Tag: diversity

• July 20, 2016

  Thoughts about how urban design impact our lifes

  Just read this article and found so interesting ideas on how urban design impact society and what can be done to avoid increasing inequality. Here I just noted some additional thoughts. I am also thinking of how does it work in a wider scale, for instance, how regional infraestructures reinforce certain inequalities. The same with regard…

• March 25, 2016

  Four urban conditions of vibrant city life and reflection on megaprojects

  Assuming the bellow showed Jacobs´ urban conditions of vibrant city life and that urban megraprojects tend to make urban spaces more homogenous due to the concentration of a particular service or user profile, do megaprojects kill vibrant city life in a long term? Jacobs argues that vibrant activity can only flourish in cities when the physical…