New Book by Carlos Cazalis | Occcupy Sao Paolo
Since 2005 Carlos Cazalis has been photographing some of the world’s largest cities, Occupy São Paulo being the first chapter in his Urban Meta project. As one of the world’s mega cities reaching a population of 20 million, the city of São Paulo perpetuates a tremendous urban stress to it’s residents, especially in terms of [...]
Q&A with experts | The Megacities Trend
Q: In your opinion, how have the trends of the megacities changed in the past few decades? Kingsley E. Haynes A: Megacities continue to expand both in densification and areal extent reflecting both the positive productivity impacts of agglomeration economies and diversification and the drawing power of large primate centers in the urban hierarchy. Peter [...]
Lessons Learnt [An excerpt from “Megacities: Exploring a Sustainable Future” (2010, 010 Publisher, Rotterdam) Steef Buijs, Wendy Tan and Devisari Tunas When the Megacities Foundation began its enterprise, we intended to introduce interesting speakers from abroad to infuse the Dutch urban development and management ‘scene’ with new ideas. Each time a lecture was organized, the [...]
The Book: Megacities | Exploring a Sustainable Future
The Megacities Foundation is proud to present the publication: Megacities: Exploring a Sustainable Future (2010, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam), edited by Buijs, Tan and Tunas. Contributing Authors: George Brugmans, Joachim Declerck, Dirk Frieling, Paul Gerretsen, Peter Hall,David Harvey, Kingsley E. Haynes, Zef Hemel, Lars Lerup, Tai Ker Liu, Henk Ovink, Peter Nijkamp, Richard Rogers, Saskia Sassen, [...]
Creating Megacity in the North?
The Guardian [28 January 2013]: The transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, will be joined by the prime minister and cabinet colleagues as he outlines his proposed route for the Y-shaped network north of Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds. Well-placed sources believe the route will include a new spur to Crewe and run via Manchester airport, helping [...]
Controlling traffic in megacities: Mumbai
BBC news [19th March 2013]: The streets of Mumbai are seldom quiet. Day or night they echo to the sound of revving cars, rumbling lorries and the angry-wasp buzz of auto rickshaws. And then there are the horns…[see more at bbc]
Electric cars | Only for the rich?
The Guardian – Electric cars will never be a mass-market solution to climate change and should not get government subsidies, the chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover said on Tuesday . The British and other governments have introduced generous subsidies to encourage motorists to switch to emission-free electric cars. Ralf Speth said it was wrong [...]
BBC News – Currently, some 260 million people live in 30 megacities around the world. Traffic congestion is a major problem for pretty much all of them. According to current trends and forecasts, it is a problem that could soon become relevant for billions more people. In two or three decades, it is forecast that [...]
Megacities Foundation curated Carlos Cazalis‘s photo exhibition in Moscow Biennale May 23- June 7, 2012. This time we are tackling the issue of identities. Much has been said about fragmentation and disparate identities in the megacities. However, we can also discern new identities that the megacities allows to emerge. While the attractive power of megacities [...]
The Megacities Foundation in the Netherlands began as an initiative by UNESCO asking the International Academy of Architecture (IAA) to focus on the problems of the explosively growing megalopoli. Prof. Jan Hoogstad, IAA representative from the Netherlands, started a nuclear group of experts and professionals to develop a programme of activities that would bring the topic of urban development and growth to a wider platform of debate.
The Megacities initiative originates from the awareness of the future role of cities as the dominant type of settlement for humanity. Cities will play this role not just as a matter of fact but out of necessity as the only way of housing the world’s increasing population. An intensive rural occupation pattern would certainly lead to an ecological disaster. For the last 17 years, the Megacities foundation has been on the forefront of the metropolitan planning debate both in the Netherlands and abroad. With our illustrious list of speakers and their avant garde view on the megacities and the role of spatial professionals who influence and manage them, the foundation has set a benchmark in profession of architecture, urbanism and planning.
The future activities organized by the Megacity Foundation will address various challenges. We encourage you to survey the Megacities website for more detailed information.
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 Creating Megacity in the North?The Guardian [28 January 2013]: The transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, will be joined by the prime minister and cabinet colleagues as he outlines his proposed route for the Y-shaped network north of Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds. Well-placed sources believe the route will include a new spur to Crewe and run via Manchester airport, helping [...] |
 Controlling traffic in megacities: MumbaiBBC news [19th March 2013]: The streets of Mumbai are seldom quiet. Day or night they echo to the sound of revving cars, rumbling lorries and the angry-wasp buzz of auto rickshaws. And then there are the horns…[see more at bbc] |
 Electric cars | Only for the rich?The Guardian – Electric cars will never be a mass-market solution to climate change and should not get government subsidies, the chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover said on Tuesday . The British and other governments have introduced generous subsidies to encourage motorists to switch to emission-free electric cars. Ralf Speth said it was wrong [...] |
 New Book by Carlos Cazalis | Occcupy Sao PaoloSince 2005 Carlos Cazalis has been photographing some of the world’s largest cities, Occupy São Paulo being the first chapter in his Urban Meta project. As one of the world’s mega cities reaching a population of 20 million, the city of São Paulo perpetuates a tremendous urban stress to it’s residents, especially in terms of [...] |
 Gridlocked WorldBBC News – Currently, some 260 million people live in 30 megacities around the world. Traffic congestion is a major problem for pretty much all of them. According to current trends and forecasts, it is a problem that could soon become relevant for billions more people. In two or three decades, it is forecast that [...] |
 Megacities goes Moscow!Megacities Foundation curated Carlos Cazalis‘s photo exhibition in Moscow Biennale May 23- June 7, 2012. This time we are tackling the issue of identities. Much has been said about fragmentation and disparate identities in the megacities. However, we can also discern new identities that the megacities allows to emerge. While the attractive power of megacities [...] |
 Q&A with experts | The Pressing Issues for MegacitiesQ: What are the pressing issues that colour the current debate on the megacities? Kingsley E. Haynes A: The current debate needs to recognize the importance of Megacities in emerging economiesas sources of wealth (in contrast to sources of poverty or displacement), sources of rising expectations, and sources of fundamental change–political, economic, organizational, and cultural–as [...] |
 Join our group discussion in LinkedInQuestion: What are the pressing issues for megacities? [click below to join the discussion] What are the pressing issues for megacities? | LinkedIn Roberto R. • I guess the most pressing issue for megacities is “inclusion” (in every sense: in the job… |
 Tag Cloud of the Megacities BookWith the help of Wordle, we found out what the most talked about terms and words in our book. |
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