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2It’s interesting to see that in places like Copenhagen, biking is so ubiquitous, people see bikes as a handy tool, like a lawn-mower or a vacuum cleaner, and don’t really identify themselves as bicyclists. In a way, they’ve transcended the cultural question on an individual level, though bicycling is certainly part of the larger identity of the city.
Martha Roskowski on urban cycling culture. (via thisbigcity)
PIctures I might need to license in the future, #3.
This one is part of the work of Jan von Holleben
La illusion de la securité
Selon La Libre Belgique, la voiture volante est “capable de se mouvoir sur route comme dans les airs en toute sécurité”.
Seulement ici, dans la terre, plus d’un million de personnes ont décédé en 2012 suite à accidents routières.
400 PPM: Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Reaches Prehistoric Levels @ Scientific American via tcktcktck
Comment: That cannot be good.
(via futuramb)
Pop stars by bike
The first and most important thing to do is to make sure that your majors are there with their bicycles, that your ministers, that your royalty, that your pop stars, that your sports stars, I mean… that you have a lot of people that the general public identifies with and say, ok, if they can do it, I can do it.
Klaus Bondam, major of Copenhagen between 2006 and 2010, here: http://www.brusselsexpressfilm.be/documentary
We want bicycle paths (back!)
Lots of people used to ride bicycles in Brussels. It is only due to the choice [of] what I call modernism, the wrongful prioritization of vehicular mobility as the ultimate mode of transportation, the investment made in car roads, and the relentless promotion of cars, that people switched to cars. Here in Brussels this coincided with the elimination of many bicycle paths. There were decent bicycle paths on the beltway and boulevards.
Roel de Cleen, from the Federation of Cyclist Brussels, at this wonderful documentary: http://www.brusselsexpressfilm.be/documentary
The future is in need of urbanism
The World Bank estimates that of the expected additional 1.4 billion people to be born in developing regions by 2030, 96% will live in urban areas.
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But the authors warned that the mismanagement of urban areas could result in the expansion of poor and unsafe slums, overwhelming city growth.
A number of cities, such as Nairobi, have seen their outskirts transformed into huge slums as Kenya’s population continues to increase due to high birth rates and migration.
Seen here.
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This is it. This is why and this is how.
Source
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4El tontódromo de Dubai
Hay una plaza en mi pueblo a la que en mis años mozos llamábamos El Tontódromo. Los domingos por la tarde acudían los lugareños a pasear con la novia, a ver y que les vieran, a pasar las horas mir…
What if everyone had a car
BBC documentary
By Thomas Bayrle.
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