Maxim Katz prepared a detailed report on Vukan Vuchik's stay in Omsk. The city's transport system puzzled the professor, and, according to many commentators, caused frustration. So, for example, the professor spoke about the minibuses: "It's dark and unpleasant here, it smells bad, it's crowded, in the event of an accident, everyone will fly forward and you will not understand that, how do people use such transport?"
About 350 people attended Vuchik's lecture on improving the transport situation in the city. Together with him, the "City Projects" agency prepared a concept for the construction of a light rail system, and all events were paid for by the senator from the Omsk region, Andrey Golushko. The city authorities are encouraged to use the underground structures left over from the unfinished metro, run a tram through them and bring it outside, connecting it with the existing lines that need to be modernized. As a result, a system will appear, the stations of which will be within walking distance of most of the townspeople, and its implementation will require much less money and time than the construction of the metro. The project was presented to the governor of the city and the public, and commentators from Khabarovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tula, Rostov-on-Don and many other cities noted problems similar to Omsk in their cities. Also, Maxim Katz published a report on Vuchik's lecture in Moscow. By the way, recently the designers of the nOne studio, on their own initiative, have developed a convenient map of the movement of Moscow trams.
In St. Petersburg they are preparing to hold a meeting in defense of the Nikolsky market, the reconstruction of which has already begun. If the developer is not stopped, new buildings will appear in the courtyard of the monument one floor higher than the historical ones. Also on the agenda are other "hot addresses": activists demand to restore the previous appearance of the house in Degtyarny Lane, 26, to cancel the demolition of the historic building on Mira Street, 36, and to prevent the adoption of important projects for the city without discussion at the Council for Cultural Heritage (in in particular, the project of adapting the Stables Department and Pavlovsky barracks for an apart-hotel). "Living City" calls on all those who are not indifferent to be on the Champ de Mars on April 6.
The blogger kleoman calls the restoration of the Savior's Savior on Sennaya Square "the largest architectural project of the coming years to transform the urban environment." The author published archival photographs of the church and the current state of the square, project proposals, as well as a video with a conversation about the restoration of the church with the lawyer of the parish of the Savior on Sennaya Anastasia Zhukova, deputy chairman of the St.
The authors of the once scandalous project "Lakhta Center" came up with a positive initiative: to illuminate the courtyard, they will convert the kinetic energy of the steps of visitors and employees into electrical energy. In addition, smoking will be banned on the territory of the center and separate waste collection will be introduced. Pavegen Systems' technology, which allows some streets and even schools to partially benefit from free energy, has been written in the blog "In Harmony with Planet Earth".
The user Usolt writes about QR madness, who is worried about the appearance of inappropriate, in his opinion, plaques with "squares" next to the memorial plaques. The blogger conducted a survey, according to the results of which it turned out that more than half of people do not use QR codes at all, however, such signs proliferate in cities and towns.
Bloggers from Orel and Tambov wrote about the importance of preserving the historical planning of the city. Marina Klimkova says that Tambov largely preserved the planning structure and buildings of the time of the governorship there of the poet Gabriel Derzhavin. Now the structure of the neighborhoods and the red lines of the streets are collapsing, and infill development has broken into the center. The author is surprised: despite the fact that the name of Derzhavin is used everywhere in Tambov, the city of Derzhavin itself is disappearing before our eyes. The blog "Old Eagle" invites its readers to familiarize themselves in more detail with the regular development plan of the Eagle in 1779, according to which the city still lives. The author believes that the solution to modern urban problems should be sought with the help of history: “the streets are packed to capacity with cars, since they were conceived more than a hundred years before the invention of the first car, and the streets of the historic center of Oryol were designed for the construction of buildings no more than three floors and, accordingly, for a noticeably smaller number of residents."
Facebook is seriously discussing the Samara April Fools' joke about the unique project RozhdestvenoCity, which allegedly includes a complex development of the territory on the banks of the Volga: a bridge and huge residential and business districts with skyscrapers up to 100 floors. The project aroused both sympathy and indignation. Elena Chernova especially noted the point about “specialized sites for the transfer of architectural monuments from the territory of the city with subsequent restoration” and called the sketch “monstrous”. Alexander Antonov, on the other hand, found many advantages: block buildings surrounded by nature, an orientation towards public transport, a combination of residential and commercial zones. One of the authors of the project, Vladimir Sverkalov, explained in detail how and why this work was done.
