As part of the master's program based at ITMO, students will be taught innovative approaches in urban planning, design and urbanism. If the course is successful, an entire department will be opened at the university. ITMO will have a new master’s program, and eventually a department of urban studies. The initiative belongs to the urbanist and organizer of the festival of urban initiatives “Do It Yourself” Mikhail Klimovsky, who is now helping to organize the educational process.

The Village continues to talk about unusual and useful projects in different cities of the world. In this issue - about how the advertising poster solved the main problem of the city in the desert. In the section “Ideas for the City”, The Village talks about useful, convenient and simply unusual projects that come up with and embody in different cities of the world with one purpose - to make people's lives better.

Over the next two years, 110 biocabins, 14 buses with toilets and showers, and 20 stationary pavilions connected to all utility networks will appear in St. Petersburg. Smolny adopted a program for developing a network of public toilets in 2013–2015. Over the next two years, 110 biocabins, 14 buses with toilets and showers, and 20 stationary pavilions connected to all utility networks will appear in St. Petersburg.

What is happening on Moscow streets, what they write on Facebook and Twitter, as reported by newspapers and news agencies - all the most interesting in Moscow this morning. Follow the online broadcast of The Village. As usual, from 9 to 12 in the morning, the Village correspondent tracks all the most interesting, new, unexpected and curious that is happening in Moscow.

The city administration halved subsidies to river carriers, closed the aquabus route in the Nevsky district and, in return, extended the central line to Alexander Nevsky Square. The city administration has halved subsidies to river carriers. In the new season, the aquabus route in the Nevsky district, running from Sverdlovskaya embankment to Rybatsky Prospekt, will be closed, but the central line from Sverdlovskaya embankment to Alexander Nevsky Square will be extended.

5.9% of all entries on the World Wide Web are made in Russian Russian is the second most popular language on the Internet, according to a study by W3Techs. The English language takes first place by a wide margin - 54.7% of the total number of pages and documents are written in it. The share of the Russian language is 5.9%. This is hundredths more than the German language. Next on the list, with a lag of about 1%, are Spanish, French, Chinese and Japanese.

City authorities agreed to think about making taxi work easier. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that taxis can be allowed to move on dedicated lanes for public transport, RIA Novosti reports . Representatives of taxi companies approached the city authorities with a corresponding proposal. In January, such a demand was made by taxi drivers who staged an “Italian strike.” Sobyanin emphasized that such a measure should be introduced in stages, after detailed expert study and experiments.

The owner of the establishments of Martinez, Cuba Libre, Tequila Bar until recently was engaged in only B2B sovereigns, and now I have begun to interfere with cocktails at private parties. Seyran Gevorkyan behind the bar from the end of the 90s. Having opened several establishments in Moscow and having developed the database of customers from large alcoholic companies, he decided to add the mobile bar to organize parties to the B2B parties.

At the site of the Mamina Paste restaurant in the Novinsky Passage, a cafe “Domozhilov” was opened, named after the name of the chef Ivan Domozhilov. In the atrium of the Novinsky Passage shopping and business complex, on the site of the restaurant "Mamina Pasta", the cafe "Domozhilov" earned. The institution of the name of the chef Ivan Domozhilov, who is also the chef of the restaurants Clumba Club, Shekhtel and the Art Clumba cafe on Artplay, is named.

The Hummus Jewish food project, which previously could only be found at festivals or ordered home, has acquired its own shop in the Pardes kosher grocery store. The culinary project The Hummus , specializing in hummus, has opened a small shop. It is located in the Pardes kosher grocery store, not far from the Moscow Jewish Community Center. All food is prepared by The Hummus' chef Anisim Braude.

Every week, The Village asks familiar citizens to take a picture on the street and tell where they buy things and why. In the weekly section “Appearance”, The Village takes pictures on the street of familiar citizens and asks them to tell in what brands they are dressed and what they think about Petersburg stores. This week we photographed Maria Troitskaya near the Mikhailovsky castle.

The CorreSpondents, Apparat, Blix Bargeld and Scooter, closing the Best of Russia 2012 exhibition and the start of new exhibitions at the Fashion and Style in Photography festival among the next weekend.

It will become the Evernote killer, experts are sure Google has officially launched its note storage service Keep . For the first time, information that the company was creating it appeared on March 17; access to it was accidentally opened by the developers. The developers quickly discovered the error and sent the service offline. Only today did the official presentation of Keep take place. It allows you to store notes and make lists with the ability to cross off items.

Digest of city events for the weekend: the distribution of stray animals, eco-days, the evening of Israeli cuisine and several more events from the calendar of The Village. concert The musician of the Blaxes is known as the leader of the German industrial group with the 30-year history of Einsturzende Neubauten, the comrade-in-arms of Nick Kave and the voice of the mummy in the same Hollywood blockbuster.

The Village chose Moscow stores of men's clothing and accessories with a pronounced atmosphere and learned from the founders the details of their creation. Shops with women's clothing were always and everywhere, and with men's fashion until recently, difficulties arose in the city. But there is demand, and there are more and more shops for men.