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A beautifully illustrated short film based on a New Yorker’s excitement for the city’s new bike share system in a message left on an answering machine.
Copenhagen Redesigns City for Stormwater Management (and then some)
A month before I arrived in Copenhagen in the summer of 2011, I watched news footage of the worst flood the city had seen since at least 1955 (when systematic flood measurements began). It cost the city over $1 billion USD.
The same year, Copenhagen failed to earn the European Green Capital award despite pristine performance across the board of sustainability indicators except one; public green space.
Copenhagen is now rolling out a new plan to address its challenges of both stormwater management and insufficient green space.
Note: Darth Vader on a Segway in the last image. Well played, municipal architects.
夜間走行時、路面の凹凸をエンハンスする格子型ランプ「Lumigrids」
http://www.yankodesign.com/2013/05/21/lumigrids-while-cycling/
that is incredibly smart.
seems pretty cool, though i wonder how effective it would be at higher speeds? i’d hate to just get tunnel vision staring at the grid instead of, you know, looking around me.
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New Zealand, USA, and Finland Top World’s Most Mobile Countries.
Beautiful Bicycle Monday
La Boriosa: Based in Treviso, Italy, Biascagne Cicli makes custom, mostly single-speed and fixed-gear bikes from used and vintage new-on-stock components.
Shape Field Bike: San Francisco–based studio Shape Field Office partnered with Nicholas Riddle, a framebuilder and founder of the Urban Mobility Lab at California College of the Arts, to create this handsome porteur-style conveyance.
Bough Bike: Dutch designer Jan Gunneweg sculpts bespoke wooden bikes from his workshop in Alkmaar. He’s planning to introduce a lower-priced wooden bicycle line.
Thonet Bentwood Concept: Legendary furniture maker Thonet commissioned Andy Martin and his London-based studio to design this limited-edition roadster, marrying the low-tech methods that Michael Thonet used to build his 1830s chairs with 21st-century technology. Martin didn’t rely entirely on traditional steam-bending techniques but employed a CNC machine to cut and join the wood frame, which sits on off-the-shelf carbon wheels. Such craftsmanship doesn’t come cheap; you can get yours for $70,000.
Watch how people move on public transit — brought to you by open data.
(via humanscalecities)
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Beautiful Bicycle Monday
cool thing #1 about Bike to Work Day:
cities try to finish up bike projects by that date.
- real-time bike counter installed on Market St. in SF.
- new Oak St. bike lane, also in SF.
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New York City on Rails
(via citymaus)
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Beautiful Bicycle Monday
RICOR’S WOODEN BIKE
Perfect
Photojournal: Nørrebro, Copenhagen, 28.4.2013
In the simplest sense of the word, a map is a spatial representation of something. But technology up the ante and helps maps become incredibly compelling.
Information is beautiful.
streetscape.
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