en fonction du règlement de zonage. C’est Majeur The urban plan is a social contract among Montrealers, meant to be applied by those elected to govern, that shapes our shared living space.