Urbanized

DOCUMENTARY

Gary Hustwit, Swiss Dots, 2011

Ok, here we are in in part of the Porvenir promenade. This is a 24 kilometre pedestrian and bicycle only street which networks very low income neighbourhoods with the richest areas of the city. I think is it a revolution in the way urban life works. This kind of high quality infrastructure for bicycles increases the social status of cyclists. Before we had bicycle-ways low income people were ashamed of using bicycles, now a high quality, protected bicycle-way shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important to one in a $30,000 car.

Global Cities

SHORT FILM

Aecom Global Cities Institute, 2011

Phoenix has half the population of Hong Kong. but it’s built up area is five time bigger. Hong Kong there can be more than 30,000 people living per square kilometre, it’s over 10,000 in New York, nearly 5,000 in London, and close to 1,200 in Beijing. Hong Kong’s neighbour, Shenzen, has experience a population growth of over 3000% in the past 30 years. In the past 30 years…

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Andrew Marr’s Megacities

DOCUMENTARY

Andrew Marr, BBC, 2011

I think the village is the natural unit and perhaps every megacity is like a huge body crammed with millions of ghostly villages of which this is only one.

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The Young Urbanists Handbook

making sense of cities

Category: Urbanisation

Urbanized

Global Cities

Andrew Marr’s Megacities