A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not) Happy Valentine’s Day!: Transit geek and single?: Kærlighedssæder (Danish love seat) Best dating site for single middle-aged transit riders: Charlottetown transit Need help bagging that commuting cutie of yours?: Tips Submitting a love story on Calgary Transit: Free monthly transit...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not) Happy Chinese New Year Edition!: Year on Chinese calendar: 4708 2011: Year of the rabbit Annual ritual before Chinese New Year: Chun Yun Chun Yun: Family reuniting for celebrations Largest human migration in the world: Chun yun Number of people...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not) Happy Australia Day Edition: Australia’s unofficial national anthem: Waltzing Matilda % of Australians living in urban centers: 70 Size: 7.6 million square km Density: 3 persons per square km Human population: 22.5 million Cattle population: 23.3 million Sheep population: 79...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not) Urban Sanitation Edition: World population: 7 billion Number of people worldwide defecating in public : 1.1 billion World population lacking access to basic sanitation: 2.6 billion Average toilet usage per day per person: 6 times Time spent on the toilet...
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...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): Jane Jacobs: Eyes on the Streets Eyes on the Streets in action: New York flat Next gen power outlets: USB’ed Baddest bus liner: Futureliner Ugliest bus liner: MTCO-800 Carriages: Horse-powered Bangladeshi rickshaws: Human-powered Weight-loss bus: Exercise-powered Current trailer park home:...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): HOLIDAY EDITION First country to celebrate the new year: Kiribati First major city: Auckland, New Zealand Last: Pago Pago, Samoa First year Christmas legalized as a holiday: 1870 Number of finalists for NY’s taxi contest: 3 New York subway poetry:...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): Creative class: Innovation adverse Future cities: Inclusion 25th anniversary: Vancouver Skytrain Initial design capacity: 100,000 passengers Passengers per day in 1985: 60,000 2010: 240,000 Cost: $38 million/km CDN Cost of Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong subway line: $280 million/km USD Cost...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): No pant’s day: Underwear everywhere Pantless subway ride: 44 cities Participants: 5000 Pantless subway ride: New York style Next event: Sunday, January 9, 2011 Telstar Logistics: Free illegal loading zone parking Parking pet peeve: Empty shopping carts in parking spots...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): World’s first highway integrated building: Japan’s Gate Tower Building Toyota’s Segway: Winglet Max speed: 6km/h Max speed of world’s first electric motorcycle, Enertia: 72km/h Range: 72km Range of hydrogen fuel bus: 400km Cost: $2 million Time to charge: 6 minutes...