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Massillon gr vendredi discovering Kibera

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Massillon gr vendredi discovering Kibera

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Massillon groupe vendredi mapping Kibera

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Los Angeles, California - Urban Sprawl Time Lapse

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32 year time lapse of urban sprawl in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles is a sprawling Southern California city and the center of the nation's film and television industry. Near its iconic Hollywood sign, studios such as Paramount Pictures, Universal and Warner Brothers offer behind-the-scenes tours.

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Ste Marie GR 2 Jeudi: Discovering Los Angeles

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MASSILLON GR mardi : Discovering Los Angeles

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Los Angeles River Revitalization Project

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A Short, informative video about the revitalization of The Los Angeles River. PRODUCED BY: http://1minutereel.com/

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Los Angeles River revitalised in proposals by seven architecture firms

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Seven architecture firms have created proposals that reimagine the desolate Los Angeles River as a bustling oasis featuring cycle paths, active play areas, public art and kayaking facilities. The LA River Downtown Design Dialogue celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Los Angeles River Revitalisation project, an initiative to overhaul areas along the neglected waterway.

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Some 50 years ago, Los Angeles postcards proudly showcased the city's tangle of freeways - with traffic flowing freely, of course. To landscape architect Gerdo Aquino, that retro art inspires questions about the future.

"We used to be so proud of our infrastructure," said Aquino, an adjunct associate professor at the USC School of Architecture. He scans a mid-century postcard image of L.A.'s famous four-level interchange north of downtown. "It makes me wonder - just what is the appropriate image to be emblazoned onto a postcard that speaks to the identity of Los Angeles?"

In present-day L.A., miles of traffic-clogged asphalt and concrete riverbeds have become nearly as iconic as the city's palm trees and beaches. But urban advocates are tackling the challenges of the city, trying to reimagine its infrastructure in new ways that "benefit more than just the automobile," Aquino said. During a time of climate change, the struggles and opportunities in the nation's second-most-populous city offer lessons for all.

That's why writers, academics, activists, landscape architects, artists and scientists from around the world recently descended on USC. Their "Landscape Architecture as Necessity" gathering - hosted by the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at the USC School of Architecture on Sept. 22-24 - offers hope for a new urban landscape sprouting within parks, neighborhoods and urban spaces.

A living lab

Kelly Shannon, professor and director of the landscape program, sees L.A. as a living laboratory where landscape architects and others are addressing how cities can adapt to climate change, one project at a time. It inspired her, together with co-chair and USC School of Architecture Assistant Professor Alison Hirsch, to create a conference focused on the issue of landscape architecture as a framework for addressing global climate change.

Los Angeles is the perfect place for an international discussion, Shannon said, because its climate, ecological issues and urban growth are a "microcosm of the challenges facing the state, the nation and world." Within that pressured environment, she sees landscape architecture as an invaluable resource for restructuring environments in response to the potential impacts of climate change, such as an increasing incidence of droughts, floods and forest fires.

Big projects like the restoration of the Los Angeles River are key to preparing the city to absorb the stresses and shocks of extended drought periods, flooding and sea-level rise, said Aquino, CEO of the landscape architecture firm SWA. "With every new park, garden and trail, we have the chance to prove we can be innovative with how we take on resilience and resource scarcity."

Aquino and his colleagues pointed out a shift in how planners and designers envision Los Angeles' public spaces, better melding them into the environment. These landscape architects are now integrating social and cultural life with nature and urban development.

Parks need to be more than just beautiful. They also need to incorporate ecological elements.

Gerdo Aquino

"Parks need to be more than just beautiful," Aquino said. "They also need to incorporate ecological elements, such as capturing storm water runoff and replenishing groundwater supplies."

Recreational features and transportation elements, like bike trails or kayaking channels that help people move through the city, make open spaces multifunctional and integral parts of L.A.'s fabric.

The role that water plays in cities

For L.A., five years of severe drought have brought water issues to the environmental forefront. Several conference panels focused on the role that water plays in cities, and how flood control measures and water use restrictions have brought unintended negative consequences to the environment.

USC urban spatial ecologist Travis Longcore, assistant professor at the School of Architecture, called attention to the plight of the urban forest, as neighborhood trees have died or are showing signs of stress due to the lack of water during drought.

"The urban forest is first line of defense against the effects of climate change. Trees reduce temperatures and help recapture storm water runoff," Longcore said. Simply turning off the water may help with one aspect of the drought, but it may make other problems, like urban heat islands and storm water capture, worse. "We have to look at these policies holistically."

