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Megacities on the move

thescientificmethhead — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:53:58 -0800

Forum for the Future, a UK-based non-profit, has produced a series of short videos depicting possible future scenarios for sustainable urban mobility. Titled "Megacities on the move," the series explores "how we will live and travel in the cities of 2040". The four scenarios are (links to Vimeo): Planned-opolis , Communi-city, Renew-abad, and Sprawl-ville. Bonus: a 54-minute webinar with the Megacities project leader. Forum for the Future previously on the blue.

Seoul tears down an urban freeway and the city can breathe again

aniola — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:55:57 -0800

Seoul tears down an urban freeway and life goes on

The High Cost of Free Parking

parudox — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:36:56 -0800

"Eighty-seven percent of all trips are made by personal vehicle and 99 percent of those trips arrive at a free parking space." But that free parking comes at a high cost according to Donald Shoup's research. He advocates for charging the right price for on-street parking and for removing off-street parking requirements. Shoup's ideas are coming to the streets in San Francisco's new demand-responsive parking system. Loyal Shoupistas work to spread and implement his ideas.

We were promised jetpacks. (Not the band.)

Fizz — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:08:50 -0800

What are the things that will help create more Nimble Cities? (This post is heavy with slate-related links.) Slate asks readers to help make transportation in and between cities more efficient, safe, and pleasant. "While we're certainly not opposed to your most forward-looking proposals: Let's fire up Chicago's once sprawling pneumatic tube network; let's not let those zeppelin masts go to waste!--what we're most interested in are things in the here and now, things that are already making (or will soon be making) a difference in your city." Should cities install moving sidewalks? How about eliminating parking spaces or bicycle highways? Maybe it's free Wi-Fi on interurban buses; maybe it's cycle superhighways; maybe it's a subway display that tells users which cars are most crowded or Seoul's active OLEV (Online Electric Vehicle) project, in which vehicles draw electric power from strips embedded in the road.

But Main Street's still all cracked and broken... Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!

Afroblanco — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:43:02 -0800

Ray Bradbury proposes monorail-bulding in LA.
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ULTRa set for take off in Cardiff!

Why — Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:51:47 -0800

ULTRa set for take off in Cardiff! Urban Light Transport is finally here, and trials are under way in Cardiff, Wales for these four passenger driverless cars. It is estimated that the cost of implementation ($60m) will be 1/3 to 1/2 of that of a comparable light rail system.

Car-free Cities

daveadams — Mon, 29 May 2000 22:01:34 -0800

Car-free Cities
Would you like to live in a city where everything you need is within a five-minute walk? Where you can get from one side of a city of a million people to the other in less than thirty minutes? Where the air is clean, people are healthy, children and the elderly aren't dependent on others to get where they want to go, and life is beautiful? You can have it all--just ban cars.