| nRow | idInitiative | initiativeName | idFrom | idType | idCity | initiativeLat | initiativeLon | initiativeDescription | initiativeVideo | initiativeURL | initiativeTwitter | initiativeFacebook | initiativeDateStart | initiativeDateEnd | initiativePublished | initiativeDateIn | initiativeActive | initiativeBy | initiativeURLInternal | initiativeContactName | initiativeContactEmail | initiativeCity | initiativeCityLong |
| 1 | 488 | Documentando-ando | ASSO | OTHE | 0 | 10.2469444 | -67.59611110000003 | <p>COLECTIVO CINE DE ARAGUA TE INVITA A INCENTIVAR -CINE DOCUMENTAL -ESCRITURA AUDIOVISUAL -LA SOCIEDAD Y EL DOCUMENTO AUDIOVISUAL COMUNITARIO La idea de este taller es Brindar y Compartir la herramienta para la creación y registro de nuestro presente, de nuestras experiencias como Venezolanos, nuestra sociedad. Contenido del Taller (Sera repartido en Sábados por Módulos) - Guión. Trabajado en el modulo anterior. - Pre-producción. II NIVEL - Producción. III NIVEL - Post-producción. IV NIVEL</p>
| | | | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colectivo-Cine-De-Aragua-%E0%AB%90/383350951682552?ref=hl | 25/05/2013 0:00:00 | 25/05/2013 0:00:00 | | 24/05/2013 23:15:28 | | Colectivo Cine de Aragua | 488-documentando-ando | Aria J. | colectivocinedearagua@gmail.com | Maracay | Maracay, Estado Aragua, Venezuela |
| 2 | 487 | Sembrando el camino.. es fluidez en la Vida | FRIE | PLAN | 0 | 10.2469444 | -67.59611110000003 | <p>Este Miércoles Próximo, estaremos en la Urbanización Roraima, junto al ministerio del ambiente, Educando a los Jóvenes y Adultos residentes de la zona de condominios de la Morita I, Calle Este II, con el fin de promover, incentivar y cultivar la semilla del cuidado, preservación y organización de residuos reusables y orgánicos..</p>
| | | | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maracay-Recicla-y-Truequea%E0%AB%90/340151589439057?ref=hl | 29/05/2013 0:00:00 | 29/05/2013 0:00:00 | | 24/05/2013 23:09:30 | | Aria J. Maracay Recicla y Truequea | 487-sembrando-el-camino-es-fluidez-en-la-vida | Aria J. | jaramilloaria@gmail.com | Maracay | Maracay, Estado Aragua, Venezuela |
| 3 | 486 | El Campo de Cebada | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 40.411081795892336 | -3.709068787341266 | <p>Somos vecinos y vecinas del Distrito Centro agrupados, para fomentar el uso temporal del solar del derribado polideportivo de La Latina, durante el tiempo en el que las obras previstas para su nuevo uso urbanistíco no se lleven a cabo; se prevee que pasen años antes de que esto ocurra y no queremos un espacio vacío y abandonado en el centro de Madrid. Creemos en el disfrute del espacio público frente a los espacios ofrecidos por entidades privadas, en donde el dialogo y las relaciones sociales entre vecin€s apenas se dan. La intención es que el solar de cabida a todo tipo de propuestas/actividades/proyectos de tipo cultural, social, artistíco, deportivo… para el uso y disfrute de las personas del barrio y de Madrid. Queremos ser los propios vecinos los que participemos en las decisiones de las actividades y proyectos a desarrollar, gestionando con responsabilidad el uso del espacio y fomentando el encuentro y las relaciones sociales entre todos. Creemos que este espacio debe ser disfrutado y compartido entre todos: vecin@s, comerciantes, colectivos y asociaciones del barrio.</p>
<p>We are neighbors from the Distrito Centro (Center Neihgborhood) and we're gathered to support the seasonal use of the demolished sports center of La Latina (The Latin) while the construction, planned for its new urban use, is not getting done. We know that years are going to pass by until the construction happens and we do not want an empty and abandoned space in the center of Madrid. We believe in the benefit of the public space rather than spaces offered by private entities, in which dialogue and social relations among neighbors barely occur. We want this space to be available for all types of activities and projects, social, cultural, artistic etc. to benefit the neighbors and citizens. We want the neighbors to be those participating in the decision-making of the activities and the projects to develop, dealing with the use of the space and fostering the dialogue and the social relations among all. We believe that this space should be benefited and shared among everyone: neighbors, businesses, collectives and associations.</p>
| | http://elcampodecebada.org/ | @campodecebada | https://www.facebook.com/pages/El-campo-de-Cebada/180735625274126?fref=ts | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 23/05/2013 11:22:06 | | El Campo de Cebada | 486-el-campo-de-cebada | El Campo de Cebada | infocampodecebada@gmail.com | Madrid | Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
| 4 | 484 | Raising Green | PUBL | PLAN | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>GREENSPACENYC develops, hosts, and curates participatory events, classes, workshops, and installations regarding sustainability studies – in order to build a network of committed participants interested in sharing information to the broader public for free or little cost. GREENSPACENYC was founded by Laura Scherling and Ray Manalo in 2011. The organization is is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, giving it its status as a 501(c)(3) and receives material sponsorship from Material for the Arts (NYC Office of Cultural Affairs). GreenspaceNYC celebrated its 2nd birthday earlier this spring. Considering the 11 events, 500+ participants, 1800 tweets and 336 Facebook likes, this 2 year-old has covered a lot of ground and has some great things in its future.</p>
<p>As we at GreenspaceNYC work to move the organization forward, we have recommitted to our goal of facilitating a green community in the city through free events, discussions and projects. We’ve done all of our work solely with help of volunteers and with material and in-kind donations from our awesome partners. With a little money we could expand the range of our events and help fund projects that will contribute to our community. To join our growth and our fun, mark your calendars for Raising Green 2013 at the Hostel International-New York patio on July 26th! HI-NY has an AMAZING outdoor space on the Upper West Side that we are filling with great music, fun people and cool items up for silent auction.</p>
<p>Stay tuned for more event details! If you are interested in contributing to this event in some way we are happy to discuss partnerships! Email us at info@greenspacenyc.org</p>
| | www.greenspacenyc.org | @greenspacenyc | https://www.facebook.com/pages/GreenspaceNYC/158823367501109?ref=ts&fref=ts | 26/07/2013 0:00:00 | 26/07/2013 0:00:00 | | 22/05/2013 5:21:58 | | GreenspaceNYC | 484-raising-green | Laura Scherling | scherlinglaura@gmail.com | New York | New York, NY |
| 5 | 483 | 10th Urban Picnic - Urban Wedding | FRIE | INCL | 0 | 10.2469444 | -67.59611110000003 | <p>We want to celebrate the love with no discrimination and the compromise with a better city with our Urban Picnics, monthly reunion to vegetarian exchange, yoga for children, laught-therapy, reciclyng workshops, traditional games and donations with NGOs. Now, we give a opportunity to LGBT couples, non believers couples and old marriage to revow in public square and vow love bettween them and the city. Is very near of the City Council, to make an statement: in should be legal por everyone. Queremos celebrar el amor sin discriminación y el compromiso con una mejor ciudad en nuestros Picnics Urbanos, reuniones mensuales de intercambio vegetariano, yoga para niños, risoterapia, talleres de reciclaje, juegos tradicionales y donaciones con ONGs. Ahora, le damos oportunidad a parejas GLBT, no creyentes y matrimonios consolidados para jurarse en la plaza entre ellos y con la ciudad. Cerca del Concejo Munciipal para decir: debería ser legal para todos.</p>
| | | @picnicurbanomcy | https://www.facebook.com/groups/PicnicUrbanoMcy/?fref=ts | 26/05/2013 0:00:00 | 26/05/2013 0:00:00 | | 22/05/2013 0:50:41 | | Picnic Urbano de Maracay | 483-10th-urban-picnic-urban-wedding | Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez | jeanfreddy@gmail.com | Maraca | Maraca, Estado Aragua, Venezuela |
| 6 | 482 | Hack Day: Apps to Reinvent Cities | PUBL | INCL | 0 | 13.706881 | -89.20181000000002 | <p>The next City Changer Hack Day will take place under the theme "Youth for Sustainable Financing" in the Spanish Cultural Center of San Salvador, in El Salvador, on May 25th and 26th. The Hack Day is a 36 hours long youth contest during which the participants collaborate to design mobile and tablet applications with an urban focus. The winning team will receive a 2000$ price and the possibility to convert their application in a commercial product within a 9 months period.</p>
<p>On this occasion, a Center for Urban Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship, or City Changer Lab, will be implemented in order to provide the youth with opportunities of economic and social development and for them to become actors of change in their cities.</p>
<p>This initiative is part of the UN-Habitat global campaign I'm a City Changer.</p>
<p>More info : http://onuhabitat.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1021:onu-habitat-hack-day-el-salvador-sera-a-fin-de-mes&catid=220:noticias&Itemid=292</p>
<p>You can sign up now : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Bd70yyEgbdBXFM-J4sEDYe3NuVYpntB4OHD2Y_-YeZI/viewform</p>
| | http://onuhabitat.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1021:onu-habitat-hack-day-el-salvador-sera-a-fin-de-mes&catid=220:noticias&Itemid=292 | | | 25/05/2013 0:00:00 | 26/05/2013 0:00:00 | | 17/05/2013 21:13:52 | | ONU-Habitat | 482-hack-day-apps-to-reinvent-cities | Rosa Surinach | surinach@un.org | San Salvador | San Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador |
| 7 | 481 | Hack Day: Apps to Reinvent Cities | PUBL | INCL | 0 | 19.4326077 | -99.13320799999997 | <p>A Hack Day, also called Hackathon, is an event in which people involved in software development, like computer programmers, but also graphic designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects. Some are simply meant for educational or social purposes, although in many cases the goal is to create usable software. They tend to have a specific focus, such as, in our case, the city.</p>
<p>The City Changer Hack Days are a youth contest during which, for 36 hours, participants design and implement a functional application for mobile phones and tablets with a social and urban focus. The winning team receives a 2000$ price and the possibility to convert their application in a commercial product within a 9 months period. The UN-Habitat Hack Day of Monterrey, Mexico, took place between April 26th and 28th 2013. The topic was to "rethink the public space" and the goal was to come up with an app that would "improve the public space life, with shared visions, concretes projects and binding actions from active citizens, an open government and a responsible society". 100 people got involved, between the participants, the staff, the jury, the sponsors, the organizers and the partners.</p>
<p>The event took place in the Barrio Antiguo (Old City) and it lead to the creation of the first UN-Habitat Web Alley that converted the Calle (Street) de Morelos into a public space with free internet dedicated to the improvement and urban innovation of the city of Monterrey.</p>
| youtube-CJzLIXptK8 | http://www.onuhabitat.org/ | | | 26/04/2013 0:00:00 | 28/05/2013 0:00:00 | | 17/05/2013 1:36:40 | | ONU-Habitat | 481-hack-day-apps-to-reinvent-cities | Rosa Surinach | surinach@un.org | Monterrey | Monterrey, Mexico |
| 8 | 480 | Mejor Santa Tere | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 20.688719054633605 | -103.36546086202395 | <p>Mejor Santa Tere is a project born in one of the most traditional neighborhoods of Guadalajara.</p>
<p>It is devoted to promote interactions between citizens and neighbors by revitalizing abandoned public spaces such as the "José Clemente Orozco Park".</p>
<p>Workshops, urban gardening, walks and free movie screenings are some of the actions we've been doing since last year and hopefully continue to do so until José Clemente Orozco Park becomes a landmark of city change</p>
| youtubeKkYK25T5_D0 | http://www.mejorsantatere.org | @MejorSantaTere | http://www.facebook.com/MejorSantaTere | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 12/05/2013 21:39:04 | | Mejor Santa Tere | 480-mejor-santa-tere | Fernando Hernández | info@mejorsantatere.org | Guadalajara | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| 9 | 479 | Un-grey the city | INDI | OTHE | 0 | 51.7592485 | 19.45598330000007 | <p>Un-grey the city Lodz - my city. Grey people, old age, grunge, dog poos in the lawns, reek pouring out from the tenements backyards, drinkers and mongrel rottweilers. I can’t complain anymore - I act. Ugliness may become beautiful and inspiring for a painter… a pedestrian painter. By profession I’m a painter. I’ve been sharing all my life with colors. Lodz in the center of Poland is the city I was born in and where I still live and work. It looks dirty, grey and seems to be forlorn, without any action. The authorities do nothing… Homelessness and poverty surround us… Lodz used to be a powerful city with the mix of cultures (Russian, Jewish, German and Polish) that made life in the city totally colorful. Now there’s nothing but just memory of the past. I hate to complain - I act!</p>
<p>My goal is to bring the color back to the city. I don’t deal with the buildings (like graffiti does) but with the pavements and the ground. “Un-grey the city - paintings close to the ground” is a guerilla painting action using the city streets as a canvas for paintings. I’m trying to be a “Supercolour girl”, an undercover who, without any permission, fills the streets with colours. Little evening guerilla who feels much happier while filling puddles on the streets with colours. Having a lot of fun and making surprise for the citizens. The first action took part in September 2011 on Targowa street in the center of Lodz. Then I decided to push my action forward. In November I made the second painting action in another grey Polish town - Szczecin. Each action was recorded by the camera and photographed. Now I want to un-grey every city in our grey world!!! I want to bring the colour back!!! to un-grey the city status to un-grey our existence painting installation: video, pictures, paintings (natural pigments, pavement, asphalt, sidewalks, puddles, prints, graphic program) Action was presented @several location, festival event and in the galleries: 2012 - Backyard of Art, Biała Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2012 - Lumen Festival, Staten Island, New York, USA 2012 - Yicca winner exhibition, Chemistry Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013 - Roof @ Gowunus Loft, Brooklyn, USA, 2013 - Rowan University Art Gallery, Rowan, NJ, USA, 2013 - Free City Festival, Flint, Michigan, USA Un-greying the city may be carried out in various ways.</p>
<p>The space itself says how to use it. Previous attempts to un-grey were a reaction to the found situation. A cloudy and rainy day makes the action easier (puddles appear in all the holes, grooves, slots) - in this case you just need to add some color. USUALLY PINK – in a girlish and apparently trivial way. However, if it does not decide to rain, you have to move your imagination and find another way to un-grey the city. 15 of June I am going to organise the biggest action I have ever made. It will be un-grey Wschodnia street, Łódź, Poland. I hope that a lot of citizens will help me and we will change our grey reality at least for one day!!! I am a performer - Ola Ignasiak I am working with my husband who is a photographer and filmmaker.</p>
| | http://www.olaignasiak.com, http://www.olaignasiak.blogspot.com | | ola ignasiak | 15/06/2013 0:00:00 | 15/06/2013 0:00:00 | | 12/05/2013 0:57:50 | | Ola Ignasiak & Andrzej Sieczkowski | 479-un-grey-the-city | Aleksandra Ignasiak | ol.ol@wp.pl | Łódź | Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland |
| 10 | 478 | Warriors Without Weapons | NGOO | RESI | 0 | -23.960364964014634 | -46.32104649515384 | <p>Warriors Without Weapons is an experiential international leadership and social entrepreneurship training program offered to youth to provide the tools needed to transform realities anywhere in the world. It is a 240hs program in three different communities in Baixada Santista, with an experienced staff of facilitators and consultants. Get ready! The Warriors Without Weapons is a course, but is very different from the traditional ways of teaching you may have seen so far. Here you put your hands to work to make a collective dream of a better world a reality in 30 days!</p>
| youtubepstImQzgp5w | http://www.warriorswithoutweapons.net/ | https://twitter.com/Instituto_Elos | https://www.facebook.com/GuerreirosSemArmas | 06/01/2014 0:00:00 | 06/02/2014 0:00:00 | | 03/05/2013 23:56:32 | | Instituto Elos Brasil | 478-warriors-without-weapons | Val Rocha | val@institutoelos.org | Santos | Santos, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 11 | 477 | IIHS and Environmental Design Solutions announce Training Programme on Passive Solar Design, Daylighting and Simulations for Green Buildings | EDUC | GREE | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), a national education institution in association with Environmental Design Solutions (EDS) has announced a training programme on Passive Solar Design, Daylighting and Simulations for Green Buildings. The programme will be held at Regus Business Center,Connaught Place,Pune. from May 4(Saturday)-5(Sunday), 2013. Daylighting is an essential aspect of green and sustainable buildings, especially since dependence on artificial lighting greatly magnifies the energy and cost inefficiency of a building. An advanced daylighting strategy enables lower environmental and O&M costs, as well as healthier working and living environments.</p>
<p>The objective of this training programme is to equip participants with the practical know-how to undertake shading and daylighting simulations on their own. It will cover basic concepts of solar passive design, which is an inherent component of daylighting buildings. Interactive and hands-on training of simulation tools such as Autodesk Ecotect and Radiance will be provided as well as different types of façade glazing, their properties and criteria for selection will be discussed in detail. The course summarises the requirements of daylighting for LEED/GRIHA green building rating systems. Application is open to candidates from all disciplines but individuals with backgrounds in architecture, planning, engineering are encouraged to apply. The course faculty includes Gurneet Singh, Director, EDS Pvt. Ltd who has over 8 years of working experience in projects dealing with sustainable development, building energy efficiency and Green Buildings. The M.Tech. course at IIIT, Hyderabad along with his architectural degree has equipped him with the rare knowledge and understanding of the sustainable built environment in a very broad spectrum. The other faculty member, Deepa Parekh is a Senior Green Building Analyst at EDS whose work includes research and analysis of active and passive design concepts, building energy simulations, conducting educational workshops and facilitating green building certifications. Date May 4 -5, 2013 Time 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM Location Regus Business Center Connaught Place Pune Website http://www.iihs.co.in/programmes/upp/psddsgb/psddsgb-may-2013/ Last Day for registration April 30, 2013 Contact Person Swastik Contact Number +91-9886297542 or +91-80-67606666.</p>
<p>About IIHS The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. IIHS is India’s first prospective independently funded and managed inter-disciplinary National University for Innovation that focuses on its ongoing urban and development transformation. It is a first-of-its-kind, practice and innovation-oriented knowledge institution that seeks to bridge the conventional excellence, scale and inclusion divide. For more information, see www.iihs.co.in. About EDS EDS is a sustainability consulting firm focusing on the built environment. The diverse milieu of its team of experts converges on energy efficient building design and policies, building code development, green building certification, climate change mitigation policies, capacity building and training. For more information see http://www.edsglobal.com/ Media contact: Gutenberg Communications Pallavi Jha / Milan Mathias +91 9986997042 / +91 9008303377</p>
| | | | | 04/05/2013 0:00:00 | 05/05/2013 0:00:00 | | 02/05/2013 8:55:07 | | Indian Institute for Human Settlements and EDS | 477-iihs-and-environmental-design-solutions-announce-training-programme-on-passive | Pallavi Jha | pallavi.j@gutenbergpr.com | Pune | Pune, Maharashtra |
| 12 | 476 | IIHS announces short course on ‘Sustainable Site Planning’ | EDUC | PLAN | 0 | 12.9715987 | 77.59456269999998 | <p>Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), a national education institution, has announced a short course on ‘Sustainable Site Planning’. The course will be held at the IIHS City Campus, Bangalore from May 3-5, 2013. The aim of the course is to help the participants understand the importance of life-cycle approach to site planning. While site planning by architects and facility managers is often done with short-term aims in mind, it is important, if not critical for them to understand the long-term implications of their decisions. It is imperative to introduce a life-cycle approach to planning of sites in order to achieve higher standards in their overall performance parameters. The three day short course focuses on sustainable life-cycle oriented planning of sites – of between 10 and 200 acres, with a focus on greenfield residential development, as well as the re-imagination of existing corporate/institutional campuses.</p>
<p>The course addresses these issues with a ‘mainstream green’ approach. It covers green building codes and certification systems, while at the same time highlighting traditional/vernacular methods of achieving these results. The faculty for the programme is Mohan Rao, Senior Advisor, IIHS and Principal Architect, InDe, a multi-disciplinary consultancy practice in regional planning, environmental design and landscape architecture. He is an Environmental Design and Landscape architecture professional. He is actively involved in master planning of existing & new settlements; ecological restoration/conservation; impact assessment of natural disasters, management & reconstruction; resource assessment & management; Conservation & site interpretation of world heritage sites. Sanjay Prakash, Senior Advisor, IIHS and Principal Consultant, SHiFt: Studio for Habitat Futures is the other faculty member for this course.</p>
<p>His area of practice and research over the last 30 years includes passive and low energy architecture and planning, hybrid air-conditioning, autonomous energy and water systems, bamboo and earth construction, community-based design of common property, and computer-aided design. Under his guidance, hundreds of people have developed capabilities in performing design, conceptual or management work in these areas. Date May 3-5, 2013 Time 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM Location IIHS Bangalore City Campus, No. 196/36, 2nd Main Road, Sadasivanagar Bengaluru - 560 080 Website http://www.iihs.co.in/programmes/upp/ssp/ssp-may-2013/ Contact Person Swastik Harish – 080 67606666</p>
| | | | | 03/05/2013 0:00:00 | 05/05/2013 0:00:00 | | 02/05/2013 8:40:00 | | Indian Institute for Human Settlements | 476-iihs-announces-short-course-on-sustainable-site-planning | Pallavi Jha | pallavi.j@gutenbergpr.com | Bangalore | Bangalore, Karnātaka, India |
| 13 | 475 | Pedal Social | NGOO | INCL | 0 | -23.33 | -46.38 | <p>Pedal Social is a free Bike sharing, for those who don't have money for public transport to commune.</p>
<p>It works on weekdays and on weekends we use bikes to generate income for the teenagers that are in school. They have made themselves a historical neighborhood, bicycles are rented to tourists and the income goes to the family. In Cambuci neighborhood in Sao Paulo where he was deployed with the project BioUrban, the program is part of Pedal Social and Instituto Brasis, a partnership that aims to reduce costs of public transport participants, workers and generate income for adolescents at high risk and vulnerability social. The project is installed on a staircase in the neighborhood of Cambuci, which is an urban intervention whose goal is the development of an aesthetic renewal from within the communities (local tenements and Squatters), which creates opportunities for dialogue, conflict mediation and a bridge to discuss improving the local quality of life. <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">It is also a social laboratory where learning is mutual and constant. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The Pedal Project Social is not a model full of rules that the community needs to "fit" to be part of the program. Pedal Social is a learning process to involve the community. The whole process is built with and by the community, the bike are donated by the community, and management is shared locally, all control is done on trust among participants, the welfare generated by the program is shared among all. During the process of implementation of the program undergoes a first neighborhood urban intervention, it is very important that the community has identified with the project, recognize and reinforce the sense of belonging and "ownership of space" and the program. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">In </span>Cambuci<span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> the project had strong identification with children and adolescents from local communities, who have never had the possibility of having a bicycle thereby opened up a space for children appropriated the project. From the beginning children and adolescents received the project with open arms and the entire deployment process had strong participation of children. We had a very big concern to make children understand that the project is for Adults able to work weekdays and weekends there will be certain times that children and adolescents may make use of bicycles. The first bikes will be loaned on weekends for recreation of children, but the goal is that bicycles are "leased" to "tourists" so they know all the social project of the Brazil Institute at the region </span>Cambuci<span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> and </span>Ipiranga<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">, which involves several local communities, all the way done with the bike, driven by a teenager and entitled to a lunch within an educational occupation. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The income generated will help the family of adolescents.</span></p>
| youtubeVoA6IchALS8#! | http://www.pedalsocial.org | @green_mobility | http://mobilidadeverde.org | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 20/04/2013 20:24:04 | | Green Mobility Institute | 475-pedal-social | Lincoln Paiva | lincoln@mobilidadeverde.org | São Paulo - Brazil | São Paulo - Brazil |
| 14 | 474 | Urban Managua // Rethinking urbanity in the central area of Managua, Nicaragua | EDUC | INCL | 0 | 12.1363889 | -86.2513889 | <p>URBAN MANAGUA / Academic Partnership in Integrated Urban Development Studies – an interdisciplinary approach for the sustainable development of spontaneous human settlements in the central urban area of Managua/Nicaragua.</p>
<p>urban_managua (UM) introduces creative urban design tools and innovative methodologies in urban studies in the curriculum of architecture and related disciplines (urban sociology, history, etc.) at Universidad Centroamericana (UCA). A main objective is the integration of academic, practical and socio-cultural approaches and the response to the needs/demands for improved living conditions in Spontaneous Human Settlements (SHS) in the central urban area of Managua/Nicaragua.</p>
<p>Over a two-year period, the project has three interrelated specific objectives: Firstly, UM aims to strengthen educational and applied research skills in the academic curriculum of urban planners and researchers through an interdisciplinary partnership between the UCA, IEI, UT Vienna and other primary stakeholders in this field. Integrated Development Studies (IUDS) will be introduced and institutionalised in UCA’s urban studies discipline and will allow an integral and interdisciplinary urban planning approach that is demand/needs-driven and community-based. A second objective is to foster a permanent South-South dialogue between academics and practitioners to strengthen the relation and cooperation between urban planning academics (“know why”) and practitioners (“know how”) on an international, regional (i.e. Central- and South American) and local level. Therefore national and international professionals act as guest lecturers in classes and give expert critiques on practical works. Thirdly, the project will also contribute to improving the local livelihood conditions of the families of Barrio La Candelaria, an informal settlement in the mere centre of Managua where the student workshop and accompanying academic research will take place throughout the project. Important is a Participatory Development Approach (PDA) on a local level throughout the project, which implements cultural activities to promote the local community’s inclusion in the planning and research processes, thereby strengthening their sense of project ownership.</p>
<p>The aim is therefore not only a theoretical one but also a specific contribution to poverty alleviation.</p>
<p>Watch the video - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESxNwArdPQ&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESxNwArdPQ&feature=youtu.be</a></p>
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESxNwArdPQ&feature=youtu.be | http://www.urban-managua.org | | https://www.facebook.com/UrbanManagua | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 30/09/2014 0:00:00 | | 15/04/2013 15:32:07 | | Universidad Centroamericana / Viena University of Technology / Casa de los Tres Mundos | 474-urban-managua-rethinking-urbanity-in-the-central-area-of-managua-nicaragua | Roland Krebs | roland.krebs@gmail.com | Managua | Managua, Managua, Nicaragua |
| 15 | 473 | Zeeheldentuin The Garden of Sea Heroes | ASSO | GREE | 0 | 52.08164182981251 | 4.292052458136027 | <p>The Zeehledntuin (Sea Heroes Garden) is a initiative of neighbours, inhabitants and entrepreneurs in the Zeeheldenkwartier to establish a nieghbourhood garden to eat, garden, play and meet. It was triggered by a specific site at the Tasmanstraat, that has been an empty lot ever since the local catholic school burned down, leaving only some large trees on a fenced large gap in the middle of this dense urban neighbourhood. The Zeeheldenkwartier is a very mixed an lively area closed to the centre and inhabited by a vide variety of social groups. Public live is however limited to few squares and cafés and for children there is even less attractive public space. Neighbours took action, collecting signatures and money. The Zeeheldentuin is supported by a Housing Cooperation, the City and many private and company donations and a based on voluntary work of inhabitants, children, experts off-duty with various proffessional background or retired people. By 2013 an offer to buy the land and realise it with a adjacent social housing complex is almost settled to a deal, while the Dutch Housing sector hold it's breath in a reorganisation of the current housing regulatory measures. Meanwhile plans are being fine tuned and planting is expected in 2014.</p>
| | http://www.zeeheldentuin.nl | | https://www.facebook.com/Zeeheldentuin | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 14/04/2013 20:56:38 | | Zeeheldentuin | 473-zeeheldentuin-the-garden-of-sea-heroes | Daniel Jauslin | jauslin@dgj.nl | The Hague | The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands |
| 16 | 472 | Adopt a flowerbed! | ASSO | GREE | 0 | 45.69826420000001 | 9.65546880512693 | <p>We are calling volunteers to action. The flowerbeds in our city are in a sad state due to financial difficulties. We decided to start doing some gardening ourselves, to help the roses, bushes and flowers in our neighbourhood to survive. We hope April 20th will be blessed by lovely weather so many people will join us! </p>
| | http://www.santalucia.bg.it | | | 20/04/2013 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 14/04/2013 20:17:08 | | Comitato Santa Lucia | 472-adopt-a-flowerbed | Nicoletta Colombo | info@santalucia.bg.it | Bergamo | Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy |
| 17 | 471 | Culture and Arts: pushing the cultural bounderies | PRIV | INCL | 0 | -23.5489433 | -46.6388182 | <p>FalaCultura is a project, recognized by the Brazilian Culture Ministry, that aims to expand cultural boundaries. Brazil is rich in cultural diversity and multiple artistic expressions. Unfortunately, most of the museums, cultural centers and theaters are concentrated in specific regions of the country, keeping a large part of the population left out. In this aspect, São Paulo is like a smaller version of Brazil. The city is known as a multicultural, diverse city, but most of its art venues are in downtown or the West Zone, while other areas lack of cultural infrastructure. At FalaCultura, we believe that technology and communication can be used to relieve the effects of this concentration of cultural venues. We use our known-how and tools to create a dynamic network. Working with museums and other cultural institutions, we create free guides, audioguides and virtual exhibitions to get the content closer to people from all around town. We are currently developing a crowd-sourced culture and arts agenda, that will enable anyone to update others on interesting events and exhibitions that are not in the mainstream, as well as a smartphone app for both consulting the agenda and hearing the audioguides.</p>
| youtubed_jqMQb9MNM | http://www.falacultura.com | @falacultura | http://www.facebook.com/falacultura | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 01/04/2013 17:18:47 | | FalaCultura | 471-culture-and-arts-pushing-the-cultural-bounderies | Juliana Piesco | jpiesco@falacultura.com | São Paulo | São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 18 | 470 | Milano Città Metropolitana | PUBL | PLAN | 0 | 45.4654542 | 9.186515999999983 | <p>L’area metropolitana milanese è l’agglomerato urbano più ricco e produttivo del Paese. È storicamente il centro economico d’Italia e continua ancora oggi a garantire la creazione di circa il 10% del PIL nazionale. Poche realtà possono infatti vantare un sistema economico solido e ben bilanciato come quello milanese; tuttavia il mutato quadro economico internazionale non consente più di affrontare in modo adeguato la competizione globale senza una nuova visione dello sviluppo capace di valorizzare appieno il potenziale dei sistemi territoriali locali. Una realtà come quella dell’area metropolitana milanese, non può permettersi di non avere una struttura amministrativa adeguata che governi e integri funzioni fondamentali per la vita dei cittadini. Ad oggi la gestione di servizi importanti come il trasporto pubblico, il ritiro e lo smaltimento dei rifiuti, o della tutela dell’ambientale e dello sviluppo economico è svolta in maniera frammentaria, senza un governo unitario.</p>
