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Berlin Block Tetris from Sergej Hein on Vimeo.
Se Parece un poco a las exploraciones que hice en 9no semestre........
jueves, 29 de octubre de 2009
Articulo: Can Smart Growth Be Codified? Miami Thinks So
While everyone from the Sierra Club to the National Association of Realtors believe compact, mixed-use, walkable development is an antidote to suburban sprawl, “smart growth” doesn’t just happen by itself. Indeed it can’t because most existing municipal zoning regulations make walkable urban form exceedingly difficult, if not impossible to implement. Surprisingly, this is often the case in large cities as much as it is in their sprawling suburbs. Therefore, one of the most effective ways to move smart growth from concept to reality, and at a meaningful scale, is to toss out the very zoning regulations that prevent sustainable growth from happening in the first place. Last week, Miami, Florida became the largest city in America to do so.
Downtown Miami
Earlier in the decade a phenomenal building boom quickly revealed that Miami’s existing zoning code could erode, not contribute to the city’s health and quality of life. Frustrated and concerned that such investment in the city’s urban core may not reach its full potential, Mayor Manny Diaz boldly asked city officials to throw out the city’s use-based, auto-centric zoning code and replace it with a form-based code. Building from the SmartCode, a model form-based code, Diaz sought regulations that mandated a highly walkable, transit-oriented, and sensitive urban form for the rapidly developing city. In doing so, Diaz set out to codify smart growth at an unprecedented scale.
Four years later, and with only weeks remaining in his second and final term, Mayor Diaz and smart growth advocates everywhere rejoiced as Miami’s City Commission voted 4-1 in favor of adopting Miami 21. The comprehensive zoning code re-write is now the largest application of a form-based code anywhere in the country. It includes everything from green building regulations, to requiring parking garages to have liner buildings, to re-introducing an attached townhouse building type as a means to adding density and providing better transitions between single-family neighborhoods and higher density apartment buildings. It is, in short, comprehensive.
In a country reeling from the effects of suburban sprawl and the regulations that mandate it, the adoption of Miami 21 is an historic, and perhaps watershed moment in America’s urban history. Denver, for example, will likely follow in Miami’s pattern setting footsteps by adopting its own comprehensive form-based code in a few months.
With an increasing number of precedents, it seems likely, then, that as more municipalities modernize their zoning regulations, they too may call upon form-based regulations to play a larger role in how they regulate the built environment. From city to suburb, from town to rural village, such efforts will likely work in concert with other shifting federal, state and regional policies to legalize compact and walkable development once again.
How smart.
miércoles, 28 de octubre de 2009
Cuaderno de Ideas
Plan Urbano de Rehabilitación, Reactivación y Creación de Espacios Peatonales
(que tal este titulo????)
lunes, 26 de octubre de 2009
Articulo: 5 Reasons New Yorkers Are the Most Eco-Friendly People in the US - Without Even Trying
photo: Eric E Yang via flickr.
TreeHugger's been saying for a while that urban living is one of the greenest ways to live. Well, over at Yale Environment 360, David Owen (who's a staff writer for The New Yorker, by the way...) lays out some stats as to why New York City should probably get renamed the Big Green Apple:
1. The average Manhattan resident consumes just 90 gallons of gasoline per year -- a figure Owen reminds us that wasn't the norm in the rest of the nation since the 1920s (!).
2. New Yorkers consume far less electricity than everyone else in the United States: 4,700 kWh per year versus 11,000 kWh on average in the rest of the country. I even think that NYC stat is slightly high, based on what I've seen coming out of Con Ed, but in any case... If New York City were ranked as a state it would have the lowest per-capita energy use in the nation.
3. NYC accounts for nearly one-third of all public transit miles traveled in the US. 82% of Manhattan residents travel to work by public transit, bicycle, or foot -- ten times the rate for the rest of the nation, eight times that of Los Angeles and sixteen times that of Atlanta.
4. The Big Apple boasts the lowest rate of automobile ownership in the nation: 54% of households in the city as a whole don't own a car, with 77% of Manhattanites car-less.
