October 2011
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“as pessoas que gostam de relíquias, em geral, não entendem seu significado...”
– Saul Steinberg
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Make Room for Pedestrians and Bicyclists →
lyndseyscofield:
This is a great visualization of the streetscape changes to NYC’s iconic Broadway. With the pedestrianization of Times Square, Grist reports that there’s been a 63% reduction in pedestrian injuries between 42nd and 47th street, quite an accomplishment in public safety….
“The city is not a spatial entity with sociological consequences, but a...”
– /via @NuevoAtlas + @digitalurban (via ramiroaznar)
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“The modern kitchen appliance signals the high status of its owner to friends and...”
– The apotheosis of Steve Jobs | Jack Shafer (via felixsalmon)
September 2011
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Mumford on urban transformation as social...
kristinesamson:
“In the city, the making and remaking of selves … is one of its principal functions … each urban period provides a multitude of new roles and an equal diversity of new potentialities. These brig about corresponding changes in laws, manners, moral evaluations, costume, and architecture, and finally they transform the city as a living whole.”
Lewis Mumford in What is a city
August 2011
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“What we have on the streets of London and elsewhere are welfare-state mobs. …a...”
– London’s burning: a mob made by the welfare state | Brendan O’Neill | spiked (via photourbanism)
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“For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of...”
– Plato, The Republic, c. 380 BCE (via nickkahler)
July 2011
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“Urbanity is a mutant. And this means it is made and remade along many different...”
– Saskia Sassen (via pdsmith)
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June 2011
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“In a city that is essentially superlative (the tallest, the biggest, the most...”
– El fotógrafo francés Cédric Delsaux sobre Dubai (Dark Lens Trilogy. Architecture on the Dark Side en el blog de Arkinet)
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“Kuwait, Dubai, Jidda… Sabe que quieren hacer ahora por allí? Quieren...”
– Arthur Ruskin, personaje de “La hoguera de las vanidades”, obra de uno de los novelistas americanos que mejor describe los fenomenos urbanos contemporáneos,Tom Wolfe.
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“Mixing types of traffic is certainly possible, but not on the equal terms...”
– Jan Gehl on Making Cities Safe for People (via lifeonfoot)
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Cidades Possíveis: Um porto de negócio dos sonhos →
cidadespossiveis:
Qual é o sonho de toda empresa privada? Ter grandes lucros, constantes ao longo do tempo e sem risco. A Prefeitura do Rio está realizando esse sonho para três delas: OAS, Odebrecht e Carioca Engenharia, que juntas formam o consórcio gestor do Porto Maravilha. A engenhosa parceria…
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May 2011
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Watchdividedcities:
“We believe there is a lot to be learned from the strange edge cases of political geography.”
A short animation about Border Towns.
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April 2011
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“O primeiro artigo das constituições democráticas diz: “Todos são iguais perante...”
– Enrique Peñalosa, ex-prefeito de Bogotá e responsável pela implementação do BRT na cidade, em entrevista ao Globo. (via cidadespossiveis)
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Awesome "guerrilla urbanism" ideas for... →
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WatchCampañas que impulsan el uso del transporte colectivo. Bélgica
via lifeonfoot:
Transit Ad in the Flanders region of Belgium. Translation of the message at the end is: “It’s smarter to travel in groups. Take the bus.”
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“Até a Segunda Guerra Mundial, tínhamos em torno de nós alguns objetos, os quais...”
– Milton Santos - “Por uma outra globalização” (via cidadespossiveis).
Genial e preciso.