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October 2009
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karl dit :
1 novembre 2009 à 12:50
Il faudrait avoir une statistique sur le même échantillon de population pour que ce soit plus significatif.
En effet, une hypothèse à envisager est que ceux qui ont acheté un Kindle sont des lecteurs actifs et des gros consommateurs de livres.
Achètent-ils plus de livres papier que le lecteur moyen ? Et dans ce cas combien ?
Toward urban systems design « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
you said: “Especially given the by-now-clichéd recognition that we’ve decisively become an urban species”
It is indeed very interesting to think about urban systems design given there was a major move toward cities. That said I have the feeling that this move comes with, at least, three issues:
1. access to the “thought” urban environment,
2. the space left where 50% of the population is still living,
3. the space of this growth
There are many areas in the world where the growth of the cities is made by people without access or a limited access to the thought urban environment. Poor people living in slums or just in a space which is not part of the work of urban planner per say. In a recent exhibition about slums I went, it was very interesting to see that the organic structure of the slums was making possible for the individuals to create a rich and meaningful space, driving sometimes to less criminality than more traditional areas of the city. The slum is a forced collective creative space for survival.
The rest of the population, the 50% living in deserted areas are the forgotten of this story. It’s indeed more “fun”, interesting for researchers, sociologists to observe and think about the density in urban space (richness of interactions) more than the low level of activities in the “countryside”. Though there are equal challenges there in terms of design and space organization, access to services, etc.
Finally, is it really cities which are growing? What we call urban space often relates to the city center, but I have the feeling that the growth is happening in the in-between space (suburbs), which is again a complete disaster in terms of design, even more so in rich countries. The private space is becoming a space of non-creativity, dead areas of non activities. Someone, who wants to start a small business in between two buildings on the grass of a random suburb of a rich city, will not last for very long. Complete different dynamic than the slum where unregulated areas give the opportunity of creative solutions for surviving or living.
September 2009
We are Colorblind » Patterns for the Color Blind
About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites.
We are Colorblind » Patterns for the Color Blind
About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites.
globalization and urbanization
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August 2009
Any survivor has at least one miracle story. My father has several.
LeTemps.ch | La désillusion démocratique des Afghans
July 2009
Linux based SolarNetOne Solar-powered networking anywhere
June 2009
Toujours plus d’informaticiens au chômage en mai et les nuages s’amoncellent
Monaco : septième remise du Prix du CICR pour la presse dans le cadre du 49e Festival de télévision de Monte-Carlo
Basé sur une série de courts récits réalisés par six auteurs français, israéliens et palestiniens (Serge Gordey, Arik Bernstein, Osna Trabelsi, Youssef Atwa, Robby Elmaliah et Khalil al-Muzayen), Gaza – Sderot : chroniques d'avant-guerre raconte le quotidien de la population palestinienne de Gaza et de celle de Sderot, en Israël, quelques semaines avant les opérations militaires israéliennes de janvier 2009.
Le jury du CICR a été très sensible aux qualités esthétiques du documentaire, mais aussi et surtout au regard d'humanité porté par les auteurs sur les héros anonymes de ces chroniques : l'angoisse des habitants de Sderot, le courage de la population de Gaza, tiraillée entre espoir et désespoir, et contrainte de survivre dans des conditions extrêmes.
«La révolution, c'est la mobilité»
May 2009
Gunkanjima Island | Architecture Lab
“Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called ‘Gunkanjima’ that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Long ago, the island was nothing more than a small reef. Then in 1810, [with] the chance discovery of coal … people came to live here, and through coal mining the reef started to expand continuously. Befor [sic] long, the reef had grown into an artificial island of one kilometer (three quarters of a mile) in perimeter, with a population of 5300. Looming above the ocean, it appeared a concrete labyrinth of many-storied apartment houses and mining structures built closely together.
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April 2009
Chernobyl Today: A Creepy Story told in Pictures | Village Of Joy
In the zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident. Today, the only residents are deer and wolves along with a solitary guard.
March 2009
Europe Guide : Maps of Europe by language, religion, population density, hair & eye color, etc.
January 2009
UJFP - PETITION A SIGNER : PAS DE CRIMES EN NOTRE NOM ! - Communiqués de l'UJFP - Tous les textes