<p>Tutte le grandi città hanno affrontato il tema della riforma dei loro sistemi di governo mettendo in campo nuove e differenti soluzioni istituzionali, tutte rivolte a dare una dimensione metropolitana al governo dei problemi e delle opportunità. Per questo l’Amministrazione Comunale di Milano vuole realizzare, in sinergia e collaborazione tra le Istituzioni e le forze economiche e sociali del territorio, una profonda trasformazione degli assetti istituzionali di governo dell’area milanese dando vita alla costituzione della Città Metropolitana di Milano. Il Parlamento con la legge n. 135 del 7 agosto 2012 istituisce dal 1 gennaio 2014 le Citta Metropolitane di Roma, Torino, Milano, Venezia, Genova, Bologna, Firenze, Bari e Reggio Calabria, con contestuale soppressioe delle rispettive province. La medesima legge attribuisce alla Città metropolitana, oltre alle funzioni fondamentali delle province le seguenti funzioni fondamentali: pianificazione territoriale generale e delle reti infrastrutturali; strutturazione di sistemi coordinati di gestione dei servizi pubblici, nonché organizzazione dei servizi pubblici di interesse generale di ambito metropolitano; mobilità e viabilità; promozione e coordinamento dello sviluppo economico e sociale.</p>
<p>L’attivazione del nuovo ente richiede una nuova disciplina dei rapporti fra i comuni facenti parte della città metropolitana e la definizione delle modalità di organizzazione ed esercizio delle funzioni metropolitane. Tutto ciò confluirà nella definizione dello Statuto del nuovo Ente . Il Comune di Milano, anche in ragione del suo ruolo di capoluogo, è fortemente coinvolto nel processo istitutivo della Città Metropolitana.</p>
| | http://www.milanocittametropolitana.org | @CittaMetropolit | https://www.facebook.com/MilanoCittaMetropolitana | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 29/03/2013 11:39:28 | | Comune di Milano e Centrostudi PIM | 470-milano-citt-metropolitana | Francesco Locatelli | francescolocatelli@milanocittametropolitana.org | Milano | Milano, Lombardy, Italy |
| 19 | 469 | Street Belongs to Us! | NGOO | PLAN | 0 | 41.00527 | 28.976959999999963 | <p>Cities in Turkey have low quality of streets and transportation systems. As pedestrians, cyclists, children, elderly or disabled people, we all have problems with transportation, when we are going home or to school or shopping. We have a hard time getting from one place to another because the cars are parking on the sidewalks and infrastructure is not convenient. Furthermore, the streets which are a main part of city life and public spaces are being overrun by vehicles forcing pedestrians elsewhere. "Street Belongs to Us" is a non-profit organization, which focuses on human-centered cities and streets in Istanbul. Organization makes different projects, interviews, events to make citizens aware of transportation and traffic problems & alternatives. We are working in collaboration with other organizations that feel the same way about solving the problems.</p>
<p>The most successful and well-known project of the organization is events called “Streets Belongs To Us Once In A Month!”. These events were organized to show people how they can benefit from their streets as a safe open public space and also to remind the street culture. The events were carried out in a street festival style, providing residents with an opportunity to allow their children to play in safe traffic-free open areas that would usually be danger zones. At each event a selected residential street was closed to motorized traffic on a Sunday. Street furniture and various art and sport installations were displayed to illustrate alternative uses for the street space that is lost to moving or parked cars. “Streets Belongs to Us Once in a Month” activities set out principles of good practice for a social action based on transport. It was placed in 12 different streets of Istanbul and made permanent physical changes in 3 streets.</p>
| | www.sokakbizim.org | @sokakbizim | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sokak-Bizim/170243599682371 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 26/03/2013 17:00:25 | | Street Belongs to Us Organization | 469-street-belongs-to-us | Arzu Erturan | arzu.erturan@sokakbizim.org | Istanbul | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 20 | 465 | EcoMobility World Festival 2013 | NGOO | OTHE | 0 | 37.2635727 | 127.02860090000001 | <p>EcoMobility World Festival 2013, taking place from 01 – 30 September, is an international gathering of leaders, businesses, organizations, experts and citizens in Suwon, South Korea, committed to an urban future beyond car dependency. The 2nd EcoMobility World Congress (01 – 04 September) provides the opportunity to participate in a global forum while experiencing simultaneously the ecomobile neighborhood. Festival participants will witness Haenggung-dong neighborhood residents adopt an ecomobile lifestyle – one prioritizing walking, cycling, public transport and light electric vehicles – providing future inspiration for a city designed for people, not cars. Alongside seminars, workshops, vehicle exhibitions and networking opportunities, a full program of entertainment events will engage local and international visitors alike with a spectacular fusion of Korean culture and EcoMobility activities. In brief, EcoMobility World Festival aims to highlight on the world stage how the adoption of integrated, socially inclusive, and healthy transport options by the Haenggung-dong residents positively influences their lifestyles and leads to new opportunities for using public space.</p>
| | www.ecomobilityfestival.org | @ecomobility_ | https://www.facebook.com/ecomobilityfestival.org | 01/09/2013 0:00:00 | 30/09/2013 0:00:00 | | 26/03/2013 11:11:29 | | ICLEI & UN-Habitat | www.ecomobilityfestival.org | Eilish O'Loughlin | ecomobility.festival@iclei.org | Suwon | Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea |
| 21 | 463 | Australian young planners- Innovating and leading in regional Australia | ASSO | RESI | 0 | -36.75871120000001 | 144.28374589999999 | <p>Plan B is an association of undergraduate students, postgraduate students and allumni of the Planning and Community Development program, La Trobe University Bendigo. Through our scheduled events and projects, Plan B offers members the opportunity to build social and professional networks, and to gain additional hands-on experience during their time at university and beyond. Since its formation in 2010, Plan B has tirelessly worked to improve the resilience of rural and regional communities in Australia, particularly its home state of Victoria.</p>
<p>For example, Plan B has strengthened the ability for communities to use mapping to assist in developing walking and cycling networks for their community, as well as disaster relief mapping in flood devastated Queensland through the MapMyTown initiative (http://www.victoriawalks.org.au/mapmytown/). Further, Plan B discussed Bendigo's future food security through Plan B's 'Food Futures' forum (http://www.planb.org.au/events/fullhousefoodfuturesforumsuccess), whilst projects in 2013 aim to look at the use of space and the creation of valued places in Bendigo, and looking at ways of developing Victoria's 3rd largest cities as a 'Great University City'. Plan B is regional Victoria's, and quite possibly Australia's, most hands-on and innovative group of young city changers.</p>
| youtubeIMbZ63jKsx0&feature=player_embedded | www.planb.org.au | @PlanBLaTrobe | http://www.facebook.com/groups/planblatrobe/ | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 21/03/2013 1:13:40 | | Plan B, La Trobe University Student Planner's Association | 463-australian-young-planners-innovating-and-leading-in-regional-australia | James McLean | jjgmclean@live.com | Bendigo | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
| 22 | 462 | 2014 Student Design Competition “ Integrated Communities: A Society for All Ages” | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 40.7143528 | -74.0059731 | <p>Competition Background: The Integrated Communities: A Society for all Ages student design competition was established in 1994 to enhance understanding of the Age of Longevity and showcase innovative design solutions. This program is the centerpiece of the International Council for Caring Communities’ (ICCC) global dialogues; it endeavors to prepare the next generation of designers to enhance the quality of life for the growing graying society. The competition is organized in conjunction with the United Nations Programme for Human Settlements (UNHABITAT) and the United Nations Programme on Ageing, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the private sector. Furthermore, it is endorsed around the world by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.</p>
<p>Overall Purpose: Competition’s interrelated long-term goals are: 1. To raise the awareness of architectural and design students to the needs of older persons; 2. To increase cross-cultural understanding; 3. To incorporate the growing role of ICT in communities; 4. To encourage a close connection between proposed solutions and the real world. Past competitions have influenced local planning, educational curricula, encouraged dialogue and established new mindsets; they all deal with inclusive communities, created through a combination of new construction, renovation, reuse and environmental intervention. Through its efforts, this student competition seeks to encourage concepts and projects, which can address the needs and aspirations of multi-generational communities.</p>
<p>Eligibility: Any current architectural student or team of students in good standing in either a graduate or undergraduate program worldwide.</p>
<p>Deadlines: To enter the competition, an individual or teams of students must register electronically on the www.international-iccc.org entry form. The entries are due on or before 15 September 2013 and projects must be postmarked by 31 December 2013 and sent to ICCC, 24 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019, USA. No projects postmarked after 31 December 2013 will be accepted. Awards: Awards include: First Prize: US $10,000; Second Prize: US $5,000; Third Prize: US $2,500. Jury: An international jury of renowned architects, gerontologists, and United Nations officials will judge the entries in January 2014. Exhibitions: The 2014 Cycle has special significance, for it will offer winners worldwide exposure at two important international venues: The United Nations 52nd Session of the Commission for Social Development at United Nations Headquarters, and the 2014 World Urban Forum, Colombia. Other exhibitions will be held in conjunction with international events in China and Brazil, United Nations Regional Commissions and other world venues.</p>
<p>Why a Competition? The Competition reinforces the notion that the next generation must, and can, proactively plan for a society of diverse ages, and for one with increasing proportions of older persons. It is, after all, going to fall on their shoulders to find solutions and support for an everincreasing population of elderly people. The Competition is aimed at answering the following questions:</p>
<p>“These students are the builders, designers, planners, innovators – literally, the architects of the future. Although they have yet to begin their professional careers, each winner presented an outstanding example of what can be accomplished with truly creative thinking.” Professor Dianne Davis, Founding President, ICCC</p>
| | http://www.international-iccc.org/studentdesign.htm | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 19/03/2013 16:45:46 | | International Council for Caring Communities | 462-2014-student-design-competition-integrated-communities-a-society-for-all-ages | Rosa Surinach | surinach@un.org | New York City | New York City, New York, United States |
| 23 | 461 | Thrilla in Manila | ASSO | RESI | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>We are looking at the conditions for social urban transformation in slum upgrading. This includes community-led practices in urban development ranging from innovative finance mechanisms, participatory housing and infrastructure upgrading and transformative political processes of inclusion, conflict management and collaboration. By supporting the advancement and use of methodologies and tools in community-driven development via mapping, planning, design, management, recover and rehabilitation of housing, land and settlement with Technical Assistance Movement for People and Environment, Inc (TAMPEI) in Metro Manila, loilo City, Digos City, Mandaue City and Rodriguez Municipality, we can explore the concept of area planning for new communities. We work with many vulnerable communities exposed to flooding and evictions and with the use fo savings groups, help leverage the communities in negotiations with landowners and other stakeholders. We collaborate with community architects as well as students and are looking at having a more city wide perspective when addressing issues.</p>
| | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 19/03/2013 4:44:27 | | Asian Coalition of Housing Rights | 461-thrilla-in-manila | Zahra Kassam | zakassam@gmail.com | Manila | Manila |
| 24 | 460 | Working Cities | INDI | PROD | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>Working Cities es una estrategia urbana que tiene como objetivo multiplicar el espacio público en las principales zonas laborales de las ciudades mediante el intercambio de beneficios entre el sector público y el privado, proporcionando a los trabajadores zonas de ocio, recreación y ejercicio. Con ayuda de la participación ciudadana generadora de propuestas de diseño, y los recursos obtenidos por la estrategia, se modificarán espacios residuales de la ciudad o se crearán nuevos espacios públicos, equipamiento urbano y actividades de mantenimiento para los mismos.</p>
| | http://estrategiascolectivas.com/ | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 12/03/2013 18:11:37 | | estrategiascolectivas | 460-working-cities | Juan Jose Barrios Avalos | arqbaaj@hotmail.com | Mexico DF | Mexico DF |
| 25 | 459 | Brief tour of buildings of Nairobi | FRIE | OTHE | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>A brief tour of the buildings of Nairobi ‘For anyone interested in learning about the history of the architecture of Nairobi, this book provides a great overview of the city’s most prominent buildings, whose histories span from ... the British Occupation to the modern era’. Authors, Yuko Iwatani and Evelyne Wanjiku FOREWORD by Prof. Wangari Maatha</p>
| | | | http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Buildings-of-Nairobi/174269832672139 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 12/03/2013 10:28:22 | | Yuko Iwatani and Evelyne Wanjiku | 459-brief-tour-of-buildings-of-nairobi | Evelyne Wanjiku | buildingsofnairobi@gmail.com | Nairobi | Nairobi |
| 26 | 458 | Mural City | ASSO | RESI | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>Mural City is a community social-artistic project created by Colectivo Tomate seeking to rescue urban spaces while regenerating communities through social processes; resulting in the creation of murals that disclose the identity of those involved. Xanenetla, one of the oldest and most dangerous neighborhoods in Puebla, hosts the largest number of murals created as part of this project, 52 in total. These murals were conceived, designed and painted by the community, together with artists, designers and many volunteers summoned by Colectivo Tomate to revive the economy, improve the urban environment and reinforce the sense of community of the barrio. Different free activities and workshops, aimed at raising awareness, respect and participation, are organized parallel to the creation of the murals. Ciudad Mural has resulted in the participation of the community towards a common welfare, less crime rate within the barrio and has changed the preconception the citizens had of a neighborhood that was considered dangerous. The youth and children of the neighborhood have been involved in the creation of something that has a positive impact on their self-esteem and the discovery of talents, while young people were able to use their artistic skills in a constructive, not destructive manner.</p>
| youtubeQprF-CocyVE | http://colectivotomate.com/index.php/ciudad-mural/puebla/xanenetla/murales-xanenetla | @pueblacdmural | https://www.facebook.com/pueblamuralpuebla | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 11/03/2013 23:42:23 | | Colectivo Tomate | 458-mural-city | Vica Amuchastegui | vica@colectivotomate.com | Puebla | Puebla, Mexico |
| 27 | 456 | Belgrade Critical Mass | ASSO | SAFE | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>Ulice za bicikliste is an independent organization committed to improving biking conditions and increasing the visibility of cyclists in highly-trafficked areas of Belgrade. We hope to see cycling and walking culture overtake car culture, which is outdated and in many ways threatens citizens’ well-being. At the start of our monthly rides, we started every last Friday of a month, but in order to make it more visited and popular, we moved it to Saturday. It's a monthly mass bicycle ride with a goal to promote the need for traffic safety and lessen the number of cars in Belgrade which are causing pedestrian and bicyclists deaths and injuries almost everyday. Our goal is to promote smart city planning and to make all the streets in the city core interesting, clean, colorful social places which will be safe for the smallest kid and promote smart, clean and safe ways of mobility.</p>
| youtube5F2zwuIoHZs | http://www.uzb.rs | @ugUZB | http://www.facebook.com/uguzb | 29/04/2011 0:00:00 | 25/04/2020 0:00:00 | | 11/03/2013 22:47:37 | | Ulice za bicikliste | 456-belgrade-critical-mass | Miloš Lazić | ulicezabicikliste@gmail.com | Belgrade | Belgrade |
| 28 | 455 | Promoting Urban Innovation | PRIV | RESI | 0 | 41.3850639 | 2.1734034999999494 | <p>A methodology for urban innovation Urbis Up is a young consultancy managed by Civil Engineer David Blázquez Aguirre, placed in Barcelona. We try to work for the development of cities bringing new solutions to their management and sustainability and we work in the transformation to the smart and resilient city, identifying new and innovative projects and promoting innovation in the field of urban planning, infrastructure, energy and the environment. Nowadays we are working in a new methodology for urban innovation in collaboration with Barcelona City Council. With this new methodology we try to achive:</p>
<p>1)Acting in line with the strategy of the entire city while considering the interests of the same.</p>
<p>2)Optimize the allocation of human and material resources to the innovation process</p>
<p>3)Limiting the risk of innovation. Innovate effectively developing ideas that are useful to the city</p>
<p>4)Consider the temporal component of the innovation 5)Increase the creation of synergies between different infrastructures We have develope an idea screening, seen as a filter that has the potential to move forward ideas studied in order to be accepted in order to develop an innovative project around it.</p>
<p>This filter is coordinated through a set of thirty questions divided into four main aspects to evaluate include: innovation and technological aspects, economic, social and environmental aspects. The result is a model that includes all aspects of the city in the area of decision and which may easily be copied by and adapted to other cities in the world.</p>
| | "http://www.urbisup.com/" | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 05/03/2013 11:44:21 | | Urbis UP - David Blázquez Aguirre | 455-promoting-urban-innovation | David Blázquez Aguirre | dblazquez@urbisup.com | Barcelona | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| 29 | 454 | BURA:BUEA URBAN REGENERATION ASSOCIATION. | NGOO | PLAN | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>We are launching a campaign for urban youth space in the Buea municipality in South west region Cameroon.We look forward to have a recreation centre for youths in Buea to accommodate thousands of youths who come into the city for education and other purposes. Following the recent demolition by the Buea rural council no plan has been made for urban youth space.So under the auspices of Cameroon Vision Trust We look forward to raise awareness of youth space in this urban city.</p>
| | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 03/03/2013 23:39:35 | | CAMEROON VISION TRUST. | 454-burabuea-urban-regeneration-association | John. A.Mbeng | revgentleman@yahoo.com | BUEA | BUEA,CAMEROON |
| 30 | 452 | Iluminaction | PUBL | INCL | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>IlluminAction was the result of a series of urban action workshops led by UrbanoActivo, an 11-member multi-disciplinary collective for the discussion and experimentation of the limits of public space in Puerto Rico. The group was looking to find new ways of perceiving these relationships to make the city a more connected and livable place for all. UA chose a street in the heart of the city, Calle Luis B. Romano, as the spot for the intervention. This historically neglected street is a vital pedestrian connector to the Rio Piedras train station, but had no illumination, which made it unsafe for pedestrians to walk from the station into the surrounding streets at night. The group decided to reclaim this public space by creating a public event with an open call for the community to bring illumination back into the street. The result was an evening filled with film projections, DIY light installations, glow-in-the-dark art murals, stilt dancers and musical performances. A petition letter addressed to the Mayor was circulated during the evening asking for the street illumination to be reinstalled. Two weeks later the street light posts were reinstalled bringing illumination back into the street.</p>
| vimeo33707745 | http://www.urbanoactivo.com/ | https://twitter.com/urbanoactivo | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 28/02/2013 20:57:59 | | Urbano Activo | 452-iluminaction | Andrea Bauza | andrea@urbanoactivo.com | San Juan | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 31 | 451 | Red Box Project | NGOO | GREE | 0 | 49.261226 | -123.1139268 | <p>In order to educate the local community about locally grown food, FUN Champs David and Emre have been pursuing their ideas to install community garden planter boxes in their city. FUN Society is an organization dedicating to educating youth about their environment, and the FUN Champs program gives kids like David and Emre who come up with innovative ideas to implement them in their communities. Along with the installation of their boxes, David and Emre plan to manage workshops to teach others about the importance of healthy, local food.</p>
| youtube_ACp1D_nEQ8 | http://www.funsociety.ca/Home.html | | https://www.facebook.com/FUNSociety | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 27/02/2013 7:44:12 | | FUN Society | 451-red-box-project | Brianna | funmentorvancouver@gmail.com | Vancouver | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| 32 | 449 | Sustainable Mobility in Romanian Cities | PRIV | PLAN | 0 | 45.787441 | 24.143258999999944 | <p>More and more crowded and polluted, the urban and peri-urban areas of the European countries are today confronted with the necessity of developing infrastructure integrated transport systems that would meet sustainable mobility principles. They have to observe the guidelines of the European Union in terms of environmental protection while meeting social problems as well. However, in Romania, the development of such transport systems faces a series of obstacles and those related to the legislative framework are among the most pressing.</p>
<p>Lacking functional transport authorities and coherent legislation compliant to European Union requirements, connections between cities and their surroundings are primitive to the passenger’s detriment and implicitly create social and economic disadvantages in developing the entire area. How can this situation be radically changed and what are the technical solutions for reducing pollution and creating performing traffic?</p>
| | www.clubmetropolitan.ro | | | 20/03/2013 0:00:00 | 21/03/2013 0:00:00 | | 25/02/2013 21:34:05 | | Club Metropolitan | 449-sustainable-mobility-in-romanian-cities | Cristina Trifon | cristina.trifon@clubmetropolitan.ro | Sibiu | Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania |
| 33 | 448 | The URBAN HUSBAND Project | INDI | GREE | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>The URBAN HUSBAND Project represents a unique ecological approach to the built environment that posits mediation as commitment to the Geddesian motto, By Leave We Live.” This project seeks to cultivate a psychological posture responsive to the exigencies of the urban environment through a three-fold strategy that includes: 1) Capital development which incubates a ground of experience, 2) Equity appreciation which organizes a community of practice, and 3) Access acceleration which activates the built environment.</p>
<p>The URBAN HUSBAND Project seeks to disrupt the normative patterns of Capitalist consumption through the development of human capital that will circulate within the indigenous ecological process of the Flatbush community. Specifically, this project seeks to increase accessibility to public spaces in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn.</p>
| | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 18/02/2013 15:27:00 | | Chris M Jones | 448-the-urban-husband-project | CHRIS M JONES | cmjones@muppynyc.com | Brooklyn | Brooklyn, NY |
| 34 | 446 | Public transport can be safer | PRIV | OTHE | 0 | 12.974526097261327 | 77.60417573710936 | <p>Public transport is undeniably a sustainable mode of transport for any city. But in several over populated cities, they have to vie for limited space with other modes of transport and hawkers and this leads to several problems. In our city and several other Indian cities the very act of ingress and egress has become very difficult and this hampers the utility and acceptance of public transport.</p>
<p>Buses are forced to park randomly even in the middle of the road at bus stops and commuters have to dangerously weave in and out of traffic. This erratic parking also blocks other traffic and leads to congestion, road rage and altercations, not to mention fuel wastage and increased emissions. Government, academic agencies and citizen groups have experimented with several soft solutions to ensure that the simple act of ensuring that a bus stops only at a bus stop and as close to the kerb as possible to facilitate easy boarding and alighting, but have failed to yield results.</p>
<p>We, as a socially responsible R&D organization, undertook a thorough survey to fully understand the problem and then spent 2 years to perfect a concept which is infallible. We call this the "Invisible Bus Bay" system. We are presently interacting with several NGO's, state transport corporations and citizen initiatives to spread awareness and make public transport safer and more convenient.</p>
| | http://www.invisiblebusbay.com | @invisiblebusbay | http://www.facebook.com/invisible.bus.bay | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 17/02/2013 5:13:35 | | Invisible Bus Bay | 446-public-transport-can-be-safer | Chetan Prasad | chetan@invisiblebusbay.com | Bangalore - bengaluru | Bangalore - bengaluru, Karnātaka, India |
| 35 | 444 | Projeto Criança Pequena em Foco | NGOO | INCL | 0 | -22.9035393 | -43.20958689999998 | <p>As crianças raramente são perguntadas sobre como percebem o lugar onde moram, quais suas opiniões sobre os aspectos positivos e negativos da favela e quais mudanças elas gostariam que ocorressem em suas comunidades. O projeto Criança Pequena em Foco, desenvolvido pelo CECIP- Centro de Criação de Imagem Popular, em parceria com o Instituto Pereira Passos, e com o apoio da Fundação Bernard van Leer, está interessado em saber como as crianças compreendem tais questões. Por isso, foram desenvolvidas, ao longo de 2012, oficinas com cerca de 100 crianças, com idades entre 4 e 12 anos, frequentadoras de instituições comunitárias e moradoras das favelas Santa Marta, Babilônia e Chapéu-Mangueira.</p>
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<p>O objetivo é compreender a perspectiva das crianças sobre esses assuntos, para que suas opiniões sirvam como subsídio na orientação de políticas públicas nos territórios, no planejamento de projetos de infraestrutura e no projeto de construção de equipamentos urbanos a elas direcionados. Diversas metodologias participativas foram utilizadas como, por exemplo, a construção de mapas afetivos e passeios fotográficos. Durante as oficinas realizadas pela equipe do CECIP, as crianças demonstraram ter uma percepção complexa e questionadora sobre a vida na favela. Elas consideram como problemas sérios de suas comunidades a má conservação dos lugares onde brincam, a precariedade das moradias, o barulho, a convivência diária com lixo, valas de esgoto a céu aberto e ratazanas. Em 2013 o Projeto Criança Pequena em Foco acontecerá em outros territórios, buscando a incorporação de uma prática de escuta de crianças nas intervenções urbanas promovidas pelo poder público.</p>
| youtube5XJQYAfv3i4 | http://www.cecip.org.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=365&Itemid=348 | | http://www.facebook.com/pages/CECIP-Centro-de-Cria%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-Imagem-Popular/315035249496 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 15/02/2013 16:58:42 | | CECIP - Centro de Criação de Imagem Popular | 444-projeto-criana-pequena-em-foco | Moana Van de Beuque | moana@cecip.org.br | Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 36 | 443 | Alquiler de vehículos entre particulares, nuevas oportunidades para los propietarios y los conductores | PRIV | GREE | 0 | 41.3850639 | 2.1734034999999494 | <p>SOCIAL CAR es el primer servicio de alquiler de coches de persona a persona en España. Alquila un coche al lado de tu casa por horas, días o semanas al mejor precio o comparte tu coche. Social Car permite a propietarios de coches particulares alquilar sus vehículos, aprovechando el tiempo en que no se utilizan y permanecen aparcados, obteniendo un ingreso extra. http://www.socialcar.com/acerca-de PREGUNTAS FRECUENTES: http://www.socialcar.com/como-funciona/preguntas-frecuentes-conductores http://www.socialcar.com/como-funciona/preguntas-frecuentes propietarios Descripción Ofrecemos la posibilidad de acceder a una variada gama de coches, que puedan cubrir necesidades diferentes en función del momento: una tarde de compras, un día en la playa, una visita a un cliente, una escapada de fin de semana... Además con SOCIAL CAR juntos colaboramos por una movilidad más SOSTENIBLE e INTELIGENTE</p>
| youtube9LZa9jlNH6E | http://www.socialcar.com/ | https://twitter.com/SocialCarCom | https://www.facebook.com/social.car | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 12/02/2013 17:20:14 | | SocialCar.com | 443-alquiler-de-vehculos-entre-particulares-nuevas-oportunidades-para-los-propietar | Alexandra | aramio@socialcar.com | Barcelona | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| 37 | 442 | Prosperity of Cities – South Meets North | PUBL | INCL | 0 | 40.7143528 | -74.0059731 | <blockquote>
<p>The High-Level Working Session on “Prosperity in Cities – South Meets North” is part of the “Age of Connectivity: Cities, Magnets of Hop. Imagining the Possible” Dialogue Series which addresses the numerous opportunities and challenges facing a rapidly urbanizing world. An international expert group composed of government representatives, private sector entrepreneurs, educators, health and cultural experts will leverage their insights and expertise in addressing one of the themes of the 21st Century: Prosperity of Cities.</p>
<p>The “State of the World Cities 2013-2013” Report, focused on this subject, and the “City Prosperity Index” measurement tool will be presented during the Session. Panelists will combine their knowledge and skills towards developing a holistic approach to connecting the generations utilizing the non-traditional interaction of culture, tourism, Agequake, water/energy and the digital future on urbanization.</p>
<p>The Session will be held during the 51st Session of the Commission for Social Development and is co-organized by UN-Habitat (the UN Human Settlements Programme), and the International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC), in collaboration with Member States, other UN agencies and Habitat agenda partners, including the private sector, academia, and other civil society organizations.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">This Session builds upon to reexamine, rethink and redefine current practices and identify viable recommendations for scaling-up successful projects and stimulating new concepts. </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">It will aim to lay the framework for bringing together visionary ideas and practical solutions that can be implemented on the road to the Post 2015 Development Agenda and Habitat III Conference in 2016.</span></p>
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| | | | https://www.facebook.com/events/185199688270327/?context=create | 08/02/2013 0:00:00 | 08/02/2013 0:00:00 | | 04/02/2013 17:22:01 | | UN-Habitat NYC | 442-prosperity-of-cities-south-meets-north | UN-Habitat NYC | habitatny@un.org | New York City | New York City, New York, United States |
| 38 | 441 | Art-SOStain (ArtSostoyanie in Russian) | FRIE | PROD | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>To change appearance of monotonous industrial landscape group of Togliatti creative managers and businessmen created a project ArtSOStain. They've managed to attract many artists, from professionals to students to create art-objects in the city most attended places. Now they are looking forward to the next phase: creating museum expositions and changing interiors of educational establishments, combining last inventions in paint technology and innovative art approaches.</p>
| youtube37H6LQiTzUk | http://vk.com/artsos | | http://www.facebook.com/groups/ARTSOS/ | 01/03/2012 0:00:00 | 01/03/2015 0:00:00 | | 01/02/2013 3:41:39 | | ArtSostoyanie group (Sergei Rybkin and Olga Valenchiz) | 441-art-sostain-artsostoyanie-in-russian | Vladislav Radkov | vladradkov@gmail.com | Togliatti | Togliatti |
| 39 | 440 | International Conference on Peace and Sustainable Development(ICPSD2013) | NGOO | GREE | 0 | 36.1911111 | 44.00916670000004 | <p>It has been claimed that Erbil is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in history.[9] The Neo-Sumerian ruler of Ur, Amar-Sin sacked Urbilum in his second year, Erbil was under the Assyrian Empire from around 2000 BC until 608 BC, and it remained part of the Assyrian province under Persian, Greek, Parthian, Roman and Sassanid rule</p>
| | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 28/01/2013 21:25:50 | | IIKSD | 440-international-conference-on-peace-and-sustainable-developmenticpsd2013 | Bahman Zarei | zarei.b@gmail.com | Erbil | Erbil, Arbīl, Iraq |
| 40 | 438 | Online Conference eLaboratory to Design New Operating System for city | ASSO | RESI | 0 | 52.3702157 | 4.895167899999933 | <p>The Integral City 2.0 Online Conference gathered 60 visionary thought leaders, designers andpractitioners, with 600 participants from 6 continents, to inquire into how to design a new operating system for the city. The 12-day Conference allowed exploration of each of the 12intelligences from the book "Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive ", and their contributions to city vitality.</p>
