The piano was standing innocently near the Millennium Bridge, minding its own business except for a cheeky come-on — “Play Me, I’m Yours” — printed on its side. For a 24-year-old Australian tourist named Lauren Bradley, it was as alluring as a sign saying “Free Chocolate.”
Popularity: 32% [?]
Will Allen, a farmer of Bunyonesque proportions, ascended a berm of wood chips and brewer’s mash and gently probed it with a pitchfork. “Look at this,” he said, pleased with the treasure he unearthed. A writhing mass of red worms dangled from his tines. He bent over, raked another section with his fingers and palmed a few beauties.
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Urban Farming’s mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, educating youth, adults and seniors and providing an environmentally sustainable system to uplift communities.
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Liftfrance09: John Thackara from Lift Conference on Vimeo.
John Thackara, who is director of Doors of Perception, gave a very interesting talk at the Lift 09 Conference yesterday, about the role of design in finding solutions to the ecological crisis. After inviting us to avoid terms such as “future” or “sustainable” as they maintain a certain distance to the problem we face, he shows a rich set of projects he participated in.
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Import Export Architecten designed a new type of ‘small scale’ urban camping. The mobile UC can be implanted in any city centre that likes to experiment with this new type of camping. UC is a place where adventurous city wanderers can stay overnight, meet other campers and find a safe shelter with basic designed practical facilities.
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In search of the right permanent plan for the future development of Nørrebrogade – an experiment was initialized where the infrastructure was restructured. By painting the paving surfaces and thereby rearranging the street dimensions – different traffic models and hierarchies were tested for cars, buses, bicycles and pedestrians in search of a sustainable and realistic solution.
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In pre-modern map making processes, “…unknown land within the “known” world was frequently filled with pseudo-topographies, including speculative mountain ranges, vegetation, and rivers.”(1) As map making became increasingly influenced by scientific paradigms and empirical procedures during the eighteenth century it became less acceptable to fill in the blank spaces of the map with fictional speculations and instead those areas that had not been surveyed by Europeans were retained as blank.
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A self-proclaimed revolutionary project is taking shape in Opeinde, a village in Friesland, of all places. A new neighbourhood is being planned by an online community through the Wijbouweneenwijk (Dutch for ‘we’re building a neighbourhood’) website. Does the Internet herald a new era for urban and town planning?
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How do you go about designing informatic systems so they don’t undermine the wonderful things about cities? How do you design cities so they can incorporate networked informatics to greatest advantage? How, especially, do you accomplish these things when the disciplinary communities involved barely speak the same language? And how do you keep everyone’s eyes on the prize, which is the ordinary human being asked to make sense of these new propositions? These are the questions The City Is Here For You To Use sets out to address.
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On October 23, 2006 a group of homeless people and local activists took over a vacant lot on the corner of 62nd Street and NW 17th Avenue, jointly owned by the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County, and erected tents. We planted a sign exclaiming the emphasis and name of the movement: Take Back the Land.
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