Urban planners have proposed several designs to create safe cities, such as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). Jane Jacobs, in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, emphasized the relationship between urban safety and design, recommending features like mixed land uses and street lighting. While Oscar Newman simplified Jacob's vision in the 1970s to focus on security hardware, Jacob's approach of attracting diverse populations to public spaces through a mix of activities has also been effective in reducing crime. More recently, urban planners have proposed designs like garden cities that separate city functions into zones, though a mix of uses within cities, as Jacob's advocated, may better ensure safety.
Best Practices der Kooperation - Erfolgsgeschichten aus dem VDC-Netzwerk: Formen der Zusammenarbeit gibt es am VDC viele. Dazu gehören Entwicklungskooperationen, gemeinsame Leistungsangebote, Marketinggemeinschaften, Zulieferer, Einkäufergemeinschaften, Forschungsdienstleistungen, Industrie-nahe Lehre, Ausgründungen, Vertretung in Gremien und Arbeitsgruppen.
Best Practices der Kooperation - Erfolgsgeschichten aus dem VDC-Netzwerk: Formen der Zusammenarbeit gibt es am VDC viele. Dazu gehören Entwicklungskooperationen, gemeinsame Leistungsangebote, Marketinggemeinschaften, Zulieferer, Einkäufergemeinschaften, Forschungsdienstleistungen, Industrie-nahe Lehre, Ausgründungen, Vertretung in Gremien und Arbeitsgruppen.
Launch conference presentation of Dr. Pietro Elisei, coordinator of the YPLAN project, on why co-designing public space is essential for the present and future wellbeing of the citizens - young and old alike.
LONG LIVE THE DAY OF THE ARCHITECT AND URBANIST IN BRAZIL, ONE OF THE GREAT R...Faga1939
Today, December 15th, the Day of the Architect and Urban Planner of Brazil is celebrated, which is also the birthday of one of the most renowned architects and urban planners in the world, the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer. On this date, I pay my respects to all the architects and urban planners in Brazil who contributed with their intelligence and creativity in the realization of great works for the benefit of Brazilian society, especially to the architects and urban planners Claudia Alcoforado (my daughter), Esperança Leria (mother of my granddaughter Sofia), Ernesto Carvalho (my nephew), Karla Andrade, Loris Brantes, Marcos Lopes, Paulo Ormindo de Azevedo, Eduardo Henrique Teixeira, Guivaldo D´Alexandria Baptista, Javier Alfaya and also to my late brother architect and urban planner Luiz Carlos Alcoforado. Architects and urban planners deserve our tributes because they have distinguished themselves from antiquity to the contemporary era, not only in the elaboration of building projects, many of which are true works of art, but also in urban planning whose objective is to improve the quality of life of cities through political, environmental and social actions, among others. Architecture and Urbanism has been responsible, since antiquity, for creating public and private spaces capable of uniting, at the same time, functionality, aesthetics and comfort. Nowadays, Architecture can be defined as the relationship between man and space, or rather, the way it interferes with the environment, creating favorable aesthetic and functional conditions for housing, use and organization of space. The exercise of planning cities comes from much older civilizations. The objective of urban planning is to respond to the problems faced by the gathering of many people in cities, which became more complex after the 1st Industrial Revolution in the 18th century in England. From the beginning of the 20th century to the contemporary era, there has been an accelerated urban growth that has led to serious problems that negatively affect the quality of life of people who live, mainly, in big cities. Architects and urban planners have worked closely with engineers, economists, sociologists and other professionals in planning and implementing solutions to urban problems.
Cities like San Francisco need help - but conventional planning processes make it difficult to implement great ideas for civic improvement.
Urban Prototyping (UP) complements these processes by rapidly designing, testing, and scaling new projects that improve civic life.
UP takes projects from prototypes to city pilots to refined products.
UP Cities around the world design and test prototypes through large-scale public Festivals that engage local communities.
The first UP San Francisco Festival was held in October 2012 as a flagship event in San Francisco’s first Innovation Month. On October 20, 2012, six blocks of downtown San Francisco became a living laboratory for urban experiments.
The 2012 Festival featured:
5000+ visitors
23 urban prototypes
40+ audio, visual, and dance performers
25+ renowned speakers in design, art, and technology.
Original UP concept by Gray Area and Rebar.
http://urbanprototyping.org
http://twitter.com/urbanproto
http://facebook.com/urbanprototyping
Learn about how URBAN-X Cohort 02 company Citiesense organizes the most accurate information about neighborhoods in cities – such as storefront vacancy, sales, foot traffic, and more – to better inform local market demand and neighborhood dynamics.
Launch conference presentation of Dr. Pietro Elisei, coordinator of the YPLAN project, on why co-designing public space is essential for the present and future wellbeing of the citizens - young and old alike.
