Jakarta, October 5. A journey into the heart of Jakarta's public transport system. Crossing the city with TransJakarta, the city's rapid bus transit system. Currently it has 7 lines, while 32 are said to be under construction. Jakarta is a city without any subway network, so rapid bus transport is the means to move. The system is modeled on the TransMilenio system in Bogotá, Colombia. Taking it to ...
On Friday October 3, Bert de Muynck | MovingCities arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a two weeks work and research stay. How does the fourth largest urban area in the world looks like? How does it function? What is the state of the city in Jakarta? During the first weekend Jakarta's skyline was scanned by hopping from one hotel roof to another, picturing the present and getting grip ...
On Wednesday September 17, MovingCities went on a journey to the edge of the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon. Starting from 'Alta de Lisboa', a new developed area North-East from the airport, we went deeper into sprawland. A territory of high-density social housing projects, highway intersection, 1970s housing developments, illegal settlements and dilapidating buildings on the rim of Lisbons' hills, the field trip took us into the urban, ...
Lisbon is build on 7 hills. Brussels, Rome, Lisbon, Edinburgh, Istanbul and Amman share the same topographic characteristic, they are capital cities said to be build on 7 hills. In 2005, in pre-MovingCities-times, I started mixing these cities together in theory and presented in the context of the UIA2005-congress (Istanbul) the 7-project as a visual interpretation of cities built on the apocalyptic topography of seven hills. All equal ...
Driving from the center of Lisbon to the 1998 Lisbon World Expo Site, cruising through a peri-urban area, then along the river Tagus to end up in the heart of the Expo site. The World's Fair was held in Lisbon from May 22 to September 30, 1998. The theme of the fair was "The Oceans, a Heritage for the Future," chosen in part to commemorate 500 years of ...
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