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la dignidad de último ciudadano, como síntesis = pregunta 137

El legado de Mandela es el título del reportaje emitido ayer en el programa “En portada” de TVE. Además de entrevistar ni más ni menos que a tres premios Nobel (Mandela, Tutu y Gordimer), con los que conversó sobre los diez años de democracia de Sudáfrica, el periodista José Antonio Guardiola asistió perplejo al “espectáculo” que supone vigilar una ciudad “desde la vigésima planta de un edificio vacío”.
Activismo y Derechos Humanos. 16 Junio 2004

viene del texto de Magdalena Bandera

The Dignity of the Last Citizen: As a Synthesis = question 133

Yaoundé, Camerún.
Programa Safer Cities, de Un-Habitat.
Launched: 2001.
Funded by: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Cameroon.
Zephirin Emini and Mamert Loe, Coordinators

Safer Cities Cameroon is a component of the Urban Governance Programme that UN-HABITAT executes in the country with support from UNDP and other partners. The Safer Cities component started off in Yaoundé and was extended to Douala in 2003. There are plans to extend support to the cities of Bamenda and Maroua during 2005.

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The Dignity of the Last Citizen: As a Synthesis = question 131

Was started in September of 2001 as a catalyst for a significant turnaround of Detroit's commercial strips.
Incluye: Re$tore Detroit, Recap (Capital Assistance Program), ReFresh (The Façade Renovation and Exterior Structure Habilitation program), y ReNew.

Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization
Kwame M. Kilpatrick, Mayor. April 4, 2002.

comes from Dertoit Applications

The Dignity of the Last Citizen: As a Synthesis = question 128

by Molly O'Meara Sheehan
When South Africa 's apartheid regime toppled 10 years ago, it captured the imagination of the world. No other country had plunged so deep into the twentieth century governed by laws that brutally divided, by skin color, all of its cities, towns, and villages. A decade into a new era, Johannesburg , South Africa 's largest city, still has a long way to go to overcome this history.

A Worldwatch Institute Report on.

comes from Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

la dignidad del último ciudadano, como síntesis = pregunta 124

LLAMAMIENTO :
Se puede afirmar que el proyecto de soterramiento de la M-30 es intrínsicamente perverso por muchas razones.
Ahora las ciudades, materia viva, son, quizás, mas complejas y los problemas más variados, sobre todo porque son deudoras de los errores cometidos con anterioridad.
Para solucionar los problemas urbanos se necesita el concurso de todos los ciudadanos.

viene del texto de : Francisco Altemir Ruiz-Ocaña.
Ingeniero de Caminos. Miembro de Attac Madrid

Human Rights, a Contemporary Achievement = question 117

Congestion levels and the trends in congestion growth are important aspects of the database. Where and when congestion occurs is important within an urban network, as well as for comparing urban areas to each other.

by Texas Transportation Institute
Nationally known study of mobility and traffic congestion on freeways and major streets in 85 cities.

comes from : How congested are the roads? Are they getting worse?

Human Rights, a Contemporary Achievement = question 116

A Micro-Enterprise Development Project in Nairobi, Kenya

With the intent of promoting urban use of non-motorized transportation, Intermediate Technology Development Group-Eastern Africa (ITDG-EA) will introduce three new bicycle attachment designs and one bicycle taxi to selected urban communities in the Nairobi area.

comes from : ITDG, the Kayole Jua Kali Association and UN-HABITAT

signos de cambio, momento crítico/ Signs of Change, a Critical Moment
question 105
Effondrement d'immeubles à Dakar.

