Safety

BBC: a Mexico City retirement home for the city’s retired prostitutes

In Innovation, Livability, Mexico City, Safety on 20 October 2007 with no comments

The BBC recently profiled a Mexico City retirement home for the city’s prostitutes:
Until now…the sex industry had a forgotten demographic: elderly, former practitioners, discarded by the cruel forces of a market that penalises the imperfections of old age.
But after a life of violence, discrimination and exploitation, these women have at last found people who are [...]

Countdown signals work

In Design, Innovation, Safety, Toronto, Transportation on 18 October 2007 with no comments

Newly installed countdown pedestrian signals have been given much of the credit for saving the lives of Toronto pedestrians this year. Stamping out the unnecessarily ambiguous is not only good design, it’s good urban policy.