Compact Cities: vertical ghettos?
Since the last decades population is concentrating in urban areas, so cities are growing rapidly. According to the United Nations, 54 %...
Sustainable Development: an everlasting race?
When we talk about sustainable development, we can consider it as a long race where the end is sustainability. Evidently, many processes...
Chile soaks up the sun
Good news related to the use of renewable energy, concretely solar power, comes from Latin America. Chile, one of its countries with the...
Urban Ambience: sound matters
Architectural/urban ambience can be defined as “the experienced physical and psychological qualities of the built environment, based on...
Sustainability v/s the “yuck factor”
Sustainability is not just less GHG emissions, waste reduction and use of renewable energies. We don’t have to leave behind the human...
Green Cities : a green future?
After 100 years building with concrete, designers, builders and developers (architects, constructors and real estate companies) realized...
Chilean public transport londonizes?
This week was presented in Santiago, Chile, the new two floor bus that will be incorporated to public transport system Transantiago for...
Sustainability: more than words
The concept of sustainability as we know it today, was used for the first time thirty years ago, when it appeared in the Brundtland...
Tram-City
One of the important issues nowadays in cities refers to public transport, why?As our population is growing and concentrating in urban...