January 2010
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Bogota Days 2 & 3
Hello everyone again,
So after 1 update I got lazy, sorry about that. Here’s a recap of my second and third days in Bogota:
Day 2: In the morning of Day 2, following the nice email from Camilo, I was quite eager to get out and see what I could. Especially trying out the TransMilenio and seeing some of the interventions Camilo had spoke about. To be completely honest, it was a big...
Architect from Bogota
Thank you Camilo for your insight! I will definitely try to see the places you have described below. You have touched on a lot of my interests, including informal settlements, this is incredibly helpful.
Rachel
Hello Rachel, My name is Camilo. I am an architect, born in Bogotá and currently living in London, working for Rafael Viñoly´s office (www.rvapc.com). I have been following you on...
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Trying to Get Away with Stuff: Mobility in Cities
Many cities are plagued by congestion, increasing air pollution and increasing the travel time for many people. To combat this, many of these cities are attempting through policies and laws to reduce the amount of vehicles on the roads and increase the amount of people who take public transit, or at least carpool.
In Mexico City, they set rules on which license plate numbers could enter the...
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Streetfilms | Ciclovia: Bogotá, Colombia →
The legendary Ciclovia in Bogotá. Streets are shutdown to accommodate miles and miles of cycling, running or walking. It’s a pretty fantastic idea.
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Tokyo
Out of the 32 million inhabitants in Tokyo…almost 85% take public transport (in Los Angeles, only 6.78% take it). The average home to work time is 64 minutes.
There are elevated expressways that make it possible to traverse the city by car, but the average speed is only 15km / hr. That is…if you have a car. Anyone who wants one has to prove that they have their own parking space. ...
“Emerging informational flows will play an important role in the defining of the...”
– Pg. 119, Mobility: A room with a view. Chapter: Mexico City.
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““See those guys? Before, cyclists were seen as just a nuisance. They were...”
– Bogota, Columbia: From living hell to living well | Post Carbon Cities
+Heterotopias
Term from french sociologist Michel Foucault:
Places that embrace every aspect of human existence simultaneously, they are capable of juxtaposing in a single space several aspects of life that are ‘in themselves incompatible. [Wright, Frank Lloyd, The Living City, Horizon Press, 1958, pg. 62]
via Hungry City, by Carolyn Steel, while discussing the contradictory space of the market place...
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“….transport policies in Asia do not benefit disadvantaged communities....”
– The Challenge of Third World Development: Inadequate Access to Public Transport in the Developing World
Thesis Thoughts: Pre-final Semester
Hello everyone,
So in December 2009 I presented my thesis work to date. While I was happy with what I had discovered, I think I realized that I had not yet built a hypothesis based on actual research, and while it was all really interesting, I still had a lot of work to do.
I was settled on Dharavi as my place for studying, but am now beginning to question my decision.
No matter how I look at...