¿RESCATAR UN PAIS POR SU POLÍTICA URBANÍSTICA?

Sí, esta es una crisis financiera, de estructura económica, de democracia, y otras muchas cosas más, pero no olvidemos el urbanismo, el gran otro artificie de la crisis actual.  

Casi todos hemos olvidado que el  urbanismo  es una ciencia que programa el crecimiento de las ciudades, y la lógica aplicada de esta ciencia se ha tomado tan poco en serio, que casi podríamos apuntar que también el rescate de facto de España, viene determinado por ignorar el urbanismo y su conexión con la economía productiva y real de España. Según Richard Florida, autor del best-seller ciudades creativas o Paul Krugman premio nobel de economía, las ciudades y su entorno territorial, tienen una importancia determinante en el bienestar de sus habitantes y este proceso viene dado por los mecanismos de planificación  urbana. 

Cottage Forum is the annual business meeting of CEOs, business owners, investors, bankers, and government officials to discuss country real estate in Russia.

We can download some of the presentations just following this link just clik over word презентация.

Place making

The Distinctive City

by Edward T. McMahon

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Around the world, cities are seeking the recipe for economic success in a rapidly changing global marketplace. Indispensable assets in a post–industrial economy include: well–educated people, the ability to generate new ideas and to turn those ideas into commercial realities, connectivity to global markets, and multi-modal transportation infrastructure. Another critical—but often forgotten—asset is community distinctiveness.

Why Does Place Matter?

Saffron Woodcraft on 20th Apr 12

 

The idea of ‘community’ has gone in and out of fashion in the past few decades. In the 1980s and 1990s, commentators on globalization suggested that places, and, in particular, cities would no longer matter if people and organizations could be connected anywhere and everywhere.

Image courtesy of Crispin Hughes

Two decades of change has shown this picture to be only partially accurate. Global connectedness has transformed the way businesses operate, and how people relate to each other and to places. Yet, cities have become more, not less, significant.

Amateur Architecture: A New Vernacular? the new pritzker prize

The new pritzker prize is similar to vernacular architecture? that is what Evan Chakroff is telling about at

amateur architecture a new vernacular

shapes of hardocore architecture

A few images of hardcore architecture for archinect news

hard–core
adj \-ˈkȯr\
1: a : of, relating to, or being part of a hard core
2: of pornography : containing explicit descriptions of sex acts or scenes of actual sex acts
3: characterized by or being the purest or most basic form of something

Modernism

Modern Architecture was a fashion statement. Coated with an ideology of social impromptu and urban reconstruction, it seems undeniable and remarkable that the dominant gene of the Modern Movement’s DNA was its aesthetics.