To me these form the small seeds voor a slow transformation to a real city. The video shows a timeline where the built up area is growing. So there must be some rules or strategies in the masterplan to be flexible and react to changing programmes, circumstances and crisises. Check the movies:
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Showing posts with label slow traffic. Show all posts
April 4, 2011
The Toronto Waterfront plan: A Slow Landscape as basis
A Slow Landscape forms the basis for redevelopment of the harbour area's at the Toronto waterfront. Together with a mixed-use strategy and slow traffic lanes and parks, this will be the place where, acording the masterplan, communities should 'grow'. Though in the renderings I do see also very big buildings, it seems there is place for small initiaves of groups of people or familyhouses.
To me these form the small seeds voor a slow transformation to a real city. The video shows a timeline where the built up area is growing. So there must be some rules or strategies in the masterplan to be flexible and react to changing programmes, circumstances and crisises. Check the movies:
To me these form the small seeds voor a slow transformation to a real city. The video shows a timeline where the built up area is growing. So there must be some rules or strategies in the masterplan to be flexible and react to changing programmes, circumstances and crisises. Check the movies:
February 3, 2011
Slow Urbanism and Out of the old box; Oilcrisis of the 70s
Latest news is exploding oilprises world wide because of the democration wave what hit the Arab countries lately. Eventough there still is enough production (Saudi Arabia easely compensated the absence of Libyan oil lately) emotions of more revolutions bring back to mind the days of the 70s of the previous century. Here a interesting video about a new oilcrisis.
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