Landscape architecture will be seen as a major game changer in the coming decades in Los Angeles and beyond, according to Shannon, who was a professor at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape of the Oslo School of Architecture before joining USC in 2015.

While she laughs that many people in the U.S. mistakenly view landscape architects as "glorified gardeners," she sees a role for the profession to be a vital player in revisioning cities of the future in light of climate change.

"By 2050, this region is expected to warm by 5 degrees, with a 5-to-24-inch rise in sea level," Shannon said. Landscape architects are uniquely suited to help areas such as L.A. adjust.

Landscape architecture is about working within nested, interconnected systems.

Kelly Shannon

"Landscape architecture is about working within nested, interconnected systems," Shannon said. The profession synthesizes ecological systems, scientific data, engineering methods, social practices and cultural values, and integrates them into the design of a planned space.

Pressing urban issues

By bringing landscape architecture to the forefront of the discussion about living through climate change, she hopes to move past the rhetoric of "sustainable design." Sharing real-world projects in L.A. and around the world that offer novel approaches to environmental planning and decision-making can get more people to grapple with pressing urban issues - and plan ahead for what's to come.

"What we hoped to do was initiate a discussion and underscore that the professions of the built environment must become a necessity, not a luxury. The contemporary environment is a litmus test of so-called progress; social and environmental disturbances should rattle our collective conscious to its very core. The disturbances are a high-volume distress call," Shannon said.

Bringing together people from a variety of disciplines and nearly every corner of the globe created invigorating discussions, provocations and perhaps more looming questions than answers, Shannon said.

"But we all walked away knowing that we need to challenge business as usual, and landscape architecture can be an essential game changer."

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Landscape architects see Los Angeles as living lab in combatting climate change - USC News

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Some 50 years ago, Los Angeles postcards proudly showcased the city's tangle of freeways - with traffic flowing freely, of course. To landscape architect Gerdo Aquino, that retro art inspires questions about the future. "We used to be so proud of our infrastructure," said Aquino, an adjunct associate professor at the USC School of Architecture.

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This is probably the most well-known scene filmed in the river basin and also the one in which its location is the most recognizable. The unforgettable drag race between Danny and Leo that took place between the 1 st and 7 th street bridges.

The Dark Knight Rises

This intense action movie - that was the third and final in the series of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy - had many urban locations all over the world including Chicago and New York. However, one of the best car chases features the LA River in a high speed night-time chase scene involving the police chasing Batman who is chasing the real villain Bane.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Another extremely memorable scene filmed in the culvert also stars California's former governor and favorite body-building movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Three vehicles chase each other down the causeway in the 1991 action film at a thrilling pace while Arnold zooms by on a motorcycle.

Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stuntman who is also secretly a getaway driver, just innocently giving a woman and her son a ride. Although the neo-noir thriller features typical chase scenes as well, the part where they cruise through the LA river is almost idyllic.

Point Blank

The original 1967 version of this film is a great example of LA film noir, and became a cult classic starring Lee Marvin as a criminal seeking revenge on his former partner. It all comes to a head underneath the 4th street bridge as someone is murdered against the bleak backdrop of the concrete basin.

All Quiet On The Western Front

The empty open space of the riverbed actually proved to be the perfect location to re-enact battle scenes as well, especially in this depiction of trench warfare in the 1930's film about WWI. The bare and wide riverbed represented 'no man's land' in between the fighting camps, and the bridges were used to recreate a historic German siege of a French village.

To Live & Die In LA

Another heart pounding high speed pursuit through dark tunnels and screeching around corners leads to the river bottom, where cars speed through the watershed as the river sprays around them. The 1985 film perfects the LA crime genre and this sequence is definitely one of the best car chases of all time.

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7 Epic Movie Scenes Shot In the LA River

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This is probably the most well-known scene filmed in the river basin and also the one in which its location is the most recognizable. The unforgettable drag race between Danny and Leo that took place between the 1 st and 7 th street bridges.

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Long beach Harbor & LAX airport of Los Angeles

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Handout 1 Location History and challenges

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Handout 1 Location History and challenges

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FINAL TASK NAIROBI PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

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Kenya's Capital NAIROBI; Commercial Capital of East and Central Africa

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FINAL TASK NAIROBI PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

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FINAL TASK NAIROBI PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

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RIOM Gr 1 Tatu City and sustainable cities

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RIOM Gr 1 Tatu City and sustainable cities

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RIOM GR 1 TATU CITY AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES

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Watch the 2 videos and answer the questions