IMMdesignlab

19/10/2016

We only need a few more signatures to reach the target of 10,000! Let's send a strong message to the EU: food waste is a global scandal, and we can take the lead is ending it. Read more, and sign the petition!

This could be the most legally binding target on food waste, committing to cut the EU’s food waste by 50% by 2030, setting a global example.

19/10/2016

The report explores the current urban transformation in China from the perspective of human development and primarily considers its impacts on the people of China. It takes a sweeping look at the urban transformation of the last few decades, and its drivers, impacts and growing challenges and the opportunities brought by urbanisation in order to answer two main questions: how can we make China’s cities more liveable, and how can we ensure that citizens better enjoy the potentials associated with urban growth?
http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/sustainable-and-liveable-cities-toward-ecological-civilization

The report explores the current urban transformation in China from the perspective of human development and primarily considers its impacts on the people of China. It takes a sweeping look at the urban transformation of the last few decades, and its drivers, impacts and growing challenges and the op...

19/10/2016

How much does parking cost in different cities? We publish the first national Parking Price Index -
http://cityobservatory.org/the-price-of-parking/

How much does it cost to park a car in different cities around the nation? Today, we’re presenting some new data on a surprisingly under-measured aspect of cities and the cost of living: how …

19/10/2016

A bus in a traffic jam? It's as unjust as it once was not to allow women to vote

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/17/enrique-penalosa-mayor-bogota-colombia-bus-traffic-un-habitat?CMP=share_btn_tw

For Bogotá’s mayor, the way cities are planned is fundamental to their residents’ future happiness. As the UN’s third Habitat conference kicks off in Ecuador, the Colombian politician tells the Guardian radical intervention is the only answer

19/10/2016

September an Exclamation Point on String of Hot Months http://www.climatecentral.org/news/september-hottest-month-climate-change-20791 via

Yet another month of planetary heat has basically ensured 2016 will be the hottest year on record.

19/10/2016

Lightpath success: Build it and they will come
In Auckland
http://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/articles/news/2016/03/lightpath-success-build-it-and-they-will-come/

The success of Auckland’s Lightpath shows that Aucklanders want more cycling infrastructure and they will flock to use it if it is built, says the New Zealand T

19/10/2016

Beach Road Cycleway in Auckland (New Zealand) Completed
http://transportblog.co.nz/2014/09/03/beach-road-cycleway-completed/ via

Auckland's first section of urban separated cycleway is now completed. The official opening of the Beach Road Cycleway will be on Saturday morning, where NZTA and Auckland Transport are holding a media event to celebrate the opening of the Grafton Gully and Beach Road cycleways. The Grafton Gully be...

18/10/2016

By 2050, 6.3 billion will live in cities & will need access to healthy, environmentally friendly food:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoBhghBVGhA&sns=tw via

Today, 4 billion people, or 54% of the global population, live in urban areas. By 2050, this number will grow to over 6.3 billion people, representing 66% of...

18/10/2016

IMM is International and multidisciplinary Design Laboratory for Urban Sustainability. Our work is driven by the principle that urban design can directly affect the quality of our environment, improve the energy performances as well as the quality of our lives making our future more sustainable and responsible. IMM is the acronym of Integrated Modification Methodology, an innovative design methodology based on a specific process with the main goal of improving the CAS’ (complex adaptive systems) energy performance, through the modification of its constituents and optimization the architecture of their ligands. Its approach is fundamentally Holistic, Multi-Layer, Multi-scale. In this methodology, the city is considered to be a dynamic Complex Adaptive System comprised of the superimposition of an enormous number of interrelated components, categorized in different Layers or ‘Subsystems’, (also complex adaptive systems) which through their inner arrangement and the architecture of their ligands provide a certain physical and provisional arrangement of the CAS.

18/10/2016

This afternoon at Politecnico di Milano Lecco Capus at Eng. MsC M. Mohammad Zadeh is giving a lecture, titled:
"Vertical investigation in IMM methodology".
In particular he is explaining IMM Key Categories: Proximity

18/10/2016

Sustainable, inclusive cities ‘can transform our world for the better,’ Ban tells UN conference http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55319 #.WAYmLADpSVp.twitter

Opening today the United Nations Habitat III conference in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, Secretary-General Ban-Ki-Moon told the gathered delegations that “transforming our world for the better” means re-making towns and cities through sustainable development.

18/10/2016

It happened today at SMDP course. Students presented the outcomes of the Vertical Investigation of the Porto di Mare area, based on IMM methodology.