Sidewalk Chalk Art
the point of no return (via ☂ bitzi took his umbrella and left ✈)
Como serão as cidades do futuro na visão dos anos 50? Dica do Urbanas Cidades
Wast Lande
Trailer do documentário Waste Land, um projeto realizado pelo artista plástico brasileiro Vik Muniz, com produção de Fernando Meirelles.
Trabalho muito legal sobre o maior lixão a céu aberto do mundo, onde as fotos produzidas são vendidas e a renda é revertida para os catadores e para a recuperação do local.
via Napse
Brian Barrett / Giz Modo
Armados com luvas, uma mochila e muito amor por perigosas linhas de metrô, o historiador urbano Steven Duncan e o cinegrafista Andrew Wonder exploraram a verdadeira cidade baixa. Essa é a Nova Iorque escondida. E ela é linda.
Wonder filmou a compilação de explorações urbanas – apropriadamente batizada de Undercity, ou a cidade debaixo – com uma Canon 5D Mark II. As jornadas vão do esgoto ao metrô à ponte Williamsburg, e jogam luz no mundo que acontece embaixo de nossos pés todos os dias, normalmente desconhecidos por nós. Duncan também fez uma compilação dos passeios, juntando suas fotos e vídeos no site Undercity.org.
O mais interessante é que cada cidade tem sua própria história secreta, escondida no subsolo, inexplorada e no aguardo de aventureiros. Esperamos que Wonder e Duncan continuem sua jornada pro debaixo de outras terras. [NPR via io9]
“Graphic Violence” é um curta-metragem que oferece diversão suficiente para misturar luta e arte de rua em uma batalha gráfica.
Amsterdam over time (animation)
Uma animação mostrando o crescimento de Amsterdan entre 1850-2010. Usando o ano de construção dos edifícios de acordo com o banco de dados BAG (http://bag.vrom.nl/).
(Source: humanscalecities)
Bonjour Paris!
http://www.visualeconomics.com/urbanomics-a-breakdown-of-citysumers-around-the-globe/
O visual econômica publicou um matéria bem interessante tendo como foco as cidades. Se vc quiser ampliar a discussão e ver mais detalhes em português vai em http://redeci.ning.com/group/coexistnciaemumacidadeglobal?xg_source=msg_mes_network
Além desta matéria, vc vai ficar por dentro de muita coisa boa sobre cidades inovadoras.
vejam só: o trabalho tem de ser uma experiência gratificante, e uma expressão de um estilo de vida, ao mesmo tempo. Depois de anos de exploração do bar café, o novo escritório, a descoberta do espaço público como o novo local de trabalho está a emergir. O novo escritório está sob o sol. e enquanto isto, eu aqui, suspiro!
Solar-powered WiFi working area in Boston last yearThe Pop-Up City posted an interesting article about new modes of working and the dissolving divisions between private, public and office locations. I’m happy to read that my city is actively stimulating innovative ways of facilitating the growing group of e-lancers. No wonder Saskia Sassen praised the Amsterdam Smart City initiative as an organic way of creating smarter cities.
Working has been an indoor experience for decades, at least for brain workers. However, the notion of the office as a central point of obligatory collaboration becomes slowly outdated. The modern working force of young brain workers does not accept working to be unpleasant in any form. Working has to be a fulfilling experience, and an expression of a lifestyle at the same time. After years of exploring the coffee bar as the new office, the discovery of public space as the new place to work is emerging. The new office is in the sun.
The City of Amsterdam is about to install so-called Zonspots (‘Sun Spots’) — small open air sun-powered desks with a shelter on top. All the inconveniences of working outside are taken away by this Dutch invention. There will be power to recharge the battery of the outdoor worker’s notebook and there will be Wi-Fi, free of charge. The shelter not only protects the outdoor worker for the rather irritating sunlight on the screen, but collects energy at the same time. The Zonspots will be installed in Amsterdam at several train stations this Spring, as well as at other nodes of public transport.
The Zonspots have a main goal in informing people about alternative energy and are therefore supported by the Amsterdam Smart City program. Using a Zonspot will be for free, which is possible because companies can sponsor the Zonspots and advertise their sustainable projects on them. For now the Zonspots are only planned in Amsterdam, which is perhaps not the best city for outdoor working, but other cities might also be interested in this 21th century phone booth.
In other cities without these public facilities, outdoor workers can purchase the so-called Openaire for comfortable working in the sun. The Openaire is a hybrid laptop bag that can be transformed into both a light-weight chair and a desk for outdoor use. Although the design by Nick Trincia does not provide electricity or Wi-Fi to its users, it does have a mouse solution and and gives geeks a more comfortable attitude when showing their notebook to others on the street. The Openaire is not available for purchase yet, but will according to Bit Rebels, considering this procuct to become one of the most important accessories for geeks the coming years.
Reblogged from popupcity.net
Bem bacana este diretório!
A Critique of The Economist’s ‘Most Liveable Cities’ Report
Source: This Big City
Is Vancouver the best city and Zimbabwe’s Harare the worst city? Yes, according to this year’s Global Liveability by the Economist. The ranking considers indicators in five categories – Stability, Healthcare, Culture & Environment, Education, and Infrastructure.
The choice of indicators seems ambitiously comprehensive and fair. The top-ten chart is populated by, perhaps unsurprisingly, cities of Canada, Northern Europe, and Australasia. However, as far as ‘liveability’ is concerned, how the cities are ranked exposes a systemic bias. To be sure, Vancouver, Vienna, and Melbourne are admirably high-quality cities in and of themselves. By the same token, it goes without saying Nigeria’s Lagos, who scores a scanting 33% in Education, is no child’s paradise. But how the indicators are chosen reveals the report’s pre-selected audience.
One salient instance is ‘humidity/temperature’ which is rated as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable, or intolerable. This indicator almost naturally rules out Brasilia, Kuala Lumpur, and other tropical cities as remotely ‘tolerable’, much less questioning how one can assess without bias an in-group’s inclination towards certain weather types. Therefore, it’s one thing to factually describe how adverse a country’s weather can be, but it’s quite another to give ‘points’ or grades to something as locale-specific as climate and geography as if the city could attempt to improve or alter. Similarly, another indicator – the climate’s ‘discomfort to travellers’ – relies predominantly on the outsider’s perspective and preference-based attitude. There is no accident, then, that cities with climate rated as ‘tolerable’ (read most pleasant) are also those that pose least discomfort to travellers, ignoring the stark seasonal variations that can make Sydney’s summer as unforgiving or as ‘undesirable’ as Ho Chi Minh or Bangkok. For better or worse, humidity/temperature’ along with other indicators like ‘sporting and cultural availability’, and ‘food and drink’ carry a weight of 25% whereas Education, a basic benchmark of local literacy health, is factored in at only 10%.
