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2010 / I

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.

AVOE NEWS AGENCY
1st CIVICARCH Workshop 2010 THE NEW GENERATION OF ECO-URBAN STADIA Giving our Cities a chance of Urban Renaissance 2010, February 9 \| University of Ferrara
Civicarch-avoe proposal for the new sport district around the Uefa stadium in Bologna via Andrea Costa before and after the intervention: on the right the new entrance to the Stradium As the Italian Government is about to approve a new Law that will allow the construction of new sport facilities including apartments, retail, office, etc. several Football Team-Owners have presented projects for sub-urban solutions in Bologna, Rome, Florence, Palermo, etc. In fact, the moment is crucial as the new Italian Law will finance the construction of the new stadium allowing the team-owners to realise an interesting benefit through the construction of the mix-use buildings permitted by the Law. It can be either another ecological disaster for the Italian cities, or an opportunity to use the Law for developing a new policy of urban re-generation focused on the new urban stadia. Therefore, AVOE and Civicarch have launched a program intended to offer both municipalities and citizens the chance of appreciating the opportunities offered by new eco-urban stadia as means to re-generate sub-urban areas. The first project has been presented in November 2009 for the new UEFA stadium in Bologna. The proposal by AVOE-Civicarch calls for the refurbishment of the 1926 classical stadium and the construction of a mix-use integrated urban neighbourhood including hotels, restaurants, apartments, shops, offices and a museum of the Bologna 1909 Football Club. After receiving a wide-spread approval by citizens and supporters of the Bologna 1909 Football Club, the project of the new Eco-Urban Neighbourhood -"The City of the Sport"- has been finally presented at the Municipal Council of Bologna in January 2010 and in Ferrara at the 1st Civicarch Workshop (2010, February 9).

THE PROJECT OF THE MONTH
Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel: image courtesy of Thomas Aquinas College
Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA, 2009 Design Architect: Duncan G. Stroik Architect, LLC, South Bend, IN; Duncan Stroik, principal; Stefan Molina, design project architect; Tony Bajuyo, construction project architect
Thomas Aquinas College Plan: images courtesy of Thomas Aquinas College (www.thomasaquinas.edu)
Image courtesy of www.skyscrapercity.com
Plan(Duncan Stroik Architect) from traditional-building.com , photo courtesy of Thomas Aquinas College
Images courtesy of Thomas Aquinas College
Images courtesy of Thomas Aquinas College
For more information
Thomas Aquinas College 10000 N. Ojai Road \| Santa Paula, CA 93060 www.thomasaquinas.edu contact			Duncan G. Stroik Architect 218 W Washington St Suite 1200 South Bend, IN 46601-1820 www.stroik.com

THE POSTCARD OF THE MONTH

Greetings from San Francisco Civic Center, San Francisco, CA, USA photo by Massimo Baraldi

THE MONSTER OF THE MONTH

image source: http://vincentloy.wordpress.com					Toronto, Canada
... and how about your dentist to do the same ?		image source: www.cromielettromedicali.com

THE VIRUS OF THE MONTH
Space Invaders (Type A)			Space Invaders (Type B)
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.

Marseille suburbs, France
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

THE DEMOLITION OF THE MONTH
Goodbye, Cabrini-Green

WATCH THE VIDEO
From www.Cabrini-Green.com: "The Cabrini-Green Housing Projects in Chicago, Illinois are some of the most infamous in the country. Decades of poverty and violence have rendered them near inhabitable. They are currently being demolished and the residents are being relocated. Some will move near-by into brand new condos, some will get transplanted around the Chicagoland area, and some, inevitably will become homeless. I will post photos and paintings of the neighborhood periodically to show the transformation."

THE BOOK OF THE MONTH
			No alle Archistar Nikos A. Salingaros Libreria Editrice Fiorentina, Florence, 2009 352 pages, only in italian Combines recent articles in Italian, plus translations of related essays on how a starchitect culture has displaced architecture on the human scale, and has made the current pool of architects both irrelevant and unemployable. Includes chapters on ecophobia, skyscrapers, biophilia, geometrical fundamentalism, and an interview with Léon Krier. Comments in italian by Pietro Pagliardini and others on Archiwatch (January 2009).

THE CONFERENCE OF THE MONTH
1st International Conference Of Architecture And Qualification Of The City Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculty of Engineering, Sintra Campus \| May 7th and 8th, 2010 Click HERE to learn more ! Extending and Transforming the Tradition of Catholic Sacred Architecture 2010 Symposium April 30th through May 1st \| The Catholic University of America, School of Architecture and Planning http://architecture.cua.edu/alivingpresence/ CIB W104 International Conference: Open and Sustainable Building organised jointly with Tecnalia \| May 17-19, 2010 Bilbao (Spain) \| http://info.labein.es World Cities Summit 2010 \| http://worldcities.com.sg Urban Environmental Pollution - UEP 2010 \| http://www.uep2010.com Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life \| Boston, USA • June 20-23, 2010 37º IAHS World Congress on Housing Science \| http://grupos.unican.es/gted/iahs/ Design, Technology, Refurbishment and Management of Buildings \| Santander, Spain 26 - 29 October 2010 European Transport Conference, 11-13 October 2010, Glasgow, Scotland, UK \| http://www.aetransport.org

