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NEWS-LETTER

by
A Vision of Europe
in collaboration with
CIVICARCH - University of Ferrara

Dédié à tous ceux qui habitent et aiment la Ville Traditionelle.
La Ville Traditionelle du Passé, la Ville Traditionelle du Present, et, surtout, la Ville Traditionelle du Futur.

Dédié à tous ceux qui aiment se promener à travers le réseau de rues et de places qui font de la Ville Traditionelle un lieu unique à partager.
Dédié à tous ceux qui aiment prendre un verre ou bien un cappuccino dans un café à l'interieur d'un contexte urbain.
Dédié à tous ceux qui aiment aller à pied au théâtre ou au cinema, et diner après avec des amis dans un restaurant à côté.
Dédié à tous ceux qui préferent habiter une maison de ville ou bien un immeuble urbain tout en juissant de la richesse de la rue publique et, en même temps, du calme de la cour interieure.
Dédié à tous ceux qui préferent amener à pied leurs enfants à l'école du quartier. A' tous ceux qui préferent faire leurs courses dans les commerces du quartier, soit dans les boutiques soit dans les superettes.
Dédié à tous ceux qui préferent travailler à une distance pietonnière de la maison. Et dédié à tous ceux qui aimerent bien pouvoir faire ça!


URBANLOVERS NEWSLETTER est conçue pour offrir des informations sur les événements, les projets, les concours, et les livres sur le monde urbain.


URBANLOVERS NEWSLETTER va essayer d'aider la diffusion de la culture urbaine à travers la publication de toutes les experiences qui peuvent renforcer la condition de la Ville Traditionelle en tant que la forme d'habitat la plus seduisante et efficiente.


URBANLOVERS NEWSLETTER va chercher à ressembler les citoyes, les promoteurs, les administrateurs publiques et privés, les elus, mais aussi les architectes, les urbanistes, les ingenieurs, et tous les acteurs de la scene urbaine, pour un nouvel effort vers la condivision des informations et des experiences de succès qui peuvent contribuer à la construction d'un environment urbain meilleur.

 

STOP BANLIEUE.

LE CHANGEMENT EST

MAINTENANT VERS L'URBAIN !

 

 

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.

 

STOP SPRAWL:

CHANGE TO URBAN !

 

BONNES

NOUVELLES

.GOOD NEWS.

.AGENCY.

 

Winner for Commercial, Institutional and Public Work
in the category of New Construction-more than 30,000 sq.ft.

 

Richard Economakis Architectural Design has received a 2013 Palladio Award for the Civic Hall at Cayalá, in Guatemala. Supervising Architects were Pedro Godoy and Maria Sanchez of Estudio Urbano, Leon Krier was Consulting Architect, and Grupo Cayala are the client / developer. The New Town of Cayalá was masterplanned by Leon Krier with Godoy and Sanchez, and is now in its third stage of development, with the first of eight planned neighborhoods nearing completion.

 

National Charrette Institute News:
The quickest way to learn about the NCI Charrette System™


The National Charrette Institute (NCI) is an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational institution.
They teach professionals and community leaders the NCI Charrette System™, a design-based, accelerated, collaborative project management system that harnesses the talents and energies of all interested parties to create and support a feasible plan.

They advance the fields of community planning and public involvement through research and publications.

Click on the image to learn more

 

S.O.S. PARIS:

Saving the city's heritage and environment


 

S.O.S. Paris was founded in 1973 with the purpose of defending the architectural heritage of the city, preserving the urban environment for its population.

Go to campaigns and current projects.

 

Washington: The Classical City


"Washington: The Classical City" is a documentary produced by the National Civic Art Society (PLAY the video)

 

The Neighbourhood Effect

25 years after William Julius Wilson changed urban sociology, scholars still debate his ideas.

Is anyone else listening?


A great article from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

To read the full article, click here !

 

L'architecture peut être criminelle

(Architecture can be criminal)

Richard Tanniger, enseignant lausannois, préconise de faire comparaître pour crimes contre l’humanité certains architectes (link)

Downtown Silver Spring:
Montgomery County, Maryland

From sub-urban to vibrant mixed-use town center

source: http://terrain.org , Issue 31, UNSPRAWL

 


Today, Silver Spring is a rapidly redeveloping and vibrant city featuring a mix of public plazas and open space, offices, housing, hotel, retail, entertainment, transit access, and civic uses–all easily accessible on foot thanks to sustained downtown and CBD redevelopment efforts by public and private entities alike. Read the full article.

 

 

 

 

.L'ECHEC
.DU MOIS

.THE FAILURE.