| vimeo47511734 | http://www.scribd.com/doc/120002712/Integral-City-2-0-Online-Conference-Proceedings-Executive-Summary | iCity Collective | http://www.facebook.com/IntegralCityCollective | 04/09/2012 0:00:00 | 27/09/2012 0:00:00 | | 28/01/2013 20:37:38 | | Integral City Collective | 438-online-conference-elaboratory-to-design-new-operating-system-for-city | Marilyn Hamilton | marilyn@integralcity.com | Amsterdam | Amsterdam |
| 41 | 434 | Understanding the production of urban vulnerability | INDI | RESI | 0 | -42.9167 | -72.7167 | <p>This research project aims to better understand urban vulnerability by analysing different drivers of its production, reproduction and progression. Chaitén was affected by a volcano eruption in 2008 and this projects seeks to trace back the root causes of the disasters from a socio-economic and political perspective.</p>
| | http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/people/students/phd-profiles/vicente-sandoval | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 26/01/2013 10:19:12 | | Vicente Sandoval and Development Planning Unit, UCL | 434-understanding-the-production-of-urban-vulnerability | Vicente Sandoval | vicente.sandoval.11@ucl.ac.uk | Chaitén | Chaitén, Los Lagos, Chile |
| 42 | 433 | Dar es Salaam Urban Regenerative Association (DURA) | NGOO | RESI | 0 | -6.822921 | 39.26966100000004 | <p>Under the Dar es Salaam Urban Regenerative Association (DURA): We provide awareness and social mobilization, project formulation, implementation, policy analysis and planning , media, capacity building, advocacy lobbying and networking, Research and service and infrastructure provision to build a resilient community in Dar es Salaam as a model for African Cities.</p>
| | www.ecovillage.org | | | 01/02/2013 0:00:00 | 02/11/2013 0:00:00 | | 26/01/2013 3:49:46 | | Ikra Educational Training Centre (IETC) Tanzania | 433-dar-es-salaam-urban-regenerative-association-dura | Rosemary Olive Mbone Enie | rosemaryenie@gmail.com | Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| 43 | 432 | Comunidades Sostenibles en Galápagos | NGOO | PLAN | 0 | -0.7465670652496184 | -90.31177435075682 | <p>Articulate and promote citizen action to monitor their quality of life in Galapagos, as the responsibility role of citizen for sustainable development of the islands and the promotion of a culture of sustainability. We propose to consolidate mechanisms to raise awareness of responsible public perception as the main tool to generate new imagery and consensus for the Buen Vivir and building sustainable communities in the Galapagos.</p>
| | www.funcavid.org | @FuncavidGal | http://www.facebook.com/comunidades.sostenibles | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 26/01/2013 1:04:18 | | Fundación Un Cambio por la Vida | 432-comunidades-sostenibles-en-galpagos | Daniel Proaño | danielproanob@gmail.com | Puerto Ayora | Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador |
| 44 | 430 | Ecological Alphabetization for Sustainable, Resilient and Regenerative Cities | NGOO | OTHE | 0 | -22.9035393 | -43.20958689999998 | <p>We are an NGo that has worked to raise awareness, educate and look for creative 21st Century urban interventions alternatives. We have: organized lectures open to the public and transdisciplanary short term courses; hparticipated in the Environmental City Council in the last year, but have decided to quit because the decisions are being taken behind closed doors, without effective participation; participated in the ScenaRio 2012; maintained an active website/blog to publicize new findings in urban solutions; participated in different actions to protect urban biodiversity. In 2013 we will focus on Ecological Alphabetization to try to change hearts and minds of entrepreneurs, decision makers, urban residents, students etc.</p>
| youtubemgYnXK0UBYA | www.inverde.org | | https://www.facebook.com/inverde?ref=tn_tnmn | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 25/01/2013 20:44:23 | | INVERDE | 430-ecological-alphabetization-for-sustainable-resilient-and-regenerative-cities | Cecilia Herzog | ceciliapherzog@gmail.com | Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 45 | 429 | International Conference on Peace and Sustainable Development(ICPSD2013) | NGOO | GREE | 0 | 36.1911111 | 44.00916670000004 | <p>It has been claimed that Erbil is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in history.[9] The Neo-Sumerian ruler of Ur, Amar-Sin sacked Urbilum in his second year, Erbil was under the Assyrian Empire from around 2000 BC until 608 BC, and it remained part of the Assyrian province under Persian, Greek, Parthian, Roman and Sassanid rule.</p>
| | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 25/01/2013 20:13:46 | | IIKSD | 429-international-conference-on-peace-and-sustainable-developmenticpsd2013 | Bahman Zarei | zarei.b@gmail.com | Erbil | Erbil, Arbīl, Iraq |
| 46 | 422 | Passer-by, journalism specialized in cities | NGOO | PLAN | 0 | 19 | -99 | <p>The compilation and sharing of quality information about sustainable transportation, public spaces and urban development mainly of interest in Mexican cities but with an eye on state of the art arguments on the subject.</p>
| youtubeOeAnuDnYi8c&feature=player_embedded | http://mexico.transeunte.org | https://twitter.com/transeunteorg | http://www.facebook.com/transeunteorg | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 22/01/2013 2:04:17 | | ITDP México | 422-transente-periodismo-especializado-en-la-ciudad | contacto@transeunte.org | jorge.matali@itdp.org | Ciudad de México | Ciudad de México, DF |
| 47 | 420 | Culture , history and sustainable development (return to future ) | NGOO | GREE | 0 | 36 | 44 | <p>Among historians, the most accepted terminology of the word Erbil is derived from the Assyrian language which means four gods (arba'ū ilū). The city was a centre for the worship of the goddess Ishtar. In classical times the city was known by its Aramaic name, Arbela. In Old Persian the city was called Arbairā. The name Erbil was mentioned in Sumerian holy writings (c. 2000 BC) as Urbilum, Urbelum or Urbillum. Today, the modern Kurdish name of the city, Hawler, appears to be a corruption of the local Neo-Aramaic name Arbel by a series of metatheses of consonants. It has been claimed that Erbil is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in history. The Citadel of Arbil is a tell or occupied mound, in the historical heart of Erbil, rising between 25 and 32 metres (82 and 105 ft) from the surrounding plain. The buildings on top of the tell stretch over a roughly oval area of 430 by 340 metres (1,410 ft × 1,120 ft) occupying 102,000 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft). It has been claimed that the site is the oldest continuously inhabited town in the world.</p>
| | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 19/01/2013 13:52:37 | | International Institute for Kurdistan Sustainable Development(IIKSD) | 420-culture-history-and-sustainable-development-rutern-to-future | Bahman Zarei | zarei.b@gmail.com | Erbil | Erbil |
| 48 | 419 | Seoul and Korea | INDI | PLAN | 0 | 37.553016 | 126.97264199999995 | <p>The website "Seoul and Korea" is the first and only webpage in English exclusively about transportation and urban planning of South Korea. Regularly new posts about important trends, policies and best-practices are being posted. The content is directly translated from Korean news articles and announcement of the official ministries related to the area of transport and urban development. The author uses his knowledge of urban geography to analyze the current situation and possible development in the future. Some of the topics are BRT, Korean tram system, new city projects (like Sejong City and Songdo) and public transport. Besides, international trends are projected to the specific case of South Korea. Even though there should be no new posts, news reports and other interesting links about Korea are shared daily on Twitter (@inschallah).</p>
<p>The goal of the blog is on the one side to raise awareness in the English-speaking community of Korea for public transport and urban space and on the other side, to show Korea that a global audience acknowledges the efforts towards sustainable transport and sustainable living in South Korea. <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">This should enhance discussion, evaluation and popularity of projects in Korea, which would be otherwise only known among Korean speaking planners. In addition, the blog is a watchdog of the decisions made by the Korean government. Seoul needs to understand that it has a function of a role model for other rising cities and therefore, the urban planners have a leading role to accomplish a lot of best practices.</span></p>
| | http://seoulandkorea.blogspot.com | @inschallah | https://www.facebook.com/SeoulAndKorea | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 15/01/2013 12:42:31 | | Nikola Medimorec | 419-seoul-and-korea | Nikola Medimorec | nikola.medimorec@gmail.com | Seoul | Seoul, Seoul, South Korea |
| 49 | 417 | Harrismith’s Online Community | PRIV | OTHE | 0 | -28.2833333 | 29.133333300000004 | <p>Welcome to Harrismith.co, the home of Harrismith’s online community. We are proud to showcase our picturesque surroundings and boast with our vibrant community. The website aims to provide both community members and visitors a virtual gateway to Harrismith and its community. Harrismith.co is an initiative by the community, for the community. We invite all residents of Harrismith to share their stories, news and pictures.</p>
| | http://harrismith.co/ | | http://www.facebook.com/Harrismith.co | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 13/01/2013 22:05:56 | | Harrismith.co | 417-harrismiths-online-community | Philip Cronje | philip@harrismith.co | Harrismith | Harrismith, Free State, South Africa |
| 50 | 416 | #LoxaEsMás | PUBL | INCL | 0 | -3.990138 | -79.20445999999998 | <p>Explain in one sentence:Loxa is more, much more, seeks to amplify the voices of the citizens of the great city skylines of Loxa using technology as an ally.Explain in a paragraph:# LoxaEsMás is a civic-minded group that aims to promote citizen participation in democracy and governance through alternative routes to traditional politics play a proactive role and provider through the use of ICTs and social networks. Democracy should not be reduced only to vote in an election every four years, or the answer to governance should be the sum of complaints and criticisms sterile.</p>
<p>Before the Internet / social networking capacity of civic organization was complex and expensive, today we see the possibility of bringing together hope participation proposals through a mature use of these tools, creating a sense of belonging among the citizens about their environment in a flat hierarchy and constant dialogue between all parties. # LoxaEsMás as a social movement is not intended as a political party in search of a choice but to form a group that through a broad forum is active and constantly monitor the proposals of the candidates, and governance of these when they are elected.</p>
| vimeoloxesmas/hacksdel2012 | www.loxaesmas.org | @loxaesmas | https://www.facebook.com/loxaesmas?fref=ts | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 08/01/2013 15:07:56 | | Colectivo #LoxaEsMás | 416-loxaesms | Alvaro Castillo | genesys33@loxaesmas.org | Loja | Loja, Loja, Ecuador |
| 51 | 415 | CRREW: Sandy Relief | FRIE | RESI | 0 | 40 | -73 | <p>Every Tuesday CRREW is offering ear acupuncture and reflexology and teaching self-help techniques to help reduce some of the stress endured as a result of Sandy. There is no cost. 273 Bowery, at Houston, behind Whole Foods,. Ask downstairs what room we are in!</p>
| | www.crrew.org | | CRREW | 08/01/2013 0:00:00 | 08/01/2013 0:00:00 | | 07/01/2013 0:01:17 | | CRREW:Community Relief & Rebuilding through Education & Wellness: | 415-crrew-sandy-relief | Wendy henry | crrewResponds@gmail.com | NYC | NYC |
| 52 | 414 | Dare to make positive Impact | PUBL | PLAN | 0 | 35.6961111 | 51.4230556 | <p>Our vision towards changing the world to achieve, peace and fulfillment of human kind potential. By exploring and developing youth to be changing agents of positive impact. Simply the output besides the direct impact on society will be a person which dare to change his/her environment.How? We have 5 special attitude which help us to make it happen:Social responsibility, entrepreneurship outlook, emotional intelligence, proactive learning and global mindset.By what? Simply by activating leadership throw our diverse programs, which is voluntary part of programs that have direct impact on our environment .</p>
| | www.aiesec.ir | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 05/01/2013 19:13:12 | | AIESEC in IRAN | 414-dare-to-make-positive-impact | AmirArsalan Farhadkouhi | arsalan.farhady@gmail.com | Tehran | Tehran, Tehrān, Iran |
| 53 | 412 | Velho Recife Novo | FRIE | INCL | 0 | -8.063285707561379 | -34.870956417382786 | <p>Oito especialistas de diversas áreas (arquitetura e urbanismo, economia, engenharia, geografia, história e sociologia) opinam sobre a noção de espaço público no Recife e destacam temas como: a história do espaço público na cidade, o efeito dos projetos de grande impacto no espaço urbano, modos de morar recifense, a relação entre a rua e os edifícios, a qualidade dos espaços públicos, legislação urbana, gestão e políticas públicas e mobilidade.contraventorecife@gmail.com</p>
| vimeo40913933 | http://vimeo.com/40913933 | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 20/12/2012 13:00:14 | | Contravento | 412-velho-recife-novo | Lívia Nóbrega | livianobrega@gmail.com | Recife | Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil |
| 54 | 408 | Alphabet City | INDI | RESI | 0 | 42.6566237 | 21.14478710000003 | <p>My project is to build a city according to the alphabetic letters, where buildings are built in the shape of letters, for this reason is named City of Alphabet.It would be peaceful for all people in the world.</p>
| | | | www.facebook.com/ediskras | 12/12/2012 0:00:00 | 04/04/2044 0:00:00 | | 18/12/2012 19:04:33 | | Endrit Krasniqi | 408-alphabet-city | Endrit Krasniqi | edi-kras@hotmail.com | Prishtine | Prishtine, Komuna e Prishtinës, Kosovo |
| 55 | 407 | ALUN ULIN | NGOO | PLAN | 0 | -6.9147444 | 107.6098111 | <p>ALUN ULIN is a movement that empowers children to become agents of change in their local neighbourhood and transforming spaces. A contextually ideal outdoor Play Space is the main intention of this movement, through creative learning & co-design process with local children. In Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, the majority of public spaces are exploited for commercial means and the rest are usually used in inappropriate manner. Such situations create an unfriendly environment to enjoy and live, especially for children. As we believe that closest surroundings; like neighbourhood specifically, and the city in general, are the best place to learn and play for children as part of their basic needs.</p>
<p>T<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">he word ALUN ULIN derives from Sundanese (West Java Ethnic) words; “Alun-alun” (City Square) and “Ulin” (Play). ALUN ULIN focuses on transforming spaces and attitude towards neighborhood area through child-centred approach. A series of creative processes for local children is to be held in selected neighbourhood in Bandung to intrigue local awareness and limitless imagination of envisioning the space. In the end, the ALUN ULIN experiences will empower the children by letting them be the part of neighbourhood’s space transformation process, solving their own problems and being appreciated as space transformer.Our first and still ongoing project is located in Taman Tongkeng (Tongkeng Park). Now in Design Realization process and expected to be finished by the end of January 2013</span></p>
| vimeo54267768 | http://kisahsahabatkota.wordpress.com/ | @sahabatkota | http://www.facebook.com/kisahsahabatkota?fref=ts | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 15/12/2012 16:58:03 | | Sahabat Kota | 407-alun-ulin | Aulia Amanda Santoso | aulimandas@gmail.com | Bandung | Bandung, West Java, Indonesia |
| 56 | 406 | Cidade Baixa em Alta | ASSO | INCL | 0 | -30.01 | -51.13 | <p>The Cidade Baixa em Alta starts from a group of local merchants, with the goal of bringing back to the neighborhood every culture, entertainment, music and fun that are associated with it. Each month is charged a fee where all traders are invited to contribute, all the value is converted to benefits into the neighborhood as: concerts, theater, open cinema, bike racks, oil collection, assistance to entities and all free of charge to the general public.</p>
| youtubeYnok8SzVIMs | http://www.cidadebaixaemalta.com.br | @cbemalta | http://www.facebook.com/CidadeBaixaEmAlta | 01/06/2012 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 13/12/2012 20:51:58 | | Woodoo Web | 406-cidade-baixa-em-alta | Tiago Faccio | tiago@woodoo.com.br | Porto Alegre | Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil |
| 57 | 405 | MIRA (Manejo Integral de los Residuos por el Ambiente - Integrated Wastes Management for the Environment) | EDUC | GREE | 0 | -34.36 | -58.22 | <p>M.I.R.A (integrated waste management for the environment) was founded in April 2008 by environmental sciences undergraduate students, a teacher and technitians from Buenos Aires University Agronomy Faculty. Our mission is to promote the preoccupation and the environment everyday care reducing some materials consumption and managing in a better way the household wastes.Our activities are designed to motivate and educate our community about how to implement practical steps to consume less pollutant products, reuse and recycle part of the wastes generated and dispose the rest of the residues in a classified way. In Argentina and in Buenos Aires city this feature is not properly addressed by government so we are trying to solve it by our own. To achieve this we do different activities: • A separate disposal of the residues generated in the University. The recyclable residues collected are given to poor people who make money selling them. In that way we are helping them to live and work in better conditions because they do not have to rummage the trash.</p>
<p>We teach in kindergarten, secondary and primary schools the problems that rubbish generate, where the rubbish goes after we throw it and we help emerging waste separation projects in these institutions. • We have an informative stand where we talk with the community about the problems that rubbish generate in our city and in the environment.In the short-term we benefit students, teachers and neighbors that visit the campus, who can enjoy a cleaner and healthier campus. We also help the people who receive our recyclable residues giving them a livelihood. In addition we favor schools that receive our classes. We hope to achieve a positive impact on life quality of people who live in areas near landfills that will be benefit by the reduction in the amount of waste disposed in them.</p>
| | www.agro.uba.ar/extension/mira | | www.facebook.com/pages/MIRA-Manejo-Integral-de-los-Residuos-por-el-Ambiente/173956499281888?fref=ts | 01/01/1900 1:00:00 | 01/01/1900 1:00:00 | | 08/12/2012 15:45:37 | | Buenos Aires University Agronomy Faculty | 405-mira-manejo-integral-de-los-residuos-por-el-ambiente-integrated-wastes-manageme | Nadia Mazzeo | mira@agro.uba.ar | Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria | Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 58 | 404 | HubCité Africaine | ASSO | INCL | 0 | 6.8 | -1.12 | <p>L’utopie concrète d’un modèle d’urbanisation alternatif qui restitue aux populations le pouvoir de changer la ville et la vie. Comment évoluer grâce au travail collaboratif (co-working/ co-création/ co-fabrication) vers le quartier africain vertueux et responsable de demain. Penser, concevoir et concrétiser localement pour l’Afrique, par la mobilisation des technologies ‘Camp’ et ‘Lab’, des espaces OpenSource nés de la rencontre du numérique et d’une architecture expérimentale en matériaux modestes. Ville laboratoire : Lomé.</p>
<p>Mots clés : #ArchiCamp #RepLab #LowHighTech #HubCité</p>
<p>FAIRE NOUS MEMES . NE PAS ATTENDRE QUE CELA VIENNE D’EN HAUT . NOUS PRENONS ACTE DE LA PROMESSE INHERENTE AU CONCEPT ‘OPEN-SOURCE’ ET TOUTES VALEURS QUE PROCLAME ’L’ETHIQUE HACKER ‘ . NOUS CROYONS AU POTENTIEL QU’ONT ‘CAMPS’ ET ‘LABS’ EN TANT QUE CADRES ET DISPOSITIFS POUR FAVORISER L’EMERGENCE D’UNE CONSCIENCE COLLECTIVE AUTOUR DE LA NOTION DE BIEN PUBLIC, TIRER LE MEILLEUR DES PETITES GENS ET INITIER UNE RECONQUETE PROGRESSIVE DU POUVOIR DE FAIRE ET DE TRANSFORMER LE CADRE DE VIE . NOUS SOMMES PERSUADES QUE CES DEUX METHODES CONVERTIES A NOUS, COMBINEES ET INSEREES JUDICIEUSEMENT DANS LE TERRITOIRE PEUVENT S’AVERER UN FORMIDABLE CATALYSEUR DU CHANGEMENT. CONVAINCUS QUE SI ON MET LA TECHNOLOGIE DE POINTE ET SA COMPREHENSION A LA PORTEE DES POPULATIONS, ON LES AFFRANCHI NOUS SERONT LOWHIGHTECH !</p>
<p>Les ArchiCamp (open-ateliers internationaux de design prospectif qui mettent les populations au contact de professionnels et experts venus du monde entier) rendent possible une intelligence collective, permettent de dégager une vision commune et d’élaborer des solutions de proximité qui seront ensuite fabriquées dans les RepLabs implantés dans les lieux ciblés.</p>
| | http://www.lafricainedarchitecture.com/archicamp.html | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 06/12/2012 16:22:27 | | L'Africaine d'architecture | 404-hubcit-africaine | Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou | contact@lafricainedarchitecture.com | Lomé | Lomé |
| 59 | 402 | Catadores de lixo de Itapema | FRIE | PROD | 0 | -27.0909603 | -48.61199469999997 | Acontece em todo Brasil, mas retratamos aqui a cidade de Itapema, onde sentimos o impacto nitidamente.Temos a coleta seletiva oferecida pela prefeitura, onde três vezes por semana passa um caminhão recolhendo o lixo reciclado que foi separadodo lixo orgânico pelo morador.Mas e os que ainda não tem essa consciencia? e os que jogam lixo do seu carro? e os que vivem em uma realidade fictícia onde tirando o lixo de suas vistas ele deixará de existir?Ai que entram os que de forma simples e humilde fazem o papel humanitário desse infeliz.Os catadores de materiais reutilizáveis e recicláveis, são pessoas físicas de baixa renda que se dedicam às atividades de coleta, triagem, beneficiamento, processamento, transformação e comercialização de materiais reutilizáveis e recicláveis. Andam pelas ruas com seu automóvel geralmente não motorizado recolhendo o lixo que pode ser reciclado de forma industrial ou reutilizado, pois o lixo pode não ser lixo para você, resultado de uma sociedade desigual e consumista.Esta situação serve bem, tendo em vista o meio ambiente, entratanto não cumpre seu papel social. Precisamos urgentemente de um programa que integre e articule ações do Governo Federal voltadas ao apoio e ao fomento à organização produtiva dos catadores de materiais reutilizáveis e recicláveis, à melhoria das condições de trabalho, à ampliação das oportunidades de inclusão social e econômica e à expansão da coleta seletiva de resíduos sólidos, da reutilização e da reciclagem por meio da atuação desse segmento. Não vemos como a solução do lixo urbanos, apesar de ser uma ótima solução para os que ainda não tem consciencia de que cada um deve fazer sua parte, mas podemos perceber como a solução do lixo urbano pode ser simples, basta uma boa idéia. | | | | | 05/12/2012 0:00:00 | 05/12/2012 0:00:00 | | 05/12/2012 13:10:39 | | Flávia, Adriana e Leandro | 402-catadores-de-lixo-de-itapema | Flávia | arq.flaviacaresia@gmail.com | Itapema | Itapema, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| 60 | 401 | Os catadores de reciclados - Itapema | FRIE | PROD | 0 | -27.0909603 | -48.61199469999997 | <p>Acontece praticamente em todo o Brasil, entretando falaremos de um exemplo próximo, onde conseguimos perceber seus impactos nitidamente. Infelizmente nem todos têm conciência da importância da reciclagem para a sociedade e meio ambiente. Existe a coleta seletiva oferecida pela cidade, onde um caminhão passa recolhendo o lixo de quem de forma consciente separou o lixo recilcado do orgânico em sua lixeira. Mas para os que não separam? que jogam lixo pela janela de seu carro? Em sua realidade tão fictícia, seu lixo deixa de existir a partir da hora que sai de sua vista, seria ótimo, mas é fictício meu caro mau educado. É onde entra os que fazem mais, os que de forma mais simples e rudimentar, catam seu lixo e o transformam, quase que instantaneamente, em seu bem maior, seu pão de cada dia. Os catadores de materiais reutilizáveis e recicláveis, são particamente as pessoas físicas de baixa renda que se dedicam às atividades de coleta, triagem, beneficiamento, processamento, transformação e comercialização de materiais reutilizáveis e recicláveis.</p>
<p>Trabalham carregando um veículo geralmente não motorizado, catando toda o lixo que pode ser reutilizado, as vezes indo para um processo de recilcagem industrial outras, e muitas, vezes aproveitando o lixo para ainda não o vê como lixo, por lhe servir perfeitamente, situação exemplo rotineira de uma sociendade desigual e consumista. A parte ambiental se cumpre muito bem, já a parte social ainda não. Precisamos de um Programa que integre e articule as ações do Governo Federal voltadas ao apoio e ao fomento à organização produtiva dos catadores de materiais reutilizáveis e recicláveis, à melhoria das condições de trabalho, à ampliação das oportunidades de inclusão social e econômica e à expansão da coleta seletiva de resíduos sólidos, da reutilização e da reciclagem por meio da atuação desse segmento. São muitos os catadores em Itapema, que trabalham em dupla jornada. Não há justiça nisso, nem ainda vemos como solução para o lixo urbano. Mas percebemos com isso que a solução para o lixo nas cidades pode ser simples basta uma boa idéia.</p>
| | | | | 05/12/2012 0:00:00 | 05/12/2012 0:00:00 | | 05/12/2012 12:52:46 | | Flávia, Adriana e Leandro | 401-os-catadores-de-reciclados-itapema | Flávia | arq.flaviacaresia@gmail.com | Itapema | Itapema, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| 61 | 400 | Concert - "Youth and Older Adults as City Changers: Connecting the Generations" | PUBL | INCL | 0 | 40.74875914722168 | -73.96700596743165 | Within the framework of the Post 2015 Participatory Process, the Habitat III Conference Prep-Process and as part of a dialogue series, UN-Habitat and ICCC are organizing a High-Level Working Session to address opportunities and challenges facing rapid urbanization in the search of City Changers, old and young. Following the session, we will enjoy an evening of international music, featuring multi-generational performers dedicated to inspiring connections between generations and cultures in cities and towns across the globe.Open to general public. RSVP at habitatny@un.org. | | | @unhabitatny | http://www.facebook.com/events/266521930137519/ | 05/12/2012 0:00:00 | 05/12/2012 0:00:00 | | 04/12/2012 16:10:46 | | UN-Habitat and International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC) | 400-concert-youth-and-older-adults-as-city-changers-connecting-the-generations | rosa | surinach@un.org | New York | New York, New York, United States |
| 62 | 396 | I am Bhubaneswar a local innitiative to Brand Cities | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 20.2960587 | 85.82453980000003 | Increasingly, cities and urban regions compete with other for attention, investment, visitors, shoppers, talent, events, and so on; accelerated by globalization where the main competition is no longer about roads or the town next to heritage site, but for competition and this global competition is no longer limited to the capital and big cities; it now directly affects all cities and concentrations of urban settlements. However, many often having everything our cities are not presented properly or say often lack in brand. Therefore we in Local Governance Network initiated promoting some of the Indian Cities with its Brand Image; we chose to begin with Bhubaneswar being the first planned capital city of independent India and is also the place believed where peace was preached to the world after the deadly Kalinga war around 261 B.C. Ultimately, every city’s strongest asset is its people; same is for Bhubaneswar: the people who live here, the people who work here, the people who study here and the people who visit here. But many often we tend to forget our role, the participation that our city expects, it’s not about what Govt. is doing or Pvt. Sector do, it’s about what is a city for me, Can I represent my city; these some of the question each of have to answer for our City. Therefore it was thought grew over the years, we, the people of Bhubaneswar, wish to speak for the city of Bhubaneswar; let other know about my city’s past, present, future; Bhubaneswar is our city, and it’s time for us proudly voice our dedication and devotion to Bhubaneswar. Through our combined efforts, we can fully realise Bhubaneswar’s potential in the areas and express the many reasons why we choose Bhubaneswar: “I choose Bhubaneswar for peace. I choose Bhubaneswar for education. I choose Bhubaneswar for inspiration. I choose Bhubaneswar as my home. I choose Bhubaneswar for Business. I choose Bhubaneswar for sports. I am Bhubaneswar.”I am Bhubaneswar is the inspiration that creates the brand for the city and people of Bhubaneswar. In saying or expressing I am Bhubaneswar, we show a clear choice for the city of Bhubaneswar. I am Bhubaneswar shows our pride, our confidence and our dedication. I am Bhubaneswar is our personal endorsement for our city. Using I am Bhubaneswar, we can show clearly and proudly all the many benefits, opportunities and dimensions of excellence that make Bhubaneswar our city of choice.It’s not an individual or institutional movement rather we started voluntarily to become an active citizen in spending our time to promote Bhubaneswar; People call us as Change Maker but we call ourselves an ordinary citizens volunteering for our City where we live, grown up and building our future. We believe that, by providing knowledge about urban planning, we can empower citizens in participating to make a better Bhubaneswar. | | www.lgnet.in | @lgnetind | https://www.facebook.com/LocalGovernanceNetwork | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 03/12/2012 14:13:40 | | Local Governance Network | 396-i-am-bhubaneswar-a-local-innitiative-to-brand-cities | Dr. Piyush Ranjan Rout | piyush.rout@lgnet.in | Bhubaneswar | Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India |
| 63 | 387 | The Urban Forum for Better Cities in Pakistan | PUBL | PLAN | 0 | 31.54505 | 74.34068300000001 | In 2011, the Urban Unit organized a flagship event with the name of Pakistan Urban Forum which was the first of its kind to be held in the region. PUF was held in Alhamra Arts Council Lahore from March 1st to 5th, 2011 with the theme of Managed Urbanization- the Road to National Development. | | www.urbanunit.gov.pk | | https://www.facebook.com/TheUrbanUnit?ref=ts&fref=ts | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 27/11/2012 16:25:05 | | The Urban Unit | 387-the-urban-forum-for-better-cities-in-pakistan | arshed rafiq | arshedrafique@yahoo.com | Lahore | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| 64 | 383 | Blumenau e a Margem Nua | FRIE | GREE | 0 | -26.9187523 | -49.06602520000001 | O grupo Margem Nua surgiu da inquietação de vários seguimentos da sociedade blumenauense com a maneira que vem sendo tratada a questão da Prainha e da Margem Esquerda do Rio Itajaí-Açú, entre estes o grupo de Maracatu, o grupo de Hip Hop, acadêmicos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, mebros do ABC Ciclovias e outros cidadãos preocupados com o bem estar da cidade de Blumenau.Este grupo vem se reunido para discutir propostas e novas intervenções para a área envolvida, o principal evento organizado foi uma manifestação que aconteceu no dia 22 de setembro, na principal rua da cidade a XV de Novembro, essa manifestação teve como principal intenção alertar a comunidade sobre o que vem acontecendo, pois a prefeitura de Blumenau não divulga seus projetos e audiências. Também questionando a qualidade do espaço proposto para esse local, que vai na contra-mão das novas tecnologias ecológicas e é imposto de maneira arbitrária. “Nosso rio é sim cercado de matas ciliares (que obra a obra lhe estão sendo tolhidas); há de se entender que estas matas limpam e restauram nossas águas. Rins de um rio que foi devastado pelas obras, pelo esgoto, pelos químicos lançados por indústrias ao longo dos anos. Uma situação à qual os órgãos de proteção ambiental se mantém, mais uma vez por interesse privado, indiferentes. Salvo algumas medidas paliativas e plenas de maquiagem midiática.Não se pode permanecer ausente de decisões tão importantes e que vão afetar a vida de tantas pessoas. É necessário saber o que está acontecendo, e apoiar aqueles que defendem seus interesses. Sem manifestações sugestivas da mídia, mas sim, por conhecimento de causa. Dar à população o que lhe é de direito: o conhecimento.Respeitar o seu desejo, os anseios de cultura, de preservação à natureza (conforme previsto no plano diretor participativo), da garantia de segurança e assim o direito de ir e vir. Da liberdade de expressão, do direito de ocupar espaços públicos e não apenas casas noturnas ou anfiteatros elitizados por seu preço. Esse é o papel da imprensa. Mas é com tristes olhos que vemos a transformação da informação em campanha de marketing. Não interessa que partido está no poder. Que esteja garantido a todos nós aquilo que a Lei prevê, uma vez que a honra já foi esquecida por nossos politiqueiros que militam por interesses privados e pelo poder.Somos um movimento pacífico, apartidário e sem interesses econômicos. Pelo contrário, nos interessa o bem estar da população através da cultura, da arte, do trabalho e da informação. Que estes princípios sejam legitimamente defendidos, acima de quaisquer interesses de ordem privada, e acima da prepotência dos representantes político-partidários, eleitos por voto popular.” | | | | https://www.facebook.com/RE.Pensamos | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 23/11/2012 15:06:21 | | Grupo Margem Nua | 383-blumenau-e-a-margem-nua | Gabriela Fernanda Grisa | gabigrisa@gmail.com | Blumenau | Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| 65 | 382 | Descida do Rio Itajaí Mirim | PUBL | SAFE | 0 | -27.10415398517576 | -48.922606418554665 | A Descida do Rio Itajaí Mirim é uma das atividades promovidas pelo GTAM - Grupo de Trabalho Ambiental Municipal, Secretaria de Educação e Defesa Civil de Brusque. É uma ação de conscientização que reúne voluntários para percorrer uma extensão definida do rio com botes e caiaques a fim de recolher lixo e limpar alguns locais de suas margens. O evento teve sua segunda edição no dia 2 de setembro de 2012 tendo duração de quatro horas de atividades. | | www.brusque.sc.gov.br | | | 02/09/2012 0:00:00 | 02/09/2012 0:00:00 | | 22/11/2012 16:14:37 | | GTAM - Grupo de Trabalho Ambiental Municipal de Brusque - SC | 382-descida-do-rio-itaja-mirim | Carolina Meireles | arq.carolmeireles@gmail.com | Brusque | Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| 66 | 381 | One Degree Less – Um Grau a Menos | PUBL | SAFE | 0 | 20 | 0 | As mudanças climáticas demonstram que nosso planeta pede socorro; as notícias acontecem quase que diariamente e com dimensões cada vez maiores. Temos de pensar em soluções simples, fáceis e que tenham resultado imediato, mudando esse cenário. Barata, muito simples e eficaz, a medida proposta pela campanha “One Degree Less – Um Grau a Menos” é exatamente assim: não requer grandes recursos - de tempo, material ou dinheiro - para ser aplicada. Criada pelo Green Building Council (GBC) para reduzir os efeitos do aquecimento global nos centros urbanos, a campanha pretende mobilizar a população e o poder público para que pintem de branco telhados de quaisquer construções, pois assim é possível reduzir de 2° a 3° a temperatura no interior dos imóveis e em até 1° a das cidades – caso haja um grande número de telhados na cor. Segundo o Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, cujos dados sustentam a campanha, a cada 100m² de cobertura pintada de branco é compensada a emissão de 10 toneladas de CO2 ao ano. “Ao proporcionar maior conforto térmico, os telhados brancos reduzem o consumo de energia com ar-condicionado e ventilador. Além disso eles têm reflexão de cerca de 60% - contrário aos escuros que refletem até 20% da luz solar - combatendo assim as ilhas de calor nas cidades e melhorando a qualidade do ar e o conforto do ambiente urbano. A campanha obteve a adesão da Companhia de Desenvolvimento Habitacional de São Paulo, que se comprometeu a pintar de branco os telhados de conjuntos habitacionais novos e antigos do estado. O primeiro passo foi dado em Ilhabela, onde os prédios de um residencial receberam a pintura. Cubatão, Itanhaém, Piraju e Valinhos também terão conjuntos com as coberturas claras. E a iniciativa do governo estadual já deu frutos: a prefeitura de Ilhabela, primeira a aderir ao programa, pintou os prédios do hospital, do ginásio de esportes e de algumas escolas. Já na capital paulista foi aprovado em primeira votação na Câmara dos Vereadores o projeto de lei 615/2009, que hoje está tramitando na Assembléia Legislativa e que regulamenta a pintura de todas as coberturas do estado. Florianópolis, no Estado de Santa Catarina, também possui projetos de lei do mesmo tipo. | | http://www.onedegreeless.org/pt/index.php?pagina=home-o | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 21/11/2012 12:41:36 | | Green Building Council Brasil | 381-one-degree-less-um-grau-a-menos | Juliana Bachilli e Yara Caroline Alflen | yaracarolinealflen@gmail.com | Ilha Bela - São Paulo | Ilha Bela - São Paulo, Brasil |