THE EXHIBITION OF THE MONTH
Exposition Robert Doisneau Du métier à l’œuvre From January 13 2010 to April 18 2010 Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (Paris 75004) Saint-Germain-des-Prés Musée d'Orsay / Montparnasse
contact@henricartierbresson.org www.henricartierbresson.org

THE CLIP & ADVERTISING OF THE MONTH
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THE MOVIE OF THE MONTH
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MASTERPIECES OF 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE
Photo by Luis García 21/05/2008, image source and credit (wikipedia)
PALACIO DE LA PRENSA Madrid, España, 1924 -1928 Arch. Pedro Muguruza Otaño
Palacio de la Prensa under construction, image source and credit (urbanity.es)						Iimage source and credit (historiasdehispania.blogspot.com)


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Photo by Luis García 29/08/2008, image source and credit (wikipedia)

MASTERPIECES OF 20th CENTURY URBANISM

Guadalajara, Mexico How to beautifully take profit of a Grid

SUGGESTED ARTICLES & WEBSITES
Old is the New Green \| http://www.preservationnation.org Blair Kamin on the natural alliance between historic preservation and green architecture: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2010/march-april/green-architecture.html Il Ritorno alla Città / Back to the City \| http://ritornoallacitta.blogspot.com The end of a skyscraper era \| http://marketplace.publicradio.org Dallas's 52-story Elm Place building stands vacant and closed, unable to compete with newer buildings and suburban migration. Kate Archer Kent explores the dying trend of the skyscraper. Fresno: A City Reborn \| http://www.dumbdrum.com This remarkable Victor Gruen film analyzes the pathologies of the American Center City circa 1958 and re presents the Fresno Plan as deliverance from its decline. It is devastating on both counts Uptown transit center to receive $22M grant \| http://www.pantagraph.com The Next Decade's Top Sustainability Trends \| http://www.worldchanging.com Dotage St. Louis: Form-Based Zoning Coming to (Part of) St. Louis \| http://stldotage.blogspot.com Near Highway Residential Locations and Accelerated Atherosclerosis \| http://www.latimes.com Dal muro alla scala, cantiere-scuola per gli architetti del futuro \| http://www.41agenziatv.com Extending and Transforming the Tradition of Catholic Sacred Architecture 2010 Symposium April 30th through May 1st, The Catholic University of America, School of Architecture and Planning http://architecture.cua.edu Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain...California? \| http://www.calitics.com Thoughtful commentary on how California's Super Sprawl is closely linked to our political gridlock… and why it matters to the Nation Miami architect devises prefabs for homeless \| http://www.miamiherald.com The Times, London: Cities face wrecking ball to meet carbon targets \| http://business.timesonline.co.uk Bozar Architecture \| http://www.bozar.be Architecture as Resistance \| Wang Shu / Amateur Architecture Studio \| Zondag 18.10.2009 > Zondag 24.01.2010 2010 Driehaus Prize Laureate: Spanish architect Rafael Manzano Martos \| architecture.nd.edu/driehausprize France programs massive investment of as much as €21 billion (US $29 billion) for urban electric rail transit http://www.lightrailnow.org NYT Business; Street Corners vs. Cul de Sacs \| http://www.nytimes.com Household Type, Housing Choice, and Commuting Behavior \| http://www.nahb.org Architecture and Economy As skyscrapers rise, markets fall \| http://edition.cnn.com Austin Reinvents Suburban Corridor with FBC \| http://www.austinchronicle.com Grids beautiful grids: Savannah's extension \| http://www.savannahriverlanding.com Burj Dubai: The new pinnacle of vanity \| http://www.telegraph.co.uk *Sprawl discussed in Australian media* Urban Sprawl Pushes Adelaide Past 100km: http://www.news.com.au How to Stop Sprawl: http://www.news.com.au Dai grattacieli alla campagna \| http://magazine.quotidianonet.ilsole24ore.com Retail Space Downsizing \| http://articles.latimes.com Chicago Tribune today on Detroit urban farming plans \| http://www.chicagotribune.com View from Los Angeles City Hall, then and now - latimes.com \| http://www.latimes.com David Brussat: How Providence muffed the decade \| http://www.projo.com Discovering Urbanism: Miami 21 set to shape the city's future \| http://discoveringurbanism.blogspot.com Living Urbanism 2010 Open Call for Innovation \| http://livingurbanism.wordpress.com *Google Maps - Form-Based Codes, SmartCodes, and TNDs* SmartCodes adopted (look) SmartCodes in progress (look) Other form based codes and bylaws (look) TNDs US - West (look) TNDs US - East (look) TNDs US - Florida & Caribbean (look) TNDs Canada (look)

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