Temples of gastronomy are not something you necessarily expect in Holland. In general, the country’s food rep leans to the stodgy and the tuberous. But the quirky idea of building a food market shaped like an inverted U that incorporates apartments in its arch – residents’ windows peeking out of a giant raspberry or avocado in the hallucinatory ceiling mural – is thoroughly Dutch, a typical mix of playfulness and practicality. Read more: Rotterdam: Holland's infamous port city may be the hippest place in the country - The Globe and Mail
Monday, September 28, 2015
From The Globe and Mail —
Rotterdam transformation
"a place of non-stop design and innovation"
Temples of gastronomy are not something you necessarily expect in Holland. In general, the country’s food rep leans to the stodgy and the tuberous. But the quirky idea of building a food market shaped like an inverted U that incorporates apartments in its arch – residents’ windows peeking out of a giant raspberry or avocado in the hallucinatory ceiling mural – is thoroughly Dutch, a typical mix of playfulness and practicality. Read more: Rotterdam: Holland's infamous port city may be the hippest place in the country - The Globe and Mail
Sunday, September 27, 2015
From @Sierra_Magazine — Why urban trees
solve so many of our problems
Why urban trees solve so many of our problems. @Sierra_Magazine Via @rdtvan
Posted by The Sidewalk Ballet on Sunday, September 27, 2015
Sunday, September 20, 2015
From Winnipeg Free Press —
From parking lot to urban paradise
It is rare for a city to be given an opportunity to build a brand new neighbourhood in the heart of its downtown. When it happens, it is usually the result of an industry that was once the economic engine relocating out of the modern core.
Friday, September 11, 2015
From Project for Public Spaces —
Havana: Learning from and Building
on a People-Centered City
With improving diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US, the country’s public space, and public life, is poised to evolve in new directions, for better and worse. In 2006, Ethan Kent of Project for Public Spaces had the opportunity to witness the unique urban environment of Havana firsthand - and collected some thoughts on what it has to teach the rest of the world, and what should be preserved, and built upon, in the face of change. More than anything though, the city offers an interesting contrast to many of the misdirected development patterns of American modernization. Photo essay at: HAVANA'S PUBLIC SPACES by Project for Public Spacespr
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
"...the managing of traffic should never have been given to engineers. They aren’t trained to understand it, in part because they aren’t trained to understand people or cities.” @BrentToderian
The problem with treating #traffic like a hard science - like a liquid or a gas, instead of like people. Comments? pic.twitter.com/qWo89sjfWo
— Brent Toderian (@BrentToderian) September 5, 2015
"...when universities give science degrees in traffic engineering...They are perpetrating a fraud upon students and the public" #JaneJacobs
— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) March 19, 2013
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
From walklobby.tv —
How wide should traffic lanes be?
More http://t.co/dRKf5dYnU0 discussing better mobility design approaches http://t.co/Wql7CGB9t3
— Howard Blackson (@hblackson) September 2, 2015
"Just to be safe, our traffic lanes are wide enough to be dangerous. Just to be safe."
#bikeVA #infra pic.twitter.com/9LeHFhWuTq
— Andy Boenau (@Boenau) September 2, 2015
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