| 67 | 380 | Resilient Urban Futures | EDUC | RESI | 0 | -41.2864603 | 174.77623600000004 | What development path should New Zealand’s cities take to ensure that maximum environmental, economic, social and cultural benefits can be gained? This question is the focus of a newly funded collaborative research project representing the first major attempt to get to grips with an issue critical to the future of this small island nation. The project research team, headed by the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, links five universities (Otago, Victoria, Auckland, Massey and Canterbury), NIWA and the Motu Public Policy Research Group, with end-users from 14 local councils, central government, iwi groups, developers and community groups. In August 2012 it was awarded more than $9 million in funding over four years through the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment. The research will involve six cities; Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Kapiti, Wellington and Christchurch, and will compare the broad costs and benefits and qualities of two possible urban development paths. The first path emphasises more compact development within existing urban areas while the other focuses on further ‘greenfield’ development on the outskirts of cities.The researchers will extend their geographically-based models to integrate environmental impacts on air and water with other outcomes of urban developments. These outcomes include different land-use, housing and transport patterns, and varying co-benefits for people’s health and welfare. | | http://sustainablecities.org.nz/ | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 21/11/2012 7:06:55 | | NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities | 380-resilient-urban-futures | Stephen Olsen | futurebuiltnz@gmail.com | Wellington | Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand |
| 68 | 379 | Laguna Work | FRIE | SAFE | 0 | 19.5426237 | -96.91374410000003 | Se trata de un Taller de Diseño Participativo, basado en los principios del Nuevo Urbanismo, dirigido a los vecinos de la Colonia Casa Blanca con el objetivo de que puedan participar todos los actores involucrados en la planeación de un trozo de ciudad, en este caso se trata de la restructuración urbana del entorno de la Laguna de Casa Blanca.Esta iniciativa surge a partir de un proyecto de investigación por parte de egresados de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Veracruzana, Campus Xalapa, en colaboración con investigadores del INECOL.El objetivo principal de este proyecto de investigación es la configuración de un nuevo centro barrial, en la colonia de Casa Blanca, una de las colonias con mayor extensión de la ciudad, aproximadamente 170 hectáreas. Para esto se aprovechará la presencia de la Laguna y una cancha adjunta al cuerpo de agua.Los servicios ecosistémicos de la única laguna dentro de la mancha urbana de Xalapa, podrán aprovecharse a diferentes escalas: barrial, distrital y regional, a través de jardines de lluvia, filtración y recarga de mantos acuíferos, etc.La metodología a utilizar será la basada en el Nuevo Urbanismo y el Diseño Participativo.El taller constará de 3 actividades principales que permitirán conocer la percepción que los vecinos tienen de su colonia, la imagen pública del lugar y las principales necesidades de los habitantes.Al finalizar dicho taller, se traducirá la información obtenida en una propuesta de diseño urbano, que será sometida posteriormente a la evaluación de los vecinos, con la finalidad de que se enriquezca el proyecto.Finalmente, y luego de la aprobación de la comunidad se llevará a nivel ejecutivo la propuesta, de tal manera que el producto resulte en un plan integral de mejoramiento barrial. | | | | | 25/11/2012 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 20/11/2012 6:04:58 | | Célica y Emilio | 379-laguna-work | Emilio | krloshrojas@hotmail.com | Xalapa | Xalapa, Veracruz-Llave, Mexico |
| 69 | 376 | miBLOGotá: Pensando y actuando por una mejor ciudad | INDI | RESI | 0 | 4.5981 | -74.07603 | Miblogota es un espacio para reflexionar sobre los problemas y posibilidades de Bogotá; sus notas y temáticas se guían bajo principios como: creatividad e innovación para resolver problemas de siempre, primero las personas y los niños, corresponsabilidad ciudadana por el estado y futuro de Bogotá, aprendamos de otras ciudades y de la misma Bogotá, reflexión sobre calidad de vida, etc.El tema de ciudadanía, las miradas del ciudadano de a pie, pensar en su bienestar y calidad de vida, están siempre en el centro de toda discusión.Bogotá necesita un cambio, con la ciudadanía presente en la jugada. Hay que buscar la manera de invertir la apatía y la impotencia por acciones y propuestas.Este proyecto busca brindarle a la ciudadanía bogotana la oportunidad de reemplazar un estado mental dominado por la pasividad, la apatía, el inconformismo y la negatividad por otro de reflexión y acción proactiva, propositiva y práctica, dedicada al mejor futuro de la ciudad.El cambio comienza por cada uno de nosotros. | youtubeUe53saEM1h0 | www.miblogota.com | @miblogota | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 19/11/2012 1:46:13 | | miBLOGota | 376-miblogot-pensando-y-actuando-por-una-mejor-ciudad | Germán Sarmiento | german.sarmiento@gmail.com | Bogota | Bogota, Bogota D.C., Colombia |
| 70 | 375 | Biggest Green Initiative In Kenya | PRIV | SAFE | 0 | -0.2843707 | 36.072575700000016 | Three young University students were not yet born when Nakuru town used to bask in the glory as the cleanest town in East and Central Africa.The three hardly comprehends whether this is true to a town which currently lacks even a single litter bin, leaving residents to dispose of waste haphazardly and brightly colored plastic paper bags littering parts of the town, but a common eyesight in the towns suburbs.The three youngsters John Mwatha, Ian Mbugua and Fidel Riaga, through their company they formed recently- Nexus media-used the firm as a launch-pad for the Go-Green campaign dubed “BIN IT”, an ambitious program of waste management aimed at keeping Nakuru town spotlessly clean. "This unique concept will not only help tidy up the town but even further recycle the waste which can be re-used profitably", said John Mwatha, the firm's Co. Director during an interview with Kenya Today at his Nakuru office.He said it was saddening to note that although the town was early this year voted by HABITAT- the UN settlement agency- as the fastest growing in East and Central Africa, it was no longer the cleanest. "This is when we as Nexus media decided to include environmental concern as part of our Social Corporate Responsibility on top of helping the needy especially school children and environmental management", said an upbeat Mwatha, who is optimistic they will achieve this goal.Added his colleague Fidel; "Investors like clean and conducive environment for business opportunities and if our town remain an eye-sore in terms of cleanliness, then we are doomed that's why we decided to venture into this undertaking."Partnering with the Municipal Council of Nakuru's Environment department, Nexus media are not taking provision of litter-bins as part of their mandate rather a Social Corporate Responsibility. "We provide the eco-litter bins, while the Municipality will do the garbage collection", the duo told Kenya Today.In order to sustain the management and making more such bins, the firm intends to use them as advertising panels. Each double-compartment bin will have an illuminated advertising panel, which they hope the business community will make use of in order to financially support this unique project. "This is the only way we shall be able to roll-out more bins", Mwatha said.The Eco-litter bins will be a unique concept not only in Nakuru but in other towns and beyond because in most African cities, waste is not recycled but dumped away from towns and burnt.The Go-Green Campaign was launched early last month at Midlands hotel Nakuru during an occasion graced by Nakuru Business Association Chairman Boniface Muhia, municipality town clerk Gladys Kemei and crowned by Miss World USA 2007 Eunice Wanjiru Karanja, who said she was happy to be associated with this venture and will fully support it. "In fact I will be happy to be called Good-will ambassador of Go-Green campaign", an elated former Miss USA Kenya told the cheering crowd during the launching ceremony.Mr. Muhia, who also lauded the move by what he described as ambitious and innovative youngsters said the business community in Nakuru will not hesitate to support this noble idea so long as it is about environmental conservation tidiness.He observed that though the metropolis was expanding fast with Nakuru undergoing a building boom extending beyond the periphery of the Central Business District, it was yet to be kept tidy. He for example lamented that the Kihoto dumpsite, the only place waste from Nakuru town is taken is an eyesore since it is next to a busy highway and the stench emanating from it irritating. The re-cycling idea is just long overdue.Muhia later told this reporter during an interview at his office that the town, being centrally located was an ideal place for investors, adding that it is also along the northern corridor highway. 'Besides, there was a population upsurge following the post election violence and the higher the population, the higher t | | | | http://www.facebook.com/nexus media kenya | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 18/11/2012 13:59:23 | | NEXUS MEDIA LTD | 375-biggest-green-initiative-in-kenya | John | Jmwathas@gmail.com | Nakuru | Nakuru, Rift Valley, Kenya |
| 71 | 374 | The Ipe colors | INDI | GREE | 0 | -26.55 | -49.03 | With the title of "Ipe colors," the doctor Adilson Tadeu Machado and his friends, by private enterprise, initiated in 2007 a plantation of ipe seedlings of different colors in the city of Blumenau / SC - Brazil. Most seedlings were planted on the slopes of the Itajai-açu river besides the main avenue of the city. Around 78 seedlings were planted and are already blooming. The goal is to bloom all over town. The opportunity may create another tourist attraction for the region. The idea is to take all possible spaces for planting ipe, a copy of which has a bloom contrasting with the green beauty of the valley, mainly yellow. The initiative aims to have membership not only of public and NGOs declared in protecting the environment as having membership of homeowners and businesses in general. All seedlings are registered and receive the care to develop. "We invested a few seedlings that should serve as a stimulus", says the creator of the project. | | http://coresdoipe.blogspot.com.br | | | 03/11/2007 0:00:00 | 30/09/2012 0:00:00 | | 17/11/2012 3:53:52 | | Adilson Tadeu Machado | 374-the-ipe-colors | Cristiane Otte Corrêa | cristiane@archteto.com.br | Blumenau | Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| 72 | 369 | Dreams of Nairobi | FRIE | PLAN | 0 | -1.2920659 | 36.82194619999996 | This is an architectural research and design initiative that culminates in an exhibition of 10 exemplary projects that offer best responses to the specific urban design issues of Nairobi City. All projects were selected because of their sensitivity to principles of Green design and sustainability. In addition, all projects offer direct response to economic needs and align themselves with the plans envisioned by Vision 2030The exhibition will showcase the design responses with respect to: ■Eco –design ■Sustainability ■Technology and innovative building systems ■Form, meaning and spatial definition ■Relevance to achievement of Vision 2030 goals and aspirations The exhibition opens on the 19th of January 2013 at the Goethe Institute Nairobi and runs until the 15th of February 2013. | | www.dreamsofnairobi.wordpress.com | | | 19/01/2013 0:00:00 | 21/02/2013 0:00:00 | | 14/11/2012 21:52:45 | | African Urban Futures | 369-dreams-of-nairobi | African Urban Futures | africanurbanfutures@gmail.com | Nairobi | Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya |
| 73 | 362 | Street Gallery Belgrade | NGOO | PLAN | 0 | 44.8205556 | 20.462222200000042 | The disappearance of public spaces is becoming an increasingly common fact associated with modern cities. Current urban development tendencies, driven by market-oriented interests, represent a huge threat to public spaces, and therefore to alternative cultural activities as well. The idea of "the right to the city" conceived and advocated by French sociologist Henri Lefebvre, implies precisely the right of every citizen to the resources of the city and to freely participate in the life of their local community. Guided by this idea Mikro Art successfully lobbied city officials in Belgrade to transform a neglected public space in Bezistan Passage (near Terazije Street) into the city’s first Street Gallery for upcoming young artists. The walls indentified as potential exhibition space, were previously used by Kozara abandoned movie theatre, for posters that announced the film repertoire. The Gallery is composed of nine exhibition niches (each 1,4 m wide and 1,8 m high), divided into three segments. It took us nearly two years from the initial event which inspired the idea (the informal exhibition of the works of the Italian artist Luca Donnini, May 2010) until the goal was finally accomplished – in April 2012. Street Gallery project represents a pioneer venture for Belgrade in achieving that an abandoned space is allocated to a citizen group for cultural production purposes. From the April 2012 we organized numerous exhibitons which can be seen on our web site www.mikroart.rs So, if you are in Belgrade.... | vimeo35632996 | www.mikroart.rs | | http://www.facebook.com/UlicnaGalerija | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 13/11/2012 10:38:22 | | Mikro Art | 362-street-gallery-belgrade | Lazovic Radomir | lazovic.r@gmail.com | Belgrade | Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia |
| 74 | 360 | Spatial Planning for All | NGOO | PLAN | 0 | -6.211544 | 106.84517200000005 | Spatial Planning for All is a program and activities that provide spatial planning knowledge for citizen of Jakarta. We believe that, by providing knowledge about spatial planning, we can empowered citizens in participating to design a better Jakarta.Spatial Planning for All consists of 2 products: a toolkit and a video campaign. Some of our activities are include giving trainings to various groups, from local government to artist, housewives and urban poor community. | youtubeWfn0-C_9neo | www.rujak.org | @rujakRCUS | www.facebook.com/ruangjakarta | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 08/11/2012 15:16:12 | | Rujak Center for Urban Studies | 360-spatial-planning-for-all | Elisa Sutanudjaja | elisa@rujak.org | Jakarta | Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia |
| 75 | 359 | Simposio del Hábitat | ASSO | INCL | 0 | 20.967996337944882 | -89.61553680419922 | El Simposio del Hábitat es un evento para el intercambio de experiencias proyectos y conocimientos referentes a los asentamientos humanos y el hábitat en general.Con un alto enfoque en beneficio de la sociedad para la conformación de una ciudad incluyente, en donde la planeación el diseño y la gestión del territorio sean elementos que estén presentes.Busca promover una conciencia urbana, en donde cada persona se apropie de los espacios públicos, y se involucre en generar propuestas para la resolución de problemáticas y sea un agente de cambio.Es un evento organizado por estudiantes de la Licenciatura en Diseño del hábitat en el Campus de Arquitectura, Hábitat, Arte y Diseño de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán | | | | http://facebook.com/Simposio-del-Hábitat | 08/11/2012 0:00:00 | 09/11/2012 0:00:00 | | 07/11/2012 6:32:14 | | Movimiento estudiantil DH | 359-simposio-del-hbitat | Cesar Adrián Rovelo Basteris | ces.rovelo@gmail.com | Merida | Merida, Yucatán, Mexico |
| 76 | 358 | Reshape the world from your house | PRIV | GREE | 0 | 38.34379635230196 | -0.48515728839106487 | Technical information about sustainable building made available to end users. A magazine where innovators in ecobuilding and efficency can meet with their potential users to build together greener cities. | | http://www.mimbrea.com | @mimbrea1 | http://www.facebook.com/mimbrea | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 05/11/2012 17:39:00 | | mimbrea | 358-reshape-the-world-from-your-house | Ester Gisbert Alemany | estergisbert@mimbrea.com | Alicante | Alicante, Valencia, Spain |
| 77 | 356 | Projeto Ciclopak Social de Reutilização | FRIE | INCL | 0 | -23.608453228031976 | -46.80249732292481 | Com o intuito de desenvolver um programa social baseado na reutilização de materiais e na redução de insumos, a equipe Ciclopak, com a ajuda de parceiros e voluntários, vem se reunindo e facilitando reuniões com moradores da Vila Nova Esperança, comunidade carente localizada na zona oeste de São Paulo desde agosto de 2012.A ideia é promover o desenvolvimento social, cultural e ambiental na comunidade com ações, palestras, eventos e oficinas. Projetando, a longo prazo, um programa de conscientização ambiental, coleta seletiva e geração de renda que possa ser replicado em outras regiões carentes do Brasil. | youtubejUzBmreBGeU | http://www.ciclopak.com.br/2012/projeto-ciclopak-social/ | @ciclopak | http://www.facebook.com/Ciclopak | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 01/11/2012 18:41:02 | | Ciclopak | 356-projeto-ciclopak-social-de-reutilizao | Victor Toush | victor@ciclopak.com.br | São Paulo | São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 78 | 355 | SEMANA DEL URBANISMO UNAM 2012 | EDUC | PLAN | 0 | 19.33237161079234 | -99.18308635884091 | Es una Semana llena de Actividades en la cual podremos de disfrutar sobre conferencias de la ciudad como lo es:La problemática actual de la Participación ciudadanaNuevos Proyectos de Restauración de los centros Históricos en MéxicoFilosofía del UrbanismoPolíticas MetropolitanasAcompañadas por una Exposición de Ideas y Pensamientos de Urbanistas que incluyen fotos, dibujos, trabajos, pinturas, etc.También podremos apreciar un Pequeño cine club el cual tiene una exquisita selección de películas para amenizar nuestra semana. | | | | | 05/11/2012 0:00:00 | 09/11/2012 0:00:00 | | 30/10/2012 7:46:02 | | Licenciatura en URBANISMO UNAM | 355-semana-del-urbanismo-unam-2012 | Tahiri Trillanes | tahiritri@gmail.com | Mexico City | Mexico City, The Federal District, Mexico |
| 79 | 353 | CitycampBA about Interventions in Public Space | ASSO | OTHE | 0 | 20 | 0 | CityCamp is an unconference focused on innovation for municipal governments and community organizations. As an unconference, content for CityCamp is not programmed for a passive audience. Instead, content is created and organized by participants and coordinated by facilitators. Participants are expected to play active roles in sessions. This provides an excellent format for creative, open exchange geared toward action.The first CityCamp was held in Chicago, Illinois, 23-24 January, 2010. And the first one of Latam was held in Buenos Aires, 8 September. Now we are planning to do a new Citycamp in December 8th in "El Dorrego" place and it will be about "Interventions in Public Space". | | http://www.citycampba.com.ar | https://twitter.com/citycampba | http://www.facebook.com/CityCampba?fref=ts | 08/12/2012 0:00:00 | 09/12/2012 0:00:00 | | 21/10/2012 23:40:27 | | Chiripa and CitycampBA | 353-citycampba-about-interventions-in-public-space | Guadalupe Urriticoechea | guadaurri@chiripa.org | Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires |
| 80 | 352 | City Changers@ World Habitat Day Nigeria 2012 | NGOO | PLAN | 0 | 20 | 0 | I wish to inform that during the World Habitat Day in Nigeria held on October 18, 2012 at theTranscorp Hilton, Abuja, which was organized by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Developmentwe used to opportunity to create awareness on the Be a City Changer Movement. The event was well attended by major Stakeholders which includes the Honourable Minister of Youth Development,Prof Banji MRD - UN-HABITAT Nairobi and National Assembly Members as well as Mayors and Local Authorities.Please see attached some of the Pictures taken during the event and the Official Presentation of the City Changer T-Shirt to the Honourable of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, which was the highlight of the event. | | | | www.facebook/uzohicc | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 20/10/2012 19:53:51 | | UN-HABITAT Global Youth Program Nigeria | 352-city-changers-world-habitat-day-nigeria-2012 | Uzoh Ifeanyi | nigeriayouthhhabitatnt@yahoo.com | Abuja | Abuja |
| 81 | 351 | Africites 2012 - I'm a City Changer in Africa | ASSO | PLAN | 0 | 14.6927778 | -17.446666700000037 | I’m a City Changer in Africa will be launched at AFRICITIES Special Session entitled ‘I’m a City Changer in Africa – Change ta Ville en Afrique’ on Wednesday 5 December from 4.00 to 6.00 pm. The Senegalese Campaign “Defar Sama Deuk’ will be presented as the first campaign in Africa. Regional partners of the World Urban Campaign (UCLGA, ENDA, IAGU, AUA) will also discuss the Manifesto for Cities, and discuss the particular issues to be addressed in Africa. | | www.africites.org | | | 05/12/2012 0:00:00 | 05/12/2012 0:00:00 | | 17/10/2012 17:32:50 | | Africites | 351-africites-2012-im-a-city-changer-in-africa | rosa suri | surinach@un.org | Dakar | Dakar, Dakar, Senegal |
| 82 | 350 | Working with the 99% | PRIV | INCL | 0 | 38.7252993 | -9.150036399999976 | Contrary to popular belief, the Financial Crisis does not necessarily mean the decrease of architectural needs. This is particular meaningful in countries under stress such as Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal – where we are focusing this program. Without delving into the theme it is easy to predict that, in a short period of time, government measures will lead to a drastic change in the built environment all over the country, which already started. Unemployment rates, the bubble burst of the construction market and the increasing number of abandoned buildings and ruins are taking Portugal to a significant reorganization of the real estate property. Even though the real estate market tends to slow down, it doesn't mean that families are not moving more than ever. We may see it within families with fewer resources – although not for the best reasons. With the housing market and the territory, as argued, in ebullition, it is careless to declare that there's no architectural work in Portugal. The problem is not the lack of work, but the means of which to pay for the work of a qualified professional. This is our starting point. Architects must play a more significant role in people's life. Architects must be seen as a tool, to improve people's living conditions. How can architects work with people that do not have money – nor will have in the near future – to pay for our work? That is the emerging question. It seems that we can only succeed by placing architecture professionals at the epicentre, organizing and managing financial processes and funding. Until today, the construction process has been a relationship between three parties – owner, designers and builder –, now it most emerges a fourth party: the funder. This is on what ateliermob has been working on. We are initialising a program of social architecture services which intends to furnish architectural services to people with low resources. To do that we are preparing applications to national/EU funding and stimulating different sponsorship networks (as crowdfund, e.g.). Our first case study is the work we are starting at PRODAC Lisbon's neighbourhood. There are other areas to be announced. | vimeo48727908 | http://ateliermob.com/ | @ateliermob | https://www.facebook.com/pages/ateliermob/133550094867?ref=ts&fref=ts | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 17/10/2012 17:10:07 | | ateliermob | 350-working-with-the-99 | Rita Aguiar Rodrigues | info@ateliermob.com | Lisbon | Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 83 | 349 | Foroba Yelen : Collective light for rural Mali | PRIV | GREE | 0 | 13.434586371251894 | -6.265665322753875 | The project aims to introduce off-grid lighting to rural areas of Africa by developing an appropriate technology inspired by cultural heritage. “Night is especially relevant in rural Africa and night activities intensify when moonlight allows what small individual sources, such as flashlights or petrol lanterns, can not. Unfortunately, the lack of an appropriate tool to overcome darkness constrain such activities to full Moon”, remarked Matteo Ferroni, architect and video-artist who created a collective lighting tool, following two years spent in rural communities of Mali. It is a portable solar lantern, owned by women and transportable by children, designed to enhance feminine entrepreneurship, education and social activities. The lamp was manufactured following the capacity of local artisans to foster sustainability, self-production and cultural assimilation,. After experiencing the light with a women collective and developing the LED technology with Nadlec lighting factory, we started the dissemination in the Commune Rurale de Cinzana through local association ADM Faso Gnietàa. In 2013 the institute of anthropology of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona will conduct a study to assess the social impact of the lights. The project was awarded with the Honorable Mention at the City to City Barcelona FAD Award 2012, the prize by which the city of Barcelona recognizes those urban processes which led to a transformation of a city anywhere in the world. | youtubecuI4GZxq09Y | http://www.eland.org | | http://www.facebook.com/eLandFoundation | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 16/10/2012 23:09:42 | | eLand | 349-foroba-yelen-collective-light-for-rural-mali | Jessica Ovono | info@eland.org | Segou | Segou, Ségou Region, Mali |
| 84 | 348 | Semana Internacional del Urbanismo y Medio Ambiente | ASSO | PLAN | 0 | 20.73870238773323 | -103.31204564526365 | Actividades propuestas por estudiantes para estudiantes. Desde reciclaje hasta mesas de dialogo y debates, un rally urbano. Todo para impulsar en los proximos desarrolladores urbanos una vision humana e incluyente | youtubeUYQBjtgCU24 | http://www.facebook.com/anedup.mexico | @anedup | http://www.facebook.com/SIUMACUAAD | 07/11/2012 0:00:00 | 09/11/2012 0:00:00 | | 13/10/2012 3:56:02 | | Asociación Nacional de Estudiantes de Diseño, Urbanismo y Planeación | 348-semana-internacional-del-urbanismo-y-medio-ambiente | Julieta Huerta Vega | anedupmexico@gmail.com | Guadalajara y Jalisco | Guadalajara i Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico |
| 85 | 347 | Semana del Urbanista | EDUC | PLAN | 0 | 19.002793990305356 | -98.204579545755 | The event is the fourth edition of the Week Planner in the Faculty of Architecture of the Autonomous University of Puebla, Organised by the college students and Urbanism, to commemorate the International Day of urbanism, will feature lectures, panel topics, disciplinary forum and also a photo contest | | www.semanadelurbanista.tumblr.com | @anedup | https://www.facebook.com/SemanaDelUrbanista | 05/11/2012 0:00:00 | 09/11/2012 0:00:00 | | 12/10/2012 7:46:46 | | Asociación Nacional de Estudiantes de Urbanismo y Planeación | 347-semana-del-urbanista | Anedup puebla | anedup_puebla@hotmail.com | Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza | Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Puebla, Mexico |
| 86 | 346 | Un poquito de sustentabilidad | FRIE | GREE | 0 | 19.4326077 | -99.13320799999997 | <p>El presente trabajo es realizado bajo la autorización y certificación de los autores intelectuales: Sthefania Gutierrez Guadarrama Mario Barcella Non Damian Lino Gonzalez Dentro de este proyecto se pretende concientizar a la población de pequeñas comunidades cercanas a adentrar sus estilos de vida a un modelo de sustentabilidad local. Con ello se pretende que la sociedad sea participativa y actue a favor de su medio ambiente.</p>
| | | | | 10/10/2012 0:00:00 | 16/12/2012 0:00:00 | | 11/10/2012 19:02:45 | | Sthefania Gutierrez Guadarrama | 346-un-poquito-de-sustentabilidad | Fanie | chi_k_001@hotmail.com | Mexico City | Mexico City, The Federal District, Mexico |
| 87 | 345 | Gestión Ciudadana | PUBL | INCL | 0 | 19.4326077 | -99.13320799999997 | Un programa inclusivo, en el que el principal gestor sea la ciudadanía. El objetivo es presentar a la poblacion propuestas de mejora desde un ambito local en primera instancia, porteriormente, analizar pros y contras de cada proyecto mediante escenarios principalmente. así mismo, la población elegirá el rumbo de su terriroio y sus formas de desarrollo. | | http://urbamarrur.wordpress.com | https://twitter.com/maleniidiaz | | 11/10/2012 0:00:00 | 13/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 11/10/2012 18:58:25 | | Maleni Díaz | 345-gestin-ciudadana | maleni Díaz | diazmaleni@yahoo.com.mx | Mexico City | Mexico City, The Federal District, Mexico |
| 88 | 344 | ECOMISION | EDUC | SAFE | 0 | 19.287867 | -99.64676099999997 | <p>El proyecto consiste que un grupo de personas (alumnos de la Facultad de Planeación urbana y Regional) hagan proselitismo y conciencia mediante platicas a las personas principalemente a los niños ya que estos son lo que necesitan tener conocimiento de la falta de iniciativa, es importante realizar actividades para poner ejemplo de lo que debemos hace, utilizar tecnicas de reciclaje, recoger y clasificar la basura, elaboración de compostas sencillas, reducir el uso de agua, disminuirel uso de energia electrica y tratar de sustituir energias alternas (solares, eolicas)</p>
| | http://www.ecomision.org | | | 22/10/2012 0:00:00 | 02/12/2012 0:00:00 | | 11/10/2012 18:16:40 | | FAPUR | 344-ecomision | Sarhahi | konami_iharas@hotmail.com | Toluca | Toluca, México, Mexico |
| 89 | 342 | Renovación a Pie/Walking Renovation | PRIV | INCL | 0 | 20.6815855 | -103.26562639999997 | The purpose of RAP is to develop interactive and inclusive forum that address a specific topic seen integrally (social vision, environmental, economic and institutional).RAP is a project of GO_to, leading organization that manage inherently the ideology "go together", walk all together. We want more people to contribute to their environment, their community and their city.GO_to works in favor of sustainable development as a right of all people, in which the most important is to reach that each space touched retains the essence of modernity without departing from the natural root from everything parts.The proposal for 2012 is that the participants of the event are conceived as part of a whole, and help us generate ideas to improve the center of “Oblatos” center in the municipality of Guadalajara, on the themes of waste and sustainability in the public space. | | http://www.renovacionapie.org/ | twitter.com/RenovacionApie | https://www.facebook.com/RenovacionApieCaminatas | 27/10/2012 0:00:00 | 31/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 11/10/2012 17:26:59 | | Global Objective Technical Office | 342-renovacin-a-piewalking-renovation | Miriam Soto | informacion@renovacionapie.org | Tonalá | Tonalá |
| 90 | 340 | Revitalization of Cincinnati, Ohio | EDUC | OTHE | 0 | 39.148583181352635 | -84.64955040222168 | Students were asked to research benefits and problems to increased urbanization worldwide. Then, they were asked to investigate their own city of Cincinnati, Ohio. What areas of the city need work and what is the revitalization effort happening currently? Students were then asked to promote their city to the general public. | | https://sites.google.com/a/ohlsd.org/urbanizationissnproject/ | | | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 08/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 11/10/2012 16:43:58 | | World History students at Oak Hills High School | 340-revitalization-of-cincinnati-ohio | Meghan Sullivan | sullivan_m@ohlsd.org | Oak Hills High School | Oak Hills High School, Ohio, United States |
| 91 | 336 | Addressing the Unaddressed | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 22.572646 | 88.36389499999996 | We have started to assign a unique code to the slum dwellings inKolkata, so giving each a unique address. The people who live in thesedwellings are proud of their enhanced sense of identify and hope thatall commercial and state organisations will use the unique addressthat these dwellings now have so include the occupants in the dailyeconomic, social and legislative life that those with an addressenjoy. | | www.gocode.in/video | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 10/10/2012 18:42:33 | | The Hope Foundation and GO Code | 336-addressing-the-unaddressed | Alex Pigot | alex.pigot@gocode.ie | Kolkata | Kolkata, Bengal, India |
