Following the same route that Abraham Lincoln rode 150 years ago, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden made their way to the inauguration on a whistle stop train tour that wove its way from Philadelphia through Delaware and Maryland on its way to Washington. “To the [...]
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the whistle stop train tour
Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, tagged obama, trains, USA on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Obama promotes urban life
Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.4 - cars, A - News, tagged downtown, news, obama, politics, suburbia, USA on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“…All of our politics was built around the idea that there are cities, and there are suburbs, and the suburban people don’t like the city people, and the city people don’t like the suburban people, and usually the suburban people are republicans, and the city people are democrats…our politics was built around that idea. Except [...]
Small towns and smart growth
Posted in 1 - spaces, B - Trends, tagged smart growth, sprawl, trends, USA on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(image: a small town in Paris’s suburbs, via Microsoft Virtual Earth) Till now, it seemed that small towns were doomed to be the victims of urban sprawl: the only future waiting for them was made of single-family houses, shopping malls, office parks and highways. Even when bigger towns started to develop their downtown, smaller cities [...]
inflatable street art
Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, B - Trends, tagged art, metro, New York, trends, USA on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After having become famous for blowing up Marilyn Monroe skirt, subway air grates come again, this time to give birth to Joshua allen Harris’s works of art. in normal conditions, Harris’s artworks seems to be just garbage left on the road, but when a subway train pass under the grate, air blows up and turns [...]
New York Times forgets bike parking
Posted in 2 - transports, 2.2 - cycling, A - News, tagged bikes, New York, news, parking, USA on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Riding a bike is a pleasant, cheap and environmentally friendly way to move around the city, but has its own things to worry about. One of the main issues is parking your bike in a safe way. A good solution would be providing indoor (and controlled) bike parking, an option that architects and developper often [...]
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