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Please do for us, yourself, or our city a favour and vote for URBAN MOBILITY BERLIN. We took part in the „Urban Mobility Challenge: Berlin 2030“ competition. just takes a few seconds: klick at the link → login to vote → vote: „excellent“ → finished *THANKS* and dont’t forget „verify e-mail address“. Make the city…
On my way home from work I got mesmerized. When I just left Tiergarten towards Brandenburger Tor I saw this amazing Pianoplayer. His name is Davide Martello and his aim is it to play his music in every capital of the world. In this case it caught my special attention since he brought his grand piano along…
Check out Mikael Colville-Andersen’s amazing speach about Urban Cycling to understand the meaning of the headline: Personal Emotional Mobility. Not just that he point’s out how to market urban cycling and elaborates on the true value and meaning of being out in the city flowing around on a bicycle (shoulder to shoulder with your fellow citizens)…
This morning I joined a seminar with Till Nagel. One of his amazing projects was a little gift to his mother, where he mapped his monthly bike ride – visualized a little postcard from the data an sent it back to his mother. Nice! Check out his amazing work on urban data visualizations at tillnagel.com
Cold winter seasons harm serious damage to the streets every year. As the streets age, their conditions get worse rapidly. Deep cracks draw through the pavement, and cause deep wholes. The artists from http://www.mypotholes.com made me grin. With a different point of view, they transform damaged streets into charming, artsy scenes. The city is a playground and…
New touch screen with non “Star Trek effect” Our cars themselves are getting more efficient and better but the touch screens are getting worth because of the huge amount of small buttons. designer Matthaeus Krenn See more details at http://matthaeuskrenn.com/new-car-ui/
Jeff Speck is a city planner and architectural designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he oversaw the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and created the Governors’ Institute on Community Design, a federal program that helps…
The cyclist blows the condor away!
I talked to a bike courier an hour ago and that’s what he told me about electric bicycles… (Berlin) “I mention them much more often and they are damn fast, when I met one at a traffic light I have to struggle to get him, no matter which age ore body fitness… I already thought…
The University of Toronto tries to figure out how far we can go. Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter – AHS Sikorsky Prize Flight Battle Mountain Human-Powered Land Speed Record, 2011 World’s First Human-Powered Ornithopter
Lars Thomsen can “predict” the future. He is one of the futurist and gives a small view into his world. (in German) He shows some comparison to what NOKIA happened, when Apple released the iPhone. Is the auto industry at a similar point? Battery prices will fall, he says, and public charging infrastructure will continue…
An amazing example how these inventive guys use their ressources in a very wise and creative way!
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