Reengineering of Cities

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Reengineering Cities
Vanessa Yasmin Schneider
Conflicts Arising from Rural-Urban Fringe
Retail development
Traffic congestion
http://awesome.good.is/transparency/012/trans012delays.html
Traffic pollution
Competing agricultural, residential, recreational and other land uses
Solution? (Re)engineering
Traffic congestion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZPQeqAoydQ
http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/cities-rethought/using-technology-to-help-ease-traffic/
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/solutions/videos/2768_F_Queensland_FINAL_high.wmv
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/JSTS-7VKL75?OpenDocument&Site=corp&cty=en_us
Green buildings/Various land-uses:
http://www.good.is/post/welcome-to-the-recently-rebranded-neighborhood/
http://www.downtownny.com/greenwichsouth/
http://www.good.is/post/good-design-sf-solving-city-problems-creatively/
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/08/22/travelodge-shipping-container-hotel/
Future
http://www.good.is/series/ideas-for-cities

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Abstract of Verbal Presentation:
There are many problems that arise from the urbanization of rural areas, and the resulting shift of the rural-urban fringe. Some of these are traffic congestion and traffic delays; the increased competition for space by agricultural, residential, and recreational ventures, or other land uses; as well as problems related to retail development.
Many cities recognize these issues and try to resolve them by creating green city landscape designs, either when constructing new settlements, or when refurbishing old ones. Examples of schemes to reduce traffic congestion and the resulting delays are the toll roads in Queensland, Australia, which reduced the number of automobiles passing on the roads, freeing them from traffic jams, while also generating income to maintain the road to cause fewer accidents. A toll system is also employed in Stockholm, where technology has made it possible to bill the money to the registration plate of the car, when it passes the toll collect points which reduce queues dramatically.
In New York City, there are plans to rejuvenate Greenwich South which currently houses office buildings only. Plans for rejuvenation include a mix of uses, and this means that different kinds of constructions are encouraged, for sustainability on a multitude of levels (long-term business prospects, as well as carbon neutrality of buildings), many of them multi-storeyed with different kinds of land use on different floors, of course reflecting on community needs.
Other cities are not that close to figuring out what exactly they can change about their cityscapes to make them green, so they hold open forums for citizens to speak up for the community needs; inventors to propose innovations on a sustainable basis and government representatives to assess which projects are viable for the development of the city’s future. There are already many good ideas out there, such as repurposing car parks in order to encourage the use of public transport when a good system has been established; or the introduction of a pedicab network – both ways of carbon neutrally solving the problems of traffic congestion, delays and pollution. less