Metro in the city of Quito The project for building a metro in the city of Quito has being developing and changing for the last years but with an uncertain outcome, so it is worth it? First I would like to talk a little bit about Quito; the city is located in the Andes region [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
By way of introduction, I would like to point out that the gap between cities and rural areas have been increased more than ever before because of the rapid economic development in these day and age. So personally, I think a right policy, an investment program as well as good design strongly play an important role [...]
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São Paulo Bicycle Lanes: Union between private and public Sector
It is a common understanding today that the public transport needs to be the majority of the kinds of transportation in a city. In a first moment a metro line or the renewal of an old infrastructure of public buses may appear expensive, but through the long therm, they represent a lower impact on the [...]
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Slums – A problem or solution?
“There are two cities within one..(one) part has all the benefits of urban living, and the other part, the slums and squatter settlements, where the poor often live under worse conditions than their rural relatives.” Anna Tibaijuka
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