5. Talk about lowering you carbon footprint: New Yorkers have the smallest carbon footprint in the nation -- 7.1 metric tons versus about 20 metric tons average for the nation, with manhattanites have even lower than the city as a whole. That figure compares favorably with those normal in Europe and Japan, by the way.
photo: Jeffrey Bary via flickr.
Population Density = Greener Without Thinking
The thing that's really important to remember about all these figures is that most of the stats aren't based out of personal conviction or effort. Rather, they are a necessary outcome of living in high density urban spaces, more than any other factor -- much in the same way that the average resident of Berlin, Zurich, Rome or Barcelona has a comparatively low carbon footprint.
As Owen says,
Population density also lowers energy and water use in all categories, constrains family size, limits the consumption of all kinds of goods, reduces ownership of wasteful appliances, decreases the generation of solid waste, and forces most residents to live in some of the world's most inherently energy-efficient residential structures: apartment buildings.
The original article goes on to speculate on the paradox of Muir and Thoreau actually spreading the intellectual seeds that would lead to spreading suburbia and loving wilderness to death. Check it out: Greenest Place in the US? It's Not Where You Think
Conferencia: Caracas... La Ciudad Deseada
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Nos complace informarle que el/los cupo(s) solicitado(s) por usted para la
tertulia “Caracas… La ciudad deseada”, a realizarse el próximo
miércoles 28 de octubre a las 6:00 pm, en el salón 3 y 4 del Centro Internacional de Actualización Profesional (CIAP) del edificio CERPE (dirección: La Castellana, av. Santa Teresa de Jesús con c. Los Chaguaramos, diagonal a Don Perro), ha(n) sido reservado(s).
Nos complace informarle que el/los cupo(s) solicitado(s) por usted para la
tertulia “Caracas… La ciudad deseada”, a realizarse el próximo
miércoles 28 de octubre a las 6:00 pm, en el salón 3 y 4 del Centro Internacional de Actualización Profesional (CIAP) del edificio CERPE (dirección: La Castellana, av. Santa Teresa de Jesús con c. Los Chaguaramos, diagonal a Don Perro), ha(n) sido reservado(s).
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Esta conferencia sera dada por William Niño...... Ring a Bell? Se me ocurre ponerme deacuerdo con el para enseñarle la propuesta... Antes, despues de la final????
Que opinas?
Clean Smells Promote Moral Behavior
ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2009) — People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a soon-to-be published study led by a Brigham Young University professor.
The research found a dramatic improvement in ethical behavior with just a few spritzes of citrus-scented Windex.
Katie Liljenquist, assistant professor of organizational leadership at BYU's Marriott School of Management, is the lead author on the piece in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science. Co-authors are Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
The researchers see implications for workplaces, retail stores and other organizations that have relied on traditional surveillance and security measures to enforce rules.
"Companies often employ heavy-handed interventions to regulate conduct, but they can be costly or oppressive," said Liljenquist, whose office smells quite average. "This is a very simple, unobtrusive way to promote ethical behavior."
Perhaps the findings could be applied at home, too, Liljenquist said with a smile. "Could be that getting our kids to clean up their rooms might help them clean up their acts, too."
The study titled "The Smell of Virtue" was unusually simple and conclusive. Participants engaged in several tasks, the only difference being that some worked in unscented rooms, while others worked in rooms freshly spritzed with Windex.
The first experiment evaluated fairness.
As a test of whether clean scents would enhance reciprocity, participants played a classic "trust game." Subjects received $12 of real money (allegedly sent by an anonymous partner in another room). They had to decide how much of it to either keep or return to their partners who had trusted them to divide it fairly. Subjects in clean-scented rooms were less likely to exploit the trust of their partners, returning a significantly higher share of the money.
* The average amount of cash given back by the people in the "normal" room was $2.81. But the people in the clean-scented room gave back an average of $5.33.
The second experiment evaluated whether clean scents would encourage charitable behavior.
Subjects indicated their interest in volunteering with a campus organization for a Habitat for Humanity service project and their interest in donating funds to the cause.
