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Urban Planet: 100% recycled bike
Desiging the world’s first 100% recycled bicycle wasn’t easy, but company The ReCycle was able to overcome major challenges to present the...
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Urban Planet: The agricultural cliff
While the fiscal cliff is dominating news in the States, there is a growing concern about the agricultural cliff. Farmers are growing older, and few are...
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Urban Planet: Nests made of cigarette butts
. Birds are using cigarette butts in their nests, but this might not be a bad thing. Some say that the nicotine acts as a toxin to keep parasites at bay...
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Urban Planet: Cloud architecture hits Seoul Korea
Known as The Cloud, these two hi-rise residential buildings are joined in the middle by a ten stories of apartments and spanning living areas. Designed by...
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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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Imagine Bloomfield Statement on HRM Staff Report and Recommendation for Bloomfield Redevelopment
Editor’s Note: Imagine Bloomfield’s Statement on HRM Staff Report and Recommendation for Bloomfield Redevelopment is cross-posted below in its...
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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...
By Jonathan Zettel
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered