Moscow Mayor Plans for traffic

Sobyanin is the new mayor for Moscow. Luzkhov and Moscow became too much a city state with it's own king. As long as the king listens to the emperor and keeps his people silent there are no problems. Now the new appointed mayor must do something to keep the people silent. This is done in a way which is very smart. By promising to take away the gridlock which irritates the Muscovites daily. City Hall's web site crashed Wednesday after Mayor Sergei Sobyanin published his long-awaited plan to fight Moscow traffic jams.



Tversjkaya carpark-free



Harsh measures are directly in effect:

- City employers should wake up an hour earlier to be present at work at 8:00 reducing the transportpeak
- Trucks are no longer allowed to to appear on the streets between 07:00 hours and 22:00 hours
- banning parking on pavements (Tverksaja, the main shopping street is allready complaining)
- pedestrian passes are to be removed from streets and should go underground

- kiosks are blocking pavements and attracting cars and they should be removed, all of them.

Contemporary architecture in Riga and the Skanstes, Petersala and Andrejsala area

Contemporary architecture in Riga and Jurmala in hundred pictures. I especcially also show the many small projects, mainly infill in the existing city. All together they form more built mass then the icon projects like the one I start with. This is called Citadel and is located in the north of the old city, Vecriga. The area used to be a citadel and afterwards became a place to put big office blocks in the modernist  way. Nowadays it's mediaviel atmosphere is mainly destroyed, it's cut of to the medieval center by a big citystreet, Valdemara. It seems the best solution for this piece of the center is to build many qualitative contemporary architectural projects here and try to bring a new structure into the area uniting the loose projects.

Moscow architecture video

One of my interests is the city of Moscow and it's developments. It is one of the biggest metropoles in Europe, together with London and Istanbul. I have visited it many timesnow and every time I find a new development or interesting area. On the Russia Today site I found a nice video which gives an overall impression of the current developments of the city, please check it.

Schematic development of Riga and Skanstes

In a previous post I showed the development of Riga by historical maps. Now to compare them good and see wat actually happened I made a schematic map of each period. Interesting is how defining the first plan was to make a rectangular city extension for the suburbs. Every city fire and redevelopment it seems they made more progress according to this design plan. Skanstes area, Petersala and Andrejsala developed much later than the rest of the suburbs more tot the east and south.

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