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Harvard study trip to Denver: ‘Water in the West’

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties, Stad.

It is climate change that is sucking the Colorado River dry, or the fact that too many people have too many straws in its water? Actually it’s both, we learned during our yearly Harvard GSD Loeb Fellowship study trip that went to Denver, Colorado this year. So yes this is a big story. I touched on some of the pertinent issues in this article for the Loeb Fellowship website (pdf and images below).

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TRACY·TV #57: Superblock in Barcelona for people, not cars

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Design, Mobiliteit, Publicaties, Stad, TRACY•TV, Video.

All over the world, cities are trying to take back public space from the car. Barcelona has invented the ‘superblock’, where through traffic is banned to make space for playgrounds and gardens. I went to see the superblock in the neighborhood Poble Nou. Where four lanes of through traffic used to drive, there are now gardens, benches and playgrounds. “All cities should try this”, says neighborhood resident Silvia Casorran.

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Designing for water: the sweet & the salt of it

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Artikelen, Bijdragen, Boeken, Design, Landschap, Publicaties, Stad, Water.

Water is life – and death. As floods and droughts assume Biblical proportions in many areas in the world, the magnitude of the water issues we face is penetrating our awareness and our political and spatial agenda. Nowhere is that clearer than in the Netherlands, where mastery of the water has always been a condition for survival. If there is one element which is crucial to the Low Lands – for its sheer existence, for its landscape, for its identity – then that is water. The Dutch created land by pushing the water out with dikes and keeping it out with pumps. Now, however, the country that...

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