Click here to open interactive map The city of Amsterdam has quite some experience in organizing incubator projects, due to the local incubator policy (Broedplaatsenbeleid). Incubator projects are basically contracts of temporary use of vacant buildings, between the owner (private, municipality, housing corporations etc.) and a cultural end-user (individual or group). Subsidies for these projects [...]
On 9 August 1945 the US airforce dropped an atomic bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, on Nagasaki. Three days earlier, Little Boy had been dropped on Hiroshima. Nagasaki had a population of about 450.000, 65.000 of whom were either killed or injured by the bomb. The entire city was rebuilt afterwards. The bombing of Nagasaki was [...]
Does urban life in Brazil really stop during world cup soccer matches? Fábio Miyata tries to answer this question by taking photos of main avenues of São Paulo during the matches of the Brazilian soccer team. Some of the usual transit bottlenecks, such as Radial Leste, Avenida Santo Amaro and Avenida Paulista, indeed remain deserted. [...]
Strijp R, Eindhoven, once a booming industrial site, is now being transformed into a new residential area. Saturday 8 May 2010, the RAF building, a former Phillips light bulb factory at Strijp R, was imploded, to make space for the future low density neighborhood. In a matter of seconds, the high-rise structure turned into dust [...]
Retrofit, a reforma de prédios antigos, visando o reuso deles para uma nova função, virou moda no centro de São Paulo. Em geral se trata de prédios de escritórios que são transformados em habitações de renda média. Na cidade, esse desenvolvimento está causando uma queda de preço por apartamento na área central e por isso [...]
