Golf and walk by the lake. Artificial lake that is almost pleasant in the middle of this industrialized area.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Event 2
Second main event.
Lunch. bumping into Marks and Lees group. Then exploring the train station waiting room and platform. This is a perfect "non place"
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
We were talking about this earlier today and the idea of how territories govern our life . I think this is pretty relevant.
Architectural structures have a significant existential and mental task. They domesticate space for human occupation by turning anonymous, uniform and limitless space into distinct places of human significance and equally importantly they make endless time tolerable by giving duration its human measure...
Juhani Pallasman.
Architecture helps to replace meaningless reality with a theatrically, or rather architecturally, transformed reality which draws us in and, as we surrender to it, grants us an illusion of meaning.. we cannot live with chaos. Chaos must be transformed into cosmos.
Karsten Harries
hi guys i have read some article and news about why the facebook being blocked ,this actually related to the topic which we discussing.
After the deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China’s central government has taken all the usual steps to block citizens from accessing foreign web services: aside from crippling Internet service in general, the authorities have blocked Twitter, removed unapproved references to the violence from search engines and even bar its citizens from accessing Facebook from most parts of Mainland China. Because those websites are examples of strong media which can actually spread news very fast and threaten a country. so the china blocks some website to protect its own territory. Besides that, like north korea, Isereal and some countries, they actually also blocking some info from getting into their territories. all of these political moblity is control by the governments. but what i was thinkin is that we have the rights to know what is happening out there? don't we?
After the deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China’s central government has taken all the usual steps to block citizens from accessing foreign web services: aside from crippling Internet service in general, the authorities have blocked Twitter, removed unapproved references to the violence from search engines and even bar its citizens from accessing Facebook from most parts of Mainland China. Because those websites are examples of strong media which can actually spread news very fast and threaten a country. so the china blocks some website to protect its own territory. Besides that, like north korea, Isereal and some countries, they actually also blocking some info from getting into their territories. all of these political moblity is control by the governments. but what i was thinkin is that we have the rights to know what is happening out there? don't we?
Toward green mobility: the evolution of transport
Hey guys, i found something interesting here about the physical mobility.
"We envision a transport system producing zero emissions and sparing the surface landscape, while people on average range hundreds of kilometers daily. We believe this prospect of 'green mobility' is consistent in general principles with historical evolution. We lay out these general principles, extracted from widespread observations of human behavior over long periods, and use them to explain past transport and to project the next 50 to 100 years. Our picture emphasizes the slow penetration of new technologies of transport adding speed in the course of substituting for the old ones in terms of time allocation. We discuss serially and in increasing detail railroads, cars, aeroplanes, and magnetically levitated trains (maglevs)." from: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/green_mobility/
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Understanding mobility begins with the biological: humans are territorial animals and instinctively try to maximize territory. The reason is that territory equates with opportunities and resources.
However, there are constraints to range -- essentially, time and money. since ever and in contemporary societies spanning the full range of economic development, people average about 1 hour per day traveling.
Transport matters for the human environment. Its performance characteristics shape settlement patterns. Its infrastructures transform the landscape. It consumes about one-third of all energy in a country such as the United States. And transport emissions strongly influence air quality. Thus, people naturally wonder whether we have a chance for 'green mobility', transport systems embedded in the environment so as to impose minimal disturbance.
"We envision a transport system producing zero emissions and sparing the surface landscape, while people on average range hundreds of kilometers daily. We believe this prospect of 'green mobility' is consistent in general principles with historical evolution. We lay out these general principles, extracted from widespread observations of human behavior over long periods, and use them to explain past transport and to project the next 50 to 100 years. Our picture emphasizes the slow penetration of new technologies of transport adding speed in the course of substituting for the old ones in terms of time allocation. We discuss serially and in increasing detail railroads, cars, aeroplanes, and magnetically levitated trains (maglevs)." from: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/green_mobility/
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Understanding mobility begins with the biological: humans are territorial animals and instinctively try to maximize territory. The reason is that territory equates with opportunities and resources.
However, there are constraints to range -- essentially, time and money. since ever and in contemporary societies spanning the full range of economic development, people average about 1 hour per day traveling.
Transport matters for the human environment. Its performance characteristics shape settlement patterns. Its infrastructures transform the landscape. It consumes about one-third of all energy in a country such as the United States. And transport emissions strongly influence air quality. Thus, people naturally wonder whether we have a chance for 'green mobility', transport systems embedded in the environment so as to impose minimal disturbance.
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