| 92 | 335 | Youth involvement in strengthening the community | NGOO | INCL | 0 | -33.9248685 | 18.424055299999963 | Urban communities and their residents nowadays play an increasingly more important role in facilitating positive development in their environment. Take the Philippi Sports Academy in Philippi, one of the largest townships in Cape Town, South Africa. The objective of this Academy is to train young talented people in Philippi to become qualified sports instructors through a one-year ETASA accredited course and an accompanying work placement, with the end goal of giving the youth in Philippi better economic and employment opportunities, and to facilitate youth empowerment in the community.The Philippi township has been growing since the 1980’s and to this day remains a pivotal place in Cape Town thanks to its central location. It faces many challenges, such as high unemployment rates among the youth as well as their social exclusion from the community, leading to much frustration, low self-esteem, and drug and alcohol abuse. The youths trained at the Philippi Sports Academy, an initiative of Cordaid Urban Matters in collaboration with the local Inyanda Youth Network and Cesvi, therefore have the opportunity to not only make a change for themselves, but also give something back to their community. Nozuko Goniwe is such an example: she is a young woman currently studying Coaching and Training at Boston College through the Philippi Sports Academy, full of passion for her work and ambitions for the future. As a soccer coach in training and an intern at Virgin Active Gyms, she’s juggling several things at once: coaching teams of nine and thirteen-year-old girls, studying for exams and volunteering in the community by organizing sports activities for the children and youth of the neighbourhood. Despite the difficulties and challenges, Nozuko is a positive person who works hard for her dreams and enjoys what she does. She likes studying, but her favourite aspect about this traineeship and education programme is working with and training the children. She comes prepared: it is fun, but hard work! The girls she trains are very active; they enjoy the training sessions and playing soccer matches; and love to laugh: ‘It’s good for them’, says Nozuko, who inevitably gets a lot of energy from them. One of the most memorable activities during Nozuko’s traineeship was the first match they played in the neighbourhood Tableview, surrounded by beautiful mountains and the ocean. The kids were happy and excited to go there and play, and for many of them, this kind of trip to a new neighbourhood and playing a friendly match against another soccer team was a new and stimulating experience. According to Nozuko, many people in the community are engaged with sports, whether it is soccer, karate or boxing. As a volunteer, she helps with organizing sporting activities for the youth in the neighbourhood; and in addition to soccer, they also have many discussions with the children on diverse topics, which is good for their development. Nozuko thinks that sports and other joint activities are having a positive influence on the community, they ‘bring the people together’. Nozuko is very ambitious, she has enjoyed her traineeship so far and she studies hard for her exams. It has been an intense experience, and she is already looking towards the next steps and advancing her professional career. She wants to be continuously better at what she does, challenging herself to go a level higher, and to find a good job after she is done with the traineeship. Among her dreams for the future is even setting up her own business in this field. Nozuko is a true team player and wants to keep working with children, making them healthy and happy, and to make a change for the community. | | http://www.cordaidurbanmatters.com/ | @CordaidUM | http://www.facebook.com/CordaidUrbanMatters | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 10/10/2012 14:18:14 | | Cordaid Urban Matters | 335-youth-involvement-in-strengthening-the-community | Mascha Alexandrova | mascha.alexandrova@cordaid.nl | Cape Town | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
| 93 | 331 | "Paseo del Mar" Ciudad Sostenible | PRIV | INCL | 0 | -9.7 | -78.31 | El Perú esta viviendo desde hace 20 años de un crecimiento económico con tasas que superan el 6%, debido a la gran necesidad de vivienda que tiene el Perú en las ciudades de provincias, se hace necesario crear ciudades sostenibles a través de la inversión privada, evitando asi las usuales invasiones de terrenos de los moradores.Paseo Del Mar es nuestro proyecto en el distrito de Nuevo Chimbote, a 420Km al norte de Lima, Aquí Domus Hogares busca desarrollar una nueva ciudad en lo que siempre fue un desierto, y donde albergaremos a más de 20,000 personas en un plazo de 6 años.El futuro urbano es generar las condiciones que favorezcan menores desplazamientos del usuario y esto descongestione el tránsito vehicular y las personas puedan caminar distancias cortas creando ciudades donde se privilegia a las personas primero y a los autos después. Por ello este proyecto busca dotar a las mas de 5,000 viviendas de un confort urbano con el uso de 24 parques medianos y grandes, un gran parque ciudadano de 10,000m2, un centro comercial con 80,000 m2 y un supermercado que ya esta construido, permitiendo actualmente que sus vecinos solucionen sus compras caminando. Además estamos dotando 5 colegios públicos y uno privado, un centro civico donde se realicen funciones públicas, etc.La visión clásica de las promotoras, ha sido siempre la de desarrollar viviendas; Hoy sabemos en Domus Hogares que esto no es suficiente, no es posible crear ciudades sin servicios, y estos a su vez deben ser integradores sociales, dado que se vincularan diferentes sectores socioeconómicos, generando una convivencia urbana.En Domus Hogares estamos apostando también a la sostenibilidad ambiental y paisajista con plantas y árboles que crezcan en nuestros climas desérticos y difíciles, que soportan con poco suministro de agua que es recurso muy escaso. Complementando la dotación publica de agua, venimos perforando un pozo para que se abastezca el proyecto. Por otro lado, estamos evaluando el tratamiento interno de las aguas residuales para que sirvan de irrigación de parques y jardines públicos.Las viviendas, han sido dotadas de un diseño que considera las posibilidades de crecimiento, para satisfacer el desarrollo futuro de las familias hasta de 3 pisos, son compactas y utilizan el espacio de manera muy eficiente. Como empresa estamos convencidos en la educación como herramienta para combatir el subdesarrollo. Por ello entregamos los planos al cliente y un manual de mantenimiento para que utilice eficazmente los materiales y el diseño, de esta manera la familia dispondrá de mayores recursos a la vez que mantienen la calidad de su vivienda evitando usar materiales no especificados. Finalmente reforzamos nuestra visión mediante una campaña de ciudadanía y convivencia, queremos que la ciudad que estamos creando, con casas de 3 pisos y edificios de departamentos de hasta 5 pisos, permitan la eficiencia del uso del suelo, y a la vez se genere un clima de vecindad y uso peatonal en todo el proyecto. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Co0d80UDQ&feature=plcp | http://www.domushogares.com/ | | http://www.facebook.com/domus.hogares | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 08/10/2012 20:56:59 | | Domus Hogares del Norte SA - Grupo Interbank | 331-paseo-del-mar-ciudad-sostenible | Noelia Carrasco Márquez | noelia.carrasco@domushogares.com | Nuevo Chimbote | Nuevo Chimbote |
| 94 | 330 | Forum Habitat Geneva | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 46.200887315614125 | 6.13847663436286 | Forum Habitat Geneva 2012 seeks to promote a “city by the inhabitants and for the inhabitants”. The Forum will aim to highlight the role of inhabitants and civil society as actors of the city, first as initiators of sustainable urban planning but also as defenders of the right to housing and to the city. | | http://www.forum-habitat.org/ | | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-urbaMonde/129719297068272 | 27/09/2012 0:00:00 | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 04/10/2012 18:07:11 | | urbaMonde | 330-forum-habitat-geneva | Cyril Royez | cyril.royez@urbamonde.org | Geneva | Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 95 | 329 | urbaDTK : bottom-up slum upgrading in Dakar | NGOO | RESI | 0 | 14.76427591321121 | -17.38317718505857 | a bottom-up slum upgrading project... initiated by the inhabitants facing recurrent flooding caused by groud-water rise...a city-wide approach... making flooded informal settlements of Dakar resilient and inclusive ! | vimeo50012892 | http://www.urbadtk.org/ | | http://www.facebook.com/projet.urbadtk | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 04/10/2012 17:56:23 | | urbaMonde & CADDTK | 329-urbadtk-bottom-up-slum-upgrading-in-dakar | Djibril Diallo | sambadiallo2011@yahoo.fr | Pikine | Pikine, Dakar, Senegal |
| 96 | 328 | Talk Green Teach Green Live Green (TTL3G) | NGOO | GREE | 0 | 20 | 0 | Talk Green Teach Green Live Green -TTL3G is a radio program that connects, inspires and collaborates with change-makers to build thriving, just and sustainable ways of life for all. It is a radio program that gives voice to the voiceless, empowers their voices and use their voices to unfold, train and educate communities towards a common goal; global environmental sustainability. TTL3G is a sixty minutes interactive and educational radio show where I green, you green, we all green a big dream (Mother Earth). The program creates opportunity for members of the community to have their say on global environmental issues in freedom and be heard.At TTL3G, I win, You win, We all win to paint the world green. Biodiversity is our prize. Why Biodiversity? Flora prizes foster food security (fruit and food trees), good health (medicinal trees), curb climate change via sequestration, improve agricultural yields (agro-forestry), beautify the environment and foster the establishment of a more sustainable tomorrow.In this light, TTL3G will motivate and awaken the spirit of environmentalism hence create a forum where change-makers can have their say in freedom and be heard. With TTL3G, petitions can be built and words transformed into action. | | www.thegreens.edicypages.com | @thegreensworld | www.facebook.com/thegreensworld | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 03/10/2012 18:58:17 | | The Greens | 328-talk-green-teach-green-live-green-ttl3g | NGALIM FRANKLIN NJAIWO | dukefranky@yahoo.ca | Bamenda | Bamenda, North-West Province, Cameroon |
| 97 | 326 | Partizaning | FRIE | OTHE | 0 | 20 | 0 | Partizaning is a term to define a new phenomenon and strategy at the intersection of street art and social activism. We devised this term in Russia, where we demonstrate in a revolutionary tradition how self-motivated, unauthorized statements and unsolicited action can become key drivers of social and cultural change.Our goal is to reflect and promote the idea of art-based DIY activism aimed at rethinking, restructuring and improving urban environments and communities. | | eng.partizaning.org | @partizaning | www.facebook.com/partizaning.organized | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 03/10/2012 14:11:37 | | Partizaning | 326-partizaning | Shriya Malhotra | shriya.m@gmail.com | Moscow | Moscow, Russia |
| 98 | 324 | The Urban Ateliers at Napoli Youth Media days | ASSO | PROD | 0 | 40.8517746 | 14.268124400000033 | From 21st to 23td September Youth Press Italy (the national association of young journalists) organized in Naples the first edition of the Italian Youth Media Days, a 3-days meeting to exchange and compare ideas and views among journalists active at local, national and international levels. The event was a big success, about 800 people attended the conferences and the debate developed during those days was rich and constructive. In that occasion the Italian Young media makers had the opportunity to share their personal experience, enlarge their point of view and discuss about the critical reality that it is becoming increasingly hard to find a job, linking the debate on the future of the media sector to the local economy main topics. During the Youth Media Days we experimented an original format that Youth Press Italy structured and designed for the first in Naples. This format is called the ‘Urban Ateliers’. We proposed 5 creative workshops around the hidden excellence of Naples. Participants attended it have had the opportunity to visited craftmakers, urban innovators, architects, regenerated places and other forms of local innovation put in place by young or creative people. In this way we were able to show the innovative face of Naples, providing ideas and suggestions for possible coverage and interviews to be disseminated through their own media.Participants feedback were brilliant! Young mediamaker coming from different area of Italy easily encountered original aspects of the urban texture and were able to taste it and understand process, shared value creation and inclusive innovation . This is a format that we really believe in, that really gave the opportunity to visitors and locals to be part of the "urban fabric" and to the local authority to be at the same time, location, host and innovation-maker. After this experience we are considering to export this model in the occasion of innovative events in the world, as organizing team of Urban atelier and producing media contents, promotional tools and useful links among different local and global subjects/entities. | | http://festival.youthpressitalia.eu/ | @YMDNapoli | http://www.facebook.com/FestivalDelGiornalismoGiovane | 21/09/2012 0:00:00 | 23/09/2012 0:00:00 | | 03/10/2012 11:56:20 | | Youth Press Italia | 324-the-urban-ateliers-at-napoli-youth-media-days | Irene Fazio | irene.fazio@gmail.com | Napoli | Napoli, Campania, Italy |
| 99 | 323 | Sustainable Culture in Latin America | FRIE | OTHE | 0 | 20 | 0 | We are a group of bloggers who want to share stories about Sustainable Culture in Latin America. Through development and communication, we seek to integrate an influential community of socially responsible people, inspiring articles for connecting them and grow responsibility towards Sustainable Development in Latin America.We want to start a public dialogue to inspire action for change. Our contribution is opening communication lines to increase involvement in Suistainable Culture. | | http://www.conexionverde.com | @TuConexionVerde | http://www.facebook.com/ConexionVerde | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 03/10/2012 7:03:20 | | Conexión Verde | 323-sustainable-culture-in-latin-america | Haydeé Quijano | contacto@conexionverde.com | Colombia / México | Colombia / México |
| 100 | 321 | Sydney & its cultural infrastructure | INDI | PLAN | 0 | -33.8674869 | 151.20699020000006 | Culture is a non-physical element that can be found everywhere, at any location, in any ethnic group and at any point in time. Even though it is non-physical, it still has a quantity and quality value; it can also be measured and evaluated through a range of certain mediums. It has always been considered one of the three key elements to urban planning which are economic, environmental and social sustainability. While it relates most directly to social aspect; it also contributes a significantly huge part in economic and environmental measurement. However it is quite often overlooked. Sydney might be one of many cities which have not been planning for cultural development.There is a substantial rural region which has no access to any cultural facilities; and most of these suburbs have no access to public transport to go to Sydney’s major concert halls, sport fields or museums and galleries. Infrastructure planning for Sydney is an enormous matter with many sprawling issues. The cost is significant and efficiency is hard to achieve. With the lifestyle of big house with large outdoor private space of “Australian dream” only contribute to the problem. In additional, the government has not been able to improve the situation in the last decade.The current most confusing infrastructure plans are The North West Rail Link and the South West Rail link. They have been put on hold so many times that most Sydneysiders have lost their trust in the plan and consequently in any other infrastructure plans that the government announce. Even if the plan went ahead anytime soon, there are so many other problems that need to be solved. Sydney Morning Herald’s transport reporter Jacob Saulwick, on 2nd October 2012, wrote “RUSH hour commuters will be forced to wait for at least two crowded trains to go through Chatswood station before being able to continue their journey to the city, under the O'Farrell government's centrepiece $9 billion transport project.”. The Transport Minister, Gladys Berejiklian, announced to the public that it will not be a problem. She stated on June 20 that “When you get off at Chatswood and you walk across the platform, there will be more seats available to make sure you get onto those services”. However, ARUP’s analysis informed otherwise. With all that confusion, Sydney’s public transport system is not moving forward and Sydney roads are more congested and ageing rapidly.Public transport is getting more overloaded, and the cost for commuters is getting higher; it is no surprised that car commuters are increasing putting a heavy load on the roads. On another article on the Herald 2nd October 2012, CityRail is planning on another lift on the ticket price: “In a draft ruling this morning, the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal has proposed a maximum average increase in CityRail fares of 13.2 per cent to the end of 2015. While the government is pending a lot of time and tax money on changing plans, Sydneysiders have no choice rather than spend more hours on the road, on the trains or busses; many choose not to go anywhere unless it cannot be avoided. Cultural facilities are not always available in the local communities. Cultural activities then become a time and money luxury for some of us. This is a very serious issue that pulls Sydney back in the quality of life and cultural assessments. Sydney urgently need and requires a more decent and confident planning, in both civil and cultural infrastructure for a more healthy and effective environment for both inner and regional suburbs. Cultural facilities should be within reachable travel distance and time frame to everyone. | | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 02/10/2012 13:23:33 | | Bianca Nguyen | 321-sydney-its-cultural-infrastructure | Bianca Nguyen | Bianca.V.Nguyen@student.uts.edu.au | Sydney | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| 101 | 320 | Storytelling to connect people | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 10.5004352 | -66.95114590000003 | The storytellers share free tales, books, readings and they make the streets, squares, marketplaces, schools and parks a nice place to stay an meet better our neighbor; then, we talk after each tale and we see how all of us can made a better place to live just with a little change in our actions to the city and gesture with everybody who came and share our place. We do that in all the city and in the rural towns near Caracas, where We have donated a toy library and we go to share tales and art's workshops with childrens , youth and adults and promote in them an education to be a reading promotor in a future. Just a little accion made the difference, now we have smiles that include everybody. | | www.laranaencantada.com | @ranaencantada | http://www.facebook.com/laranaencantada.1 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 02/10/2012 1:50:49 | | La rana encantada | 320-storytelling-to-connect-people | Linsabel Noguera | lin@laranaencantada.com | Caracas | Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela |
| 102 | 319 | "Tour de Culture" Cycling tour | PUBL | OTHE | 0 | 42.223191 | 21.21296159999997 | Tour de Culture is a non-competitive and recreational cycling event in Kosovo, open for all (professionals and amateurs, the young and the old, women and men). This event, brought forth for the fifth consecutive year, has become a traditional and attention-grasping activity in Kosovo due to great support from the partner municipalities, enthusiasts, international and local benefactors and owing to above all, the participants of this activity for their passion and fervor.Tour de Culture is an initiative of Cultural Heritage without Borders (CHwB) and UN-Habitat's Municipal Spatial Planning Support Programme (MuSPP) both funded by Sweden. This activity is unique in Kosovo, consisting from the synergy of principles derived from European Heritage Days (EHD), European Mobility Week (EMW) and respective framework programmes of CHwB and UN-Habitat, such as World Habitat Day.We cycle for…Promotion of our common cultural and natural heritage> protection of cultural heritage and cultural diversity at all levels of society> promotion of cultural heritage as a tool of coexistence and dialogue between communities> unearthing potentials for the development of sustainable cultural tourismPromotion of non-motorized transport for more efficient mobility for all> awareness among citizens and decision makers about the importance of safer roads and non-motorized transport itineraries> promotion of healthier lifestyle and safer roads for non-motorized transport users> strengthening participation of women, youth, the elderly, children and people with disabilitiesPromotion of joint global movement to a safer climate future> putting the rights of people and nature over the rights of polluters> supporting the programs that aim for 100% renewable energy, zero carbon emissions and leaving fossil fuels in the ground> science-based policies to get us back to 350ppm | | www.unhabitat-kosovo.org and www.chwb.org/kosovo | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 02/10/2012 0:45:53 | | Municipal Spatial Planning Support Programme and Cultural Heritage without Borders | 319-tour-de-culture-cycling-tour | Rudina Qerimi | rudina.qerimi@unhabitat-kosovo.org | Gjilan | Gjilan, Komuna e Gjilanit, Kosovo |
| 103 | 318 | Bridging the Digital Divide in Local, National & International Communities | PUBL | INCL | 0 | -7.701238 | 110.60126200000002 | Softchoie has an employee-led philanthropic program called Softchoice Cares. While the board and employees all across North America have ongoing volunteer and donation programs to local and national charities - such as Habitat for Humanity, once a year they go on a mission to another part of the world to help bridge the digital divide.This year, through a partnership with Developing World Connections, they went on a mission to Bali. Twelve employees went half way around the world to build computer labs for local kids and help build and update 5 local orhanages for the Widhya Asih fFoundation. Vendor partners also go involved, and really solidified a simple concept: the more people that work together, the more you can achieve. But when partners pool resources beyond cash (though that’s always nice), amazing things can happen – and fast.Each of our employees shared their stories throughout the two weeks that they were on their mission. They include stories around:Helping Balanese Kids to be Kids: http://blogs.softchoice.com/csr/2012/04/17/helping-balinese-kids-to-be-kids/Volunteering in Bali brings a new sense of purpose:http://blogs.softchoice.com/csr/2012/04/20/volunteering-in-bangli-brings-a-new-sense-of-purpose/A Volunteer Mission with Sustainable Impacthttp://blogs.softchoice.com/csr/2012/04/24/a-volunteer-mission-with-sustainable-impact/ | | http://blogs.softchoice.com/csr/category/projects-partnerships/ | | http://www.facebook.com/#!/Softchoicecares?fref=ts | 09/04/2012 0:00:00 | 23/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 23:20:48 | | Softchoice Corporation | 318-bridging-the-digital-divide-in-local-national-international-communities | Sharon Beattie | sharon.beattie@softchoice.com | Bali | Bali, Central Java, Indonesia |
| 104 | 317 | Amazing Kisumu | FRIE | PROD | 0 | -0.0917016 | 34.76795679999998 | Meeting point of inspiring minds discussing about their love, initiatives for a better Kisumu city. It is about the changemakers, the artists, the innovators, the ideapreneurs, entrepreneurs, the residents, the locals.We are articulating and creating discussions on the future of this city; there is a new constitutional disepnsation bringing with it a myriad of unlimited opportunities. Kisumu city is bound to be the center/ hub of businesses, tours and travel. Talk of the famed L. Victoria - with its breathtaking sunset, it is a wonder to build.Of recent past, the city has seen expansion in housing developments; malls coming up, apartments coming up, water infrastructure being put up. There is the greatest opportunity so far currently than has ever been. The city has been faced with lack of affordable modern housing, as such various shanty villages have sprung up, bringing with them a host of social vices, poor housing structures and wastes management. The opportunity is now, articulate these issues and celebrate the best of Kisumu. | | www.amazingkisumu.co.ke | @amazingkisumu | www.facebook.com/amazingkisumu | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 22:31:50 | | Amazing Kisumu | 317-amazing-kisumu | Denis Nyakach | nyakach@amazingkisumu.co.ke | Kisumu | Kisumu, Nyanza, Kenya |
| 105 | 316 | L'Abri en Ville | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 45.474975675217635 | -73.6052334210205 | Our mission at L’Abri en Ville is to provide a stable and fulfilling environment for persons with a mental illness through safe, affordable housing and inclusion in a supportive community. We believe in a society in which persons can be full, contributing members despite a mental illness. Through our Collaborative Dissemination project we support groups who have been inspired by our model to start their own initiative. | | www.labrienville.org | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 20:33:51 | | L'Abri en Ville | 316-labri-en-ville | Marlo Turner Ritchie | marlo@labrienville.org | Montreal City | Montreal City, Quebec, Canada |
| 106 | 314 | Ritchie Dedication | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 20 | 0 | World Habitat Day will mark Habitat Toronto’s Ritchie Dedication Ceremony, during which Lorena Sinato and her son Bryan will be presented with keys to their new home at 96 Ritchie Avenue at 5:00 pm. Located in Toronto’s west-end, the three-bedroom, fully-accessible home will provide the space Lorena needs to care for 9-year-old son Bryan, who suffers from Cerebral Palsy and is legally blind. As a single mother of a son living with disabilities, Lorena’s challenges were exacerbated by living in a poorly-kept, high-rise building. “Bryan requires extra space for his equipment to help him live a full life. When the elevators are not working—as is often the case in our building—we have to carry him up six flights of stairs,” Lorena explains. She is excited to become a homeowner with Habitat for Humanity Toronto, and to start this new chapter in their lives. “I am going to be able to give Bryan a real home with all the space he deserves.”What: Ritchie Dedication CeremonyWhere: 96 Ritchie Ave. (Dundas St. West & Bloor St. West)When: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pmWho: Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo, MPP for Parkdale-High Park Gord Perks, City Councillor, Ward 14, Parkdale-High Park Peggy Nash, Member of Parliament for Parkdale-High Park Sinato family and dozens of volunteers and supporters. | | www.habitattoronto.ca | @habitattoronto | www.facebook.com/HabitatforHumanityToronto | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 17:37:10 | | Habitat for Humanity Toronto | 314-ritchie-dedication | Joanna Dwyer | JDwyer@torontohabitat.ca | Toronto | Toronto, Ontario |
| 107 | 313 | Social Impact Report Release at Queen's Park | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 20 | 0 | In recognition of World Habitat Day 2012, Habitat for Humanity Toronto (www.torontohabitat.ca) will hold a press conference on Monday October 1st at 9:00 am at Queen’s Park to release their “Building a Better City: The Social Impact of Habitat for Humanity Homes in Toronto” report. Neil Hetherington, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Toronto along with Gillian Bartlett of Bartlett Cultural Connections and Charles Gagnon of BPG Analytics will present the ground-breaking report. In the spring of 2012, Habitat for Humanity Toronto homeowners were interviewed and asked how their lives have changed since purchasing and moving into their homes. Here is a snapshot of what the report revealed:- Homeownership opens doors for low-income youth: 76% of homeowners report an improvement in children’s school grades; 88% report greater confidence, and 81% report improvement in their social lives.- Homeownership strengthens communities: 97% of families feel pride in their new homes, 72% of families reported an increase in neighbourly ties, and 98% report an increased commitment to “reduce, reuse, and recycle.”To read the full report visit www.torontohabitat.ca/2012report | | www.habitattoronto.ca/2012report | @habitattoronto | www.facebook.com/HabitatforHumanityToronto | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 17:21:57 | | Habitat for Humanity Toronto | 313-social-impact-report-release-at-queens-park | Joanna Dwyer | JDwyer@torontohabitat.ca | Toronto | Toronto, Ontario |
| 108 | 312 | Urban Change Labs - Smart Solutions for Slums | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 20 | 0 | Cordaid, Nyenrode Business University and AT Osborne create a management development program to develop smart solutions for slum problems: the Urban Change Labs. This program explicitly addresses the international theme of World Habitat Day ‘Changing Cities Building Opportunities’. Today the parties will sign their cooperation by a Letter of Intent. According to UN Habitat, from which Cordaid is lead partner, half of world population currently lives in cities. This figure will rise to 60% by 2030 and even to 70% by 2050. Around the year 2020 nearly 1 billion people will live in slums. These slums face great challenges in terms of affordable housing, clean and available drinking water, (renewable) energy, food security and job opportunities. Wim Demmers, Director AT Osborne: “cities also offer great opportunities for new partnerships for sustainable urban development. Urban planning does not only entail improving the infrastructure, but also stimulate economic growth and social cohesion.” To promote new business models for urban development Cordaid, Nyenrode and AT Osborne start the Urban Change Labs. In this management development program business sense and smart solutions will be combined to solve the problems which slums face. Over a period of six months a group of ‘high potentials’ from different business segments will be challenged to deliver business plans for the Base of the Pyramid (BoP). This will be facilitated by organizing innovative master classes and a trip to one of the slums in Latin America or Africa.During the program business plans will be developed in which slum dwellers are seen as critical consumers, producers, (social) entrepreneurs or employees. The output is a ‘smart solution for slums’, taking into account technological and social innovation, sustainable financial structures and well organized public-private-social partnerships. These solutions are desperately needed since the urban population continues to grow and the current conventional methods are no longer sufficient. Danielle Zandee, Professor at Nyenrode Business University mentions: “I see a new trend evolving. Companies are no longer solely driven by shareholder value, but also take other stakeholders - like local communities - into consideration in their business models. The Urban Change Labs are an innovative program for executive education that centralizes around ‘shared value creation’ and inclusive innovation’.” Henri van Eeghen, director at Cordaid emphasizes: “By bringing together organizations from the profit and non-profit sector we start a new method of development cooperation. We acknowledge the added value firms have by delivering business principles and market-based solutions to sustainable urban development.” The Urban Change Labs offer companies a great opportunity to become part of the urban solution and to help improve the living conditions of millions of slum dwellers. | | http://www.cordaidurbanmatters.com/ | @cordaidUM | http://www.facebook.com/CordaidUrbanMatters | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 15:20:28 | | Cordaid, Nyenrode Business University and AT Osborne | 312-urban-change-labs-smart-solutions-for-slums | Loura Vlam | loura.vlam@cordaid.nl | Den Haag | Den Haag, South Holland, Netherlands |
| 109 | 309 | www.EnergyElephant.com is a bit of an animal! | PRIV | GREE | 0 | 53.34401132559954 | -6.255533473510695 | EnergyElephant is all about the 3Cs:- COST- CONSUMPTION- CARBONWe have developed the world's first E-Traffic Light for wind energy! The E-Traffic Light works like any other traffic light system you know. It lets you know when there is a lot of renewable electricity being generated and can help reduce your carbon footprint. If there is a lot of renewable electricity being produced (i.e. 100% Irish wind energy) and the demand for electricity is low, the traffic light will show green. If there is an average amount of renewable energy, it will be amber. Finally, if there is little renewable energy available, it will be red.Please visit www.EnergyElephant.com for further info. | youtubettp://www.youtube.com/EnergyElephantCom | www.EnergyElephant.com | @EnergyElephant | http://www.facebook.com/EnergyElephant | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 14:56:06 | | Trinity Sustainable Services International | 309-wwwenergyelephantcom-is-a-bit-of-an-animal | Joseph Borza | energyelephant@gmail.com | Dublin | Dublin, Leinster, Ireland |
| 110 | 308 | Be the Solution | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 41.09 | -08.37 | The mission of Arrebita!Porto is to fight the inner city abandonment of Porto, a chronic problem without signs of resolution. Indeed, the latest data show that in the past decade alone the centre of Porto lost a third of its population. The effect of abandonment is ominous, deep and widespread in the city impacting everything from its urban identity and safety to the management of infrastructures and living standards especially of those already most deprived. The severity of the problem in Porto is without parallel in Europe and solutions are urgently needed.The root of the problem lies in the failure of the market to work successfully for the refurbishment of Porto's buildings. Indeed, refurbishing these traditional constructions is in most cases not a profitable investment with the exception for those targeted to the narrow fringe of the most affluent. Any attempt at a broad response to this systemic problem can only thus come from inverting this business model in which nobody or hardly anyone gains in refurbishing.The solution of Arrebita!Porto consists precisely in designing a new system of refurbishing in which all involved gain in its process. The concept is to form a collaborative network where the value of a refurbished building is created through exchanges of mutual interest rather than through payments for services in cash. Indeed, by reciprocally matching the needs with resources of different parties, the project Arrebita!Porto is able to refurbish derelict buildings money free and without incurring homeowners in any cost.The modus operandi of Arrebita!Porto is based on the collaboration of three main parties besides homeowners who have no means to refurbish. One, the collaboration of young architects and engineers who participate in a work experience program and design and realize the refurbishment projects while learning from experienced masters. Two, the collaboration of supplier and construction companies who donate materials, equipment and services needed for the refurbishments while enjoying the tax benefits associated to the exercise of corporate responsibility. Three, the collaboration of professors of the technical schools and universities who monitor and supervise the refurbishments while using the projects as case studies for their courses.The ultimate goal of the project Arrebita!Porto is to contribute to a wave of urban regeneration that is more inclusive than that which is commercially feasible. More than the sole re-population of inner Porto, by optimizing the disused fabric of the centre the aim is also to catalyze increased competitiveness and social transformation in the city. In the long run, the impact of the project will be noticeable in a range of urban indices from the level of investment and employment to the energy efficiency, tourism and overall living standards of everyone in Porto. | youtube_FCe6G22CrY | http://www.arrebita.org/ | | http://www.facebook.com/arrebita.porto | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 14:54:23 | | Arrebita!Porto | 308-be-the-solution | Jose Paixao | info@arrebita.org | Porto | Porto, Portugal |
