industryterm:urban infrastructure

How to walk to LaGuardia Airport in New York City - Curbed NY
▻https://ny.curbed.com/2018/12/6/18128031/how-to-walk-to-laguardia-airport-queens

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n a crisp and sunny autumn day, not long ago, I walked to LaGuardia Airport. I wasn’t one of those people you’ve seen on the news who get so panicked by gridlock on the Grand Central Parkway that they abandon their taxis and drag their wheelies across eight lanes of traffic and up the exit ramps to their terminals. I wasn’t even in a hurry. I didn’t have a plane to catch.

I wasn’t going anywhere except the airport.

Accompanied by Stanley Greenberg, a photographer whose primary interest is urban infrastructure, I walked to the airport simply to see if it could be done. It was an expedition, like Magellan circumnavigating the earth or Lewis and Clark trekking to the Pacific Ocean

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#photographie #aéroports un autre angle du #DFS

From #favela to #gated_community : a documentary

#Parque_Novo_Santo_Amaro_V by Vigliecca & Associados is a housing complex and linear park built to provide new residential units as well as public facilities for a run-down quarter of #São_Paulo. This new piece of urban infrastructure aimed to solve a range of social and civic problems in the neighbourhood.

Three years after the project’s inauguration, the AR commissioned filmmaker Antonio Brasiliano and journalist Ursula Troncoso to visit the housing complex to document its inhabitation and assess its success in triggering transformation both for its residents and the wider neighbourhood.

▻http://www.architectural-review.com/buildings/from-favela-to-gated-community-a-documentary/8684318.article
#documentaire #film #bidonville #urbanisme #Brésil #architecture

Self Made Urbanism Rome

▻http://www.smur.eu/exhibition/abstract

S.M.U.R.- Abstract

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Rome’s unplanned growth and its diverse forms of informality are an expression of the city’s particular nature and self-willed approach to urbanism. Around a third of the built surfaces in Italy’s capital city were informally occupied by and with its future residents, and constructed without building permission or links to
the urban infrastructure. This phenomenon has a long history and very diverse forms, from self-built provisional accommodation and ethnic Roma settlements to major speculative ventures. The complex history and character of an urban landscape unstructured by any master plan is exemplary of the development of major cities in the early 21st century.

In Italy, the lived practice of self-organisation is also crucially important in current debates and arguments over the beni comuni, public property. After many years of seeing the ‘commons’ misused, public property also needs to be protected against state action as well as private interventions. This, in turn, requires the development of sustainable models of self-organisation. The numerous cultural
locations squatted over the recent years, such as the Teatro Valle Occupato or Cinema America in Rome, testify to the breadth of the movement that desires change. Self Made Urbanism Rome offers a historical framework for a range of experiences of the self-organised city – and not only individual buildings – and, in doing so, also presents new approaches to the future organisation of the public domain and common goods.

#art #urbanisme #architecture

The Contested Energy Future of Amman, Jordan : Between Promises of Alternative Energies and a Nuclear Venture, par Eric Verdeil
►http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00857506
Version post-print d’un article publié par la revue Urban Studies

Metropolitan authorities and local business elites are often seen as major players in the energy transition in the city. Such energy transitions are mostly conceived of as low carbon technologies, which permit the retrofitting of urban infrastructure and the rebundling of metabolic circuits. This article contests these views by highlighting the major role of non-urban energy sector institutions and actors. By examining the connections between technology, space and energy politics , and by using a relational understanding of the urban, this article explores the case of Amman’s energy transition. The growth of consumption coupled with new energy practices face a problematic supply because shifts in regional geopolitics prompted energy transition policies, among which are included a green growth program and the building of a nuclear power plant at the edge of the city. The article analyses the socio-political assemblages that shape those policies and unravel the competing interests at stake. It demonstrates the political and highly unruly nature of energy transitions.