.OF THE MONTH.

 

 

bank depositors are facing a levy on their savings

 

 

 

Cyprus is being asked to trim its deficit, shrink its banking sector and increase taxes.

For the first time in a eurozone bailout, bank depositors are facing a levy on their savings: THE IMAGE OF A BAILOUT

Cyprus' banks were badly exposed to Greece, which has itself been the recipient of two huge bailouts

 

Learn more: www.zerohedge.com

 

 

 

 

LE FILM

DU MOIS

.THE MOVIE.

.OF THE MONTH.

 

 

Silver Linings Playbook

silverliningsplaybookmovie.com

 

Directed by David O. Russell


Produced by Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti
Executive: Jonathan Gordon, George Parra


Screenplay by David O. Russell


Based on The Silver Linings Playbook
by Matthew Quick


Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher

 

Music by Danny Elfman


Cinematography Masanobu Takayanagi


Editing by Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers


Studio The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises


Distributed by The Weinstein Company


Release date 2012
Running time 122 minutes[2]
Country United States
Language English

 

Watch the trailer !

 

 

 

 

 

 

VILLES

SANS GRATTECIELS

CITIES WITHOUT.

SKYSCRAPERS.

Low rise, high density

 

 

New Delhi

Delhi, India

 

 

 

 

 

 

LE PROJET

DU MOIS

.THE PROJECT.

.OF THE MONTH.

 

 

 

Tottenham Court Road, London

Quinlan Terry Architects

 

2009

 

www.qftarchitects.com

 

 

This composition starts at ground level with a rusticated arcade supporting a giant Palladian Ionic Order with a superimposed giant Corinthian Order above complete with entablature and balustrade with an attic at the top and slate roof behind the parapet. At the two ends of the colonnade are plain and rusticated book ends to frame the composition and make a clean joint with the neighbouring classical buildings either side".

(all images source:qftarchitects.com , ArchitectureMMXII)

 

"The elevation facing Tottenham Court Road is a 9 bay classical building 100ft wide in natural limestone, bronze and glass in keeping with the buildings either side which are also constructed in Portland stone, glass and bronze.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LA CARTE POSTALE

DU MOIS

THE POSTCARD.

OF THE MONTH.

 

Greetings from

Piazza Prato della Valle

 

Padova, Veneto, Italy

 

image credit Silvia Zambon, beniculturalionline.it

 

 

 

 

 

LE STADE URBAIN

DU MOIS

THE URBAN STADIUM.
OF THE MONTH.

 

 

 

Estadio Vicente Calderón

Location: Arganzuela, Madrid, Spain
Broke ground: 1961
Built: 1966
Opened: 2 October 1966
Renovated: 1982
Owner: Atlético Madrid
Operator: Atlético Madrid
Surface: Grass
Architect: Javier Barroso, Miguel Ángel García Lomas
Capacity: 54.960
Field dimensions: 105 m × 70 m (344 ft × 230 ft)
Tenants: Atlético Madrid

 

Learn more about ecocompactstadium !

 

 

 

 

BONJOUR.

TRISTESSE.

 

 

sorry,

where is the swimming pool ?

 

 

Fribourg is a lovely Swiss city that seems to attract

some of the worst architecture

 

 

 

 

LA PEINTURE URBAINE

DU MOIS

THE URBAN PAINTING.

OF THE MONTH.

 

Edouard Leon Cortes

(1882-1969)

 

 

Place de la republique

 

 

 

 

LE VIRUS

DU MOIS

.THE VIRUS.

.OF THE MONTH.

 


Space Invaders

 

 

Hamburg suburbs, Deutsch,Niederdeutsc

 

Influenza or flu is caused by the flu virus which is a RNA virus. It is easily transmitted from person to person through air or by direct contact or through urbanist and architects.

 

 

 

 

LA DÉMOLITION

DU MOIS

.THE DEMOLITION.

.OF THE MONTH.

Glencairn Tower Demolition, Motherwell

2011, November 20, 12.15pm

watch the video of the 17-storey tower-block in Scotland

 

 

 

 

LA STATION D'ESSENCE

DU MOIS

THE FIRE STATION.

OF THE MONTH.

 

 

 

Bologna, neighborhood Fire Department

"Carlo Fava"

Viale Aldini 142, 40100 Bo

 

www.vigilfuoco.it/sitiVVF/bologna

 

 

 

 

 

 

LA VITRINE

DU MOIS

.THE SHOP WINDOW.

.OF THE MONTH.