| 111 | 307 | CLEANAP, a socially advantageous performance. | FRIE | INCL | 0 | 40.8517746 | 14.268124400000033 | CleaNap was born as a socially advantageous performance.Everybody could take part to it, no matter what their political or ideological ideas were, because Naples’ welfare is an aim that cuts across any specific lines. It was born in July 2011, its supporters were unstructured and unsponsored and the purpose was to create new urban and voluntary citizen actions.We started with some kind of cleaning-flash mobs: we met in a place planning our actions on the social media and started to clean it. It goes without saying that our actions neither wanted nor could have substituted the ordinary cleaning and maintenance of a public place. Our actions were simply a constructive and active challenge aimed to the creation of a new awareness in citizens and institutions.Our name CLEANAP, is a crasis and it comes out from the verb to Clean and our town’s name: NAP(oli). If you pronounce it, it will come out as “Clean up” whose double meaning (the literal and the metaphorical ones) seemed particularly appropriated to our mission. Same thing for our subheading “Piazza Pulita”: in Italian it means not only “tidy square”, but also “to make a clean sweep of something”.That’s how CleaNap has started, today we are dealing with the concept of “smart city” always looking at the sustainable and green side of the matter. The mission is still the same: to make our city more livable and smart. We signed in for a governamental notification and submitted a project related to the implemanetaztion of a bikesharing service in Naples. We want to offer our citizens a new, smart and green mobility, but we also want to monitor and reduce acoustic and environmental pollution, monitor traffic flows and offer turists a completely new view on our city. We work together with the LusiLab, a division of the IT department of the Naples University Federico II, it will help us out developing new smartphone application that will make our service much smarter. Our project has been submitted to the notification “Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation” within the PON “Ricerca e Competitività” 2007/2013 and we won!Now, we’ll have to work hard in order to make it start, to manage it and to find a co-funding so that it can finally be a true social enterprise. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXVQXIqY4NU&feature=player_embedded#! | www.cleanap.wordpress.com | @_cleanap | www.facebook.com/cleanap | 11/06/2011 0:00:00 | 31/08/2016 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 13:00:12 | | CleaNap | 307-cleanap-a-socially-advantageous-performance | emiliana | cleanap.piazzapulita@gmail.com | Naples | Naples, Campania, Italy |
| 112 | 306 | Green Africa Directory | PRIV | GREE | 0 | -33.9248685 | 18.424055299999964 | <p>The Green Africa Directory is an online sustainability network and directory for Africa that promotes and connects the environmental and sustainability sector. The directory showcases an extensive and searchable repository of green organizations, companies, products, projects and initiatives from around the continent - which includes green local governments & initiatives and sustainable cities, city networks & NGOs.The Green Africa Directory is based in Cape Town, South Africa, but operates across the entire African continent.</p>
| | http://www.greenafricadirectory.org | @greenafricadir | https://www.facebook.com/GreenAfricaDirectory | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 11:33:57 | | Green Africa Directory | 306-green-africa-directory | Kate Berrisford | info@greenafricadirectory.org | Cape Town | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
| 113 | 305 | Temporary Boarding House for CDC School | NGOO | GREE | 0 | 16.7751826 | 98.70407499999999 | <p>The armed conflict that has persisted for decades in the Karen State of Myanmar results in a daily flow of refugees and immigrants to neighbouring Thailand. In the Thai town of Mae Sot, a few kilometres from the Burmese border, numerous schools and orphanages offer accommodation and education. One of these centers, the CDC School (children development center) under the tutelage of Mae Tao Clinic organisation, hosts more than 500 students.The lack of space, and in many cases, the need for immediate accommodation for new students forced the school to present a new model of temporary low cost dormitories that are easy to assemble.Funded by the Embassy of Luxembourg in Bangkok, the first of 4 dormitories was built in April 2012 within 4 weeks. With a capacity of 25 students, the building meetsthe modus vivendiby fitting into the local environment in which it is located. The interior layout ensures anopen and airy space that offers semi-privacyand includes storage space for up to 3 students. The materials used are locally available and well known for their users, which allows easy maintenance and results in low cost.In 1988, the Burmese military violently suppressed pro-democracy demonstrators in Burma. Many of those who survived the crackdown fled to the Thailand-Burma border, seeking refuge with local ethnic minority groups such as the Karen, who were waging their own struggle for freedom and democracy.About Mae Tao Clinic:In 1989, in the midst of war, Dr.Cynthia Maung established the Mae Tao Clinic to provide medical care for all who were fleeing the fighting. The Clinic has since gone from being a simple, one-roomed building to a large and reputable organisation providing comprehensive healthcare, training social support and child protection services to over 150,000 displaced people per year.</p>
| | www.maetaoclinic.org | | http://www.facebook.com/MaeTaoClinic?ref=ts&fref=ts | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 01/10/2012 7:39:11 | | Mae Tao Clinic | 305-temporary-boarding-house-for-cdc-school | Albert Company Olmo | a.company.olmo@gmail.com | Mae Sot | Mae Sot, Tak, Thailand |
| 114 | 304 | "Paseo del Mar" Ciudad Sostenible | PRIV | INCL | 0 | -9.7 | -78.31 | <p>El Perú esta viviendo desde hace 20 años de un crecimiento económico con tasas que superan el 6%, debido a la gran necesidad de vivienda que tiene el Perú en las ciudades de provincias, se hace necesario crear ciudades sostenibles a través de la inversión privada, evitando asi las usuales invasiones de terrenos de los moradores.Paseo Del Mar es nuestro proyecto en el distrito de Nuevo Chimbote, a 420Km al norte de Lima, Aquí Domus Hogares busca desarrollar una nueva ciudad en lo que siempre fue un desierto, y donde albergaremos a más de 20,000 personas en un plazo de 6 años.El futuro urbano es generar las condiciones que favorezcan menores desplazamientos del usuario y esto descongestione el tránsito vehicular y las personas puedan caminar distancias cortas creando ciudades donde se privilegia a las personas primero y a los autos después.</p>
<p>Por ello este proyecto busca dotar a las mas de 5,000 viviendas de un confort urbano con el uso de 24 parques medianos y grandes, un gran parque ciudadano de 10,000m2, un centro comercial con 80,000 m2 y un supermercado que ya esta construido, permitiendo actualmente que sus vecinos solucionen sus compras caminando. Además estamos dotando 5 colegios públicos y uno privado, un centro civico donde se realicen funciones públicas, etc.La visión clásica de las promotoras, ha sido siempre la de desarrollar viviendas; Hoy sabemos en Domus Hogares que esto no es suficiente, no es posible crear ciudades sin servicios, y estos a su vez deben ser integradores sociales, dado que se vincularan diferentes sectores socioeconómicos, generando una convivencia urbana.En Domus Hogares estamos apostando también a la sostenibilidad ambiental y paisajista con plantas y árboles que crezcan en nuestros climas desérticos y difíciles, que soportan con poco suministro de agua que es recurso muy escaso. Complementando la dotación publica de agua, venimos perforando un pozo para que se abastezca el proyecto. Por otro lado, estamos evaluando el tratamiento interno de las aguas residuales para que sirvan de irrigación de parques y jardines públicos.</p>
<p>Las viviendas, han sido dotadas de un diseño que considera las posibilidades de crecimiento, para satisfacer el desarrollo futuro de las familias hasta de 3 pisos, son compactas y utilizan el espacio de manera muy eficiente. Como empresa estamos convencidos en la educación como herramienta para combatir el subdesarrollo. Por ello entregamos los planos al cliente y un manual de mantenimiento para que utilice eficazmente los materiales y el diseño, de esta manera la familia dispondrá de mayores recursos a la vez que mantienen la calidad de su vivienda evitando usar materiales no especificados. Finalmente reforzamos nuestra visión mediante una campaña de ciudadanía y convivencia, queremos que la ciudad que estamos creando, con casas de 3 pisos y edificios de departamentos de hasta 5 pisos, permitan la eficiencia del uso del suelo, y a la vez se genere un clima de vecindad y uso peatonal en todo el proyecto.</p>
| youtubeo-Co0d80UDQ&feature=related | http://www.domushogares.com/ | PaseoDelMar@ | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 30/09/2012 16:09:32 | | Domus Hogares del Norte SA - Grupo Interbank | 304-paseo-del-mar-ciudad-sostenible | Carlos Ceccovilli | cceccovilli@domushogares.com | Nuevo Chimbote | Nuevo Chimbote, Ancash, Peru |
| 115 | 303 | Giving Voice to At-Risk Youths in Bangladesh | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 20 | 0 | Social Change through Education, Empowerment and Economic Development (SEEED)Mission: At Seeds of Change our objective is to provide state-of-the-art educational and training opportunities to at-risk street children and women in the developing world so that they might overcome the barriers created by poverty and oppression. We all deserve a strong education, trade skills, an understanding of basic financial planning, access to health services, adequate food and clean water. Description: Seeds of Change supports NGOs and socially driven for-profit entities, with a primary focus on children’s shelters, educational programs and MFIs.General Information: Seeds of Change believes in giving girls a chance. A chance to live, to learn, to grow…to thrive. We initiate and facilitate projects to overcome unmet community needs; finding resources and providing solutions to ensure the longevity of charitable projects.Spread the word, plant the SEEED. | | www.consultants4good.org | www.facebook.com/seeds.of.change1 | www.facebook.com/seeds.of.change1 | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 31/12/2012 0:00:00 | | 30/09/2012 13:09:03 | | Seeds of Change Consulting Corp | 303-giving-voice-to-at-risk-youths-in-bangladesh | Rachel Hathaway, Founder and President | raehathaway@hotmail.com; rachelh@consultants4good.org | Dhaka | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| 116 | 300 | Sites and Services: Basic services as main incentive to sustainable urban development | PUBL | PLAN | 0 | -22.674101 | 14.52783999999997 | Swakopmund is a beach town in Namibia with 55, 000 inhabitants. All of them, including the “democratically reallocated community” (DRC) have access to basic services. These services are paid - a monthly service fee of 50 Nam$ (5 Euro) per household, further every dwelling can enjoy 8 meters of water. Water is available in service points, with a chip-card, consumption is counted and charged. Who doesn´t pay the bill will automatically not receive water in the service point. The same for electricity. Roads are wide and demarcated, prioritizing the pavement of sidewalks. All have streetlights and before urbanization take place, electric and water service points are installed. The city provides – against cost- latrines. In most cases, people build their own house according to affordable materials. Generally, inhabitants keep their plots clean; the same is for public spaces, garbage is collected frequently. Partners to this initiative include MILE (Durban), Cities Alliance, ALAN, NALAO, UCLG, UCLGA and SALGA. From irrigation of green spaces with waste water to a new and open city hall, and the cooperation of politicians and technical management, is outstanding. With all this in consideration, it is not surprising that Swakopmund is the first debt free town in Namibia! | | http://www.swkmun.com.na/ | | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Swakopmund-Namibia/110702752285601?ref=ts | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 28/09/2012 12:24:57 | | Swakopmund - city management | 300-ites-and-services-basic-services-as-main-incentive-to-urban-development | Sara Hoeflich | sara.hoeflich@uclg.org | Swakopmund | Swakopmund, Erongo, Namibia |
| 117 | 299 | Urban Bike - Cycle Tour | NGOO | INCL | 0 | -23.5489433 | -46.6388182 | The Urban bike project is a new proposal for sustainable mobility and an invitation to under go Sao Paulo in a city where there is pleasurable to live and with a high quality of life.Being the first service of cycle tourism and also the first with the service of Personal Biker of the capital, the project is result of Green Mobility in partnership with Mobilidade Verde Institute, with the support of Unique Hotel, Caloi and City of Sao Paulo The main point of U-Bike is to develop a sustainable mobility program in the capital of Sao Paulo, which integrates bicycles with alternative touristic routes, offering a different vision of the city to the tourist.At the very beginning, the project will be running at Unique Hotel, but will be open for general public in January 2012. The objective for 2012 is to have spread U-Bike for 200 hotels in Sao Paulo, sharing minds with the objective of humanitarian Sao Paulo in a city more sustainable and humanity for the World Cup 2014. | | http//www.u-bike.com.br | @mobilidadeverde | http://www.facebook.com/ubike | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 27/09/2012 16:43:53 | | Green Mobility Institute | 299-urban-bike-cycle-tour | lincoln Paiva | lp@mobilidadeverde.org | São Paulo | São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 118 | 297 | Sun City Resort celebrates World Habitat Day | PRIV | GREE | 0 | -25.3604125 | 27.099469999999996 | The Sun City Hotel and Gaming Green Team will be raising staff and guest awareness on World Habitat Day through posters and email campaigns. We will also be selling WHD stickers to our staff early in the morning as they arrive for work at the staff gate entrances. Staff will wear these stickers proudly on their uniform on the day to raise guest awareness of what WHD is exactly. We will also be initiating a competition with two of our local schools which will focus on planning more sustainable human habitats with more opportunities for future generations. The kids will be tasked with designing their own interpretation of what they think a green city is or illustrate their thoughts and ideas on how we can create more sustainable places to live in. | | | | | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 31/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 27/09/2012 16:13:09 | | Sun City Resort | 297-sun-city-resort-celebrates-world-habitat-day | Thandeka Gumede | thandeka.gumede1@za.suninternational.com | Sun City | Sun City, North-West, South Africa |
| 119 | 296 | Bicicloteca ( Bike Library) | NGOO | INCL | 0 | -23.5346806 | -46.63387310000002 | If good ideas transcend boundaries, this one does it by bicycle. That is, by Bicicloteca [pt], a bicycle that carries a small library through the city of São Paulo, Brazil.The project is a creative and dynamic way to encourage reading, especially among people who live on the streets, because libraries typically require identification and proof of residence to loan books; documents which homeless people don't have.The Bicicloteca initiative has emerged from this very need and has gained support from São Paulo residents, media and businesses. As of August 2012, it has been distributing books and encouraging reading for a year.The Bicicloteca is an independent movement which has emerged in various places around the world, aiming to go where traditional libraries can't and to do so in the simplest and cheapest way possible. The Bicicloteca for the homeless was born after a meeting with Robson Mendonça, a former street dweller who left the streets after reading “Animal Farm”. The institute donated the first Bicicloteca and the others were subsequently donated by private initiatives. | | http://www.bicicloteca.com.br | @bicicloteca | http://www.facebook.com.br/bicicloteca | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 27/09/2012 16:09:21 | | Green Mobility Institute ( Mobilidade verde) | 296-bicicloteca-bike-library | lincoln Paiva | lp@mobilidadeverde.org | São Paolo | São Paolo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 120 | 295 | City we Want | NGOO | INCL | 0 | -23.5489433 | -46.6388182 | The project "City We Want" encourages outdoor excursions that help put people in touch with their urban environment and community in her neighborhood in order to fill the gaps creating social and geographical spaces for cities to discover themselves .All tours are conducted Project free of charge and are led by someone who has an interest in the neighborhoods where they live, work or attend. The aim is to offer a more personal take on the local culture, history and social issues of planning and urban mobility faced by residents. Jane Jacobs believed strongly that local communities understand best how their neighborhood works, and what was needed to strengthen them and improve them. The idea is to offer fun rides, engaged and participatory - everyone has a story and usually people are eager to share them with others.Jane Jacobs knew that cities were complicated and resistant to easy solutions and the solutions that were within them. "Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Large cities have difficulties in abundance because they have people in abundance. But cities are not as powerless to the point of not knowing tackle even the toughest problems. ' | vimeo30247676 | http://www.cidadequequeremos.org | @cidadequequeremos | http://www.facebook.com/cidadequequeremos | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 27/09/2012 15:48:20 | | Green Mobility Institute | 295-city-we-want | Lincoln Paiva | lp@mobilidadeverde.org | São Paulo | São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 121 | 294 | World Habitat Day Seminar | PUBL | PLAN | 0 | 42.65870670014315 | 21.156202581567413 | On Monday October 1st, UN-Habitat’s Municipal Support Program in Kosovo will be participating in the celebrations of the World Habitat Day 2012 dedicated this year to the theme "Changing cities, buildingopportunities". The United Nations chose this theme because citiesare the engines of growth. It is in the cities that many fulfill their dreams of abetter life. Every year many rural inhabitants leave the rural areas and cometo the cities for the promise of a better future and prosperity. Under thistheme, UN-Habitat wants to underscore the need to plan our cities betterbecause unplanned growth of cities leads to chaotic development and urbansprawl. When well planned, cities can continue to afford opportunities toboth the current and future residents.Venue: Ministries Building, Prishtina, Kosovo10h00 Opening Remarks10h30 REMIXING CITIES, REINVENTING PLANNING - BUILDING INCLUSIVE, SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT CITIESShipra Narang Suri, Vice-President of the International Society ofCity and Regional Planners-ISOCARP11.00 COFFEE BREAK11.30 PLANNING AND CULTURAL HERITAGEUN-Habitat Kosovo and Cultural Heritage without Borders-CHwB12.00 KOSOVO CITIESAgim Radoniqi, Director, Spatial Planning Department, MESP12.30 DISCUSSIONPanel discussants:Leonora Rraci, Association of Kosovo MunicipalitiesIlir Gjinolli, Representative of University of PrishtinaEliza Hoxha, Architect-Urban PlannerBesnik Tahiri, Director, Institute for Local Government13.00 COCKTAIL | | http://www.unhabitat-kosovo.org/ | | | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 27/09/2012 10:51:41 | | UN-Habitat Kosovo | 294-world-habitat-day-seminar | Catarina Camarinhas | catarina.camarinhas@unhabitat-kosovo.org | Prishtina | Prishtina, Komuna e Prishtinës, Kosovo |
| 122 | 291 | CASALATA | INDI | INCL | 0 | 16.890618 | -24.98082099999999 | The shortage of housing in Cape Verde is not a problem that can be easily or quickly resolved. The families living in tin houses will continue to live in sub-standard conditions for an indefinite period of time, even if the resolution of the housing problem is made to be a governmental priority.The main objective of the Casalata project is to raise awareness of the problem and propose a strategy for improvement of the living conditions of less fortunate families through urban planning. Whilst producing the Casalata film we became aware of the extent of the difficulties endured by the families living in the tin houses. The poor living conditions of the spaces coupled with a sense of hopelessness and social marginalisation felt by the residents who have little choice but to live illegally, lead us to expand the project and establish a line of action divided into three stages: · Firstly – produce a survey of the methods of construction and social organisation of the existing urban process in order to identify the positive factors and re-use them as tools in the development of the project for affordable social housing· Secondly – based on the research and data from stage 1, suggest smaller scale and affordable adjustments to the existing houses in order to provide immediate improvements to the residents’ living conditions. Issues such as thermal comfort, ventilation and natural lighting of the living spaces could be addressed and made to be substantially more efficient.· Thirdly – develop a proposal for an affordable social housing project which incorporates the knowledge gained during stages one and two. This project will place an emphasis on minimising the environmental impact of the buildings and neighbourhoods and also on educating the residents by making them aware of their role in maintaining their urban conditions. | vimeo.com/44752675 | http://casalataprojecto-eng.blogspot.pt/ | | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Casalata/227916493995175#!/pages/Casalata/227916493995175 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 26/09/2012 19:18:05 | | casalata | 291-casalata | CASALATA - Lara Plácido | casalata.projecto@gmail.com | Mindelo | Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde |
| 123 | 284 | World Habitat Day in NY | PUBL | INCL | 0 | 40.74791383586115 | -73.9671776288086 | The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day. The idea is to reflect on the state of our towns and cities and the basic right of all, to adequate shelter. It is also intended to remind the world of its collective responsibility for the future of the human habitat.On the occasion of World Habitat Day and the International Day of Older Persons, in NY we are celebrating a High Level Working Session on Urban Futures: “South Meets North”. The event also includes the presentation of the student winners awards for the "2012 International Student Design Competition", by UN-Habitat and ICCC. | | www.unhabitat.org/whd | @unhabitatny | http://www.facebook.com/pages/UN-HABITAT-New-York/134391989969136 | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 26/09/2012 18:36:03 | | UN-Habitat and International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC) | 284-world-habitat-day-in-ny | rosa surinach | surinach@un.org | New York | New York, New York, United States |
| 124 | 276 | TREES PLANTING & GENERAL CLEAN-UP | ASSO | GREE | 0 | -1.2920659 | 36.82194619999996 | We have organized for a general clean-up and tree planting at our newly constructed public health facility at Kariobangi South opposite Mahuti-ini Bar. The activities will start at 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. All are well come! | | www.kaswesha.kbo.co.ke | @kaswesha | James njoroge gitau (KASWESHA) | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 26/09/2012 13:26:42 | | KASWESHA Housing Cooperative Society | 276-trees-planting-general-clean-up | James Njoroge Gitau | kaswesha@gmail.com | Nairobi | Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya |
| 125 | 275 | Bikla | PRIV | GREE | 0 | 20.40 | -103.21 | In Guadalajara, a company called BKT Bicipublica S.A. de C.V. Have created a completely new form of bike sharing system. They were inspired by Velib in Paris and Bixi in Montreal, but in Guadalajara, there was little political support for creating a municipal bike share system. Instead they funded their own system in order to prove its viability. The system is called Bikla and is different from all other common modern bike sharing systems. The Bikla system does not rely on government subsidies, advertising contracts, or GPS & SIM card tracking devices. Bikla relies on members & existing businesses that want to promote cycling and their location.The Bikla bike share system works very simply. People purchase a membership for around $15 USD a year. They are given a Bikla ID card that lists the 40 bike share stations and their hours of operation. Each of the participating businesses is required by Bikla to have internet access and a Cycle Port or “staple” style bike racks. These businesses are cafes, restaurants, bookstores, etc. throughout central Guadalajara. When a Bikla member arrives at one of these businesses to check out a bike, the staff logs onto the Bikla website & enters the members ID number. The member is assigned one of the bikes that are locked up outside and the staff of the business gives them the corresponding key. When the Bikla member is done with the bike, they can return it to any of the participating businesses, lock to the Cycle Port, and have the business staff log the return of the bike and deduct “Bike Time” from the user’s card. This system is unusual because it is so simple and affordable. The entire bike sharing infrastructure consists of bikes, normal keyed locks, bike racks, and businesses with internet access. The businesses pay to participate, an amount which includes the Cycle Port or “staple” style bike racks. Each business benefits from being a station by increasing their exposure to potential customers.The company has used inexpensive internet technology to enable members to pay for “Bike Time” and check on the web to see where bikes are currently available. The Bikla mapping also lets them administer a system of bikes throughout Guadalajara. Internally, they are able to track bikes that are overdue or those that need maintenance.Bikla has become a great success in Guadalajara. The system was launched two years ago and now has over 3,600 members. Thanks to this work The Guadalajara municipal government is looking forward to invest in a serious system that could offer thousands of trips per day and become an integral part of the transportation culture in Guadalajara.According to Mario Delgado, director of BKT Bicipublica S.A. de C.V. , their goal is to “change people’s transportation habits” and to “see cycling become part of our culture.” “Our concept is very local, designed to satisfy the culture of the place, by using local artists and culture to accommodate the bike sharing to each city. Local minds to advertise to the locals. As cyclists, they know that “it is hard to change people’s perspective. But we believe that Guadalajara can be a catalyst for Latin America with the bike.”For additional information check out their website www.bikla.net, www.bktbicipublica.com which has an english translation.Email Bicipublica at : info@bktbicipublica.comLike them on Facebook under “Bikla.”Follow them on Twitter @bikla_gdl | | www.bktbicipublica.com | @bikla_gdl | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bikla/105182566187539 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 22/09/2012 2:44:12 | | BKT Bicipublica | 275-bikla | Rodrigo | rodrigo@bktmobiliario.com | Guadalajara | Guadalajara |
| 126 | 274 | City and Regional Planning Department for Women in Asia | EDUC | INCL | 0 | 31 | 74 | On the World Habitat Day, Asia's first institution for Women City Planners is initiating its first semester offering degrees in BS and MS. Women City Planners will take lead in Asia by learning at the hub of knowledge newly established at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) in Pakistan. | | www.lcwu.edu.pk | | | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 02/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 21/09/2012 19:58:34 | | Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), Pakistan in collaboration with International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) | 274-city-and-regional-planning-department-for-women-in-asia | Dr. M. Atiq ur Rahman. Head of City and Regional Planning Department LCWU Lahore Pakistan | atiq@uderc.com | Lahore | Lahore, Pakistan |
| 127 | 273 | Energy Retrofitting of 1970's Urban Stock | INDI | GREE | 0 | 45 | 9 | Environment & Energy Studies Programme Architectural Association School of ArchitectureEnergy retrofitting of 1970’s social housing stock across ItalyThe increasing level of attention to thecontainment of the energy demand and the themeof "fuel poverty" are encouraging a reflection onthe need for social housing heritage to achievehigh energy-performance standards.Shifting from the logic of pure efficiency to thelogic of sufficiently, large-scale retrofitting activitycan provide a substantial reduction on the energycosts. It would be an attractive investmentopportunity for the Italian residential buildingsector, expecting future fuel oil price to be higher.The possibility to retrofit building fabric builtbetween the fifties and the seventies, has adouble purpose, from one hand is the inevitableconsequence to adapt to new performancestandards, on the other is an opportunity to startvirtuous urban renewal processes such as theimprovement of the overall liveability of suburbanneighbourhoods.Aiming at a substantial reduction of the energyload during the operational period, localauthoritiesʼ current trend is to sustain retrofittingactivities directed at reducing heat losses throughthe building envelope while simultaneouslyupgrading equipment plants.Within the management of the existing socialhousing stock, design challenge and financialresources are linked to cost-effectivenessparameters so that performance targets aregenerally lower however still significant.While the retrofitting objective is to minimizeenergy load providing a comfortable indoorenvironment, decisions on whether to admit orexclude a certain retrofitting strategy must beconsidered on a case-by-case basis. Evaluationparameters should take in consideration buildingorientation, layout, site conditions and planningregulations. The solution should be oriented atbest guarantee comfort conditions, lessmaintenance cost over the time, facilitate in itsconstruction and utilization.This research addresses the issue of “energyretrofitting of 1970ʼs social housing stock acrossItaly”, an existing estate of multi-storey, concreteprefabricated developments, constructed indiverse northern Italian cities. In this aim, theresearch identifies environmental advantages andlimits in the sunspace addition for the Italianclimatic “zone E”. Current retrofitting practiseshave been evaluated and compared.The material in this thesis is in four parts. The firstchapter emphasizes a lesson learned from the1970ʼs experiments in passive solar architecture.The list of energy conservation and substitutionmeasure carried out in the experiments of thoseyears was comprehensive. Many examples ofpassive solar systems demonstrated the greatinfluence that the type of system and the attitudeof the user have on the buildingʼs energyconsumption. The experiences have furnishedexamples, which indicates that passive solarsystems is not always satisfactory and requirescareful consideration in terms of management andmaintenance. In the second chapter, theprecedent case study of Orbassano Solar Towerhas been reported. Built in the Turin outskirt underthe UPSE European Demonstration Project (1979-1983), it represents a major contribution basing onwhich this research starts its assumptions. Officialreports of the European Commission, EnergyGeneral Directorate – (DGXVI, SE/0028/81/ITDemonstration Project), documents a three yearsmonitoring campaign, carried out between the1983 and the 1985. If from one hand the analysisof historical data provided some theoreticalbackground, on the other it enabled the calibrationof a Thermal analysis simulation Model basing onwhich the analytical work was conducted.Considerations on weather the environmentalconditions in a sunspace can offer sufficientamenities and weather it can contribute to theparent dwelling have be | | http://www.nceub.org.uk/nceub/MC2012/pdfs/MC12-01_Piccione.pdf | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 19/09/2012 22:48:21 | | Silvia Piccione | 273-energy-retrofitting-of-1970s-urban-stock | Silvia Piccione | silviapiccione@gmail.com | Milan | Milan |
| 128 | 272 | Raising Community Hope | INDI | INCL | 0 | 14 | 121 | The initiative is providing technical assistance to LGUs, NGOs, and Communities in improving their settlements with the available resources they have. Currently the initiative is providing technical assistance to a slum settlement called Baseco located at the mouth of the Pasig River in the city of Manila. Due to limited resources, an Incremental infrastructure provision of water, sanitation and roads are being provided by phases in a strategic manner to improve health, accessibility, productivity, and mobility of people, goods and services. The houses likewise are constructed with an incremental approach. Houses starts with a single- story one room structure that can gradually expand and improve over time as family income and savings improve. The development of these houses is linked with income generation by encouraging Home Based Enterprises (HBEs). Construction activities with its multiplier effects together with HBEs can create opportunities for income generation directly within the community. This development model can produce shelter, create income generating opportunities and raise hope.The initiative is not just about improving existing urban poor settlements with technical assistance. An important objective of the initiative is involving the participation of architecture and engineering students. This is done so that the next generation become aware, be more responsible and for them to acquire skills and knowledge in making a better urban future. | | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 19/09/2012 2:03:21 | | Albert Santos Zambrano | 272-raising-community-hope | Albert Zambrano | albertsantoszambrano@yahoo.com | Manila | Manila, Philippines |
