In what follows is presented an abstract for a coming paper tackling the topic of nature in cities. Paper 1: Cities of the Future Will Still Have Borders? by Dario Tremolada Since the beginnings, humans have exploited the natural landscape in order to obtain raw materials and food, significantly increasing the quality of life at the expense…
Category: Contemporary urban topics
Feeding the city. Can Cities Feed Their Inhabitants?
In what follows is presented a series of abstracts for coming papers tackling the topic of food in cities. Paper 1: Feeding the city. Can Cities Feed Their Inhabitants? by Noha Hossam Feeding the city: Is feeding the city’s inhabitants the responsibility of the city, people, building strategies, government or all of them? As the city grows,…
Transportation Mobility or …. Intermodality?
In what follows is presented a series of abstracts for coming papers tackling the topic of transportation mobility and intermodality in contemporary cities. Paper 1: Reshaping City using Theoretical and Practical Study of Transport Mobility or Intermodality by Anamika Das This paper is devoted to the understanding of transport mobility and its necessity for a sustainable community…
Bicycle culture and urban design: How the bicycle can shape the city?
In what follows is presented a series of abstracts for coming papers tackling the topic of bicycle culture of cities in contemporary urban design. Paper 1: Cultural and Social Factors Effecting Cycling in European Cities by Jelena Solarov In order to make a sustainable urban tissue we need to push towards a cleaner, healthier, and more…
Transportation Mobility or …. Intermodality?
“An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation”. ― Enrique Penalosa
Feeding the city. Can Cities Feed Their Inhabitants?
“Cities for centuries have played an integral part in producing food for their residents. Only recently did cars and trains replace horses — and garden-friendly horse poop — a switch that made possible the long-distance supply chain of big-farms-to-big-supermarkets that’s the foundation of the modern urban food system”. – T. Philpott
Bicycle culture and urban design. How the bicycle can shape the city?
“40 years ago Copenhagen was just as car-clogged as anywhere else but now 41% of the population arriving at work or education do so on bicycles, from all over the Metro area. 56% of Copenhageners themselves use bicycles each day. They all use over 1000 km of bicycle lanes in Greater Copenhagen for their journeys….
Nature in the city or the city in nature?
“It is in practice, hard to see where “society” begins and “nature” ends… In a fundamental sense, there is in the final analysis nothing unnatural about New York City”. -Harvey