Carlos Pedro Sant’Ana

Our next workshop will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. Our local partner, CASADAVIZINHA.EU is a cultural project on Sustainable Architecture with the support of Ordem dos Arquitectos Secção Regional Sul, the local Architects Association. The workshop will be held during the month of May and its open to Portuguese Architects, having Lisbon as workfield with local architects as Tutors. A project for the city will be developed during a month. All the names will be confirmed soon both in http://www.postoilcities.org and http://www.casadavizinha.eu…

Posted by carlos.pedro at April 07, 2010

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about…

Posted by carlos.pedro at March 24, 2010

Carsharing is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. They are attractive to customers who make only occasional use of a vehicle, as well as others who would like occasional access to a vehicle of a different type than they use day-to-day. The organization renting the cars may be a commercial business or the users may be organized as a democratically-controlled company, public agency, cooperative, ad hoc grouping.…

Posted by carlos.pedro at March 01, 2010

Bicing is the name of a 'community bicycle program' in Barcelona inaugurated in March 2007, similar to the Vélô service in Toulouse, Vélo'v in Lyon and Vélib' in Paris, and apparently uses the same system and bicycles with Stockholm City Bikes. Its purpose is to cover the small and medium daily routes within the city in a climate friendly way, almost without pollution (especially the emission of finest particulate matter), roadway noise, traffic congestion and to reclaim the urban…

Posted by carlos.pedro at March 01, 2010

A carrierbike is a fantastic invention for transporting the kids.  But once the kids have been delivered in the day care and you are working the pedals, it is not always that practical to ride around with a large empty carrier.  With the Danish designed trioBike, you can easily take off the front carrier  and change the carrierbike into a bike and a pushchair.  The trioBike also gives couples the possibility, of one delivering the kids and the other picking…

Posted by carlos.pedro at March 01, 2010

Freight bicycles, carrier cycles, freight tricycles, cargo bikes, or bakfietsen, are human powered vehicles designed and constructed specifically for transporting large loads. Vehicle designs include a cargo area consisting of a steel tube carrier, an open or enclosed box, a flat platform, or a wire basket. These are usually mounted over one or both wheels, low behind the front wheel, or between parallel wheels at either the front or rear of the vehicle. The frame and drivetrain must be…

Posted by carlos.pedro at March 01, 2010