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Little-known open spaces enhance downtown S.F.
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"This is part of the public infrastructure downtown," said Blaine Merker, a founder of Rebar, a design collaborative in San Francisco that has tested the openness of several of the spaces with "nap-ins" and kite flying. "It needs an informational aspect it doesn't have, and more of a social aspect. ... All these spaces are governed really subjectively."
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Building security wasn't as much of an issue in 1985, when the urban design plan for downtown San Francisco made open space a must - even if it was privately owned.
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WarringtonCycleCampaign.co.uk
The campaign promotes safer cycling for existing cyclists in Warrington, and aims to encourage more people to travel by bicycle in the town.
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The City Project Blog » The City Project
The mission of The City Project is to achieve equal justice, democracy, and livability by influencing the investment of public resources to achieve results that are equitable, enhance human health and the environment, and promote economic vitality for all communities. Focusing on parks and recreation, playgrounds, schools, health, and transit, we help bring people together to define the kind of community where they want to live and raise children. The City Project works with diverse coalitions in strategic campaigns to shape public policy and law, and to serve the needs of the community as defined by the community.
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行政院院長於本（14）日院會裁示中央籌組「都市再開發機構」，並修法賦予更新範圍內之國公有土地管有機關（構）依促參法選商投資權限 2007-11-14
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林署長表示，都市更新經緯萬端，可以說是都市建設最為艱難的一環。綜觀都市更新先驅國家「英國」，為辦理都市更新，除於中央成立「社區與地方政府部」（DCLG）及都市再生署，負責全盤都市更新政策之訂定外，並設置協力組織（EP）、都市開發公司（UDCs）及都市再生公司（URCs），專責推動執行都市更新事業，推動人力上萬人。反觀我國，中央、地方都市更新主管機關現有人力總計僅百餘人，辦理都市更新政策訂定及更新計畫審核已顯有不足，實無法擔負都市更新實際執行的任務；另各更新範圍內公有土地管理機關及公營事業機構也因缺乏都市更新與開發專業人員或受限國產法等規定，無法自行更新開發或選商投資開發。
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cityofsound: The street as platform
從街道生活看虛擬與實體的交互影響
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Looking up at the display in fascination and bewilderment, an elderly
lady stumbles over a pothole in the pavement. Helped back to her feet
by a younger man, she decides to complain to the council about the
pothole. The man suggests he can do that right now, from his iPod Touch
and using the library’s open public wifi, by registering the presence
of a pothole at this point on the local problems database, Fix My
Street. The old woman stares at him quizzically as it takes him fifty
seconds to close the website he had been looking it on his mobile
(Google Maps directions for “hairdressers near SW4”, a phrase he’ll
shortly have to type in again, having neglected to bookmark it) and
access fixmystreet.com. He spends the next few minutes indicating the
presence of a pothole outside the library on Fix My Street (unaware of
the postcode, he has to select one from a few possible matches on
street name), before he moves on, satisfied with his civic good deed
for the day. The elderly lady had long since shuffled off, muttering to
herself. Although Fix My Street smartly forwards on all issues to the corresponding council, a beleaguered under-trained temp in the also underfunded 'pavements team' is unaware of fixmystreet.com and unable to cope with the levels of complaint, and so the
pothole claims five more victims over the next two weeks until someone
rings up about it.
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The View from Taiwan: Chatting with Somebody: Professor Thomas Liou
有趣的都市規劃歷史。台中交通建設部分更是好笑!! 台灣的中文 blogger 真的可以去撞牆了：盡浪費時間幹些半吊子的事，慘的是與生活只有豆腐屑關聯。
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公共空間私有化──神不知鬼不覺的領匯翻版
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當我們說「公共空間」時，意思通常比較廣闊：抽象點說就是公共生活展開的舞台，以界線來定義則是所有人都有權進入、或不會因為經濟或社會條件排斥任何人的地方。此中又可以按「所有權」、「可達性」、「開放度」、「安全度」作分辨，並判斷優劣。以此來定義，公園、廣場固然是公共空間，公共圖書館也是，私人商場則似乎模稜兩可，不過以面積來計，香港市中心的街巷，肯定是歷史最長、規模最大的公共空間網絡。
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政府看不出問題所在，因為在各部門的官方文件中，根本沒有「公共空間」的概念。香港的法定規劃圖則，將土地分為不同用途，當中沒有「公共空間」，只有「休憩用地」﹝open
space﹞，專指公園等「用以提供休憩用地及康樂設施，供公眾享用」的地方。由於沒有公共空間的概念，在規劃的時候，增加公共空間或提高公共空間的開放性根本不成議題，甚至，當他們明明在新規劃裏不斷消滅公共性最強的街道，借擴大地盤面積以增加賣地及地產商的利潤，他們也不覺得有問題，因為他們根本「看不見」街道，只看見增加了的「休憩用地」分類，以及由地產商「回贈」的平台公眾休憩用地﹝public
open space﹞。只有這兩項才符合《香港規劃標準與準則》對提供休憩用地的要求。
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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Water lily plan for solar power
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The energy created would then be transformed and exported to the national grid.
The firm said the design of the lilypads was "inspired by nature" and they could be tethered to the river bed.
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Ledger-Enquirer.com | 05/15/2008 | A pizza slice of new urbanism life
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Online at www.cnu.org, the Congress for New
Urbanism promotes functional, mixed-use neighborhoods, where everything is a
five-minute walk or a short drive away.That's not the way a lot of folks live today. They commute to work, sometimes
an hour or more, using multi-lane expressways on which a pedestrian looks
suspicious.
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DPD Green Building -- Construction Practices
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The most successful projects not only develop green building strategies during early design stages, they also implement them well during construction. The contractor is a key player with:
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Modern Rebel: MLK Jr. Memorial LibraryWashington DC
底下的討論更精采。讓人不禁深思:昔日的生活意義可以剝奪現代的使用主義嗎? 如果 preservation 以呼應現代需求的方式卻將既有建物更動，究竟多少程度之內算是 preservation ? 多少又是 改建了?
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Though we've never enjoyed our library experiences at MLK, we have always admired the way the transparent building looks, especially when it is illuminated at night. Whether you love or hate the architecture of the building, it is worth a visit if only to view the extraordinary local history collection on the third floor.
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Most importantly, a library would probably never be built like this today for book preservation and energy concerns. The greenhouse effect created by the plate glass walls meant that the climate for the books fluctuates more widely throughout the day and seasons. The light damages books over the long term.
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8 Postmodern Appearances of the Mona Lisa: Classic Subject Resurfaces in Urban Street Artworks | WebUrbanist
藝術普及化?
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has taken to the streets, appearing in urban graffiti murals around the world.
Da Vinci’s painting of the young woman has raised many questions over the years, such as, “Who was she?” and “What was she smiling about?” The mystery of the painting has inspired many artists duplicate Da Vinci’s masterpiece in many mediums.
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