Articulo: A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City

Osaka's robot-run parking lots mixed with the Minneapolis lakefront; a musician's fantasy metropolis

There’s an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell. In an attempt to conjure up a perfect city, I imagine a place that is a mash-up of the best qualities of a host of cities. The permutations are endless. Maybe I'd take the nightlife of New York in a setting like Sydney's with bars like those in Barcelona and cuisine from Singapore served in outdoor restaurants like those in Mexico City. Or I could layer the sense of humor in Spain over the civic accommodation and elegance of Kyoto. Of course, it's not really possible to cherry pick like this—mainly because a city's qualities cannot thrive out of context. A place's cuisine and architecture and language are all somehow interwoven. But one can dream.

As someone who has used a bicycle to get around New York for about 30 years I've watched the city—mainly Manhattan, where I live—change for better and for worse. During this time I started to take a full-size folding bike with me when I traveled so I got to experience other cities as a cyclist as well. Seeing cities from on top of a bike is both pleasurable and instructive. On a bike one sees a lot more than from a freeway, and often it's just as fast as car traffic in many towns.

A "livable city" means vastly different things for many people. In Hong Kong it might mean that your family is in a comfortable apartment while you play in the exciting mercantile world in a glass tower overlooking the harbor. In Dallas livability might mean that you live near an expressway that isn't jammed up, at least not all the time, and your car runs most days. For some it might mean super fast Wi-Fi, the possibility of lucky and lucrative business opportunities and plenty of strip clubs. If that's what rocks your boat then try Houston, though to me that city, oil money made physically manifest, is my worst nightmare.

Here are some things that make a city livable for me:

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Cuaderno de Ideas

En cuanto al tema Legal, Bisa Urbana debe...

• Estudiar cuales son los instrumentos legales que hoy en dia rigen el desarrollo Urbano de Caracas
• Detectar los aspectos a cambiar, modificar, introducir, etc. para que estos mismos vallan en cohesión con el tipo de Ciudad que queremos y a su vez, regulen la Re-Activacion y Re-Urbanizacion
• Dar las pautas para el diseño de nuevos instrumentos legales para que regulen los futuros Desarrollos Urbanos de la Ciudad

>>> Actualmente, los instrumentos legales que rigen el Desarrollo Urbano, no demuestran una base sobre el tipo de Ciudad que se esta desarrollando. Estos se basan principalmente en el uso de la Zonificación

>>> Y segun el CNU ( Congress for New Urbanism):

"The excessive application of zoning has led to the extreme separation of everyday activities, separating homes from work places, shops, schools, churches and libraries.

Single-use zoning also results in the segregation of the population by age and income groups, with separate "pods" of housing zoned, developed and marketed for the super rich, rich, middle-upper income, middle income and lower income populations.

Housing types are also separated from one another, creating pods of apartments, townhomes, condominiums, duplexes, and single-family homes making it nearly impossible for families and individuals to stay in their communities and find different types of housing that suit their needs throughout their lives as young singles, young couples, families, empty nesters, and elderly citizens in need of care.

Single-use zoning also prevents low- and moderate-income households from establishing home-based businesses – "live-work" arrangements – such as crafts, trades and services that traditionally provided additional income for families with stay-at-home caregivers, homemakers and other family members to supplement wage earners' income. The prohibition on accessory apartments, or "granny flats," has also eliminated a traditional source of affordable housing that provided rental income and options for allowing homeowners' elderly parents or teenagers to live close by."

Cuaderno de Ideas

Plan Global de Transporte y Rehabilitacion de Espacios para Caracas Humana!!!

Incluye tres Aspectos....


• Legal ( Bisa Urbana da las pautas + Otros diseñan y ejecutan)

• Arquitectura y Urbanismo ( Bisa Urbana diseña y ejecuta)

• Transporte ( Bisa Urbana da las pautas+ Otros diseñan y ejecutan )

Cuaderno de Ideas

• Rescate del Guaire como monumento natural de la ciudad....

>>> Haciendo uso del mismo
>>> Pasos Peatonales a todo lo largo, puntos estrategicos
>>> Crear comercios y zonas de interes
>>> Rescate ambiental
>>> Concepto de Plataformas Tematicas (ejercicio, parque, entretenimiento, Bares, Restaurants)
>>> Conexiones abiertas solo a paso peatonal y ciclistas ( no motor)
>>> Ofrecer una vista Unica de Caracas ( sin carros)

Tomar fotos puntos importantes a lo largo del Guaire


• Re-Acticacion de los Proceres

• Re-Activacion de Las Mercedes, Bello Monte

• Re-Activacion de Los Chaguaramos, Santa Monica

• Re-Activacion de la Av. Rio de Janeiro