Are
Dense Cities More Sustainable?
© UiD 2009
Article published in
Arkitekten # 12 2009
Inside the car you are protected from the noise, the humidity, the pollution and the extreme temperatures. You can listen to relaxing music and control the temperature yourself. But the more cars the more hostile the outside environment becomes, thus provoking more even people to get a car.
Er tættere byer mere
bæredygtige? [560K] pdf
Feature article published in Politiken
If cities can change the climate, can climate change then change the cities too?
Vores økologiske fodspor [220K]
Article published in TEGN #2
Det er naturligvis vigtigt, at udvikle (og anvende) nye løsninger, men det er også vigtigt, at de er til at betale for almindelige mennesker. Derfor handler det ikke kun om at opfinde, men også om at genopfinde – og genbruge.
Byerne og klimaet [720K]
Article for DAC News
| Byer har altid tiltrukket nye ideer, tanker og drømme. Forskellen er at det nye nu kommer fra – og spredes til - hele verden. Og at det sker hurtigere, meget hurtigere! |
Visionen on den sociale by er global [24KB]
Sustainable
Urban Development - IFHP Ranko Radovic Student
Competition
Henrik
Valeur’s own comments as a juror. Published in Futures of Cities ISBN
978-87-87136-81-5
It is really quite simple. We - the rich - have to share our wealth with the poor if we want to revert the current trend of massive environmental destruction and climate change.
Henrik's comments [2.5 MB]Introduction to the catalogue CO-EVOLUTION ISBN 87-90668-61-8
Publisher: DAC | Danish Architecture Centre
How to improve people’s living conditions without exhausting the very resources needed to sustain a better life?
Curator's Statement [252K]
Curator's Statement [1.1MB]
Curator's Statement[76K]
Paper for the UIA XXIInd World Architecture Congress in Istanbul.
According to the UN, 3/4 of the population of the industrialized world live in cities, but these are not necessarily cities in the traditional sense. People may choose to live in rural settings, while still having direct access to most urban facilities.
Urban Regions (abstract) [32K]
Introduction to the catalogue A NEW FUTURE FOR PLANNING ISBN 87-990146-5-3
Publisher: The Architectural Magazine B
Maybe the planning of the 21st century does not (only) have to be about regulations and restrictions. Maybe the loss of power of the traditional planner isn't such a bad thing after all. Maybe it is the beginning of a new future for planning.
The Perfect Plan [72K]
Published in Stads- og havneingeniøren nr. 2, februar 2003
I dagene 11-15. november 2002 var 80 mennesker samlet til workshop for at udforme fremtiden for Trekroner Øst i Roskilde. Workshoppen var en del af et projekt, der støttes af Realdania fonden - formålet er bl.a. at gøre planlægningen mere åben.
5 dages debat [52K]
LA er en ny by, men det er ikke en historieløs by. Siden sin grundlæggelse i 1791 har El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula gennemgået flere og mere gennemgribende mutationer end mange af verdens såkaldte historiske byer.
LA Story [1.5MB]
Looking at film footage and development schemes documenting the suburbanization around Copenhagen during the late 60’s and early 70’s, it is striking to see how directly principles of temporal organization were transformed into principles of physical organization.
The Diagram [23K]
'99 ISBN 87-90668-14-6
Publisher: Danish Architecture Center
I am sitting in a house in the suburbs talking with a woman who has asked me to design a house for her somewhere else in the in suburbia. She is quite ordinary and the job seems straightforward. But I quickly discover that I can not govern her everyday life and that she would never live the way I had in mind. I also realize there are no authorities I can turn to for advice on how this house should be designed; least of all her, because she is never the same.
The Task [21K]
Det karakteristiske ved den form for urbanisering vi har været vidner til op igennem det 20’ende århundrede er, at det ikke er befolkningen der er flyttet ind til byerne, men byerne der er flyttet ud til befolkningen!
non-city [76K]
Forstaden er uden tvivl det mest overbevisende udtryk der er skabt for den moderne virkelighed. Det er en by hvor man kan møde hyperversioner af Baudelaires le flaneur og patienter der netop har rejst sig fra Freuds divan, hvor man kan se Warhols og Magrittes billeder male sig selv og høre Schönbergs kompositioner akkompagnere Jim Morrisons stemme live, hvor den kognitive påvirkning fra the moving picture bliver evident og nogle af fysikkens abstrakte teorier overvældende konkrete.
URBANE PROCESSER [62K]
Hr O har en aktiepost i firmaet A/S. Han er aldrig mødt op til generalforsamling. Det ville ærlig talt også være spild af tid, for det er ikke et forum hvor O med sin, trods alt, beskedne stak B-aktier ville blive hørt. Sådan set har han heller ikke noget at sige, for ligesom ingen i A/S kender personen O, er hans eget kendskab til selskabet og dets aktiviteter ganske perifært.
Hr O[24K]
