viernes, 16 de noviembre de 2012
domingo, 22 de abril de 2012
martes, 27 de septiembre de 2011
¿Que Diria Jane Jacobs?: Los que estan formando el NYC de hoy
What Would Jane Jacobs Say? Sam Lewis | September 16, 2011 6:06 AM
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Author: Jane Jacobs
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: Sept. 13 2011Fifty years ago the late Jane Jacobs rocked the planning and architecture world with her book, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.”
Jacobs advocated for a new method of urban planning grounded in citizen participation and community control. She opposed plans to carve out tenement neighborhoods for the construction of high-rise developments and expressways. She was also a champion of what she called the “sidewalk ballet” of the wonderful kismet and happenstance that can occur on New York City streets. But in some ways, her work also fueled the gentrification of some urban areas, displacing the people and the businesses that created the diversity that originally drew Jacobs to the city in the first place.
This week, Modern Library is publishing a silver anniversary re-issue of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” complete with a new introduction of Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor. To honor the occasion, MetroFocus looked at some of the contemporary local players in the world of urban planning through the lens of the late Jane Jacobs:
Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner
Since Sadik-Kahn took the job mid-way through 2007, she’s added more than 250 miles of bicycle lanes, cut parking spots across the city and transformed parts of busy Manhattan streets into pedestrian plazas. For years, Khan tried to convince city officials that a bike-sharing program would improve New York’s streets and this week, the city chose a private company to operate the new program.
On the Jane Jacobs’ scale: Her accomplishments are impressive (read what New York Times‘ columnist Frank Bruni has to say) and like Jacobs, she’s committed to a walkable city. Jacobs herself might even have joined Sadik-Khan for a bicycle ride if she were here today. But it may have been a quick cruise — even Mayor Michael Bloomberg nudged the commissioner to solicit more input from residents (a key tenet of Jacobs’ vision) and to tone down her aggressive approach to implementing projects.
WATCH VIDEO: Streetfilms Presents: a Conversation With Janette Sadik-Khan
jueves, 21 de julio de 2011
¿Estarías dispuesto a dejar tu auto en casa? |Ciudades caminables| Plataforma Urbana
Aunque los datos son de Chile el fondo del asunto se aplica de igual manera a la ciudad de Mexico y demas grandes ciudades del pais.
martes, 5 de julio de 2011
Los locos europeos piensan que la gente es mas importante que los coches | Grist
Muchas ciudades Europeas estan estableciendo multiples desincentivos a manejar un auto, incluyendo la limitacion del estacionamiento, la tarificacion vial, las restricciones de acceso a los centros urbanos a los autos y una infraestructura de transporte publico y de ciclovias decente.
viernes, 25 de febrero de 2011
El renacimiento de las vías peatonales según Copenhague | Plataforma Urbana
Y aqui en nuestra ciudad de Mexico y varias otras ciudades del pais que replican sin cuestionamiento lo que se hace en la capital se invierte en privilegiar la automovilidad construyendo autopistas urbanas, supervias, pasos a desnivel elevados, puentes atirantados, pasos subterraneos, o tipo 'embudo' como en Interlomas, todos esos recursos para beneficio de quien se mueve en automovil.
Los 50 años de experiencias positivas en Copenhagen, no significan nada para -Ebrard, Aboitiz, Quintero-, totalmente impermeables a los nuevos conocimientos producto de los errores de los años 50/60's, da la impresion que sus cabezas les fueron rellenadas con concreto hidraulico, solo asi se explica sus obtusas decisiones en contra de la poblacion y el bienestar de la mayoria