Transportation
Last Friday, the Rudin Center at NYU hosted a conference on Transit Oriented Development (TOD). Over the course of a few posts, I’d like to offer a summary of some of the best ideas that were thrown around the room that day. Here’s what keynote speaker Doug Foy—an environmental activist and former head of the [...]
My friend Kirbie recently discovered that the corner of Easy Street and Poverty Lane is in Salem, South Carolina. Really.
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While I wanted to credit the optimism of whoever named the roads (Poverty Lane is a deadend, Easy Street links two major roads), I just realized that Easy Street is the only way to [...]
Jan Chipchase discusses single-occupancy vehicles in two (increasingly convergent?) contexts. In Los Angeles, single-occupancy is the norm; you won’t get any weird looks from fellow commuters. In Kabul, Afghanistan—where the occasional suicide bomber prefers to drive alone—security-minded drivers are more likely to give you both weirder looks and a wider berth.
Amsterdam startup CityCargo has developed a freight tram system that distributes goods throughout the city on the existing light rail infrastructure.
Specially designed trams move freight from outlying distribution centers to hub stations in the central city. The freight is then offloaded from the trams onto electric trucks, which complete the delivery.
The entire system is designed [...]
CNN recently interviewed Jamie Lerner, the former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil. Because it’s a one-page interview, it lacks depth. Still, it does a decent job of introducing to CNN readers Lerner’s fresh ideas for changing communities.
Everything (in Curitiba) started with the children. We started to teach the children in every school over six months, how [...]
It seems that common sense solutions are usually completely ignored by governments in Latin American cities, and it is refreshing to see that this isn´t the case with Medellín. The government is rebuilding its city for the inhabitants: they have discovered that when people have public spaces they can enjoy and where they can relax, [...]
The Movement Design Bureau’s blog recently introduced me to the Easy Glider:
It’s basically a scooter-segway-bike-hybrid sort of thing, with an electric powered front wheel, and a long handle which has a motorbike-like control for acceleration and braking. You can either hold onto the device and let it ‘tow’ you along on your roller-blades or skateboard, [...]
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