While the Costa Verde site was the most professional looking of the sites, the concept felt almost Corbusian and really bothered me. In practice, it's really quite difficult to have the best of both worlds - Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses would make for odd (if not quite uneasy) bed-fellows. The mix of city and rural life is what the Garden City concept offered in theory, but in practice, those principles actually produced auto-dominated suburbs with segregated land uses that are ultimately not sustainable. I voted for El Paraiso Habitable because I liked the emphasis on localism.
David Bennett - 12 years ago
By the way, here is the link to the trailer for "Life and Debt." The film provides some interesting insights into the global tourism industry; given that many of you chose to make that industry the focus of your plan, you might find this interesting...well, you'd probably find it interesting anyway. It shows how tourism (and aspects of globalization generally) can affect local communities in ways that don't tend to make the headlines, getting the other side of the story. The film is thought provoking and, yes, somewhat controversial, definitely worth a watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-tBG_F64E
DMB - 12 years ago
I'm going for Costa Verde because it was the only place that was not solely designed for tourists. The other sites seemed to propose places whose economies would "thrive" off tourism, and in some cases to use the leftovers of those profits for the locals, as if tourism were the only industry that could support a new Honduran community. I think we can be more creative than simply designing tourist hotspots that cater to the rich from abroad rather than those trying to live a better life within Honduras (even if the plans look cool and would probably attract plenty of financiers). But I'm not sure tourism is necessarily a sustainable foundation for a community. There must be some way to at least attempt to create a self-sustaining, thriving community that is based on something other than tourism, as Costa Verde does. (The film "Life and Debt" has some interesting commentary on this topic using the example of Jamaica.) Other than that, though, the plans generally take into consideration various factors like accessibility, affordable housing, etc. and they are all well presented with plenty of eye candy.
Cameron Hargitai - 12 years ago
I thought they were all very good, but I liked the Vulgaria website the best because, I enjoyed the layout and the great visual appeal. Good work to all of the teams.
Fahriye Sancar - 12 years ago
The reasons i chose this city (assuming they will allow me to live there) is because when the global economy collapses and/or the ecological crisis sweeps the world, this place may have a chance to survive due to the preservation of local ways&means to survive.
While the Costa Verde site was the most professional looking of the sites, the concept felt almost Corbusian and really bothered me. In practice, it's really quite difficult to have the best of both worlds - Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses would make for odd (if not quite uneasy) bed-fellows. The mix of city and rural life is what the Garden City concept offered in theory, but in practice, those principles actually produced auto-dominated suburbs with segregated land uses that are ultimately not sustainable. I voted for El Paraiso Habitable because I liked the emphasis on localism.
By the way, here is the link to the trailer for "Life and Debt." The film provides some interesting insights into the global tourism industry; given that many of you chose to make that industry the focus of your plan, you might find this interesting...well, you'd probably find it interesting anyway. It shows how tourism (and aspects of globalization generally) can affect local communities in ways that don't tend to make the headlines, getting the other side of the story. The film is thought provoking and, yes, somewhat controversial, definitely worth a watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-tBG_F64E
I'm going for Costa Verde because it was the only place that was not solely designed for tourists. The other sites seemed to propose places whose economies would "thrive" off tourism, and in some cases to use the leftovers of those profits for the locals, as if tourism were the only industry that could support a new Honduran community. I think we can be more creative than simply designing tourist hotspots that cater to the rich from abroad rather than those trying to live a better life within Honduras (even if the plans look cool and would probably attract plenty of financiers). But I'm not sure tourism is necessarily a sustainable foundation for a community. There must be some way to at least attempt to create a self-sustaining, thriving community that is based on something other than tourism, as Costa Verde does. (The film "Life and Debt" has some interesting commentary on this topic using the example of Jamaica.) Other than that, though, the plans generally take into consideration various factors like accessibility, affordable housing, etc. and they are all well presented with plenty of eye candy.
I thought they were all very good, but I liked the Vulgaria website the best because, I enjoyed the layout and the great visual appeal. Good work to all of the teams.
The reasons i chose this city (assuming they will allow me to live there) is because when the global economy collapses and/or the ecological crisis sweeps the world, this place may have a chance to survive due to the preservation of local ways&means to survive.