Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
• The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games will eventually end. The athletes and spectators will go home but the infrastructure built to accommodate them will remain. Fastcompany looks at the built-form legacy left from the games and its transformative effect on the city’s future.
•The National Geographic‘s recent feature on Shanghai, provides an evocative picture of the past, present and future of one of the world’s most captivating and rapidly evolving mega cities.
• StickyWorld, a new web 2.0 platform featured on the Polis Blog could further democratize the consultation process of architectural and design projects. Developed by Slider Studio, StickyWorld allows users to create virtual meetings in online “rooms”. In these rooms participants can share and communicate with each other by posting drawings or commenting on design.
• Lisboa, Portugal has found a new, but not necessarily safe, way to enhance cycling’s appeal–covering the bike lanes with poetry. A new bike path along the Tejo river, contains phrases from famous Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. Check out Treehugger for a video and translation of the unusual, but stunning, new path.
• City of Sound presents a unique analysis of the much discussed Ipad, looking at its potentially transformative impact for cities and urbanisim.
photo of Vancouver by Roland Tanglao
3 comments
I believe you mean Shanghai, Lisbon and the Tagus (never mind Treehugger’s hyperforeignism where the last two are concerned).
A proposal has been floated to knock down viaducts in Vancouver.
I’ve been in Vancouver since Sunday and Translink have been doing a terrific job moving everybody with very short waits for buses – however they have not been funded to continue this service level post-games. Certainly making games tickets day passes, as Vancouver did, must be a non-negotiable for 2015 PanAms. Meanwhile the Canada Line will run 24 hours on Feb 28/Mar 1 to move people to Vancouver Airport.
The Flexity cars on loan from Brussels, while not identical, give a good impression about what we are likely to get for the downtown streetcars.
Lisbon made me cry for living in Toronto.