lápis x câmera
Uma nova série Pencil Vs Camera, do ilustrador Benjamin Heine
nyc com novos bons exemplos
Over the course of four weeks, New Yorkers shared 483 ideas (and counting) for improving their city through the Institute for Urban Design’s first-ever By the City / For the City crowdsourcing project. We were thrilled to see the ingenuity and thoughtfulness people brought to the question, and now it’s time for designers from around the world to respond to the challenge: We’re asking architects, planners, students, and other urbanists to choose an idea from the hundreds submitted and respond with a brief proposal.
In getting ready to launch the competition, we’ve been nose-deep in data, and we thought we’d share some of our findings with you. The analysis is by no means a scientific, but some clear trends emerged, and they can tell us some interesting things about how New Yorkers think of their city—and what design can do to improve it. Read more about what people were most interested in, after the jump.
neblinas e garoas
Dias assim me fazem tão bem!
challenge gov
With Challenge.gov, the federal government is using prize incentives to tap citizens for innovative ideas. Challenge.gov is an online challenge platform administered by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) in partnership with ChallengePost that empowers the U.S. Government and the public to bring the best ideas and top talent to bear on our nation’s most pressing challenges. This platform is the latest milestone in the Administration’s commitment to use prizes and challenges to promote innovation.
the real reason why bicycles are the key to better cities
The Real Reason Why Bicycles are the Key to Better Cities | This Big City
By Kasey Klimes – founder of the sustainable urbanism blog Secret Republic and Creative Consultant at MindMixer, a civic engagement platform for cities.
We all know the talking points. The benefits of bicycles have been tirelessly elaborated upon; bicycles improve health, ease congestion, save money, use less space, and provide efficient transportation with zero fuel consumption and zero carbon emissions. All of this is great, and the culmination of a population on two wheels can have a drastic impact on the overall wellbeing of a city.
However, none of these come close to the most meaningful aspect of cycling, a factor that cannot be quantified but has endless value to those fighting to improve their communities. The most vital element for the future of our cities is that the bicycle is an instrument of experiential understanding.
On a bicycle, citizens experience their city with deep intimacy, often for the first time. For a regular motorist to take that two or three mile trip by bicycle instead is to decimate an enormous wall between them and their communities.
In their cars, the world is reduced to mere equation. “What is the fastest route from A to B?” one will ask as they start their engine. This invariably results in a cascade of freeway concrete flying by at incomprehensible speeds. Their environment, the neighborhoods that compose their communities, the beauty of architecture, the immense societal problems in distressed areas, the faces of neighbors… all of this becomes a conceptually abstract blur from the driver’s seat.
Yes, the bicycle is a marvelously efficient machine of transportation, but in the city it is so much more. The bicycle is new vision for the blind man. It is a thrilling tool of communication, an experiential device for the beauty and the ills of the urban context. One cannot turn a blind eye on a bicycle – they must acknowledge their community, all of it.
Here lies the secret weapon of the urban renaissance.