| 129 | 271 | Promoción del Derecho al Hábitat | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 0 | -78 | Contribuir en la promoción del derecho al hábitat desde la perspectiva de la sustentabilidad, equidad y solidaridad, a partir de procesos participativos en el marco de la celebración del Día Mundial del Hábitat. | | www.somosecuador.org | | | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 07/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 05/09/2012 15:38:54 | | Fundación Somos Ecuador | 271-promocin-del-derecho-al-hbitat | Vanessa Pinto | vanessa@somosecuador.org | Quito | Quito |
| 130 | 270 | SMART STREET FURNITURE / AFFORDANCE | PRIV | INCL | 0 | 49 | 2 | Affordance is a smart street furniture. The goal is to geolocalise a street furniture with your smartphone, and once seated to create a social network with other users or be informed about the cultural activities of the city by an app on your smartphone.More of that, Affordance is an eco-friendly project. 18faubourg is a brand of contemporary & eco-friendly furnitures and luxury & innovative plastics objects based in New York City. For each item sold, we plant a tree in Madagascar.... | | www.18faubourgusa.com | https://twitter.com/18faubourg | https://www.facebook.com/pages/18faubourg/105078702886115 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 04/09/2012 21:47:32 | | 18faubourg | 270-smart-street-furniture-affordance | Rachel Scharly | rachel.s@18faubourg.com | Paris | Paris |
| 131 | 266 | Zerocity | ASSO | RESI | 0 | 20 | 0 | <p>Current patterns of urban and suburban cities growth are seriously threaten our quality of life. Urban systems devour much more resource they really need, and these resources became more and more limited. Is, therefore, necessary to rethink the paradigms of urban growth, contrasting the failed capitalist model of unlimited growth (urban sprawl) with the Zerocity, a city model of the future based on the concept of sustainable decrease.</p>
| | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 04/09/2012 17:50:22 | | le città del sud | 266-zerocity | lecittadelsud | lecittadelsud@libero.it | future | future |
| 132 | 265 | Habitat Cup Football Match : Scampia vs United Nation | PUBL | INCL | 0 | 41 | 14 | Habitat Cup is a new initiative of Un-Habitat to promote urban development and youth empowerment through football, encourage individuals, delegates, governments and private sector to support sports initiatives in urban areas, and to promote the integration of sports and recreational facilities in urban planning.It is the first time that the Habitat Cup is being organized and it will be played on Saturday 1 September from 10:00 to 12:00 at Terme di Agnano. A team of United Nations will play against a Naples team from Scampia.The match is open to all WUF6 participants. | | | @unhabitat | | 01/09/2012 10:00:00 | 01/09/2012 10:00:00 | | 01/09/2012 16:48:37 | | World Urban Forum 6 | 265-habitat-cup-football-match-scampia-vs-united-nation | imacitychanger | citychanger@imacitychanger.org | Naples | Naples |
| 133 | 259 | A bike tour to change the city | PUBL | SAFE | 0 | 41 | 14 | On Sunday 2 September a urban Bike Tour starts at 10:00 in Piazza Plebiscito. It is an event promoted by UN-Habitat Campaign “I’m a City Changer”. At the event will attend the mayor Luigi De Magistris and the UN-Habitat executive director Joan Clos and there will be the associations Cicloverdi and Fiab too.It will be a bike tour open to the people and to all WUF6 participants. The aim is promote the sustainable transport, especially the use of bicycle in the city.The date is in Piazza Plebiscito to run across Via Cesareo Console, Via Nazario Sauro, Via Partenope, Via Caracciolo and, arrived in Viale Dhorn, participants will come back in Piazza Plebiscito. | | | @unhabitat | unhabitat.socialnetworks@unhabitat.org | 02/09/2012 10:00:00 | 02/09/2012 20:00:00 | | 31/08/2012 17:45:38 | | I'm a city changer | 259-a-bike-tour-to-change-the-city | i'm a city changer | citychanger@imacitychanger.org | Naples | Naples |
| 134 | 258 | Labsus - Laboratorio per la sussidiarietà | ASSO | OTHE | 0 | 42 | 12 | Labsus, the Laboratory for subsidiarity, has a clear goal, based on a certainty: people do not only hold needs but also capabilities, and it is possible that such capabilities are offered to the community to contribute finding solutions to issues of common interest, in alliance with the government.This certainty found its endorsement in the Constitutional Reform Act of 2001 that recognized the importance of ‘active citizenship’ by introducing the so-called "principle of horizontal subsidiarity" in article 118, par. 4, of the Italian Constitution, which establishes that: "The State, regions, metropolitan cities, provinces and municipalities shall promote the autonomous initiatives of citizens, both as individuals and as members of associations, in carrying out activities of general interest, on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity". The constitutional reform, by recognizing that citizens can act for the common good and instructing institutions to support and encourage such efforts, confirms both that citizens have several capabilities and that they can use them to solve not just their own problems but also those that concern the community.If this is the certainty in which we find inspiration, our objective is therefore clear: to educate the public about this great innovation in our Constitution, an innovation which can change people's status, as citizens, in our society. Few people have understood the enormous potential this new principle provides. And among those many give a narrow interpretation of it claiming that, when private citizens get active, government should then withdraw. Such opinion assumes that the presence of the government within a certain domain should be perceived as the least worst option to recur to in the absence of any other better solution.This is not our idea of active citizenship. Not just because in our eyes the role of the government in guaranteeing constitutionally entrenched civil and social rights remains fundamental. Instead we deem the principle of horizontal subsidiarity (or else acitve citzenship) true essence does not lie in it being the thin line separating the public sphere from the assumingly conflicliting private domain, but rather in it being the constitutional platform over which we can build a new model of society characterized by the presence of active citizenship, understanding this as autonomous, caring, responsible citizens, allied with the government in taking care of all the common goods.This is an unprecedented and so far unconceivable way of being citizens. As a matter of act the Constitution did not allow citizens to be involved in public affairs, though staying in their position of simple citizens. On the contrary it was perceived as absurd the mere idea that a citizen had the strength, the willingness and the competence to take care of common goods, together with other citizens and public administrations, without becoming a permanent member of any kind of association.Today this absurd idea lives in the Constitution and we want the largest number of Italian citizens to mobilize themselves, on the basis of a "responsible active citizenship", to contribute to the renaissance of our country.For this reason we created Labsus, a laboratory for the enforcement of this principle, where we elaborate ideas, gather cases and materials of any sorts and promote new initiatives. We are doing all this as volunteers, or better as active citizens, employing time and energy without receiving any tangible compensation while getting deep personal satisfaction.We believe that what we are doing, even if only through our sole persistence, is useful and contributes to changing Italian active citizenship radically, with effects unforeseeable at the moment, but decisive for the realization of a broader substantial democracy, the improvement of civil cohabitation and of material conditions of life. Whoever wants to fight with us for these goals is welcome to join Labsus in its effort | youtubettp://www.youtube.com/user/wwwLABSUSorg?ob=5 | http://www.labsus.org/ | @Labsus1 | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Labsus-Laboratorio-per-la-sussidiariet%C3%A0/117512038280433 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 31/08/2012 14:15:31 | | Labsus - Laboratorio per la sussidiarietà | 258-labsus-laboratorio-per-la-sussidiariet | gallo@labsus.net | contatti@labsus.org | Rome | Rome |
| 135 | 257 | Youth Media Days | ASSO | PROD | 0 | 41 | 14 | Fostering a fair and open media system is fundamental for a country but also for a city, to make citizens part of their communities ensuring at the same time good working conditions for journalists, expecially the youngest ones. To this purpose, Youth Press Italia (the national association of young journalists) is organizing a 3-days meeting in Naples to exchange and compare ideas and views between journalists active at local, national and international levels.The event, supported among the others by the Naples City Council and the European Youth Forum, will have an important impact on the urban level and on the action and perspectives of urban city professionals, in order to better integrate them in their own local contexts.The event will be a good occasion for young journalist to report from Naples, one of the most vibrant examples of urban and social innovation in the country, presenting stories about the urban economic, cultural and working life of the city. The participants will also take part to Urban Ateliers, where they will encounter original aspects of the urban texture: local craftsmen, food and wine makers, aristic and cultural sights, street artists and urban innovators. | | festival.youthpressitalia.eu | @YMDNapoli | http://www.facebook.com/FestivalDelGiornalismoGiovane?ref=ts | 21/09/2012 0:00:00 | 23/09/2012 0:00:00 | | 31/08/2012 13:24:07 | | Youth Press Italia | 257-youth-media-days | Simone d'Antonio | s.dantonio@youthpress.org | Naples | Naples |
| 136 | 256 | CICLI INDECISI | ASSO | INCL | 0 | 44 | 12 | CICLI INDECISI 2012Una pedalata liberatoria e rigenerante attraverso le vie del centro di Forlì alla ricerca e alla scoperta degli spazi indecisi, riattivati e resi vivi grazie ad interventi che spaziano e dialogano fra storia, storie vissute e contemporaneo.Edifici abbandonati, strutture fatiscenti, luoghi che testimoniano una presenza passata attraverso un’assenza presente, diventeranno sede di operazioni installative grazie ad interventi artistici / concettuali / ironici che stimolino una riflessione più profonda sugli spazi indecisi favorendo nuova e diversa relazione con essi. | youtubeFOpnoGdwCrI | www.spaziindecisi.it | | http://www.facebook.com/spazi.indecisi | 08/08/2012 0:00:00 | 09/08/2012 0:00:00 | | 31/08/2012 11:58:19 | | SPAZI INDECISI | 256-cicli-indecisi | Arch. Filippo Santolini | info@spaziindecisi.it | Forlì | Forlì |
| 137 | 255 | Turintogreen | EDUC | GREE | 0 | 45 | 41 | tur(i)ntogreen - Farms In A Town is an International design competition launched by the Research and Documentation Centre in Technology, Architecture and City in Developing Countries (CRD-PVS) at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). It is open to students from around the world enrolled in any academic program from any Higher Institution. What.Imagine a neighbourhood that connects the city with the fields not only physically but also from the cultural, philosophical and environmental perspective. This will be the agriculture and food production district in Turin (Italy), where people will be living in a farming oriented urban realm. One narrow area of the FIAT, one of the biggest car factory of the World, in the Mirafiori plant, devoted to production stock parking, has been working as a second barrier to the expansion and integration of the South Mirafiori neighbourhood with the City. Now it has the chance to provide Turin with a new model of urban life.Dwellings integrated with food production, in traditional (surface field) or innovative (vertical) models; housing for low income people and immigrants, with agricultural skills; spaces, services and features to let younger generation to reinvent their own way to work; urban farming that opens to a new economy, including education, documentation, food retail, agricultural and zoo-technical services.Why.The massive global economical transformations, the redistribution of wealth and rights, new places and methods of production in goods and services are transforming the boundaries of the contemporary cities; the fragile balance between rural areas and urban settlements is quickly evolving. Younger generations from the rural areas in the whole world continue moving into the cities, claiming the right to share the benefits supplied by joint services, wealth and employment, peculiarities of the city even if they imply unacceptable life conditions. This has already led to an increase in urban population that generates the demand for new architectural solutions that must cover for the new figures ensuring dignity and integrated living conditions.Where (45°1'30.71"N, 7°36'22.92"E)Turin - the Italian motown of the 20th century - got to know these phenomena very well. In more than one situation of recent Italian history this city has been the home for many people and families coming from other sides of the Country.Between 1963 and 1965, South Mirafiori neighbourhood had been the first area selected to become a massive social housing development and urban expansion, with 1 million of cubic meters and a total of 2000 apartments in 35 high rise buildings. Just on the other side of the road the biggest Italian car factory plant – FIAT Mirafiori – was employing 80.000 people.Today the neighbourhood and the social housing dwellings – mainly owned by users now - are no more sustainable in terms of maintenance costs; apartments were given to people according to the members of their families differently from the contemporary model; the entire neighbourhood was designed as a living and working system together, in the 60’s in Turin represented by the FIAT factories in Mirafiori and Rivalta Torinese. The neighbourhood overall population is decreased from 20.000 to 6.000 and FIAT has around 10.000 employees.On one side energy costs and environmental issues, property values and building quality, unemployment, new global manufacturing scenarios; on the other hand the environmental features, the local ongoing projects, the community activities and the urban strategies for the western Turin make South Mirafiori an extremely high potential urban district in terms of social and economic development still to be explored. | | www.polito.it/turintogreen | | www.facebook.com/turintogreen | 05/09/2012 0:00:00 | 21/12/2012 0:00:00 | | 29/08/2012 20:16:06 | | CRD-PVS @ Politecnico di Torino | 255-turintogreen | riccardo balbo | r.balbo@salford.ac.uk | Turin | Turin |
| 138 | 253 | Activismo cívico centrado en problemáticas urbanas de la ciudad de Medellín | FRIE | SAFE | 0 | 6 | -75 | Definición de activismo cívico:"El concepto de activismo se puede generalizar como la acción o la actividad sostenida con intención de efectuar un cambio de índole social o política...". El activismo, tradicionalmente considerado con un grado de desobediencia cívil, se complementa en su actura con el "...activista cívico que es un ciudadano que, de modo individual o colectivo, desarrolla actividades vinculadas con la defensa de las libertades públicas y los valores de la democracia en el marco del Estado de Derecho." fuente: Wikipedia, Activismo CívicoSOMOS...Un grupo de ciudadanos de multiples campos del saber, interesados en inspirar a nuestros pares a quitarle a la delincuencia, los espacios público que son suyos por derecho, y a ver dichos espacios como lugares para la cultura y la conviviencia.También buscamos concientizar al ciudadano que la mejor lucha contra la delincuencia y la inseguridad es la apropiación del espacio urbano, pues un espacio ocupado por muchos ciudadanos activos y positivos, es un espacio seguro.NO somos...-Protestantes contra el avance y el desarrollo sostenible.-Rebeldes sin causa.-Un grupo de desadpatados.-Un grupo que se manifiesta con desobediencia cívil. | | | | www.facebook.com/pages/Activistas-Urbanos-de-Medellín-AUdeM | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 21/08/2012 19:29:24 | | Activistas Urbanos de Medellín | 253-activismo-cvico-centrado-en-problemticas-urbanas-de-la-ciudad-de-medelln | Nicolás Posada | nposada111@live.com | Medellín | Medellín, Colobmia |
| 139 | 252 | RajkaPark-Culburb | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 48 | 17 | Rajka Park is a part of project Culburb. Project Culburb (Cultural Acupuncture Treatment For Suburb) activates the public realm in the suburbs of Central European capital cities (Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw) through acupuncture interventions. Using minimal means these actions set up interaction between inhabitants and have an impact on the community life. For more details, please visit: www.culburb.euRajka Park is about declaring the need to save the endangered central green area of Rajka (Bratislava) and to turn it into a vibrant and inclusive public park custom tailored for the community, by the community. This project works with the activating concept of public research. It involves working with the community to make a case for the importance of this public space to the neighbourhood, and promoting this to other stakeholders. It is also about developing community cohesion through engagement in a range of activities towards a common goal. | | http://pinterest.com/rajkapark/ | @prgrs_org | http://www.facebook.com/culburb | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 21/08/2012 18:12:32 | | prgrs/culburb | 252-rajkapark-culburb | Goran Vodicka | goran@prgrs.org | Bratislava/Rajka | Bratislava/Rajka |
| 140 | 250 | Changing Cities, Building Opportunities | NGOO | PLAN | 0 | 22.48 | 86 | Krityanand UNESCO Club will celebrate the World Habitat Day 2012 by organizing the round table meeting on Urban Humanity on which we will focus on save the Natural Recourse for sustainable Habitat for Humanity. | | www.karmayog.org/ngo/KNUC/ | | facebook.com/KrityanandUNESCOClub. | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | 01/10/2012 0:00:00 | | 21/08/2012 4:24:18 | | KRITYANAND UNESCO CLUB,JAMSHEDPUR | 250-changing-cities-building-opportunities | Mukesh Kumar Mishra | knunesco@yahoo.com | Jamshedpur | Jamshedpur,India |
| 141 | 249 | Made in Lower East Side | ASSO | INCL | 0 | 41.8 | -73.59 | 212 lots and stores are vacant in the Lower East Side of New York, amounting to the stasis of an estimated quarter million square feet of valuable storefront real estate. These sites are awaiting gentrification: the opportunity for landlords to attract bars, restaurants or condominiums as the dominant form of development. The status quo stifles the creativity and diversity that once defined the cultural richness of Lower East Side. Originated from the creative forces from OpenIDEO’s Vibrant Cities Challenge, Made in Lower East Side (MiLES) is a multi-disciplinary initiative that cultivates the authenticity and creativity of the residents of the Lower East Side. MiLES facilitates and curates an open process of temporary transformations of underutilized sites by listening, co-creating, prototyping and operating with a blend of digital and physical platforms.MiLES embraces the untapped and authentic aspirations of the community to reinvent the processes for occupying urban spaces. By listening to landlords, we seek to better understand the realities of the Lower East Side real estate market. By engaging with local community groups, we uncover the latent needs of the neighborhood. By co-creating with residents, we build dialog and social capital to explore imaginative ways to revive vacant sites. By prototyping and operating with small businesses and organizations, we channel local capabilities embedded within the neighborhood. By documenting our methodologies, MiLES becomes a living proof-of-concept demonstrating the replicability of an inclusive approach to build common ground for action amongst diverse stakeholders. Our ultimate goal is to build a movement for open and bottom-up urban planning, one neighborhood at a time. | | http://www.madeinles.org | @madeinles | http://www.facebook.com/madeinles | 01/07/2012 0:00:00 | 01/09/2013 0:00:00 | | 20/08/2012 13:38:13 | | Architecture Commons | 249-made-in-lower-east-side | Eric Ho | eric.ho@architecturecommons.com | New York | New York |
| 142 | 248 | Art and culture in Sao Paulo | PRIV | OTHE | 0 | -23.33 | -46.38 | Conexão Cultural (http: www.conexaocultural.org) is an organization that promotes access and content in the cultural area, through the integration of various forms of art: visual arts, music, gastronomy, photography. Our aim is to integrate culture in people's daily life, and show them more about Brazilian and other cultures and improve events in cultural spaces and public spaces. We want to offer new dynamics of socialization, valuing the exchange of experiences, stimulating curiosity and creativity of the people. | youtubecIn44oNLeWg | www.conexaocultural.org | @conexaocult | http://www.facebook.com/ccconexaocultural | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 16/08/2012 22:54:48 | | Conexão Cultural | 248-art-and-culture-in-sao-paulo | Manuela Colombo | manuelacolombo@conexaocultural.org | Sao Paulo | Sao Paulo |
| 143 | 247 | Proyecto Huerto | PRIV | GREE | 0 | -33 | -70 | <p>CANVIS is a company dedicated to developing social and environmental projects that promote the responsible use of natural resources, linking people with their environment in order to improve their life quality. CANVIS, through its division of urban agriculture, PROYECTO HUERTO, develops urban agriculture projects in order to create opportunities for education and recreation, under the concept of environmental sustainability, economic and social development.</p>
| | http://www.proyectohuerto.cl | @proyectohuerto | http://www.facebook.com/proyectohuerto | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 13/08/2012 16:57:05 | | CANVIS | 247-proyecto-huerto | Claudia Barriga | claudia@proyectohuerto.cl | Santiago de Chile | Santiago de Chile |
| 144 | 246 | WeShareChicken on Urban Rooftop in City of Amsterdam | FRIE | RESI | 0 | 52 | 4 | We the People (of the rombouthogerbeetstraat amsterdam) decided to share the care for a couple of chicken on an Amsterdam Rooftop, and start an example for urban chicken farminghttp://www.wesharechicken.unitednature.nl | | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 09/08/2012 13:10:05 | | http://www.UnitedNature.nu | 246-wesharechicken-on-urban-rooftop-in-city-of-amsterdam | marvin | marvin@marvinfernandes.nl | Amsterdam | Amsterdam |
| 145 | 244 | Cleaning Busega Slum with Love! The Uganda Human Settlements Network launches a community clean up and sensitization drive in slum community | NGOO | SAFE | 0 | 0.313611 | 32.581111 | In an effort to realise the SSA-UHSNET’s Development Objective (Long-term Goal) of contributing to improved human settlements conditions in Uganda, the Network, on July 28th 2012, organized a community clean up exercise in Busega parish in line with the KCCA campaign dubbed -Kampala City Yange. A series of monthly ongoing social themes through which each Kampala City stakeholder can have the chance to participate in being a part of the solution based on their passion and skill set in resonance with a specific community in need around Kampala. This campaign gave the Community a unique identity through the promotion of volunteering and the establishment of interactive sensitizing campaigns for the communities. It ran under the theme “Towards improved conditions of Slum dwellers: You have a right to a clean and healthy environment.” The exercise brought together Kampala City Council Authority’s Kampala City Yange Team; Rubaga Division Team headed by Her Worship Joyce Ssebugwawo the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Councilors, Local Council Chairpersons, heads of households and the entire Community of Busega Central C Zone in Rubaga Division. | | http://www.ssauganda.org/index.php?q=more&time=nz&id=35 | | http://www.facebook.com/SSA.UHSNET | | | | 09/08/2012 11:27:46 | | Shelter and Settlements Alternatives: Uganda Human Settlements Network (SSA:UHSNET) | 244-cleaning-busega-slum-with-love-the-uganda-human-settlements-network-launches-a | Agaba Martin Turyamureba | agabamt@gmail.com | Kampala | Kampala |
| 146 | 243 | Grants | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 6.450000 | 3.266667 | Our non-profit organization organized a grants giving presentation for the poor and need in the Amuwo Odofin local government area (Lagos State, Nigeria). The recipient were selected with cooperation from local operatives. One of the people given the grant was a woman who broke her hip from falling and had not been able to sell her properties and goods because she had to sell one on one and she was not able because of her hip. Another recipient was a woman with four children that was not able to feed her family because she was not making enough money from her business. Our organization believes in promoting and encouraging self reliance by awarding financial grants to individuals for supporting thier family.We also promote good education for the youth by awarding grants and building schools where needed. | | http://imitatiochristi.org | | | | | | 04/08/2012 13:08:50 | | Imitatio Christi Organization | 243-grants | Folorunso Eddo | imitatiochristi@hotmail.com | Amuwo- Odofin | Amuwo- Odofin, Lagos Nigeria |
| 147 | 242 | PEDESTRIAN-SAFETY AREA GREEN SPACES/ZTL-AREE PEDONALI -SICUREZZA AREE VERDI | NGOO | GREE | 0 | 42.289148 | 12.414317 | 1) RICHIESTA DA ANNI AL COMUNE DI ISTITUZIONE DI ZTL ED AREE PEDONALI NEL CENTRO STORICO, AI SENSI DELLE NORME NAZIONALI E REGIONALI (LAZIO), DATI I VARI SUPERAMENTI DEI LIMITI DI PM10 (PARTICOLATO, POLVERI SOTTILI) EMESSO DAL TRAFFICO VEICOLARE A DANNO DELLA SALUTE PUBBLICA E DEI MONUMENTI.2) RICHIESTA DA ANNI AL COMUNE DELLA REDAZIONE DEL PIANO DEL TRAFFICO E DELLA ZONIZZAZIONE ACUSTICA, PREVISTI DALLE NORME NAZIONALI E REGIONALI (LAZIO).3) RICHIESTA DA ANNI AL COMUNE DI INSTALLAZIONE DI SEGNALI DI DIVIETO TI TRANSITO E SOSTA DI VEICOLI SULLE AREE VERDI PUBBLICHE, OLTRE CHE DI REALIZZAZIONE SUI PERIMETRI DELLE SUDDETTE DI SIEPI, STACCIONATE, PALETTI E CATENE, MURETTI BASSI CON SEDUTE, A TUTELA DELL' INCOLUMITA' PUBBLICA E DEL MANTO ERBOSO, AI SENSI DELLE NORME REGIONALI-LAZIO E DI ORDINANZE SINDACALI (DA EMANARSI). | | http://www.italianostra.org | | | | | | 03/08/2012 23:49:48 | | ITALIA NOSTRA -SEZ. PROV.LE VITERBO E ANGEV-PRO.CIV. | 242-ztl-aree-pedonali-sicurezza-aree-verdi | FULVIO FIORENTINI | fulvio1974@hotmail.com | CIVITA CASTELLANA (VT)-ITALY | CIVITA CASTELLANA (VT)-ITALY |
| 148 | 238 | Smart City, Healthy Kids: A research project assessing the health of children in urban environments. | EDUC | SAFE | 0 | 52.134370 | -106.647656 | Smart Cities, Healthy Kids is a research project intended to understand how urban planning and design can be used to encourage children to be more physically active, as well as to provide better healthy food access, thus slowing the rise in childhood obesity. By learning about what is and isn’t working in our current neighborhoods in Saskatoon, this novel study will help shape the design of future urban developments in Saskatoon.In terms of physical activity, there has been little research into how aspects of the urban built environment in which we all live – such as buildings, roadways, sidewalks, parks, and green spaces – can encourage children to be physically active. We assessed various physical measures from each neighborhood and also asked the children themselves what facilitates, or hinders, them in engaging physical activity in his or her neighborhood. We found that:1. Neighborhood design and form have an impact on children’s physical activity; children in older, more compact neighborhoods are more likely to be active (active transportation, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity).2. There is a need to know more about where the self-reported/measured activity is occurring—away from where they live vs. in their own neighborhoods.3. Some evidence to support safety, density and diversity of destinations matter for children’s physical activity/active transport (may be different from that of adults).4. Family correlates (eg. mother’s education level, transportation to activities) contribute independently to physical activity and active transportation. Neighborhood socioeconomic status (housing affordability) and family socioeconomic status contribute independently to physical activity.Regarding the food environment, we are interested in where food stores and restaurants are located in Saskatoon and how nutritious the foods they carry are. By incorporating data on body weight of children, we ultimately hope to support the development of improvements to health policy and practice in Saskatoon, and also provide information that would benefit the nutrition and health of children and families.An important part of our study is knowledge translation –making our findings easily accessible and understandable to all stakeholders involved. City councilors, city planners, schools and community members are engaged in the research process through participatory workshops and the dissemination of our results in the form of easy-to-read fact sheets and reports.The goal of Smart Cities, Healthy Kids is to help create a smarter, healthier Saskatoon for families. Health-conscious city-planning and policies can make the healthy choice the easier, more convenient choice, for citizens. We hope successes here in Saskatoon can spread across Canada, and the world, to foster a healthier society for everybody. | youtubeCpayq6XLVm0 | http://www.smartcitieshealthykids.com | https://twitter.com/SCHKSaskatoon | https://www.facebook.com/Smart.Cities.Healthy.Kids | | | | 03/08/2012 17:48:15 | | The Smart Cities, Healthy Kids Research Team | 238-smart-city-healthy-kids-a-research-project-assessing-the-health-of-children-in | Thilina Bandara | tsb488@mail.usask.ca | Saskatoon | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| 149 | 237 | Essa é minha rua (It´s my street). | INDI | SAFE | 0 | -15.876809 | -48.164062 | I invite people to feel your streets; reflect on them. Take photos and publish them on Facebook. I want to show you that the streets are public spaces to enjoy as if they were extension of our homes. | | | | http://www.facebook.com/essaeminharua | | | | 27/07/2012 19:58:02 | | Claudio Silva | 237-essa-minha-rua-its-my-street | Claudio Silva | carecasso@gmail.com | Brasilia, Brazil (Started) | Many cities. |
| 150 | 232 | HealthyCity | PRIV | SAFE | 0 | 34.7303 | -86.5861 | Healthy Huntsville was recently founded as part of a collaboration between the city government and local businesses that aims to foster healthier behavior in the community. It teaches Huntsville residents how to maintain good fitness levels and eating habits and raises awareness about these issues among young and low-income community members. To achieve its goal of improving health in the region, Healthy Huntsville runs more than 100 free events for residents including Alabama's largest yoga class, TED video screenings, and cook-offs that promote healthful food. Healthy Huntsville events are crowd-sourced, meaning that they are imagined and implemented by community members and groups within our city. Major events are organized as partnerships between community organizations, for example, CrossFit teams up with the US Space and Rocket Center for a fitness competition or our Mayor's Office works with Huntsville Hospital to organize a fitness and nutrition expo. The initiative is also gamified. We work with DailyFeats, a free web and iPhone platform that allows citizens to take action, make progress and get rewards for positive behaviors ranging from working out and eating leafy greens to sharing a laugh with friends and learning a new word. Citizens compete in challenges and earn points redeemable for rewards like Amazon gift cards or donations to charit - and it's all free! We're building a toolkit so that any city can be a HealthyCity with our free licensing program, which provides everything you need to build a healthy city. More details at healthyciti.es. | youtuber8_HehJCDJk | http://www.healthyciti.es | @healthyhsv | http://www.facebook.com/healthycity | | | | 16/07/2012 22:41:35 | | HealthSterling | 232-healthycity | Amy Robinson | amy@healthsterling.com | Huntsville | Huntsville, AL, USA |
| 151 | 231 | Nature in the cities | NGOO | OTHE | 0 | -22.54 | -43.11 | The main objetives are educate, raise awareness and propose solutions for a nature-people oriented city, more sustainable, resilient, healthy for happier and healthier people with nature and the ecosystems services close to residents. A city for sociallly and environmentally democratic. Less concrete and asphat, more green areas. | | www.inverde.org | | INVERDE | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 16/07/2012 0:26:28 | | INVERDE | 231-nature-in-the-cities | Cecilia Herzog | inverde.mail@gmail.com | Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro, brazil |
| 152 | 229 | CoOrpheum - A Ballroom Reflourishes | FRIE | PROD | 0 | 51.20 | 13.59 | Within days in spring 2010 a small group of courageous social innovators set up Dresden's first coworking space at this former ballroom (by that time unused for about 10 years due to noise issues).With the concept of Creosphäre provided by @MarcoDziallas and the vision, connection, and concept of @LockSchuppen by @RalfLippold the space became for three months (May-July) the prototyping space of what should then become a broader movement within the city of Dresden. | vimeo12337345 | https://sites.google.com/a/coorpheum.com/coorpheum/ | | | 01/05/2010 0:00:00 | 31/07/2010 0:00:00 | | 05/07/2012 9:29:59 | | Ralf Lippold & Marco Dziallas | 229-coorpheum-a-ballroom-reflourishes | Ralf Lippold | ralf.lippold@gmail.com | Dresden | Dresden, Germany |
| 153 | 226 | Community Gardens | INDI | PLAN | 0 | 20 | 0 | Project for Public Spaces Gold Coast is a fledgling advocacy group campaigning for the retention and improvement in public spaces on the Gold Coast. In the 6th largest and highest car-use city in Australia, the Gold Coast suffers from over development and low cultural participation. PPSGC will launch campaigns and community workshops advocating for Placemaking, A GC Food Truck Revolution and the establishment of community gardens. | | | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 05/07/2012 6:20:38 | | Project for Public Spaces Gold Coast | 226-community-gardens | Michael Roach | mike@michaeljroach.com | Gold Coast | Gold Coast, Queensland Australia |
| 154 | 225 | Letters from Prison | NGOO | SAFE | 0 | -1.283333 | 36.816667 | Nafisika Trust is a prison rehabilitation program designed to provide vast opportunities to inmates through education, entrepreneurship, arts and sports helping them envision a hopeful future.Our vision is to contribute to the reduction of recidivism rates among inmates by implementing programs that help in behavioral change as well as providing economic empowerment.Nafisika equips inmates with practical life skills that will enable them fit better into society and also motivate behavior change. We use education as the main tool to effect this change in the lives of inmates. The underlying purpose of our activities is to be an agent of positive change in the lives of inmates through education and relevant business and social skills thus enabling faster and smoother reintegration into society. Nafisika Trust anticipates achieving substantive transformation towards self-sufficiency and self-accomplishment not only for inmates, but also for their communities and families upon their release. We are changing lives for a better and safer society! | | http://www.nafisikatrust.blogspot.com | @nafisika | http://www.facebook.com/nafisikatrust | | | | 04/07/2012 16:07:48 | | Nafisika Trust | 225-letters-from-prison | Vickie Kairo | vickie@nafisikatrust.org | Nairobi | Nairobi |
