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\n\u2022 While functional bike sharing systems are in the works for many cities,\u00a0 project execution can sometimes be a challenge. The New American City<\/a> profiles Social Bicycle System (SoBi), a project founded by former NYC Department of Transportation bicycle planner, Ryan Rzepecki. SoBi uses secure lockboxes that can be added to any bicycle (and secured to any standard lock), along with enabling software which uses GPS and mobile phones. The system, being piloted in New York this fall, promises to reduce the cost of implementing a bike sharing system and creating opportunities for grassroots bike sharing systems to develop.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card. And in St. Paul, Minnesota, you don’t even need the card, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. In a time when library budgets are often the first to be slashed, unmanned robo-libraries are popping up in all sorts of unusual locations (strip malls, parking lots, city hall). For folks looking for out of the way books in New York City, the New York Times<\/a> recommends\u00a0 the Terence Cardinal Cooke-Cathedral branch of the public library system located just outside the turnstile entrance to the No. 6 train on the northwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 50th Street.
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\n\u2022 Urban Ghosts Media<\/a> features a series of 1950s posters found during a recent upgrade to London’s Notting Hill Gate tube station. The preserved posters will be featured in the station post-upgrade.<\/p>\n

\u2022 WorldChanging<\/a> looks at metropolitan agriculture’s reach in Amsterdam, London, Detroit, Flint, Johannesburg, Sao Paolo, and Chennai<\/p>\n

Photo from Urban Ghosts Media<\/a>
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