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MILJØMERKING AV NYE BYOMRÅDER
Nedenfor gjengis to artikler om et nytt amerikansk målesystem for bærekraftig stedsutvikling. LEED er det amerikanske klassifiseringssystemet for hvor miljøvennlig et nybygg er, en "miljømerking" for byggebransjen.
Nå utvides systemet til også å omfatte en evaluering av hvor miljøvennlig den bymessige sammenhengen er, slik at en urban utbygging med høy utnyttelse, funksjonsblanding, sosial integrering og tilhørende redusert bilavhengighet skal gi "pluss-poeng" for et utbyggingsprosjekt.
Det vil med andre ord ikke lenger være nok å montere solpaneler på nybygg i utflytende forstadsområder eller "næringsparker" om man ønsker god miljøkarakter.
Initiativet til reformen kommer fra fagmiljøer tilknyttet New Urbanism og Smart Growth.
www.mlui.org/growthmanagement/fullarticle.asp?fileid=16929
www.mlui.org/growthmanagement/fullarticle.asp?fileid=16735
PRINS CHARLES FÅR PRIS FOR HUMAN BYUTVIKLING
Prince Charles fikk 3. november Vincent Scully Price, som tildeles av National Building Museum i Washington DC.
I begrunnelsen heter det bl.a.: "The award recognizes The Prince's long-standing interest in the built environment and commitment to creating urban areas with human scale. The Vincent Scully Prize was established in 1999 to recognize exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism in architecture, historic preservation and urban design".
National Building Museum press release:
www.nbm.org/events/news/2005/scullyHRHPoW.html
Prins Charles speech on accepting the Vincent Scully Prize:
www.princeofwales.gov.uk/speeches/architecture_03112005.html
AXESS
Nytt nummer av tidskriftet Axess ute nå. Tema: Dämpad upplysning.
www.axess.se
TILBAKE TIL FREMTIDEN
Modernismen er ikke lenger anti-borgerlig. Den er selv blitt en norm, hevder retrogardistene Håkan Sandell og Ronny Spaans.
www.morgenbladet.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051104/OBOKER/111040001/-1/BOKER
NEW URBANISM IN NORDRHEIN-WESTPHALEN
Eine amerikanische Städtebaubewegung fasst langsam Fuß in Europa: der New Urbanism. Vor allem bei großen Wohnungsbauprojekten greifen Entwickler vermehrt auf die Prinzipien, die Verfahren und auf die Architektursprache der amerikanischen Vorbilder zurück.
www.stadtbaukultur-nrw.de/projekte/nrwUrbanism.htm
NEW URBANISTS CALLED IN BY GOVERNOR FOR REBUILDING MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said, "My hat is off... This charrette process, this Forum, has been everything I hoped it would be and far, far more.
Charrette web site: www.mississippirenewal.com
Article in Chicago Tribune:
"In the wake of Katrina, the nitty-gritty matters of housing and community-building have replaced glamorous museums and other "spectacle" buildings as the most pressing design problems of our time. The New Urbanists have been wrestling with these issues for more than two decades".
"The simultaneous creation of plans for 11 towns along 80 miles of coastline in six days. The architects, who drank a lot of coffee and Red Bull, did more than produce a blueprint. They empowered people here with alternatives to placeless suburban sprawl."
www.chicagotribune.com
PARIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS
"A city's opportunity structure can vary very much with different types of urban forms. For example have immigrant researchers noted that there is a tremendous difference between pre war and post war neighbourhoods in Europe, when it comes to the possibilities to establish immigrant business. Immigrants have for acceptable reasons (language, education and so on) and unacceptable reasons (racism) difficulties to find jobs in many cases. To start small business is a typical solution for many of them and because of lack of capital they often find there way in retail/restaurant/café business - entry business you could say. Jane Jacobs (author of "The life and death of the great american cities") has explained very clearly how dependent secondary functions (business that exist only because of its access to a complex street life) are of proximity to street life generated by primary functions. Many areas of large housing estates lack fine-grained mix-use and they usually don't have enough premises, and very often they have regulations that forbids establishment of business.
Of course no one believes it's all about the built environment. That is to reduce our abilities to think. We are of course discussing built aspects of the problem. (quotations from Peter Elmlund, Urban City Research in Stockholm).
Now we are seeing the effects of "modern" mono(dys)functional planning and building. Or with Churchills words, "we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us".
MUSEUM SHOWS BRITISH TRADITIONAL URBANISM
Endorsed by Prince Charles, two shows are opening at the National Building Museum with a message that Britain has something to tell the United States how to make cities more livable and more beautiful.
www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-British-Planning.html
CUT DOWN TO SIZE
What to do with a tower block that no one wants to live in? The solution: pull it down, slice it up, turn it into pleasant family homes. Read about Germany's ultimate recycling scheme
www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1642120,00.html
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,367335,00.html
KURSER OG KONFERANSER
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Oxford Brookes University arranges on December 12 a conference on Vernacular Architecture.
The conference is organised by Dr. Lindsay Asquith and Dr. Marcel Vellinga of the International Vernacular Architecture Unit of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development.
http://www.intbau.org/vernacularconference.htm
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