June 2011
32 posts
SOCIAL BICYCLES on Kickstarter.
2 years later, we have a functioning prototype, apps, beta contracts, and have learned a lot. NOW, we are producing our first fleet with a new design and need your help getting there. Click through to read more! Thank you.
Social Bicycles: Bikeshare Everywhere — Kickstarter)
GT | Newsroom - Obama Taps Georgia Tech President... →
Milton Glaser – on the fear of failure. (by Berghs’ Exhibition ‘11)
Jan Gehl on Good Cities for Bicycling →
irishboyinlondon:
Definitely worth a weekend read! The Danish Cycling Embassy have published “Good Cities for Bicycling” an excerpt from Jan Gehl’s “Cities for People” that deals with creating good cities for cycling! It offers practical advice on what can and needs to be done to make cities fit for cycling!
Improvements to bicycle infrastructure are far cheaper and faster to implement than...
Towards a new economy
Riding through the city this afternoon, I passed a taxi driver in a turban and listened to the street tunes of a Puerto Rican group in Williamsburg, stopped to enjoy music at a Lebonese heritage street festival in Brooklyn Heights, smelled the end-of-day sales of a fish market in Chinatown in Manhattan, and waived to a Hasidic family crossing the street in Bedstuy. Having reached a financial...