A rally organized by Leonid Volkov took place at Oborona Square. For those not familiar with the subject I provide some backstory:
Leonid is a deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma who decided to run for the regional position. Since he is a member of the unregistered party PARNAS he had to gather signatures to support himself.
Leonid is an opponent ( Read more... )

Many European cities, and the norther ones too, have a well developed sidewalk cafe culture.


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From time to time I’ll write some short posts to make the blog a little more interesting :)

Look how easy it is to show a border between the road and sidewalk using different paving tile colours.


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Today we will be talking about different types of housing development - in districts with multi-story buildings (like in Moscow) and low-rise buildings (like in Copenhagen). 
First of all I have to mention that in Denmark, and especially in Sweden, there are a lot of "problem districts" - badly designed and disregarding the fact that the main ( Read more... )

Today we will be talking about the boulevards. I don't write my diary every day anymore because the schedule for this week wasn't as busy as for the last one, and many days have already passed so there is not much to talk about.

Friday was supposed to be a day with Christian. First we spent about an hour at the office, he told me about a district in ( Read more... )

Some history of the urban development. For many thousands of years (approximately 4,000 to be exact) cities were built gradually and were intended for people. They grew gradually, little by little, the streets weren't wide, the houses weren't tall and the facades were all unique and interesting. That's the way it was because people moved around the ( Read more... )

It's kind of boring today. A week of the "basic course'' is over, and a further program hasn't been selected. I just sent it yesterday. It has a lot in it - I am planning to take a close look at Perm city's master plan and thinking about a bicycle infrastructure for Moscow, plus large posts about development of Copenhagen, Malmo district and ( Read more... )

A lot of interesting stuff was planned for today. First of all, I wanted to send something to St. Petersburg since there is an architecture competition going on there and applications are accepted only till 1, November.  Second of all, we were going to have a city tour with Lars Gezmoe and a lecture with Jan Gehl.

I came to the office and found ( Read more... )

*this is a translation of the original post at http://maxkatz.livejournal.com/

Planned for the third day was a trip to Malmö that is located across the bay - in Sweden. Getting there by train takes about 40 minutes. I will publish a larger post about the regional transportation system around Malmö so I won't go into details even though I really ( Read more... )