-
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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Image of the Moment: Dismantling the Spiral
Spotted a week ago off the McKenzie King Bridge. Given the new staircase running along the western face of the new Ottawa Conference Centre building, it...
By Dwight Williams -
Urban Planet: Detroit’s 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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
The Reinvention of CFB Rockcliffe: Beginning Again
Building a new neighbourhood from scratch can be the work of at least a decade these days. From the initial proposal to change a property’s zoning...
By Dwight Williams -
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 -
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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
One Day in the Life of OC Transpo
Thanks to fellow contributor David McClelland for finding this particular map-animation linkage…
By Dwight Williams -
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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered