Jaime Correa Bonita Springs, Florida Jaime Correa (born September 19, 1957 in Colombia) is an urban planner, architect, and professor at the University of Miami. Correa is a respected authority in the fields of architecture, town design, and sustainable development. Publications[edit] Correa is the editor of THE CORREA REPORT, a newsletter developing a new consciousness of traditional sustainability, and the author of "Seven Recipes for the New Urbanism." He also has published a small pamphlet titled: "Self-Sufficient Urbanism: a vision of contraction for the non-distant future." Additionally, he has been a frequent collaborator of the Town Paper, New Towns, the SNU Report, The New Urbanism: Comprehensive Report and Best Practices Guide, PLACES, the New Urban News, the New Urbanism Council Reports, and other national publications. Awards[edit] Correa has been widely recognized. Education[edit] Jaime CORREA and Associates[edit] A Selection of Publications[edit] Correa, Jaime (2009). References[edit]
Statistics on Poverty, Urbanization and Slums | P.a.p.-Blog, Human Rights Etc. Content 1. Trends in urbanization2. Numbers of slum dwellers3. Slums and human rights 1. Urbanization is on the rise. Two hundred years ago, Peking was the only city in the world with a population of a million. The half of the world’s population that lives in cities occupies only approximately 2.7% of the world’s land area. (source) (source) (source) (source) (source) Lagos and Cairo are Africa’s largest cities. ^ back to top 2. Many of the city dwellers, especially in the Third World, live in slum conditions. (source, click image to enlarge) The UN estimates that the number of people living in slums passed 1 billion in 2007 and could reach 1.39 billion in 2020, although there are large variations among regions. (source) (source, click image to enlarge) In most parts of the world, the proportion of urban populations living in slums has gone down: The proportion of the world’s urban population living in slums has fallen from nearly 40% a decade ago to less than a third today. (source) 3.
Kevin A. Lynch Kevin A. Lynch Kevin Andrew Lynch (1918 Chicago, Illinois - 1984 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) was an American urban planner and author. His most influential books include The Image of the City (1960) and What Time is This Place? (1972). Biography[edit] Lynch provided seminal contributions to the field of city planning through empirical research on how individuals perceive and navigate the urban landscape. Parallel to his academic work, Lynch practiced planning and urban design in partnership with Stephen Carr, with whom he founded Carr Lynch Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Image of the City[edit] Lynch's most famous work, The Image of the City published in 1960, is the result of a five-year study on how observers take in information of the city. In the same book Lynch also coined the words "imageability" and "wayfinding". Selected writings[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Lagos / Koolhaas Lagos' population is expected to reach 24 million people by 2020, which would make it the third largest city in the world. Every hour, 21 new inhabitants set out to start a life in the city, a life that is highly unpredictable and requires risk taking, networking and improvisation as essential strategies for survival. Rem Koolhaas - winner of architecture's Nobel, the Pritzker Architecture Prize - is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard. For the past four years Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City have come to Lagos regularly to research the type of urban environment that is produced by explosive population growth. The Project on the City is framed by two concepts: academia's bewilderment with new forms of accelerated urbanization in developing regions and the maelstrom of redevelopment in existing urban areas; and, second, the failure of the design professions to adequately cope with these changes. "Highly Recommended!
Leon Battista Alberti Leon Battista Alberti[1] (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Although he is often characterized as an "architect" exclusively, as James Beck has observed,[2] "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts." Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Life[edit] Leon Battista Alberti was born in 1404 in Genoa to a wealthy Florentine father who had been exiled from his own city, but who was allowed to return in 1428. Alberti was gifted in many directions. His first major architectural commission was in 1446 for the facade of the Rucellai Palace in Florence. Publications[edit] Architectural works[edit] Pienza[edit]
Learning from the slums (1/2):literature and urban renewal “Slumdog Millionaire” is the movie of the year. Its story of a young guy from Mumbai’s slum of Dharavi, who manages to change its destiny through the “Who wants to be a Millionaire” game has charmed many people, including the Oscars’ jury, who awarded the movie with 8 prizes. At the same time, the movie has created a debate around slums and how the movie portrays them. “Slumdog Millionaire” follows the mainstream vision of slums, described in the XIX century by writers like Daniel Defoe or Charles Dickens: dark, dirty places, with people packed in small rooms with no water facilities. In slums, riots are frequents, and police can hardly enter: the perfect place for criminals to hide and plan their threats to the society, and the perfect incubator for all sort of diseases. Dharavi walkway, (image: Flickr) Glasgow slum, 1871(image: Wikipedia) One of the first cities to enforce an urban renewal policy was Paris. Paris, quartier des Halles. Paris: a typical pre-Haussmann street. Rome.
ON COMPLEXITY 1. Why is "What is complexity" a question not so easily answered? For some time we have been being told that there is a "new science" called complexity. Universities and other research institutions have programs in "complexity research" and journals carry this word in their title. What is complexity? If we turn to science where words are carefully defined and have more precise meanings we find that, in this case, things are not much better and may even be worse! Too high a mouth to brain ratio Tremendous hype Computer "hacking" Too much journalism He also points out the lack of a "unified theory" of complexity. It is also worth noting that nowhere in his essay does he mention the definition which will be given here and which, to my satisfaction, completely clears up the confusion. Later, in his book, The End of Science, he adds some more fuel to the fire. Horgan doesn't know it but he did a good job of giving validity to the concept called "complexity" here. 2. How is science done?
Inclusive Cities: Discover how Inclusive Cities are Better Cities! Nassim Nicholas Taleb He criticized the risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently profiting from the late-2000s financial crisis.[18] [19] He advocates what he calls a "black swan robust" society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events.[10] He proposes "antifragility" in systems, that is, an ability to benefit and grow from a certain class of random events, errors, and volatility[20][21] as well as "convex tinkering" as a method of scientific discovery, by which he means that option-like experimentation outperforms directed research.[22] Family background and education[edit] Taleb in his student days Taleb was born in Amioun, Lebanon to Minerva Ghosn and Najib Taleb, a physician and an oncologist and a researcher in anthropology. Both sides of his family were politically prominent in the Lebanese Greek Orthodox community. Finance career[edit] Academic career[edit] Writing career[edit] He warned of pseudostability in Syria:[52]