| Sept. 26, 2002 Thursday Evening Discusion about: The Future of Fort Lauderdale with a focus on Northwest Fort Lauderdale. COMING IN OCTOBER: Symposium about Bogota |
Friendly Streets History/ART Walk POD TAS >>>>> Friendly Streets in other cities |
| These are PHOTOS OF BOGOTA by Tony Abbate How can Fort Lauderdale make its streets more friendly or inviting to pedestrians? Photos of City Place Click to see the efforts made to protect pedestrians in cities in Caribbean See Tony Abbate's Photos Europe Bogota Havana Asia FRIENDLY STREETS PHOTOS of Other Cities These photos are presented to stimulate discussion about the future of Fort Lauderdale. What can we bring from other cities? What can we learn from other cities? What can we discover locally and nurture, heighten or cultivate? What can we adapt? What should we reject? What doesn't work in other cities? What works there but would look false if we adopted it without "making it our own"? (City Place looks like a little Venice, a little Veneto, a little Portofino, a little Nice or Cannes, a little Siena... and it appears to have rejected anything of Florida. The "funky" art workshop east of City Place has more local character than the entire City Place plaza.) -- opinion of web guy, not necessarily the opinion of others associated with the effrots to make Fort Lauderdlae more friendly to pedestrians See the discussion on the pages at The Center for Creating the Future CCF |
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REMINDER: September 26, 2002 MARK YOUR CALENDAR The Center for Creating the Future www.creatingthefuture.org E-mail: crefut@bellsouth.net Fort Lauderdale, FL The Center will host an evening to discuss The Future of Fort Lauderdale with a focus on Northwest Fort Lauderdale. Tony Abbate has some good documentation of pedestrian/transit access in Bogota and Havana. I’ve put some photos on the web site at www.oocities.org/futureofparking/photoshavana.html Tony Abbate believes that the Greenberg/Gloria Katz planning process would be a good opportunity to look at more of these issues related to walking. Tony could bring his questions and suggestions to an evening devoted to “What is the future of downtown Fort Lauderdale?” and “What is the future of Northwest Fort Lauderdale?” (since the two futures are clearly linked). Here are some items: The power station/utility transmission place that is surrounded with chain link fencing could be plastered and encircled with large posters depicting houses and buildings from the 1930s and 1940s in Fort Lauderdale. A public art project included gathering photos of that era and remembrances of people who lived back through those times (example: Dizzy Gillespie stayed in a hotel in NW Ft Lauderdale). Why not have “talking rocks” activated by a pedestrian’s presence to turn on the voices of the past? When we think if Calle Ocho, we don’t think of Publix Supermarket… there’s Sedano’s supermarket. So why not have a black-owned / Caribbean themed supermarket on Sistrunk? In short, Tony asked, “What are we doing here this is right?” Rather than look to Europe and South America for examples (City Place is the result), why not find what is special about local arrangements and just make more of them? Looking to Europe suggests that “we’re doing something wrong.” Why not look in our past and find what we did right? SEE: www.oldfortlauderdale.org and www.flhsphotos.org The format of the evening could include a short presentation by Tony, who has a thesis about the role of a building or a walkway to “grab the passerby”. What can the city do to encourage the creation of such buildings? What are we currently doing that discourages the “native creation” from occurring? Can the Sun-Sentinel to print the results of the evening (everyone bringing in photos of old Fort Lauderdale or of features in other cities that could be adapted locally)? Crefut (CCF) could invite people to bring items or describe suggested improvements. Anyone with suggestions on how to improve the "life of the city" is invited to attend: Sept. 26 COMING IN OCTOBER: Symposium about Bogota Through the Arango Design Foundation and with the help of local sponsors, including Tom Gustafson, we will be hosting a symposium and presentation of the Bogota Project in October. The invited guest presenters include Dr. Enrique Penalosa, Ex-Mayor of Bogota who was instrumental in getting the project underway; Mr. Jose Salazar, Director of the "Taller de la Ciudad" (City-Studio) who was responsible for the overall design of the infrastructure and urban design elements; and Mr. Lorenzo Castro, Director of Planning and Logistics for the project. They will describe the public process and the design process for this remarkable project which won the Stockholm Challenge Award in 2000, being selected from among 600 cities world-wide. More information at: http://www.ecoplan.org/votebogota2000/general/bogotaproject.htm We hope to confirm dates and speakers in the next few weeks. Anthony Abbate AIA click here for a parallel site to the Bogota Symposium |
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| REMINDER: September 26, 2002 The Center for Creating the Future's Thursday Evening Discusion about: The Future of Fort Lauderdale with a focus on Northwest Fort Lauderdale. COMING IN OCTOBER: Symposium about Bogota |
| Bicycle traffic light |
| Vehicle block (bollard) that also functions as a one-seat bench. The short design discourages sleeping on city benches. |
| Bus stop. Note the clock and street location. |
| Chicago has cows. Bogota has trees. |
| The roof of the library is open to the public. There is an auditorium on the right.. |
| Bus stop. Note the clock and street location. |
| In Bogota, there are 4-wheeled Korean/Japanese automobile taxis. |