There is growing attention to public space. In 2011, at the 23rd T Session of the Governing Council of UN-Habitat, member states mandated UN-Habitat to consolidate agency-wide work on public space, to develop and promote public space policy, coordination, disseminate knowledge and directly assist cities in public space initiatives. The UN’s Open Working Group charged […]
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En el ejercicio de planear y desarrollar proyectos de renovación urbana, la participación ciudadana frecuentemente ha sido considerada como un paso formal, en el que, de un lado, los interesados en promover el proyecto lo exponen y justifican, y del otro, la ciudadanía afectada lo conoce y a veces lo critica. De cara a la […]
¿Por qué son importantes las ciudades 24 horas? y ¿Cuáles son las ventajas de promover una economía nocturna en las ciudades? Son algunas de las preguntas que Andreina Seijas experta del BID responde en este vídeo. “Cuando pensamos en la noche, lo primero que nos viene a la mente son elementos como bares, restaurantes, ruido, alcohol, rumba. […]
Por Flavio Lupa, integrante del Instituto Nacional de Economía Agraria de Roma. Texto originalmente publicado en This Big City. Traducción por Plataforma Urbana. La agricultura urbana ha sido reconocida por los numerosos efectos positivos que tiene en las ciudades, como lo son el acceso a alimentos frescos, la agrobiodiversidad y como contribuyente a la mejora […]
Con el presente recopilatorio de manuales de diseño urbano queremos establece un punto de información concreto reconociendo que el diseño de espacios urbanos abarca una importante cantidad de información que debemos ir recopilando de forma pausada. Las actuaciones que se realicen sobre el urbanismo tanto en las ciudades como de un entorno natural deben de […]
By Brett Widness Tomado de: URBANLAND While many books have recently focused on making cities denser, more walkable, or more functional, asking how to make urban populations happier is a slightly different question. Inspired heavily by Enrique and Guillermo Peῆalosa’s work in Bogotá, Colombia, but also drawing on examples from Europe and North America, Charles […]
On a global level, increasing population coupled with high rates of urbanization has resulted in a still largely unacknowledged solid waste management crisis. Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions of the world and waste management infrastructure and services have generally not been able to keep pace with the rapid expansion of cities. […]
These four cities – home to a total of more than 80 million people – respond to economic, political and environmental shifts in radically different ways. LSE Cities crunches the data on growth, transport and density Cities are not static. Like living organisms they change and adapt over time. Some grow and others shrink in […]
While the term “ecosystem services” may sound like a corporate antithesis to the course of natural order, it is actually an umbrella term for the ways in which the human experience is favorably altered and enhanced by the environment. Ecosystem services are therefore an important factor in creating cities which provide the maximum benefit to […]
In the urbanisation race, India seems desperate to catch up with China. Yet this highly networked country can build a future where cities do not rule supreme The world is in awe of China’s relentless capacity to produce gargantuan cities, each outdoing the most recent superlative that describes its predecessor. If Shenzhen and Shanghai are […]