| 155 | 221 | Cyclists organising to make Dar es Salaam safer | NGOO | INCL | 0 | -6.8167 | 39.2839 | UWABA is a grassroots group of cyclists in Dar es Salaam campaigning to make the city better and safer for cyclists and promote cycling as a mode of transport. UWABA is advocating for better infrastructure and road safety law enforcement, educating cyclists on safe cycling, promoting cycling especially through bi-annual cycle caravans of more than 400 people cycling through the city and helping to set up Dar es Salaam's first non-motorised courier service Fasta Cycle Messengers. | | http://www.uwaba.or.tz/index-en.htm | | | | | | 29/06/2012 18:41:40 | | UWABA Dar es Salaam Cycling Community | 221-cyclists-organising-to-make-dar-es-salaam-safer | Elaine Baker-Guni | uwabadar@yahoo.co.uk | Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| 156 | 220 | Bicycle Sharing an age old Mobility Practice in India | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 19.3097 | 84.8189 | Berhampur is one of the oldest cities of India located in southern part of Odisha state. The present population of the city is about 0.35 million with a spread over of 79.80Sqkm area. Berhampur is a true bicycle city in India. A quarter of all transport in Berhampur takes place by bicycle – the percentage even rises to 50% in the city centre.Almost every household has a Bicycle; a third of the population of Berhampur takes the Bicycle when having to cover distances of between1.5 and 3 km. By making cycling more appealing to residents, the municipal corporation is trying to convince them to rather take the bicycle for even short distances of 2.5-5Km in the future. The municipal corporation is considering for building bicycle infrastructures for instance, establishing the parking bay, dedicated lanes and traffic lights. Other activities include the promotion of the bicycle amongst children, young and tourists.Historically Berhampur is the trade hub of southern Orissa. Many tourists’ officials use Bicycle as mode of riding in this city. Over the years these trend became business for localities to offer Bicycle on rent. Even today these bicycle rental shops are exist across the cities. The only difference from past is identification of passenger carrying the Bicycle became mandatory. Berhampur Bicycling renting scheme is a huge success since its inception around year 1867. In fact today many are frequent users of sharing Bicycle; 15% of the city’s adult population is uses Rental Bicycle frequently and during winter the number goes up. Bicycle Renting systems now numbers around 40 stations with 400 bicycles overall. Each bicycle is used approximately five times each during the winter months and on busy locations up to 10 times per day. On average per day the Rent Bicycle cover a distance of 35 kilometers. It’s remarkable that ‘standard’ rental bikes are used more often as well. Today the city is thinking of introducing Bicycle Sharing with Public Private Partnership basis. | | http://www.lgnet.in | @lgnetind | https://www.facebook.com/LocalGovernanceNetwork | | | | 29/06/2012 9:03:18 | | Local Governance Network | 220-bicycle-sharing-an-age-old-mobility-practice-in-india | Dr. Piyush Ranjan Rout | piyush.rout@lgnet.in | Berhampur | Berhampur |
| 157 | 217 | City Changer sponsors Nairobi photographer in Torch Relay! | PUBL | SAFE | 0 | 52.6500 | 1.2000 | As part of UN-Habitat’s “I’m a City Changer” campaign, we will be sponsoring Mwelu Manyasi to run in the Olympic Torch Relay. The torch relay is an initiative in which 8,000 inspirational people carry the Olympic Flame across the UK until it arrives at the opening ceremonies in London. Mr. Manyasi will be carrying the flame through Norwich. Mr. Manyasi is a photographer from the slums of Nairobi who began working as part of the Shoot Back project and eventually had a solo exhibition in Holland and a published book of photographs which tells the story of his life and community. He currently runs photography and community projects in the Mathare Valley slum in Nairobi. | | http://www.mwelu.org/meet-our-team/julius-mwelu/ | @UNhabitatNY | http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/ | 05/07/2012 0:00:00 | | | 27/06/2012 18:17:53 | | UN-Habitat City Changer campaign | 217-city-changer-presence-in-olympic-torch-relay | Rosa Surinach | surinach@un.org | Norwich | Norwich, UK |
| 158 | 216 | Entrepreneur in Waste Management (Kisumu, Kenya). | NGOO | SAFE | 0 | -0.100 | 34.7500 | Meet Phoebe Ogada alias mama Taka – the vibrant female face in community mobilization and waste management initiatives in Manyatta Informal settlement in Kisumu City. The 55 year old mother of six is a treasured resident of Kona Mbuta unit of Manyatta, an informal settlement in Kisumu since 1985. Manyatta is a densely populated area characterized by poor sanitation, poor security, problems associated with water and a very high poverty rate occasioned by high rate of unemployment. Due to poor sanitation, Manyatta experiences frequent cholera outbreaks leading to high child mortality. There is poor housing in the area, most people live in mud/semi permanent houses. Phoebe sorts and selects different waste streams for reuse, recycling or disposal. These include paper, bottle tops, flimsy polythene bags. From these materials she makes paper beads, earrings, bangles, baskets and table marts. Moreover, she is an elder, an ardent community mobilizer and a mentor for fellow women on how to become self reliant through waste recycling that involves demonstration on how to weave baskets and make paper beads using recycled waste paper. She also does counseling for young women on family issues. Phoebe also chairs a Community Savings and Loaning Group where women are able to mobilize their own contributions and access loan from the group fund. She is an avid sports person and supports the community as a volunteer referee for ball games.Phoebe passion for community service and particularly waste management stems from her desire for a clean and healthy environment and personal health, because these are key things in reducing diseases. She also aspires to see every community member become responsible in waste handling to realize her big dream of Manyatta develop into a green estate free from waste. Using the knowledge, skills and experience acquired from her education and profession and waste management she is giving advice to community members. Today several inhabitants of Manyatta realize that waste can be converted into wealth.To quote phoebe ‘s words,” Waste recycling has opened many doors to many people by creating jobs for them, environment has been made safe and healthy for the people to live in. There is improved health care since majority is aware of waste management hence they work with the waste operators. High population in the area had led to incidences of heavy waste dumping but this has now been curbed by the Waste Management Initiatives including recycling”. Phoebe’s efforts are part of the Kisumu Integrated Solid Waste Management Programme (KISWAMP) partnered by Cordaid Urban Matters. Phoebe recognizes that Urban Matters, by organizing linkages between the organizations and forums for consultation has been pivotal in driving the waste agenda in Manyatta. She states that Urban Matters has linked them with various organizations like the Sustainable Community and Environmental development Project (SECODE) , Umande Trust and Shelter Forum. This cooperation has significantly improved the living conditions of Manyatta. Additionally, the support of Urban Matters for projects in Manyatta has led to awareness and attitude change in the community in regard to development. | | http://www.cordaidurbanmatters.com/ | @CordaidUM | http://www.facebook.com/CordaidUrbanMatters | | | | 26/06/2012 8:55:27 | | Cordaid Urban Matters | 216-entrepreneur-in-waste-management-kisumu-kenya | Evert van Walsum | eal@cordaid.nl | Kisumu | Kisumu, Kenya |
| 159 | 215 | Carpooling on Facebook | FRIE | GREE | 0 | -5.5 | -42.49 | Me and a group of friends decided to create a facebook application that provides people rides to whatever destination. People may offer rides in accordance to the requested destination. The application will be launched on June 26th. | | http://www.quero-carona.com | | https:www.facebook.com/querocarona | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 21/06/2012 22:54:37 | | Quero Carona | 215-carpooling-on-facebook | thonny cleuton | thonnycleuton@hotmail.com | Teresina - Pi | Teresina - Pi |
| 160 | 214 | UN-Habitat Bike Ride---Bicicletada pela Mobilidade | ASSO | SAFE | 0 | -22.5430 | -43.1147 | For those who remain after the conference, join UN-Habitat on Sunday, June 24, 2012 for a bike ride through the "marvelous city" of Rio de Janeiro. Take part in this fun event and help promote sustainable transportation in our cities!Meet at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) at 10:30hs and bike to the Forte de Copacabana.Can't wait to see everyone there! | | http://www.imacitychanger.org/imacc/mobilidade/ | @UNhabitatNY | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 21/06/2012 21:47:01 | | City Changer/Evolua com Mobilidade | 214-un-habitat-bike-ride-bicicletada-pela-mobilidade | Rosa Surinach | surinach@un.org | Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro |
| 161 | 213 | Made in Montreal - Supporting urban manufacturing in Montreal | PRIV | PROD | 0 | 45.5081 | -73.5550 | Made in Montreal - supporting urban manufacturingThere are not enough manufacturers in Montreal and we continue to lose jobs in this sector. Can manufacturing be supported from the bottom up - through grassroots activity? We think it can. There is tremendous potential for this city to be at the forefront of the ‘make-local/buy-local’ movement. But in order for this to happen, Montreal’s manufacturing community needs a spark. Made in Montreal is a non-profit urban planning firm specializing in local economic development (LED) services for Montreal’s manufacturers. We are a team of urban planners with considerable experience in local economic development, web enterprise and social activism. We view the retention and growth of the manufacturing sector as essential to building a vibrant, healthy, and economically resilient city, and we believe that small manufacturing can be supported through grassroots activity driven by an advocacy planning firm. Precedents for this kind of enterprise are appearing in other cities in North America and there is an opportunity to build on that momentum to become a trusted team representing local manufacturers in Montreal. Our website (www.madeinmontreal.org) features a comprehensive directory of local producers making everyday items – from clothes, to toys, to beer – the first of its kind in this city! Our objective is to strengthen Montreal’s local economy and in particular, the manufacturing sector. Local manufacturers are an important part of Montreal’s rich creative fabric, employing a significant number of people and contributing to the world-famous identity of this city. Made in Montreal engages with and promotes local manufacturers and works to influence fellow citizens to buy locally. We also help build connections between manufacturers to open opportunities for innovation, collaboration and success. We want to see a thriving community of local businesses, diverse job and entrepreneurship opportunities, and locally circulating dollars right here in Montreal. | | http://www.madeinmontreal.org | @faitamontreal | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Made-In-Montreal/145150808886666 | | | | 21/06/2012 15:45:09 | | Made in Montreal | 213-made-in-montreal-supporting-urban-manufacturing-in-montreal | Jill Merriman | merriman.jill@gmail.com | Montreal | Montreal |
| 162 | 211 | The last neighborhood of Sao Paulo becomes a Gateway to the Serra da Cantareira | PUBL | INCL | 0 | -23.33 | -46.38 | The plan perimeter called Cabuçu de Cima because of its correspondent river Cabuçu is located in the North of São Paulo, at the foot of the Serra da Cantareira, a mountain range, covered by roughly 8000 hectares ofthick Atlantic rainforest. The area considered by the plan is about 1100 hectares big and home to around 270,000 people. Roughly 450hectares of it are occupied by informal and irregular settlements, mostly on private owned land. The concept of the plan is based on three elements: The “Gate to the Serra da Cantareira” in the North, the new district center in the South, and a series of urban design and architectural measurements within the entire neighborhood, focusing on public and green spaces and mobility. “This is the last neighborhood of São Paulo!”—The statement of a resident, referring to the lack of urban infrastructure and job opportunities, should become one of the main concepts of the urban plan. The proximity to the protected Cantareira State Park, one of the world’s largest urban rainforests, marking the natural end of the megacity of São Paulo in the north, implies an enormous leisure potential for the entire city of São Paulo and thus an economical opportunity for the local population in Cabuçu de Cima. The urban plan suggests the introduction of a productive “buffer zone” between the protected Cantareira State Park and the (temporary) end of the urban sprawl that still didn’t come to an end. The buffer zonecould on the one hand limit the urbanization and enable on the other hand new job opportunities thru the implementation of a delicate, sustainable and ecological local leisure industry. This concept could be described as ECONOMY THRU ECOLOGY. Family farms that offer bed-and-breakfast, day-SPAs, adventure sports programs, a zoo with local animals and research and educational facilities, bamboo production along the highway, flower fields, an organic food market, growing productive forest etc. are just a few amongst many other possibilities. Additionally, an aerial tram could connect a place for são paulothe “Gate to the Serra da Cantareira” with the highest point in the urban rainforest, offering spectacular views over the tropical forest and the city. At the final stop a restaurant with an observatory deck, reachable only by aerial tram, would also be the starting point for hikers who want to spend the weekend in the rainforest. A great side effect might be that green spaces and leisure activities have a great potential to bring together people from different income classes and thus social classes. The plan also suggests the use of technologies such as wetlands in the area of the “buffer zone” but also alongside the new riverfront. The second important element of the plan is the implementation of a major district center in the South of the area, serving as a link and connector between the formal settlements in the valley level and the informal settlements situated on the hills. The concept here suggests the widening of the two main roads, which connect from South to North and East to West, and which are today an often-congested bottleneck. The accumulation and multiplication of commercial and cultural uses could create jobs and benefit from already existing functions such as the hospital, a big public school, a police station and a public market. The new district center would also serve as a connector between the two parts of the new riverfront, also suggested by the plan. Those two big and important legs are completed with the upgrading and urban consolidation of a series of forty smaller neighborhood centralities. The additional program or design interventions are usually easy to handle and relatively cost-efficient. They are strategic and should function as small initiators of a large-scale urban revitalization over time and are based on already existing qualities and potentials. A side product of the plan is a travel guide to all those centralities, showing with simple visualizations an | | | @fab76 | https://www.facebook.com/PracaIpanemaCabucu | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 21/06/2012 1:21:02 | | Sehab Urban Design Team with Sehab Habi Norte Team | 211-the-last-neighborhood-of-sao-paulo-becomes-a-gateway-to-the-serra-da-cantareira | Fabienne Hoelzel | fhoelzel@prefeitura.sp.gov.br | Sao Paulo | Sao Paulo |
| 163 | 210 | More time for elderly to cross traffic junctions | PUBL | INCL | 0 | 1.17 | 103.50 | <p>Green Man Plus is an initiative by the Land Transport Authority of the Singapore government to address the needs of elderly pedestrians who may require more time to cross the road. Elderly pedestrians can get up to five seconds more of green man time when they make use of special electronic cards to activate signalized pedestrian crossings.</p>
| youtube2-Hxxn6EEtw | http://www.onemotoring.com.sg/publish/onemotoring/en/on_the_roads/traffic_management/green_man_plus.html | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 20/06/2012 4:28:59 | | Land Transport Authority of Singapore government | 210-more-time-for-elderly-to-cross-traffic-junctions | Dave Lim | dave@tedxsingapore.sg | Singapore | Singapore |
| 164 | 209 | Fight against poverty through Education | NGOO | INCL | 0 | 20 | 0 | Nepal is an urbanized country in South Asia and is one the poorest country in the world according to the list of the United Nation and aligned with it are the wars, severe poverty, severe crisis and loss of peoples democracy and rights, economic problems and social and political problems and human disasters. What they’ve encounter means a lot of damage to their country and to the people living there and the most affected to this are those children who are innocent to everything. Those poor children who have encounter their early sufferings, suffer from poverty, suffer from the currently wars, and suffers from the abusive acts of those heartless people. Have you seen kids playing, running, laughing, and studying? Have you seen those children’s big smiles in their faces, those happy eyes, and hear those big laughs and the children that are free from any hardships and difficulties? It’s really nice and good to see those innocent children’s faces smiles and hear their big laughter’s. It’s glad to feel that they are in school learning and educate to have their bright vision and make a clear future, but unfortunately we can’t see those children in Nepal. How pathetic is the reality happened to those children’s. It’s sad to say they have been faced by those hardships of life which those Children are not yet molded by the harsh and stern realities of life. Just for instance, the violence among children the children in Nepal suffers from the acts of violence of the heartless people and maybe also a heartless parents of them, the lack of foods to eat that lead them to do bad just for the sake of their lives and also the loss of parents which cause to them to live in the streets, in which streets that are near to danger that leads them to use to drugs and to deal with drugs, the sexually abused by those ruthless people, the child trafficking, the worst servitude and most of all the child labor which the street children’s are the nastiest victims in it. Life on the streets has always been unbalance and unstable and it is also very risky and dangerous for those children, but still we can see poor children in the street which is supposed to be at home. Many of those children are develop their physical impediment related to their dangerous work and unhygienic living conditions. As a result, they become indifferent to communal customs and values. This terrible condition that they have encounter affects a lot to their lives, personal and psycho-social mentalities of those children are really into it. In conclusion, they’ve suffered a lot. Let’s do something to them, let’s do something to the Poor Children of Nepal. Let’s show to them our care, let them have a real home let them have back there rights to be a children of the nation, let them be experience to have in school and be educated and let us share to them our big love that they’ve suppose to have. The Children’s are the Hope of our Nation. Let’s cherish them and make them have the good and nice living as what they’ve deserve.TsubomiGakko Pokhara is a Japan-based non governmental organization, non-profit and truly non religious dedicated to improving the lives of the children of Nepal. TsubomiGakko Pokhara is committed to improving the lives of ALL kids in Nepal through clothing, food, health-care and most importantly, education. Part of this will be achieved by providing school scholarships for deserving students.TsubomiGakko Pokhara is also dedicated to helping educate poor parents about their children’s needs. Children targeted by the program are generally those hardest hit by economic, social and political problems. Namely, the kids forced to live on the street. | youtubeppIiaL6frVQ | http://tsubomigakko.org | @tsubomigakkopokhara | http://www.facebook.com/pages/NGO-つぼみ学校ポカラ/357381037620051 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 19/06/2012 18:25:04 | | NGO TsubomiGakko Pokhara | 209-fight-against-poverty-through-education | Dilip BK Sunar | dilipbksunar@gmail.com | Sapporo | Sapporo, Japan |
| 165 | 208 | Hábitat Sin Fronteras - Medellín (habitat without borders) | FRIE | INCL | 0 | 6.14 | -75.34 | HsF aims to contribute to the welfare in vulnerable communities through collective processes, this means the participation of a comprehensive range of actors into the communities aiming to solve housing, public space issues. | | http://es-la.facebook.com/HabitatSinFronterasMedellin | @herrerajuans | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 18/06/2012 19:34:52 | | Hábitat Sin Fronteras - Medellín | 208-hbitat-sin-fronteras-medelln-habitat-without-borders | Juan Herrera | juan0herrera@gmail.com | Medellín - Colombia | Medellín - Colombia |
| 166 | 207 | Digital Capital Week | FRIE | PROD | 0 | 38.8900 | -77.0300 | <p>DCWEEK is a week long festival in the US capital focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and social innovators of all kinds. It’s a series of 100s of distributed events powered by the community and complemented by core conferences, parties, and projects created by the festival organizers iStrategyLabs and Tech Cocktail. DCWEEK 2011 included over 10,000 attendees from around the world and was presented by Ford. DCWEEK is a time to:1. learn from others through sessions, keynotes, workshops and panels2. meet new friends, clients, partners, investors and collaborators3. come together to support innovative businesses, people and ideas4. work on projects that benefit the DC, America and the world5. experiment with what’s possible6. have fun at some great parties</p>
| vimeo36376423 | http://digitalcapitalweek.org | @dcweek | https://www.facebook.com/groups/dcweek/ | | | | 18/06/2012 19:09:29 | | iStrategyLabs & Tech Cocktail | 207-digital-capital-week | Peter Corbett | peter@istrategylabs.com | Washington DC | Washington DC |
| 167 | 204 | Polythene free city | NGOO | SAFE | 0 | 28.54843726347558 | 77.38314351044914 | This was the campaign against polythene. We the group of development professionals, starts campaign against the polythene uses and started to explore about the hazardous effect of polythene in our life to people. For this we have chosen the Magh mela (The traditional fair called 'kumbh',largest crowd gathering fair in the world)place in Allahabad,U.P.,India. We also started campaign to make this place clean and free from polythene.In our this volunteering program many of the volunteers joined us during our demonstration. I lead the group under umbrella of SA for SR(Students action for social responsibility) a informal group formed by me and my friends. We started campaign to make city free from polythene later on and we got success in our mission at a major because looking our effort the local administration also came in action and use of polythene were banned . In this action we have used methods like Streat play,slogan, banner and paper presentation,march with banners, songs, other methods. | | http://www.scribd.com/doc/54612119/SA-for-SR-csr-gbpssi | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 15/06/2012 21:01:42 | | SA for SR(Students Action For Social Responsibility) | 204-polythene-free-city | SUSHANT KUMAR PANDEY | sushant.piyush22@gmail.com | India | India |
| 168 | 203 | Stampaxi + | PRIV | OTHE | 0 | 39.21926546087324 | 9.112928788915951 | STAMPAXI + is a self-financed project based on social participation and urban regeneration of Stampace Alta in Cagliari (Italy). Stampace is characterized by a dense and compact urban fabric where the only empty space is an urban void of 3850 square meters in Fara street. Stampaxi + is based on the principle that architects, engineers and planners cannot decide a priori how the inhabitants of a district have to move or meet, but that residents can help professionals understand how they would like to enjoy the space they have. STAMPAXI + starts with the project STAMPAXI WALL (January-June 2010) with the aim to give an urban and social role to the void of Fara street. STAMPAXI+ is structured in three phases: 1)analysis and mapping, (January and March 2012); 2)distribution and publication of the first phase’s results through an art installation (May 2012)and 3) design and construction of a socially sustainable activity for the local residents (September 2012).The first phase aims to define the new social composition of the neighborhood through the identification of “Urban Actors” and their codes of behaviour, “Urban Codes”. The focus of the project is to understand how these “Urban Actors” inhabit the neighbourhood and how much physical space helps to build web-based community experiences.The second phase consists of a big poster of photos of the urban actors in order to strengthen the identity and sense of community and to break down the wall of mistrust due to a lack of knowledge of new residents.The third phase will be an example of sustainable participatory planning, applicable also to other neighborhoods or cities where communication became the input to create change and build a new community network.Each element, each new interconnection that emerges, is useful to reconstruct the spatial needs of the community/district in order to design interventions that truly meet the needs of those who inhabit these spaces. | | http://www.sardarch.it/stampaxi+/ | @sardarch | http://www.facebook.com/sardarch | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 15/06/2012 20:58:23 | | Sardarch Architettura | 203-stampaxi | Laura Maccioni | sardarchblog@gmail.com | Cagliari | Cagliari |
| 169 | 202 | "FaciliTO" Barriera | PUBL | PROD | 0 | 45.0708515 | 7.684340399999996 | Facilito Barriera is a project under the urban requalification programme "URBAN BARRIERA".it targets to micro and small enterprisesIt's aim to foster economic investment in "Barriera di Milano"It offers 1) free business plan consulting and writing and 2) financial supportadded value:- Front office opens every day in the heart of neighborhood- a direct and active relationship with the enterpreneurs- loans are granted only to those who have previously benefited from the counseling service for the evaluation of the feasibility of the project- ad innovative comunication (successful writers were committed to telling stories of successful business in the neighborhood) | | http://www.comune.torino.it/urbanbarriera/lavora/facilito.shtml | | | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 15/06/2012 20:50:21 | | Municipality of Turin | 202-facilito-barriera | Fabrizio BARBIERO | fabrizio.barbiero@comune.torino.it | Turin | Turin, Italy |
| 170 | 201 | Bike Angel | ASSO | SAFE | 0 | -23.5489433 | -46.6388182 | Bike Angel is a network of cyclists in more than 50 cities in Brazil (and going overseas!! =D) which makes cycling a lot easier for beginners.We orient people how to choose best routes, we accompany them on their commute to work and give them advice to ride more safely and confident!Be part of our network by writting to bikeanjo@gmail.com or visit our website (portuguese only, sorry...) for more information: http://bikeanjo.com.br | vimeo29399799 | http://bikeanjo.com.br | @bikeanjo | http://www.facebook.com/bikeanjo | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 15/06/2012 20:43:12 | | Bike Angel | 201-bike-angel | JP Amaral | amaral.joaop@gmail.com | São Paulo | São Paulo |
| 171 | 200 | Understand and improve your local economy | ASSO | PROD | 0 | -25.78916105284553 | 28.278451481933643 | As key drivers of economic growth and development, LED stands high on the agenda of South African cities and towns. The South African Local Economic Development Network (SA LED Network) is a web-based platform striving to improve the understanding of local economies by promoting discussion and exchange between local economic development (LED) practitioners. One of the key topics for LED in South Africa is urban renewal and small town regeneration. A number of exciting government programmes and public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives are aimed at improving the living conditions and socio-economic prospects for citizens of both bigger cities and small towns across South Africa. The South Africa LED Network, amongst others is dedicated to document and disseminate these lessons learnt and good practice around the improvement and revitalization of towns and cities in South Africa. As one example, Aspire – the regional economic development agency of the Amathole District in the Eastern Cape Province – has designed a ‘Small Town Regeneration’ programme focusing, amongst others on the development and upgrade of major infrastructure such as transport hubs and central business districts (CBD) in order to turn the district’s urban areas into economically and socially viable towns. More information is available here: http://www.aspire.org.za/Furthermore, the ‘Small Town Development Initiative’ (STDI) – a partnership initiative by different public and private sector actors – is targeted at bringing together local government officials, businesses and the community in seven small towns across the country. The goal of this initiative is to collaboratively develop a long-term vision for the respective towns and to identify catalytic projects that ultimately help to stimulate economic growth and to create jobs in those areas. More information is available here: http://led.co.za/led-programme/small-towns-development-initiative-stdiIn May 2012 the SA LED Network had 3 500 registered members on its online portal www.led.co.za. Members include local, provincial and national government officials as well as representatives from the private sector, academia and various other organisations working in the field of LED.Our free-of-charge services include:• The identification, documentation and dissemination of good LED practices (through a tested case study methodology). • A forum to exchange knowledge and successful LED practice, for municipal peer- to-peer support and learning across disciplines.• An online space for research and collaborative working on LED-related topics, such as small town regeneration, the informal economy, SMMEs & local entrepreneurship, cooperatives, tourism and more.• Free access to thought leadership, news, events, tools, publications (e.g. LED policies, strategies and research paper), job opportunities, tenders etc, through a large online LED library, periodic newsletters and weekly newsflashes.• The development of Community of Practices (CoP) for specific groups of people to allow them to share and exchange information. Examples include the CoP Economy of Regions Learning Network (ERLN) and the CoP Development Agencies.The SA LED Network is hosted by the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) at its national office in Pretoria and receives strong support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. | | http://led.co.za/ | | http://www.facebook.com/LEDNetwork | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 15/06/2012 20:38:11 | | The South African Local Economic Development Network | 200-understand-and-improve-your-local-economy | Susanne David | susanne@led.co.za | Pretoria | Pretoria |
| 172 | 199 | Promoting Recreational Activities for Girls | NGOO | SAFE | 0 | -29.53 | 31.03 | At Amaoti 3 Combined School, grade 7, 8 and 9 learners are benefiting from a new after-school recreation programme. Indlela, a non-profit organization based in Durban North, established recreational activities at the school in January 2011 as part of their “Learning for Life” initiative. The recreation for the girls’ portion of the project is funded by the Imagine Durban Demonstration Fund, which is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) through a partnership with Sustainable Cities International.Since the programme began, learners at the school have had the opportunity to participate in activities after school including netball, aerobics and “talk” sessions where learners discuss and debate topics that they select. The learners are divided into three groups for the girls and three for the boys, and the groups rotate between the three activities, with learners participating in a different activity each week. The groups consist of a mix of learners from the different grades. The reason for combining the different age groups is to encourage the older learners to take on a mentorship role and look out for the younger learners.The recreation programme aims to provide the girls at the school, in particular, with the opportunity to take up recreational activities. For many of the girls, this is the first time that they are experiencing an organized recreational activity just for them. After-school recreation, such as pick-up soccer, is usually reserved for the boys and there are few opportunities for the girl learners to relax and express themselves creatively. The programme seeks to provide the opportunity for recreation and help the girls realize that they are also entitled to partake in activities just for fun.Indlela has been working at Amaoti 3 Combined School since 2005. They run a “Learning for Life Programme” that addresses HIV/AIDs as well as a literacy programme. The recreation programme was spearheaded in 2011, following the introduction of a Girls’ and a Boys’ Club at the school. Through the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs, the learners were asked to participate in the selection and planning of activities that they wanted to see at the school. Recreation was identified as an activity that was highly desired by the learners and so Indlela pursued the establishment of a recreation programme.Teachers at the school are starting to recognize the importance of recreation for the learners, and some are already involved in helping to coach aerobics, netball, soccer and volleyball. The objective is to increase the number of teachers involved in the Girls’ and Boys’ Clubs in the future and work to ensure that recreational activities become an institutionalized component of the school’s curriculum. | | http://www.sustainablecities.net/ | @cities2cities | http://www.facebook.com/cities2cities | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | 01/01/1900 0:00:00 | | 15/06/2012 20:31:48 | |