Apr 08
Navigating the streets of country’s biggest city makes for countless shared experiences. One such phenomenon is the well-known site of a corner-store umbrella lying disfigured during a rainstorm.
Mar 19
Want a scooter that gives you storage space and an eco-friendly ride? Try the FEDDZ scooter. It was designed and built by Germany’s Emo-Bike and has an interesting design. It uses an electric motor built into the wheel hub, which leaves that hole in motorbike’s frame free to store your stuff.
Now you can ride a scooter and bring your groceries home. No need to have a basket on the handlebars anymore. You get 23 liters of storage in all. This scooter comes in two versions with 48-volt lithium-ion batteries. The larger option delivers up to a 68-mile range on a seven hour charge, with a top speed of about 28 mph.
You’ll pay for that storage though. Prices start at just under $8,400(USD). For that price just get a decent used car with a trunk.
Sep 01
It seems like it’s always hot here in NYC, but it’s not only when the oppressive sun is beating down. No, the buildings like to help spread the love around by hoarding the heat and dishing it out themselves. This is what it looks like.
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Apr 01
How to Grow a Chicken from Scratch
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So you’ve decided to take the plunge and start raising a brood of urban chicken. Play this right and you’ll have a nearly inexhaustible supply of fresh eggs. But first, you’ll need to manufacture a hen or two of your own. Here’s how to get a chicken from an egg—without sitting on it for three weeks. More »
Mar 04
Toyota i-Road EV concept leans like a motorcycle, won’t soak you or your wallet
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Automakers love to trot out urban-only EV cars, if sometimes only in their dreams, but there’s invariably gotchas: think disproportionately large turning circles and a lack of basic protection from the elements. Toyota’s new i-Road concept may not be destined for production, but it at least pays more than lip service to real life. The two-seat, three-wheel prototype turns with a motorcycle-style lean, cutting its turn radius to a very city-friendly 9.8 feet. It also has a fully sealed cabin, which allows for such radical features as heating and speakers. We don’t see many Model S owners having second thoughts when the i-Road runs out of energy in just 31 miles, but that’s not the point. It’s more of an alternative to bikes, compact EVs and scooters that doesn’t demand frequent fuel pump visits… or a good raincoat.
Filed under: Transportation
Via: Car
Source: Toyota (translated)
Nov 18
Nobody wants to be called a man-eater. People have been singing about them for years but it’s hardly a compliment to be called one. But a man-eater is what you have to become if you want to top the high-score charts in this urban game aptly called Man-Eater.
Daniel Disselkoen played with the man-eater concept and came up with the game for his graduation project at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
To play, the people in the tram simply have to close one eye and adjust their position relative to that of the man-eater that’s stuck onto the window of the tram. As the vehicle moves, they must then try to ‘eat’ as many pedestrian heads as they can.
Daniel explains the reasoning behind the game: “Why would you look out the window with curiosity when there is no reason to expect anything new?”
Man-Eater is pretty simple but I think it can make people want to look out the window more.
[via Pop Up City]
Aug 18
Games are meant to take your mind off reality. People play games to distract themselves from the million and one problems they’re currently having at work or in their business. However, the Urban Renewal board game probably won’t be much of a game for you if you work as a city councilor or developer. That’s because the game is all about challenging and sometimes exciting world of urban renewal.
While it doesn’t sound like as much fun as SimCity, visual artist Flavio Trevisan’s game allows players to “do all the things that are done in a modern city’s cut-throat planning office.”
The game requires each player to take on a certain role, ranging from city councilors and the man on the street (aka the bystander) to the developer and the skyscraper enthusiast. Players can choose to demolish the failed urban experiments in their block in order to rebuild it to become the ideal city.
However, this is one game that will never end. According to Trevisan: “Continue playing until all players have left the game in pursuit of other interests.”
The Game of Urban Renewal was one of the pieces exhibited at this year’s Museum of the Represented City, which is an exhibition of Trevisan’s work. The cool thing is that the ‘Special Regent Park Edition’ of the game is available for purchase at the exhibit’s gift shop.
[via Pop Up City]
Jul 26
Urban Hacktivists Turn Toronto’s Info Pillars into Modern Art with a Message
Posted in: Today's ChiliYou’ll find over 35 different billboards in the streets of Toronto which are ironically called ‘Info Pillars’, considering the fact that they’re used to display ads and not information. So what’s an urban hacktivist to do, when the redesign of these Info Pillars have replaced bike parking and caused the cutting down of trees by the sidewalks? Occupy the pillars, that’s what!
Members of the cARTographyTO creative team took down the ads that previously occupied these Info Pillars and instead replaced them with art installations, some containing actual bikes and art maps.
The more entertaining ones include interactive chalkboards where passersby can write down their own thoughts, opinions, or messages to the rest of Toronto. Through their efforts, cARTographyTO has managed to raise public awareness regarding the issue, encouraging the city to use them for disseminating information, as their name asserts.
[via Pop Up City]
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