What history tells us 2 _ #Robert Moses #Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses: Urban Fight of the Century

Video on Youtube: Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses

The Pedway: Elevating London (Documentary)

The Pedway: Elevating London is a documentary on the post-war redevelopment in the City of London - focusing on the attempt to build an ambitious network of elevated walkways through the city. Featuring interviews with professor of town planning Michael Hebbert (UCL), architecture critic Jonathan Glancey, city planning officer Peter Wynne Rees and writer Nicholas Rudd-Jones (Pathways), the film explores why the 'Pedway' scheme was unsuccessful and captures the abandoned remains that, unknown to the public, still haunt the square mile.

Planned & Constructed by Chris Bevan Lee

Link to video: The Pedway

BOOK: To design footpaths, you can become inspired by:

Over 40 years ago, Holly Whyte taught us to see

Link: Why Whyte more than 40 years later his words inspire and inform

Film: The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces

Boek:The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Fietsen / Biking

Link: Groningen the worlds cycling city

THE HUMAN SCALE [DOCU]

DVD nu verkrijgbaar / DVD now available

Andreas Dalsgaard (based on the work of Jan Gehl architects), 2012

The Human Scale meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the center of our planning.

Plot summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2414454/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

URBAN MOVIES 2013

We warmly invite you to the “URBAN MOVIES” film screenings on the VUB campus. .  

URBAN MOVIES are organized for different educational programmes: Urban Studies (4Cities), Urban Cultures (POLIS), Criminology (profile crime and the city), Urban Planning (STer*), Landscape Architecture, and Social Geography. Every movie is introduced by one of the lecturers of these programmes.

Premiere for Belgium

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 18:00-20:00

THE HUMAN SCALE [DOCU]

Andreas Dalsgaard (based on the work of Jan Gehl architects), 2012

The Human Scale meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the center of our planning.

Plot summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2414454/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Discussion with Jens Aerts (STeR* - VUB)

All movies are English spoken or subtitled.

VENUE

Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Campus Oefenplein

Pleinlaan 2 - 1050 Brussels – AULA Q.B

(attention, the room has been changed from Q.D to Q.B!)

REGISTRATION

Free of charge, no registration needed

CONTACT

Jessica van de Ven

jessica.van.de.ven@vub.ac.be

02.629.37.41

FACEBOOK

Find Urban Movies 2013 on FACEBOOK.

www.facebook.com/events/217756221726109/?fref=ts

URBAN MOVIES 2013

We warmly invite you to the “URBAN MOVIES” film screenings on the VUB campus. .  

URBAN MOVIES are organized for different educational programmes: Urban Studies (4Cities), Urban Cultures (POLIS), Criminology (profile crime and the city), Urban Planning (STer*), Landscape Architecture, and Social Geography. Every movie is introduced by one of the lecturers of these programmes.

Students/researchers from other disciplines are welcome too!

Tuesday 8 October 2013, 18:00-20:00

MODERN TIMES

Charles Chaplin, 1936

Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times”, an entertainment piece at the surface, also serves as a political commentary criticizing industrialization (Fordism, Taylorism).

Plot summary: www.imdb.com/title/tt0027977/

Introduction by Prof. Dr. Eric Corijn (Cosmopolis - VUB)

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 18:00-20:00

SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES [DOCU]

William H. Whyte, 1980

An original film studying how people use urban spaces. Why do some open spaces ‘work’ and others don’t? This classic 1980 study of New York's plazas started a mini-revolution in urban planning and design.

Plot summary: www.imdb.com/title/tt1778327/

Introduction by Pol Ghekiere (Landscape architecture, EhB)

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 18:00-20:00

PLAYTIME

Jacques Tati, 1967

Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets.

Plot summary: www.imdb.com/title/tt0062136/

Introduction by Prof. Dr. Els Enhus (Criminology - VUB)

Tuesday 19 November 2013, 18:00-20:00

LA HAINE

Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995

A gritty and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in Paris’ banlieues

Plot summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Introduction by Mattias De Backer (Criminology – VUB)

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 18:00-20:00

THE HUMAN SCALE [DOCU]

Andreas Dalsgaard (based on the work of Jan Gehl architects), 2012

The Human Scale meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the center of our planning.

Plot summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2414454/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Discussion with Jens Aerts (STeR* - VUB)

All movies are English spoken or subtitled.

VENUE

Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Campus Oefenplein

Pleinlaan 2 - 1050 Brussels – AULA Q.B

(attention, the room has been changed from Q.D to Q.B!)

REGISTRATION

Free of charge, no registration needed

CONTACT

Jessica van de Ven

jessica.van.de.ven@vub.ac.be

02.629.37.41

FACEBOOK

Find Urban Movies 2013 on FACEBOOK.

www.facebook.com/events/217756221726109/?fref=ts

Organized by the Urban Studies Network (VUB-EhB)

Copenhagen Cargo Bikes

Link: Copenhagen-cargo-bikes
Fietsen in de stad / Cycling in the city

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6G4B9Z27yA
Een klassieker over de Publieke Ruimte. Maar nog steeds actueel. / A classic on the Public Space. But still relevant.