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Urban Planet: Getting to work on a trampoline?
You might forget your battle for bike lanes after you see what Finnish architects are doing. Known as the Fast Track, the 51-metre long trampoline track...
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Urban Planet: City of Light could go dark?
A new proposal would have Parisian businesses turn off all their lights. This would cut energy use across Paris, bringing in a more frugal and greener...
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Urban Planet: Spinning flywheels boost subways
We can only imagine the amount of energy it takes so send subways around the city. Here’s an article that has at least one solution taken from the...
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Urban Planet: Project-a-lane bike lights
BLAZE – Kickstarter Launch Video from BLAZE COMPONENTS on Vimeo. Has your mayor ripped out all your bike lanes? Fear not! Blaze has a solution, or...
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Urban Development: Does Halifax need to grow up?
HALIFAX – It has become painfully obvious to many if not most observers that Halifax has a sprawl problem. The Halifax Regional Municipality covers...
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Urban Planet: Detroit Packard plant
The video tells the story of Detroit’s Packard plant. The hundred-year-old building once produced luxury vehicles, but now it sits crumbling...
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Urban Planet: Mesmerizing visualizations of mass-transit
While you are riding the overcrowded bus to work, it might be impossible to imagine how many other people, on innumerable forms of transit, are scattered...
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Urban Planet: Mother of all traffic jams
Over two feet of snow dumped on Russian, which might have been fine, had some localities not closed exits along the major highway. Prices along the way...
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Urban Planet: Sydney Opera House façade projection
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE | Facade projection from urbanscreen on Vimeo. If you live in Ottawa, or have visited recently, you might be familiar with the...
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THE OLD NORTH END – A visit to Brunswick street in 1966
Hope Cottage, Brunswick street looking South Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from The Old North End, the author’s research project on...
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Urban Planet: Bulgaria’s Klek Shops
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Urban Planet: The Quiet Car
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best