* Participants surveyed in a Windex-ed room were significantly more interested in volunteering (4.21 on a 7-point scale) than those in a normal room (3.29).
* 22 percent of Windex-ed room participants said they'd like to donate money, compared to only 6 percent of those in a normal room.
Follow-up questions confirmed that participants didn't notice the scent in the room and that their mood at the time of the experiment didn't affect the outcomes.
"Basically, our study shows that morality and cleanliness can go hand-in-hand," said Galinsky of the Kellogg School. "Researchers have known for years that scents play an active role in reviving positive or negative experiences. Now, our research can offer more insight into the links between people's charitable actions and their surroundings."
While this study examined the influence of the physical environment on morality, Zhong and Liljenquist previously published work that demonstrated an intimate link between morality and physical cleanliness. Their 2006 paper in Science reported that transgressions activated a desire to be physically cleansed.
Liljenquist is now researching how perceptions of cleanliness shape our impressions of people and organizations. "The data tell a compelling story about how much we rely upon cleanliness cues to make a wide range of judgments about others," she said.
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The research found a dramatic improvement in ethical behavior with just a few spritzes of citrus-scented Windex.
Katie Liljenquist, assistant professor of organizational leadership at BYU's Marriott School of Management, is the lead author on the piece in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science. Co-authors are Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
The researchers see implications for workplaces, retail stores and other organizations that have relied on traditional surveillance and security measures to enforce rules.
"Companies often employ heavy-handed interventions to regulate conduct, but they can be costly or oppressive," said Liljenquist, whose office smells quite average. "This is a very simple, unobtrusive way to promote ethical behavior."
Perhaps the findings could be applied at home, too, Liljenquist said with a smile. "Could be that getting our kids to clean up their rooms might help them clean up their acts, too."
The study titled "The Smell of Virtue" was unusually simple and conclusive. Participants engaged in several tasks, the only difference being that some worked in unscented rooms, while others worked in rooms freshly spritzed with Windex.
The first experiment evaluated fairness.
As a test of whether clean scents would enhance reciprocity, participants played a classic "trust game." Subjects received $12 of real money (allegedly sent by an anonymous partner in another room). They had to decide how much of it to either keep or return to their partners who had trusted them to divide it fairly. Subjects in clean-scented rooms were less likely to exploit the trust of their partners, returning a significantly higher share of the money.
* The average amount of cash given back by the people in the "normal" room was $2.81. But the people in the clean-scented room gave back an average of $5.33.
The second experiment evaluated whether clean scents would encourage charitable behavior.
Subjects indicated their interest in volunteering with a campus organization for a Habitat for Humanity service project and their interest in donating funds to the cause.
* Participants surveyed in a Windex-ed room were significantly more interested in volunteering (4.21 on a 7-point scale) than those in a normal room (3.29).
* 22 percent of Windex-ed room participants said they'd like to donate money, compared to only 6 percent of those in a normal room.
Follow-up questions confirmed that participants didn't notice the scent in the room and that their mood at the time of the experiment didn't affect the outcomes.
"Basically, our study shows that morality and cleanliness can go hand-in-hand," said Galinsky of the Kellogg School. "Researchers have known for years that scents play an active role in reviving positive or negative experiences. Now, our research can offer more insight into the links between people's charitable actions and their surroundings."
While this study examined the influence of the physical environment on morality, Zhong and Liljenquist previously published work that demonstrated an intimate link between morality and physical cleanliness. Their 2006 paper in Science reported that transgressions activated a desire to be physically cleansed.
Liljenquist is now researching how perceptions of cleanliness shape our impressions of people and organizations. "The data tell a compelling story about how much we rely upon cleanliness cues to make a wide range of judgments about others," she said.
Original Link
Invitacion: Joan Karol Maia
Aprovecho para extenderle una cordial invitación a una nueva autora en el Blog de Ideas de BisaUrbana, para que nos ayude a incorporar y fortalecer ideas sobre ciudades caminables y mas humanas, desde su punto de vista como Arquitecto que actualmente vive y trabaja en la ciudad de Quebec.
Saludos,
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pd- Su nickname es wo_name
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