Archive for March, 2008
Floating semi-cities?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008The Creativity Exchange ran a post this week about The Freedom Ship - a floating city complete with airport, university, office space, and residences priced from $180,000 to $44 million. The Freedom Ship is supposed to circumnavigate the globe every 12 months, which seems a little challenging — those Atlantic and Pacific storms might be […]
License to car pool
Monday, March 24th, 2008A couple weeks back Planetizen ran a short piece on how the small town of Qualicum Beach, BC is considering a mass carpooling system after losing their limited transit system.
The longer newspaper article mentioned that the idea came from The Good Samaritan Ride Program in Washington DC (which I couldn’t find via google, I’m wondering […]
Cool site - old video footage of cities
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008When you have some time to watch old videos of cities, check out:
http://old-cities.blogspot.com/
It contains links to historic video footage on Youtube of large and small cities from around the world. You can see a travel video from 1936 on Rio de Janeiro or some historic postcards of Culiacan Mexico set to music or how about […]
Creativity, anarchy and civilization
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008From Journalist Frances Bula’s City States Blog:
My son, who does visuals for DJs … sent me an email from Austin today. He’s of course at the South by Southwest music festival … It seems he also has something to say about city policy.
“we went to a show last night that started at 3am […]
Interconnecting international cities by rail
Monday, March 10th, 2008Travel between regional urban centres has become more challenging in recent years. Barriers include high gasoline prices and road congestion, reduced rail options and increasingly cumbersome air travel due to deathly slow security procedures. These transportation barriers may need a re-think by governments at different levels in the near future. Some background:
Ryan Avent and Richard […]
Clusters and (health) company towns
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 In the 19th and early 20th century many towns and small cities were dominated by one industry or even one company - the factory town. For example: Flint, MI and General Motors or Dearborn, MI and Ford.
Now, in the early 21st century some new company towns are emerging in the US — […]