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The “anti-city images” Jacobs was referring to were the vast urban highways built over the last half century to enable the levels of road traffic thought to be vital to economic growth. Since Jacobs’ time, a growing chorus of urbanists from Bogota’s ex-MayorEnrique Penalosato town plann...
(In “Do we need a Pattern Language for Smarter Cities” I suggested that “design patterns“, a tool for capturing re-usable experience invented by the town-plannerChristopher Alexander, might offer a useful way to organise our knowledge of successful approaches to “Smarter Cities”. I’m no...
They look, in short, like a barn. Dad hard at work on calculating the pitch and dimensions of the new roof. There will be more on the roof as we go along, I promise. We also had to calculate how much lumber to buy in order to frame and sheathe the house. Once calculated, we...
Casserole Club,Kitchen Surfing, andBig Barnwill change the way we distribute, process and prepare food within cities, but many of the raw materials will continue to be grown and delivered to cities through the existing industrial-scale distribution networks that import them from agricultural regions...
(Human activity and transport technology have been competing for space in cities for centuries. Photo of urban streetlife circa 1900 by theKheel Center, Cornell University) Urbanists such as the architect and town plannerTim StonorandEnrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, have argued powerfull...
(In “Do we need a Pattern Language for Smarter Cities” I suggested that “design patterns“, a tool for capturing re-usable experience invented by the town-plannerChristopher Alexander, might offer a useful way to organise our knowledge of successful approaches to “Smarter Cities”. I’m no...
As town planner Jeff Speck and urban consultant Charles Montgomery recently described at length in “Walkable City” and “The Happy City” respectively, the most vibrant, economically successful urban environments tend to be those where people are able to walk between their homes, places of work,...
(In “Do we need a Pattern Language for Smarter Cities” I suggested that “design patterns“, a tool for capturing re-usable experience invented by the town-plannerChristopher Alexander, might offer a useful way to organise our knowledge of successful approaches to “Smarter Cities”. I’m no...