New city

The theme of New City utilizes ever changing time signatures and the main theme creates a dynamic dialogue between the melody instruments and the percusssion section.

The new city government: a discussion of municipal administration, based on a survey of ten commission governed cities,

Based on a survey made for the Metz Fund of the Bureau of Municipal Research in August and September, 1911. cf. Introd.

Map of Long Island City, Queens Co. N.Y. : showing farm lines &c. &c. : reduced from Commissioners new city map.

Cadastral map showing lot lines, farm boundaries, property-owners' names, streetcar lines, planned streets, and street widths.

Museum of the City of São Paulo: A new paradigm of City Museums in the Era of Megalopolises

The City is a tomography of the present, indicating to the future, strata of past times. Nowadays city growth averages one million people every week; while back in 1950 there were eighty six cities with more than one million inhabitants, today they are four hundred all over the world. However the most significant effect of the urban process is, doubtless, the explosion of megacities. It took one century for the urban population – around three point four billion inhabitants – to surpass the number of people in the country, but United Nations projections indicate that by 2025, urban population will reach 61% of the total. Creating a new city museum in São Paulo requires that, in a first analysis, one should consider as geographic area of study some fifteen hundred square kilometres corresponding to the patrimonial intervention area. That is the area of the Municipality, politically divided into ninety six districts where eleven million people live, while approximately twenty million people live in the metropolitan area

Sprawling and Urban transportation system: Impacts in the city of Londrina, Parana, Brazil

After nearly 80 years since the construction of its core, represented today by the city's central area, Londrina, located in the state of Parana, has the appearance of a new city but its features and trends of planning policies depict the bad examples of Brazilian cities. With a booming urban growth, from north to south of the county, the urban interstices represented by big voids in the middle of the city created speculation and the concept of an ideal city slowly disappeared. With a metropolitan appearance and, at the same time, with small town aspects, Londrina stands out as an automobile-oriented city, a fact that has impacted the livelihood of the population, generating environmental impacts for all social classes. This paper discusses how the form of occupation in Londrina, characterized by the sprawl phenomenon and its relation to car preference as a mode of transportation has generated urban environmental impacts. It was concluded that the choice of using cars in Londrina, as well in other medium-sized Brazilian cities studied by the comparative method, has increased and has generated bottlenecks in traffic. As a consequence, there is a constant expropriation of properties for widening roads and at the same time, the presence of various densities and urban voids that form an uneven urban space and an obstacle to efficient urban planning. © 2012 WIT Press.

Subtropical futures : Victoria Park re-imagined

Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, in South-East Queensland is situated on the Brisbane River, one of the largest rivers (and floodplains) on the east coast of Australia. The river defines the city and gives it its name. The river has been a natural place to accommodate some population growth for the city with high-density development that capitalises on the natural amenity, cycleways and a string of parks and the flatter land. The major floods of 2011 and the scare of 2013, has seen a more malevolent quality of the river and shift of thinking on its role within the city. The floods have made council, for the first time, acquire prime development sites near the river, with proposals for high density development and made them parks, at great cost. The pressure for population growth in Brisbane remains. 140,000 new dwellings are required by 2031. Brownfield sites are less plentiful and there is interest to rethink of some of the other strategic locations in the city away from the river on higher ground and steeper slopes. Some of these places are currently open spaces. Victoria Park Golf Course sits on a high ridge line and a very strategic part of the city just north of the city centre is one of the few remaining golf courses close to the centre of an Australian capital city. While it is a public course and a valuable community asset, it has been compromised by the recently completed northern busway with two bus stations constructed on its edges. It is bounded on the west and north-east by two major community facilities, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to the west and RBW Hospital at its northern end. In a city in need of urban consolidation, perhaps it is time to review the future of the golf course. This question has been investigated as a conjecture in the Master of Architecture program at the QUT. The project has been to re-imagine Victoria Park as a new city parkland and a place that makes an urban connection from the QUT to the hospital. This new urban precinct is be a medium to high-density transit oriented development that capitalises on the bus way stations and the proximity of the university and hospital. The precinct will frame/define/interact with the new major urban park for the city. A key question being addressed is how the design can embody and define principles of a subtropical urbanism. Students are identifying the appropriate street and block structure, density and built form to be accommodated on blocks that define and activate a rich sequence of streets and public spaces. The paper will present a critical overview of the project work that provides a lens to how future professionals may respond to these issue that will be the focus of their professional lives.

Viejos problemas en ciudades nuevas : La Plata: agua potable y problemas sanitarios en la época fundacional

Resumen: La fundación de la ciudad de La Plata tiene por lo menos una doble significación. En primer lugar puso fin a décadas de desencuentros entre las autoridades nacionales y provinciales por la llamada “cuestión capital” que tuvo su primer hito en la federalización de la ciudad de Buenos Aires en 1880. En segundo lugar La Plata era una ciudad nueva, pensada y diseñada para superar los problemas que asolaban a las ciudades viejas. Uno de estos problemas que recibió particular atención por parte de los “fundadores” fue el suministro de agua e instalaciones sanitarias. No obstante su resolución planteaba serios problemas técnicos y un elevado coste económico. Estos primeros años de vida platense estuvieron marcados por el auge de la llamada higiene social fundada por las transformaciones producidas por la revolución pasteuriana y la resignificación ideológica de las causas sociales que originan la enfermedad. En este sentido, la higiene social retoma el viejo cuerpo programático de la higiene pública: agua, recolección de residuos, pavimentos (causas directas) pero agrega otros ligados a las "causas indirectas": salarios, alojamientos, condiciones de trabajo de los obreros. Nosotros analizaremos cómo los profesionales responsables de la administración de la ciudad de La Plata entendieron y enfrentaron el problema del suministro de agua potable en un núcleo urbano que experimentaba un formidable crecimiento demográfico.

