Comments for REPROGRAMMING THE CITY

Comment on Covid Resourcefulness: Trains converted to Quarantine Coaches by Repurposed Buses Become Mobile Hygiene Stations

Repurposed Buses Become Mobile Hygiene Stations — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:28:33 +0000

[…] The repurposed bus mobile hygiene units have dramatically raised awareness about the lack of access to showers and basic hygiene across the country. The project has to Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, and has fielded thousands of requests to replicate the services in other cities. More than 15 mobile hygiene units across the U.S. and other countries have been inspired by the project to set up their own versions of mobile hygiene units by repurposing public transportation units. […]

Comment on Covid Parking Garages: Functional Structures Get Called to Serve by Repurposing Parking Garages as Micro Housing : REPROGRAMMING THE CITY

Repurposing Parking Garages as Micro Housing : REPROGRAMMING THE CITY — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:19:39 +0000

[…] responds to key demographic trends shaping cities: individual car use is declining, public car parking structures are being used less, and young professionals are seeking affordable downtown accommodation to fit […]

Comment on How to Reprogram the City Toolkit: Adaptive Reuse, Repurposing Urban Objects [PDF VERSION] by Constanze W

Constanze W — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:30:34 +0000

The toolkit provides incentives to perceive our cities and their manifold existing resources (which we tend to overlook in the everyday “use” of our cities) with a playful eye, focussing on the plenty opportunities (the “containers of possibilities”) we have at hand just by changing our perspectives and by using our creativity. In times of masterplans and large scale projects, I consider this extremely important (and refreshing). I’m sure that this toolkit is most helpful for urban planners working in participatory processes, but also for students and, in general, people interested in “deciphering” their urban surroundings. An absolute recommendation.

Comment on Adaptive Reuse Workbook: Transforming Cities by Repurposing [PRINT VERSION] by Constance W.

Constance W. — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:52:14 +0000

Comment on Repurposing Book and Toolkit: Reprogramming the City and How To [PDF Combo] by Constance W.

Constance W. — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:49:29 +0000

I stumbled across “Reprogramming the City” in search of inspiration on interventions in urban public space for a project. I’m very glad I found the book as it not only displays a vast collection of interesting best practices on different scales, on a variety of topics (housing + shelter, food + water, ecology…) and from very different urban contexts (from Lima over Hong Kong to Vienna), but it also (in the second part, the “toolkit”) provides incentives to perceive our cities and their manifold existing resources (which we tend to overlook in the everyday “use” of our cities) with a playful eye, focussing on the plenty opportunities (the “containers of possibilities”) we have at hand just by changing our perspectives and by using our creativity. In times of masterplans and large scale projects, I consider this extremely important (and refreshing). I’m sure that this toolkit is most helpful for urban planners working in participatory processes, but also for students and, in general, people interested in “deciphering” their urban surroundings. An absolute recommendation.

Comment on Could Brick Buildings be Repurposed as Batteries? by Future of Industrial Infrastructure: Student Housing?

Future of Industrial Infrastructure: Student Housing? — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:40:13 +0000

[…] is among several recent projects reusing industrial infrastructure for housing […]

Comment on Growing Underground: Urban Food in Abandoned Subway Tunnels by Using an Airport Terminal as Urban Rooftop Farm: JetBlue's T5 Farm at JFK

Using an Airport Terminal as Urban Rooftop Farm: JetBlue's T5 Farm at JFK — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:17:29 +0000

[…] For those not quite ready to start eating insects, the T5 Farm is a nice move forward to begin integrating transportation infrastructure with food production. […]

Comment on Using an Airport Terminal as Urban Rooftop Farm by Growing Underground: Urban Food in Abandoned Subway Tunnels

Growing Underground: Urban Food in Abandoned Subway Tunnels — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:15:06 +0000

[…] advantages of using the existing abandoned subway tunnels as a subterranean urban farm are numerous, says the company. For one, the carbon footprint of the food is vastly reduced – […]

Comment on Using an Airport Terminal as Urban Rooftop Farm by Food Deserts: Is Reusing Closed Post Offices as Food Distribution Centers the Answer?

Sun, 30 Jun 2019 21:43:05 +0000

[…] eating and cooking classes, and even on-site food growing and production. It is one of several projects featured in the Reprogramming the City book that offer resourceful solutions to urban food desert […]

Comment on Urban Reuse and Repurposing Book: Reprogramming the City [PRINT] by Maria Xose

Maria Xose — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:00:33 +0000

An amazing collection of examples showing what a difference repurposing can make. I particularly like the layout showing the original urban object on the left, with its repurposed new life on the right. A very visual, easy read, that carries an incredibly important message.