It’s summer and I’m catching up on my reading and one of the most intriguing things I’ve read in a long time is a working paper by Kaushik Basu, the Chief Economic Adviser to the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. As everyone knows, India has a severe problem with bribery. Basu’s ingenious...
A quick comparison of existing heights in London and the proposed London Cable Car’s tallest tower. *this is a new (revised) version of a previous image
A quick look at some of the things that makes sizzling summer days in your city intolerable (or not): Percentage of Earth’s surface covered by urban area: 3 First year UHI (Urban Heat Island) effect was discovered: 1810 Number of times concrete can hold more heat than equivalent volume of air: 2000 Percentage of New York’s...
A few highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Cable Propelled Transit: What’s your vision of New York in 2040? This author sees gondolas! Review of the new Rio Cable Car from a layman’s perspective. Hopefully with more Urban Gondola systems around the world, less people will refer to them as “Carny Grade Transit”...
Hello all and welcome to Forum Fridays. As Steven mentioned here, Fridays are now be dedicated to the Gondola Project Forum. For starters I’d like to tell everyone that yes! the Gondola Project has a forum. It’s still fairly new and despite some of the rather lengthy and epic conversations that often appear in the...
Yesterday’s post High Speed Rail in China – Theft or Innovation? (Part 1) looked at ownership of ideas and innovation, specifically in terms of China’s role in the the advancement of HSR technologies. Following that train of thought (couldn’t help myself!) today I’ll look at what this means for the CPT industry, starting the discussion...
As I mentioned last week, I will be taking a ~ 1 month hiatus/vacation from The Gondola Project starting today. In my place will be Nick Chu, Julia Padvoiskis and Ryan O’Connor. Here’s how your weeks will pan out for the next month: MONDAYS. Info-graphic by Julia Padvoiskis. An attempt to resurrect our ill-fated “cablegraph”...
It’s cheap. It’s German. It’s only €50,000. And it’s on eBay.
A quick look at some of the things that make Urban Vertical Farming in your city work (or not): Average distance ingredient in a meal in US is grown away from home: 1500 miles Amount of energy global industrial food system accounts for in worldwide fossil fuel consumption: 21% Number of farmer markets in US...
Reminiscent of recent tourist-based urban gondola systems that seem to be popping up everywhere lately (such as Portugal’s new Teléferico de Gaia), the new Ordu Teleferik in Turkey opened just weeks ago and is decidedly urban – at least for the first half of its length. Take a look: