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Scaling Up Systems to Make Cities More Sustainable
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Cutting-edge designers and policymakers explained how some cities can use a systems-based approach to become more sustainable.[read more]
Digging the Big Worm
The Costa e Silva elevated expressway was built in the late 1960s and early 1970s to alleviate traffic congestion in central Sao Paulo, Brazil. According to a recent Washington Post article, the city’s planners (with support from both citizens and developers) would like to bury the expressway in a tunnel underground and turn the land it...[read more]
Implementing the Right to the City in Brazil?
Comunidade Campo Grande Jurubatuba, an informal settlement in Santo Amaro subprefecture, São Paulo. Magic Condominium Resort tower in the background.The right to the city is a concept employed by a variety of actors at different scales, with its use ranging from being nestled within the status quo to staunchly anti-capitalist. Although...[read more]
4 Cities That Could Use Congestion Pricing
Delhi – People often come to Los Angeles and shake their head solemnly at the effect that urban sprawl has had on the environment and low-income residents. They have obviously never been to Delhi. It’s a city “on its back” as Paul Theroux once said about Guatemala City, sprawled spread eagle over nearly 600 square miles. Traffic also...[read more]
C40 Shows How Cities Can Lead on Climate Change Solutions
Transmilenio buses ready to meet peak traffic demand, Bogotá, Colombia. Photo by Gerardo Arévalo Tamayo. A message from Manish Bapna of the World Resources Institute. Originally posted on WRI.org. When it comes to changing the way we use energy, cities are at the center of the action. On June 2nd, I had the pleasure of speaking at the...[read more]
Air Quality: Examples of Success in Major Urban Centers
This post was originally published in Portuegese on TheCityFix Brasil on June 8, 2011. Mexico City. Photo by Matthew Winterburn. About 7,000 people die per year in the state of Sao Paulo due to air pollution, according Paulo Saldiva, doctor, professor and expert of Environmental Pollution. The number scares and draws...[read more]
Of Human Billboards and Dignity of Work
User experience researcher Jan Chipchase writes of human hoardings or billboards in Sao Paulo carrying advertisements for jobs - which provoked me to consider a few things:1. What function does the human vehicle play in the context of a high-density urban environment, in comparison to a regular billboard? Mobility, for one, to spread the...[read more]
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“Did you hear about the event of a thread? Artist Anne Hamilton installed this during winter of 2013. I went with friends and it was a truly surreal experience. Less urbane than EMBARQ's examples, its was a true dance between space and humans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPEcO0bTa0”
“Did you hear about the event of a thread? Artist Anne Hamilton installed this during winter of 2013. I went with friends and it was a truly surreal experience. Less urbane than EMBARQ's examples, its was a true dance between space and humans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPEcO0bTa0”