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"Urban
Lovers"
NEWS-LETTER by A Vision of Europe in collaboration with CIVICARCH - University of Ferrara |
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| Dedicated
to all those who live and love the Traditional City. The Traditional City of the Past, the Traditional City of the Present, and, expecially, the Traditional City of the Future. Dedicated to all those who love strolling through the network of streets and plazas that make the Traditional City a unique place to experience. Dedicated to all those who love having a drink or a cappuccino in a café within an urban context. To all those who love going to the theatre or to the cinema by walk, and then having dinner with friends in a nearby restaurant. Dedicated to all those who prefer living in a townhouse or in an urban condominium, both enjoying the richness of the public street and the calm of the inner courtyard. Dedicated to all those who prefer taking their kids to school at a walking distance. To all those who choose urban shops, markets or supermarkets. Dedicated to all those who prefer to work at a walking distance from home, and to all those who would like to do so! URBANLOVERS NEWSLETTER is intended to offer information about events, projects, competitions, books, and exhibition regarding the urban world. URBANLOVERS NEWSLETTER will help spreading the urban culture by enlightning the positive experiences that reinforce the status of the Traditional City as the most attractive and efficient form of settlement. URBANLOVERS NEWSLETTER will try to involve citizens, developers, public officials and administrators, as well as architects, townplanners, engineers, and all the actors in the urban set in a new effort to share information and succesful experiences that contribute to the construction of a better urban environment. |
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THE
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St Anne's Square,
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| Designed by WDR & RT Taggart, Saint Anne's Square is located in the heart of Belfast's historic Cathedral Quarter area, a designated Conservation Area, and is a mixed-use development comprising of a new public piazza surrounded at ground floor level by cafes, restaurants and a hotel. The new buildings defining this space also include, on the upper floors, offices and apartments. A new multi-storey car park also forms part of the overall project | |||||||||||||
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| The project, including the new arts centre facility (currently under construction) which is part of the site master plan, has been designed for use by: the local community (providing residential units within an area lacking in living accommodation), the arts community (piazza and arts centre events), students attending the nearby arts college (piazza, bars/cafes/restaurants and residential units), tourists visiting Belfast's historic core (new hotel and conference facilities, as well as piazza events), the citizens of Belfast (piazza and arts centre events, and bars/cafes/restaurants). | |||||||||||||
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| Background/
History The traditional urban fabric of Belfast's city centre underwent extensive erosion for a period of circa 30 years due in large part to civil conflict which saw one of the largest population shifts in Western Europe since the Second World War - from the inner urban core to the suburbs and surrounding satellite settlements. The recent onset of political stability has highlighted a considerable regeneration need and the site in question was earmarked, by Laganside Corporation (the then Government department tasked with urban renewal) as central to the future of the City's historic core, especially in terms of its community, tourist and arts offer. By the mid-2000's, the Cathedral Quarter had enjoyed a steady stream of individual modest developments in the form of new bars. restaurants, a theatre and new community/arts workspace. The site in question was the last and most significant piece in the regeneration jig-saw and in 2005 Laganside Corporation appointed Turnus Limited as the preferred developer for the delivery of a much-needed heart for the Quarter in the form of a mixed-use scheme which would define a new civic space. The Saint Anne's Square development, completed in late 2009, comprises the first formally laid out public square in Belfast since the Victorian era Site Masterplan The Architect was tasked firstly with developing a masterplan for the site as a whole to accommodate two complimentary uses: a mixed-use scheme which is the subject of this awards submission and which covers most of the site, and an arts centre which will be delivered by DCAL, the Government department responsible for the developments of the arts. The whole masterplan was designed around the idea of the new public space aligning symmetrically with the major axis of the adjacent Saint Anne's Cathedral, the main set-piece building in the area. Design Concept & Approach Saint Anne's Square is an urban infill scheme, designed to respect the existing urban grain of alleyways and traditional streets, built on a site that was until 2008 a surface car park. In the centre of the scheme, a new piazza has been created to echo the history of the development site: a three-sided urban space once existed here prior to the demolition of many of the existing terrace houses and warehouses, and the construction of Dunbar Link in the latter part of the last century. |
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| This piazza has been designed to align with the major axis of St. Anne's Cathedral, the set-piece building for the whole of the Quarter, and the entrance to the piazza will also be aligned on the Cathedral's axis to frame the view of the Cathedral's new Spire of Hope. | |||||||||||||
 Grant Goldie's Photos of Festival of Fools 2010 |
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THE
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Greetings from
Murano
Venice, Italy by Cristiana Bartolomei |
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THE
URBAN STADIUM
OF THE MONTH |
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| Fenway Park
(Boston, Massachusetts) Capacity: 38805 | Tenants: Boston Red Sox |
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Learn more
about Eco-Compact Stadiums
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WWW.ECOCOMPACTCITY.ORG
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THE
MONSTER OF THE MONTH
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the True and the
False
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Volgograd (Stalingrado)
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Bologna (Via Stalingrado)
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WHEN YOU NAME A STREET AFTER STALINGRAD
YOU SHOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL ! |
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THE
VIRUS OF THE MONTH
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 Space Invaders (Type A) |
 Space Invaders (Type B) |
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Readers are invited to vote and suggest
ideas. Many are the possibilities.
The editing committee is confident that an interesting set of candidatures will emerge. |
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Sweden Typologies
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HARD VERSION (Göteborg)
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SOFT VERSION ( Uppsala)
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NEW URBANISM
CHECK-LIST:
Walkability: 0 | Connectivity: 0 | Mixed-Use & Diversity: 0 | Mixed Housing: 0 Quality Architecture & Urban Design: 0 | Neighborhood Structure: 0 | Density: 0 Smart Transportation: 0 | Sustainability: 0 | Quality of Life: 0 |
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SURPRISE
UNDERWEAR
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what you would
never want to discover
under a city's beautiful appearance |
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Marseille, Rue de La Republique
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Marseille, Rue de La Republique
DON'T LOOK THAT WAY ! |
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| WHAT
AN IDIOT, MOM TOLD YOU THAT THE WORLD IS ALL GOOD ? |
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THE
DEMOLITION
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Atlanta 2006, September
30
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THE
BOOK OF THE MONTH
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La Ciudad de los Prodigios by Eduardo Mendoza Spanish-language Edition Pub. Date: May 2003
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THE
CONFERENCE OF
THE MONTH
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Confesercenti,
CGIL-CISL-UIL, Sindacato Architetti e Ingegneri di Arezzo
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IL COMMERCIO URBANO
COME MOTORE DI UNO SVILUPPO ECO-COMPATIBILE LA FINE DELL'ERA DEGLI IPERMERCATI Gabriele Tagliaventi |
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 East Gate Town Center - Chattanooga, Tennessee - DOVER, KOHL & PARTNERS |
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MALL RETROFITTING
CASI DI STUDIO DI TRASFORMAZIONE D'IPERMERCATI IN QUARTIERI URBANI INTEGRATI Alessandro Bucci |
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27 settembre 2010, Hotel Minerva,
Via Fiorentina 4 - 52100 Arezzo
ore 15 |
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THE
ADVERTISING
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THE MONTH
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New Yamaha bike rides virtual COMPACT city !
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THE
MOVIE OF THE MONTH
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THE
CLIP OF THE MONTH
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ZAZ | je veux | Watch
& Listen
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MASTERPIECES
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 Volgograd Station, photo by S.Fedorov |
Central Railway Station Volgograd (Stalingrad) 1954 |
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MASTERPIECES
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Munich, Germany
How to beautifully take profit of a grid |
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