Grid effects

Zaha Hadid's Kartal Pendik Masterplan (2006) for a new city centre on the east bank of Istanbul proposes the redevelopment of an abandoned industrial site located in a crucial infrastructural node between Europe and Asia as a connecting system between the neighbouring areas of Kartal in the west and Pendik in the east. The project is organised on what its architects call a soft grid, a flexible and adaptable grid that allows it to articulate connections and differences of form, density and use within the same spatial structure [1]. Its final overall design constitutes only one of the many possible configurations that the project may take in response to the demands of the different areas included in the masterplan, and is produced from a script that is able to generate both built volumes and open spaces, skyscrapers as well as parks. The soft grid in fact produces a ‘becoming’ rather than a finite and definitive form: its surface space does not look like a grid, but is derived from a grid operation which is best explained by the project presentation in video animation. The grid here is a process of ‘gridding’, enacted according to ancient choreographed linear movements of measuring, defining, adjusting, reconnecting spaces through an articulated surface rather than superimposed on an ignored given like an indifferent colonising carpet.

Executive order no. 87-27

This executive order by Governor Carroll A Campbell, Jr. orders an election be held in Woodford to elect a new city council member.

Del este de Europa, al sur de América : migraciones soviéticas y post soviéticas a la ciudad de Bucaramanga, Santander

En este trabajo examinamos la migración de ciudadanos de la Ex-Unión Soviética a la ciudad de Bucaramanga. Migración que a pesar de su alto impacto regional no aparece en los registros estadísticos ni académicos. A través de las historias de vida reconstruimos los procesos migratorios de los migrantes, desde el momento en que deciden dejar sus regiones de origen, hasta su integración en la ciudad. Es un caso de estudio basado en varias teorias sobre la migración.

Nuevas funcionalidades de LocalGIS-DOS

LocalGIS-DOS es la nueva versión oficial de LocalGIS, el Sistema de Información Territorial Software Libre para Entidades Locales que surgió a iniciativa del Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio y que está englobado dentro del Plan Avanza. La nueva versión LocalGIS-DOS, que estará disponible en marzo de 2010 coincidiendo con las IV Jornadas de SIG Libre de Girona, va a contar con nuevos módulos que dotarán a LocalGIS de importantes mejoras tecnológicas y funcionales de Gestión Municipal. LocalGIS-DOS incluye un nuevo módulo de Enrutamiento y Cálculo de rutas, tanto en el Módulo de Editor GIS como en la Guía Urbana, que permitirá calcular caminos óptimos y zonas de influencia. El nuevo módulo de Movilidad facilitará la gestión de información municipal desde dispositivos móviles, con herramientas para la edición y visualización de la misma y para su correcta replicación con la base de datos central. LocalGIS-DOS permitirá gestionar varios municipios con intereses comunes de forma simultánea, creando el concepto de Entidad Supramunicipal, pudiendo así gestionar de forma conjunta capas, estilos y usuarios. Esta nueva versión incorpora también la Variable Temporal a las capas de información, permitiendo a los usuarios seleccionar por fechas la información que desean visualizar, facilitando así la elaboración de estudios temporales georreferenciados y el versionado histórico de mapas. También incluye un nuevo Módulo de Gestión de la Ciudad, desde donde se gestionarán avisos, mantenimientos y obras ubicadas en el suelo público. Finalmente indicar que a nivel tecnológico LocalGIS-DOS contará, entre otras, con mejoras relativas al acceso a bases de datos externas, al canal cifrado de comunicación, firma digital de documentos y mejoras en la generación de informes

The low cost phenomenon

LCC Market Development - In 1996 low cost airlines (LCCs) accounted for only 1.4% of intra-European Union capacity. By the end of 2002, low cost airlines had captured 12% of all intra-EU capacity - Currently LCCs have a 30% market share of scheduled European point-to-point passengers. According to AEA forecasts, the LC market is expected to increase to 43% of European traffic by 2011. - In 2006 140 million passengers were carried by LCCs. - Low-fare airlines have increased their presence from 13% of city pairs in 2003 to 26% in 2007. 96% of new city-pairs between 2005 and 2007 were added by LCCs. - The United Kingdom still sees the highest number of low-cost flights, followed by Spain, which has been making up a lot of ground over the last year. This is followed by Italy and Germany with slightly fewer flights. These four countries contribute to roughly three quarters of low-cost departures. France is fifth in this list with only 5% of LC flights. - easyJet and Ryanair continue to be the biggest players in the European LCC market accounting for about 40% of all LCC capacity. The top two are followed by Airberlin, which contributes another 10% leaving three carriers in control of half the European low-cost market.

Patrimonialismo, conflicto y poder en la reconstrucción de Riobamba, 1797-1822 (Estudios)

Estudio que analiza los conflictos entre las élites de la ciudad de Riobamba y los centros administrativos coloniales de Quito y Santa Fe de Bogotá, a propósito de la reconstrucción de la ciudad luego del terremoto de 1797. La catástrofe puso en evidencia las prácticas políticas y los intereses económicos de la élite criolla riobambeña y del Cabildo de la ciudad. Adicionalmente, se examina la relación de los grupos de poder con la plebe y los indígenas. Estudia además, las divergencias entre los poderes locales y la administración central con respecto al sitio en que se edificaría la nueva ciudad.