Founders Circle

at Pasanella and Son Vinters

 

Oyster Saloon, April 9, 2011

Photo Credit: Tina Wong/The Wandering Eater

©New Amsterdam Market

 

www.newamsterdammarket.org

 

source:

New Amsterdam Market is currently held in the parking lot fronting the Fulton Fish Market "New Market Building". This landmarked structure is the last riverfront market house built in the City of New York and was dedicated for public use by Mayor LaGuardia in 1939. The adjacent Tin Building has marked the site of the original Fulton Fish Market since 1831. Public markets have been held in this District since 1642.

 

©The New York Times, 1939

 

 

 

 

CHEFS-D'ŒUVRE

DU XXe SIECLE.

.MASTERPIECES OF 20th.

.CENTURY ARCHITECTURE.

 

image source: Detroit Publishing Co. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

 

The Old Erie Canal

and the Enlarged Erie Canal

in Syracuse, N.Y.

 


The Old Erie Canal (Clinton's Ditch) and the Enlarged Erie Canal originally ran through the center of Syracuse. Today, the former path of the Erie Canal is known as Erie Boulevard. When tolls were charged, boats were weighed in the Syracuse weighlock building. By 1905, the weighlock building was being used as the canal office, and today the building is home to the Erie Canal Museum

 

"Clinton Square, Syracuse, N.Y." -- from: History of Onondaga County, New York / by Professor W. W. Clayton (D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N.Y., 1878)
"Packet Dock, Syracuse, N.Y." (American Publicity Co., Syracuse, N.Y.) -- postmarked Oct. 8, 1906 "View East from Clinton Street Bridge -- Syracuse series" -- postmarked Jan. 15, 1908

The Erie Canal is famous in song and story. Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east. An engineering marvel when it was built, some called it the Eighth Wonder of the World (source: www.eriecanal.org)

more info at: http://eriecanalmuseum.org/
"Syracuse, N.Y. Erie Canal Office" (Post Card Series no. 2025, Raphael Tuck & Sons, [London]) -- Postcard ; UNDB, postmarked Dec. 24, 1905

Learn more at:

The Erie Canal | http://www.eriecanal.org/index.html

The Erie Canal: the most famous and influential man-made waterway | http://www.eriecanalway.org/

New York State Canal Corporation | http://www.canals.ny.gov/index.shtml

The Official Museum of the Erie Canal | http://eriecanalmuseum.org/

Erie Canal Mapping Project | http://www.bipwap.com/ECMP/canal.html

 

 

 

 

LA PUBLICITE

DU MOIS

.THE ADVERTISING.

.OF THE MONTH.

house with fuel package !

last chance for suburban sprawl houses

source:

courier mail, homes guide

Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City
Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe
Urban Research Program, Research Paper 6

ISBN 1 920952 50 0
© Urban Research Program, Griffith University
Brisbane, QLD 4111

 

 

 

 

 

LE LIVRE

DU MOIS

.THE BOOK.

.OF THE MONTH.

 

Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
First published in 2012
ISBN 9781443839051

 

Cambridge Scholars Publishing also available on Amazon

Price £44.99 - $67.99
Hardback
360pp

 

www.adamarchitecture.com/publications

 

 

Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

"In this stimulating book, Robert Adam demonstrates how a global economy has brought forth a global architecture, in the form of commercialised modernism and the demand for iconic new buildings. Professor Adam interweaves the demands of the global economy with the development of the global architectural language, while chronicling the continuing resistance to both. The book ends with a question: how far will either the globalisation that occurred before 2007 or the associated dominance of North Atlantic architectural styles survive the crisis?"

 

Charles Jencks, author of Modern Movements in Architecture and Iconic Building: The power of Enigma

"Robert Adam is that rarity, an architect who can think across the political and social landscape to find unexpected forces that shape the style and meaning of architecture. Taking us on a guided race through the 'isms' and 'starchitects' who have dominated the scene for ten years, he shows that globalisation is nothing new, but is still the strongest force that erodes cultural identity and results in the Janus-Facade of the iconic building. Adam's commentary is, as always, welcome, trenchant, wide-ranging and informed."

 

Dr. Scott Lash, Professor of Sociology and Director of Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London

"Alongside its historical sweep and sociological understanding, this book offers a critique of the global cult of the star architect and identifies a 'reflexively modernist' architecture. Adam identifies an architecture for the post-2008 economic condition that is no longer self-obsessed but creates space through an intensive communication with the on-the-ground social and natural world."

 

 

 

 

.LE CLIP

.DU MOIS

.THE CLIP.

.OF THE MONTH.