El Foro “es una `puerta-ventana' abierta sobre la arquitectura, que presenta algunos proyectos y realizaciones de arquitectos. Además, nos habla sobre el desarrollo urbano de las ciudades africanas”.
El autor del foro es Gamlin Amadou Diop.
Apres le drame du Joola, différentes voix ont tenté de conscientiser le peuple, mais aussi de dénoncer le laxisme. La liste risque d'être longue. Les immeubles s'effondrent comme un château de carte à Dakar. Le pont Faidherbe est dans un mauvais état et son entretien est quasi inexistant et n'oublions pas que toute réalisation est périssable.

original en français : Foro sur Devéloppement urbain

Signs of Change, a Critical Moment = question 97

The Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT) is an independent body advising the Government on integrated transport policy. CfIT takes a broad view of integrated transport policy and its interface with wider Government objectives for economic prosperity, environmental protection, health and social inclusion. Physical integration - the principle of ensuring transport modes operate in conjunction with one another, is just one vital element of the bigger transport picture. The Commission provides expert advice supported by independent research.

comes from : Study of European Best Practice in the Delivery of Integrated Transport: Transferability

The Trap of Globalization = question 88

Historical approaches to the relationship between terrorism and armed conflict Paper presented at seminar at seminar on "terrorism and armed conflict", organised by SIPRI and PRIO at Voksenåsen, Oslo , 8-9 December 2002.

comes from : Historical Approaches to the relationship between terrorism and armed conflict by Stein Tønnesson

la trampa de la globalización = pregunta 78

Bases de los fondos concursables. Comuna Segura 2005.
La Municipalidad de Santiago ha desarrollado una Red de Seguridad Integral para brindar a nuestros vecinos protección contra actos delictuales y facilitarles el acceso a elementos que resguarden su calidad de vida, integridad personal y sus bienes.
Con esa finalidad, el municipio ha impulsado instancias para que la comunidad se integre activamente a este sistema y cumpla funciones como informar sobre la necesidad o deficiencias de aseo, iluminación, presencia de individuos sospechosos, comercio ambulante, prostitución y cuidadores ilegales de vehículos.
El plan propone actualizar los mapas de percepción y focalización de conductas no ciudadanas, para que los vecinos cuenten con más información y desarrollen mecanismos de control. Para que los propios vecinos refuercen su seguridad en el barrio, se propone implementar sistemas de alarmas comunitarias y sistemas de cámaras de seguridad en conexión con Carabineros.

viene de :
Municipalidad de Santiago de Chile.
¿Qué es el Programa de Seguridad Comunal de Santiago?

The Trap of Globalization = question 76

Parking as part of an overall transportation system is one of the crucial issues of our times. As the number of automobiles increases exponentially, the need to house them in close proximity creates a challenging design problem. The parking garage or lot must foremost deal with the Functional/Operational - as in providing for safe and efficient passage of the automobile. This is a very complex challenge as automotive, engineering and traffic issues relative to site locations must be integrated to create the appropriate solution.

comes from : Miami parking facilities

The City of the Welfare State in crisis = question 47

from : Edmonton Transit System (ETS)

The City of the Welfare State in crisis = question 68

What are the Design Standards of a bike path?
How are bicycle routes selected?
How will the plan be implemented?
How will the implementation program be funded?
Who monitors and evaluates the Bicycle Plan?

comes from : Los Angeles Bicycle Plan

la ciudad del príncipe, todavía = pregunta 27

Barcelona, compromesa amb la seguretat viària
L'Ajuntament de Barcelona s'adhereix a la Carta Europea de Seguretat Viària, impulsada per la UE, i al seu annex sobre seguretat viària urbana, que promouen les associacions de ciutats Polis i Access-Eurocities dins la campanya SAFE (Ciutats i regions europees per la seguretat viària.

Tenint en compte les dades quantitatives i qualitatives sobre accidents de trànsit a Barcelona i els factors que concorren en la sinistralitat viària, i d'acord amb els criteris de la Unió Europea i amb els objectius fixats en el Programa d'Acció Municipal (PAM), l'Ajuntament ha elaborat el Pla Municipal de Seguretat Viària 2004-2007.

