Post by nickchu

A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not):

Ultimate pedestrianism: Japanese style

Most expensive city in the world: Tokyo

Rental cost of 2 bedroom apartment: $5000/month

Less expensive alternative: Capsule living

Cost: $30

Size: 200cm

Sorry Yao: 229cm

Birth place: Shanghai

Latest city with capsule living: Shanghai

Skydome construction in 80s: 2 1/2 years in 2 ½ minutes

Vancouver Skytrain construction in 80s: 3 years

Vancouver Skytrain Canada Line: 26 minutes to the airport

Vancouver bus pass collector: This guy

Yarn-bombing: Improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time

Latest victim: Vancouver Skytrain

Coolest roundabout: Magic roundabout, Swindon

Roundabouts: 80% safer than intersections

Fatalities: 90% decrease

Crashes: 35% decrease

Video proof: Erfut, Germany

Contradictory evidence of suggesting intersections are unsafe: If you’re this guy

More trees: More healthy babies

Characteristics of mothers living on leafy treed streets: Young, white, fewer previous births, lives in new home

Estimated pay phone usage in Washington D.C Metro: 1 per day per phone

Pay phones currently available: 1074

Last revenue year: 2007

2010 pay phone revenue: -$500,000

Result: No more pay phone