 

 

New York's Pennsylvania Station

source: blogs.providencejournal.com

ARCHITECTURE HERE AND THERE BLOG
Column: Video homage to Pennsylvania Station

by David Brussat

 

"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the demolition of New York's Pennsylvania Station and the 100th anniversary of the opening of Grand Central Terminal. The crime of tearing down Penn Station - now widely acknowledged to be "an act of monumental vandalism," as an editorial in The New York Times put it - may have helped preserve the life of Grand Central ..." [read the full post]

 

WATCH THIS VIDEO

(Penn Station, But Deliver Us From Grand Central)

image source: Historic American Building Survey providencejournal.com
image source: WIKIPEDIA.ORG blogs.providencejournal.com

 

 

 

 

.LA CONFERENCE

.DU MOIS

.THE CONFERENCE.

.OF THE MONTH.

 

 

Place Making Conference 2013

presented by the Institute for Quality Communities

 

Institute for Quality Communities
830 Van Vleet Oval, Gould Hall, Suite 165
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Phone Number: (405) 445-4477 Email: iqc@ou.edu

 

Please join us Wednesday, April 3 as we present the 2013 Placemaking Conference, featuring world leaders in the fields of placemaking, urban planning, historic preservation, and walkability. The conference, including lunch and dinner, is complimentary and open to the public. Please registerto reserve your place at the conference as soon as possible !

 

http://iqc.ou.edu/conference

 

CNU 21

May 29 - June 1, 2013

Salt Lake City, UT

 

WHY CNU 21?
CNU 21 is where the top designers, developers, planners, architects and advocates of walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods meet. Come shape the design of our communities.

 

www.cnu21.org

 

LivCom Awards 2013
International Awards

for Liveable Communities 2013

in collaboration with

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)


Finals - Xiamen, China
28th November - 2nd December 2013

 

Full programme and further information: click here !

www.livcomawards.com

 

 

 

 

.L'EXPOSITION
.DU MOIS

.THE EXHIBITION.

.OF THE MONTH.

 

Manet

Portraying Life

 

From 26 January 2013 to 14 April 2013

 

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
London, W1J 0BD

 

www.royalacademy.org.uk

 

The Royal Academy of Arts is hosting the first major UK exhibition dedicated to Edouard Manet's portraiture.

The exhibition features more than 50 paintings, including pastels and contemporary photographs obtained from public and private collections in Europe, Asia and the USA.

The works are arranged thematically, exploring Manet's world and the landscape of 19th century Parisian society.

Highlights include The Luncheon, depicting Léon, the son of Manet's wife, and Music in the Tuileries Gardens, which shows the artist's literary and theatrical friends.

 

 

 

 

 

.ARTICLES PROPOSÉS

.ET LIENS

.SUGGESTED.

.ARTICLES & LINKS.

 

The Death of the American Mall and the Rebirth of Public Space | http://www.theinternational.org

 

Walkable neighborhoods increase real estate demand | http://communities.washingtontimes.com

 

Mapping the Relationship Between Income and Rent | http://www.theatlanticcities.com

 

Column: Koolhaas plans kooky Venice biennale | http://blogs.providencejournal.com

 

Communities need to build better millennial connections | http://www.newgeography.com

 

S.O.S. PARIS: La fin de l’âge des gratte-ciel | http://sosparisblog.wordpress.com

 

March-April 2013 Better! Cities and Towns | http://www.cnu.org/

 

La nuova chiesa armena di S. Giovanni Battista | http://www.ilcovile.it/scritti/COVILE_737_Mazzola_Atayants.pdf

 

Patient urbanism: Build neighborhoods without high debt | http://bettercities.net

 

2012, hécatombe pour le marché de la construction | http://www.lefigaro.fr/immobilier

 

Highways to boulevards blog: Interview with Ian Lockwood | http://www.cnu.org

 

La folle politica urbanistica responsabile del debito pubblico italiano | http://magazine.quotidiano.net/ecquo/tagliaventi

 

Dissolving border vacuums - At-grade border vacuums: Parking lots and vacant lots | bettercities.net

 

Bristol's architect mayor wants the city to be a 'laboratory for change' | http://www.guardian.co.uk

 

The project of the students of the Notre Dame University for Brandevoort | http://www.simmetria.org

 

Residential Recycling Conference, March 19-21, 2013, Chicago, Illinois | http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com

 

Rigenerazione Urbana: modelli assurdi e modelli virtuosi | http://www.de-architectura.com

 

Savannah’s surging downtown defies downturn | http://www.ajc.com

 

 

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