Presentació del Pla Municipal 2004-2007

signos de cambio, momento crítico = pregunta 100

Cities, developers and building owners have focused on safety measures such as evacuating people more quickly, but the nation's high-rises remain largely as vulnerable to catastrophic attack as they were on Sept. 11, 2001 .
Chicago now requires its tallest buildings,(such as the Sears Tower center),to provide structural data on CD-ROM to firefighters.

comes from the text of Patrick O´drsicoll, USA TODAY

Signs of Change, a Critical Moment = question 95

Yamakasi es una palabra del lingala (un dialecto zaireño) que significa "Espíritu fuerte". Cinerama. Luc Besson, productor de la película, descubrió a los Yamakasi y les ofreció una pequeña aparición como ninjas en Taxi . Cinerama. Los Yamakasi son un colectivo multinacional - un senegalés, dos vietnamitas, un francoitaliano, un caledonio, un ziareño y un centroafricano - residente en parís que, a finales de los 90, crearon un nuevo deporte de riesgo consistente en saltar, escalar y trepar por edificios, fachadas, puentes... Tras pasar años perfecionando su estilo y desarrollando un estricto código de conducta, en 1997 deciden darse a conocer: aparecen en prensa, hacen videoclips, cortometrajes y se embarcan en una exitosa gira por Francia y Canada

what is parkour ?

Parkour is very basically the art of movement where participants (otherwise known as 'Free-runners') use objects within their urban surroundings, to create new and interesting ways of moving. It encompasses running, jumping, vaulting and climbing to overcome these obstacles, where the ultimate aim is to do so in the most fluid and flowing way possible. For people unfamiliar to Parkour, the easiest picture to paint is to say that what we do is the closest you can get to the Matrix, Spiderman and Hong Kong martial arts movies in the sense of movement, but without the need for special FX or wires. Get past that mental picture and what you have in front of you is a deep discipline where, as a beginner you'll find yourself practising plenty of singular moves (similar to how skaters practise) but as you become more proficient, you'll find yourself automatically linking things together with the eventual goal coming in the form of one fluid run without any hesitation. Parkour has always been there from the very beginning....You just need to open your eyes and then go out to explore.

comes from free running, by Sébastien Foucan

Signs of Change, a Critical Moment = question 89

An African Memoir

The Highlands has been a part of Seattle for nearly a hundred years and is a work of landscape art. It was designed in 1907 by the famed Olmstead Brothers who were responsible for designing the basic park system of this City.
Coincidentally next to the Olmstead's Arboretum is another famous gated community, Broadmoor. Designed by the Puget Mills Company in 1927, it also gates the very rich in an old neighborhood...
by Charles Tonderai Mudede.

[Las murallas] encierran un espacio, que protegen dificultando a los demás el paso franco, aumentando el control de acceso. Por definición, no tratan de generalizar la protección, sino de singularizarla al ámbito que envuelven.
¿Pueden pensarse como instrumento del derecho universal a la seguridad, o actúan como elementos de la distinción?
¿Vigilar el acceso a un barrio, por razones de seguridad, no supone suprimir de esa zona a una parte de la población bien determinada, sea o no peligrosa? En este texto se entiende que es la misma dominación. El cierre de antiguos barrios exclusivos, como la adaptación a los tiempos modernos de una historia de ....

leer el texto de Charles Tonderai Mudede, natural de Zimbabwe y residente en Seattle (USA). Es crítico literario, de cine, música y arte en general. “Aunque soy gran admirador del hip hop, me siento feliz leyendo a Proust mientras tomo un baño caliente”.

The Trap of Globalization = question 85.1

THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF SPACE.
A way of looking at the social, economic and environmental functioning of cities on a common basis.

This paper proposes that in addition to urban research which seeks to provide answers to policy questions involving the built environment, there is also a need for research which directly addresses the physical and spatial complexity of the built environment itself as the main variable of interest, and explores any effects it may in itself have on the functioning of the urban system. This type of research reflects the questions architects and urban designers typically ask, rather than those that preoccupy planners. For such research to be effective, the physical complexity variable must be controlled at the level at which real design decisions are made.

by Bill Hillier

la trampa de la globalización = pregunta 74.2

Territorio, soberanía y crímenes de segundo estado
Ciudad Juárez, estado de Chihuahua, frontera Norte de México con El Paso, Texas, es un lugar emblemático del sufrimiento de las mujeres. Allí, más que en cualquier otro lugar, se vuelve real el lema “cuerpo de mujer: peligro de muerte”.

Ciudad Juárez es también, significativamente, un lugar emblemático de la globalización económica y del neo-liberalismo, con su hambre insaciable de ganancia.

viene del texto de : Rita Laura Segato