Class today included:
City Love (Room for Squares): John Mayer (4:00); Track 4 (Glory of Durga): Lata Mangeshkar (6:29)
Stephen Goldsmith talks about Sustainable Communities and Urban Ecology.
This blog is about cities and urban issues for UAP 1024 at Virginia Tech. Instructor: Tom Sanchez (tom.sanchez@vt.edu)
Class Contribution: Alissa Tucker
ReplyDeletebiomimicry
• curvilinear forms & pathways
• building systems are “lifelike” (a water reclamation system, self-regulating skylights according to temperature, and eco-pool regulates humidity)
• materials are natural and “green”
• spaces are open and permeable to one another
prime example > http://www.tdrinc.com/ecol.html
Kristen Olson
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLkpaF16s24
Kitty Schaffernoth, Class Contribution
ReplyDeleteThis is an article about squatters in England, taking over uninhabited houses. England is one of the few countries that has "squatters rights", and an agency called Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) exists to help squatters find empty homes. It also helps them find legal loopholes so the squatters can continue to live in the houses, much to the frustration of the house's owners.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363157/Squatters-Inc-As-professional-agencies-MARKET-vacant-family-homes-break-beware-going-holiday.html
class contribution
ReplyDeleteHannah Cao
http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html
class contribution
ReplyDeletehannah cao
http://vimeo.com/13764432
Class Contribution
ReplyDeleteJason Jones
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/world/americas/01venezuela.html?_r=2
Built in the 1990s, The Tower of David was supposed to be an emblem of Venezuela’s entrepreneurial mettle. But that era is gone.
More than 2,500 squatters live in the uncompleted 45-story high-rise, which lacks several basic amenities like an elevator. The smell of untreated sewage permeates the corridors. Children scale unlit stairways guided by the glow of cellphones. Some recent arrivals sleep in tents and hammocks.
Class Contribution:
ReplyDeleteRachel Russell
http://vimeo.com/8673194
On the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, in a slum settlement known as "Garbage City", a community of workers called Zabbaleen personally collect, sort, reuse, resell or repurpose Cairo's waste. This oddly fascinating metropolis is actually a very efficient waste management system: food scraps are fed to livestock, what can be repaired is, and everything else is recycled, sold for scrap, or burned for fuel.
Class Contribution
ReplyDeleteAaron Brown
http://thechive.com/2011/03/14/nyc-subway-a-bittersweet-burial-at-sea-12-hq-photos/
This is a collection of photos of NYC subway trains being dumped into the river. This in a way reverts to the Thursday lecture when the dumping of wood into the ocean and Gulf of Mexico from the New Orleans rebuilding project.
Class Contribution
ReplyDeleteMichael Kretz
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/solar-forest-charging-station-keeps-cars-cool-and-juiced.php
A "solar forest" designed to ease the transition to non-fossil fuel sources by allowing cars to charge on the go. [transportation systems]
http://freshome.com/2011/01/17/think-green-10-best-sustainable-homes-of-2010/
ReplyDeleteTop 10 sustainable homes from 2010.