7 Cities That Are Starting To Go Car-Free. After over a hundred years of living with cars, some cities are slowly starting to realize that the automobile doesn’t make a lot of sense in the urban context.
It isn’t just the smog or the traffic deaths; in a city, cars aren’t even a convenient way to get around. Traffic in London today moves slower than an average cyclist (or a horse-drawn carriage). Commuters in L.A. spend 90 hours a year stuck in traffic. A U.K. study found that drivers spend 106 days of their lives looking for parking spots. Now a growing number of cities are getting rid of cars in certain neighborhoods through fines, better design, new apps, and, in the case of Milan, even paying commuters to leave their car parked at home and take the train instead.
Unsurprisingly, the changes are happening fastest in European capitals that were designed hundreds or thousands of years before cars were ever built. Here are a handful of the leaders moving toward car-free neighborhoods. Madrid Paris Chengdu Hamburg. This Restaurant in Japan Gives Solo Diners Stuffed Animals for Company. Personne ne bouge ! (Arte) : une manière décalée de traiter les 25 ans de la chute du Mur de Berlin.
Bicycle Lanes for Multitudes. Ursula Bach/City of Copenhagen An angled trash can on a stretch of the Copenhagen Cycle Super Highway is for those in a hurry.
Best of all, you can cycle on those routes for long distances without having to make way for cars and trucks at junctions and traffic lights, according to the official description of the Cycle Super Highways, which are under construction here as part of the Danish capital’s efforts to become carbon-neutral by 2025. Are they as good as they sound? These days it is hard to find a big city that doesn’t make grandiose claims to encourage cycling, and harder still to find one that fulfills them. Redesigning congested traffic systems to add bike lanes to overcrowded roads is fiendishly difficult, especially in historic cities with narrow cobbled streets like Copenhagen.
Luckily for Copenhagen’s cyclists, their system has been more thoughtfully designed. What are the Super Highways like? Scientific Evidence That Biking Makes Us Happy. I ride my bike for exercise.
I ride my bike for transportation (even throughout an icy Minnesota winter). I ride my bike because it’s better for the environment and better for my community than climbing behind the steering wheel every time I need more bread or wine or toilet paper. But the biggest reason I ride my bike-- in all weather day and night-- is because it makes me happy. It’s meditation, therapy and pure hedonistic pleasure all rolled into one. Rarely do I wheel my beat-up old Trek back into the garage without a smile on my face. I used to think this was just one of my own quirks, but new evidence keeps pouring in that bicycling boosts creativity, health and general well-beingifor many people. Goats Rented to Eat Weeds in Cities.
Paris : la ville met fin aux cadenas d’amour ! - 19/09/2014. DETROIT, JE T'AIME by Nora Mandray & Hélène Bienvenu. Welcome to Detroit je t'aime's Kickstarter campaign!
We’re a duo of French filmmakers and journalists, Nora Mandray & Hélène Bienvenu. We’re producing an interactive documentary about Detroit’s DIY spirit, and we need YOUR help to finish filming this Summer and bring Detroit je t'aime to the world this Winter. POUR ACCÉDER À LA VERSION FRANÇAISE DE NOTRE KICKSTARTER, CLIQUEZ ICI. Attention: il vous faudra revenir sur cette page si vous souhaitez contribuer. We've been featured in a couple of articles since we launched our campaign. . * DETROIT JE T’AIME will be broadcasted on a website made up of a series of web pages or “screens.
. ” * When you decide you're finished with a page, you'll click on the next one. . * At anytime, a “DIY toolbox” will be available in the corner of the screen. . * You'll be able to share ideas from the film with your friends across social networks. 1. 2. 3. . * We're all Detroiters: coming from the 20th century, we’ve inherited Henry Ford’s idea of industrial work. SMS walls, des murs d'expression publique. Berlin in den 90ern. New York City To Put QR Codes On All Building Permits By 2013. New York City’s Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg today announced the use of Quick Response or QR codes (which are something like a smartphone-readable barcode) on building permits, to provide New Yorkers with easy access to information related to buildings and construction sites throughout the city. Smartphone users who scan a QR code on a construction permit in New York, according to a press release from the mayor’s office, will get “details about the ongoing project – including the approved scope of work, identities of the property owner and job applicant, other approved projects associated with the permit, [and] complaints and violations related to the location.” Street Art et démêlées : le cas Banksy. Légalité, propriété, pérennité, authentification : en matière de Street Art, ce ne sont pas les questions épineuses qui manquent.
Chaque semaine voit son lot de débats, de querelles, voire de procès.