“How to Live in a City” - brought to you by the 1960’s
It’s a fun look at city life, public space, and how people interact in a city.
(via humanscalecities)
Video Maps Of The World’s Bike Lanes Let You Preview Your Ride | FastCo.Exist
Another cycling innovation is making its way from the Netherlands to this side of the Atlantic. Cyclodeo is a bike-focused mapping website that pairs videos of bike lanes with Google maps.
above: Eindhoven in southern Netherlands.
(via humanscalecities)
Enough Food For Everyone IF
Oxfam’s latest campaign, If, has launched.
And follow : @EnoughFoodIf
Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam. by Rob Whitworth.
Urban traffic made beautiful. Mesmerizing video
(Source: vimeo.com, via thisbigcity)
Lancaster, CA: EPA’s 2012 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement: Blvd Transformation Project.
“Among the Plan’s key elements are wide, pedestrian-friendly sidewalks, awnings and arcades, outdoor dining, single travel lanes, enhanced crosswalks, abundant street trees and shading, and added lighting, gateways and public art. Lancaster Boulevard has been transformed into an attractive shopping destination, a magnet for pedestrian activity and a venue for civic gatherings.”
How retrofitting a California suburb for walkability is spurring economic development.
read more: nrdc switchboard, 04.01.13.
Who else benefits from the Dutch cycling infrastructure?
via copenhagenize.
nice direct cycle paths for wheelchair/handbike/adaptive bike users instead of being forced on sidewalks with badly placed utility boxes and dangerous ups-and-downs of ada curbs (or worse, lack of them).
One day of activity for San Francisco transit.
(but excludes AC Transit, SamTrans and Golden Gate Transit’s Marin-bound buses.)
via huffpo, 28.11.12.
Sleepless ‘til Seattle cinematic trailer
a new film from a Scottish duo documents their cross-country bike tour.
via seattlebikeblog.
it would be such an experience to bike cross-country.. maybe next summer?
(Source: youtu.be, via carl-vs-karl)
ATHENS: FAST FRIDAY
For the fourth issue of Boat Magazine the team spent two weeks in Athens. Film-maker Sam Rowland tells the story of the resurgence of cycling in the city. Meeting an art director who learned to ride at 30, and cycling with fixed-gear club Fast Fridays on one of their weekly night rides across Athens.
yeah yeah, you guys are just gonna call ‘em Greek hipsters.
(Source: vimeo.com, via carl-vs-karl)