LONG LIVE THE DAY OF THE ARCHITECT AND URBANIST IN BRAZIL, ONE OF THE GREAT R...Faga1939
Today, December 15th, the Day of the Architect and Urban Planner of Brazil is celebrated, which is also the birthday of one of the most renowned architects and urban planners in the world, the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer. On this date, I pay my respects to all the architects and urban planners in Brazil who contributed with their intelligence and creativity in the realization of great works for the benefit of Brazilian society, especially to the architects and urban planners Claudia Alcoforado (my daughter), Esperança Leria (mother of my granddaughter Sofia), Ernesto Carvalho (my nephew), Karla Andrade, Loris Brantes, Marcos Lopes, Paulo Ormindo de Azevedo, Eduardo Henrique Teixeira, Guivaldo D´Alexandria Baptista, Javier Alfaya and also to my late brother architect and urban planner Luiz Carlos Alcoforado. Architects and urban planners deserve our tributes because they have distinguished themselves from antiquity to the contemporary era, not only in the elaboration of building projects, many of which are true works of art, but also in urban planning whose objective is to improve the quality of life of cities through political, environmental and social actions, among others. Architecture and Urbanism has been responsible, since antiquity, for creating public and private spaces capable of uniting, at the same time, functionality, aesthetics and comfort. Nowadays, Architecture can be defined as the relationship between man and space, or rather, the way it interferes with the environment, creating favorable aesthetic and functional conditions for housing, use and organization of space. The exercise of planning cities comes from much older civilizations. The objective of urban planning is to respond to the problems faced by the gathering of many people in cities, which became more complex after the 1st Industrial Revolution in the 18th century in England. From the beginning of the 20th century to the contemporary era, there has been an accelerated urban growth that has led to serious problems that negatively affect the quality of life of people who live, mainly, in big cities. Architects and urban planners have worked closely with engineers, economists, sociologists and other professionals in planning and implementing solutions to urban problems.
Cities like San Francisco need help - but conventional planning processes make it difficult to implement great ideas for civic improvement.
Urban Prototyping (UP) complements these processes by rapidly designing, testing, and scaling new projects that improve civic life.
UP takes projects from prototypes to city pilots to refined products.
UP Cities around the world design and test prototypes through large-scale public Festivals that engage local communities.
The first UP San Francisco Festival was held in October 2012 as a flagship event in San Francisco’s first Innovation Month. On October 20, 2012, six blocks of downtown San Francisco became a living laboratory for urban experiments.
The 2012 Festival featured:
5000+ visitors
23 urban prototypes
40+ audio, visual, and dance performers
25+ renowned speakers in design, art, and technology.
Original UP concept by Gray Area and Rebar.
http://urbanprototyping.org
http://twitter.com/urbanproto
http://facebook.com/urbanprototyping
Learn about how URBAN-X Cohort 02 company Citiesense organizes the most accurate information about neighborhoods in cities – such as storefront vacancy, sales, foot traffic, and more – to better inform local market demand and neighborhood dynamics.
1. Unit 1. Urban Planning, safe cities.
Essay
Romy Bompart
Professor Shawna-Lyn Cole
Pre – Degree
23 July 2012
Urban planners proposals to design safe cities
Safe cities are related by their design, besidesthey provide a sense of security for
those who inhabit there. According to the urban planners, there are several proposals
and different manners to design safe cities such as crime prevention through
environmental design (CPTED). Despite there are vast amounts ideas to design a safe
metropolis all them have flaws in terms of crime.Therefore the urban planners decided
to approach the solution using security methods in the neighborhoods from burglar
alarm to complex strategies; to put it brieflycombining the foregoing with CPTED design
can significantly enhance the security in a planned city such as the crime statistics
clearly show.
The CPTED was started by the visionary Jane Jacobs when her insights were
written in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Many people quote her
phrase “there must be eyes on the street” to emphasize the relationship between urban
safety and design. In this sense, her cognition about the topic led her to provide
recommendations based on close observation of public spaces. These consist of bars
and restaurants “sprinkled along the sidewalks”, street vendor, and pedestrians. Also
she recommended the installation of bright street light to “augment every pair of eyes”
exposing safety on the streets with a resulting much more movement in the streets by
the pedestrians, making a successful city.
Although In 1970s, Oscar Newman and others simplified Jacobs’s vision,
focusing on an approach to define the issues and to provide standardized solutions.
Their vision was "Hardware solution" such as fences, buzzers, gates, and traffic barriers
- despite Jacobs’s warnings to the contrary. CPTED in great measure ignored the more
subtle elements of Jacobs’s suggestion: A mix of activities and land uses that could
attract diverse populations to streets, neighborhoods, housing projects, parks, and civic
centers. Even so, Newman’s vision is latent until now for example in shopping malls in
California, which have installed motion sensors and other high-tech security equipment,
and security patrols are more visible. But Jacobs’s vision is used today too;an proof of
this is Dufferin Mall, which provides entertainment, sports, internships program, and
business. As Jacobs’s suggested, these have brought a range of activities and users
into the mall and reduced crime rates.
Other urban planners are agreeing with Newman in terms of separate places to
each zone according to its function. For example, cities like Stockholm and Vancouver
are planned with the Newman’s vision called “Garden cities”, which build a new city in
the countryside, separating the city resident over the countryside and separating the
different functions of the city into areas. Also,Le Corbusier thought in the “Radiant City”,
that build the city into a large park specifically 12% of the city’s ground would occupy by
buildings, and the rest would be remain open for parks and recreation areas. The
evidences are downtown cores of Toronto, Hong Kong, and Sao Paulo. Similarly, is
2. Unit 1. Urban Planning, safe cities.
Essay
found “The city beautiful” by Daniel Burnham, who postulated: all important buildings
and monuments would be arranged along a single boulevard, such that creates an
impression to illustrate this, are Brazilian, Paris, and Lisbon.
To sum up foregoing, the urban crime is falling as long as the urban planner
design better cities to walk, work, enjoy, and look up. However the large cities planned
have considerable crime, but it is notice difference in levels of crime between planned
and unplanned cities. The proposals to design safe cities will go improving and the
people too, with hope will be soon, although safe city could be an illusion created by
urban planners, since it depends on how the people feel their integrity, that is, if they
feel safe and freedom outside. Because there will always be who does the crime.