Transport

Came across this, Bicycle 'Trees' at bus stops, they fold up for storage etc.

http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/future-city-mobility-bicycle-transportation-via-folding-scooters-electric-buses-and-bike-trees.html

Mitchell Joanchim

In case you haven't come across this crazy architect before.

here is a talk he did for TED

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/mitchell_joachim_don_t_build_your_home_grow_it.html

as well as an article about re-designing cites from scratch

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/16-10/sl_joachim#

enjoy, and discus!

transportation of the future

We can choose to build a city that relies on technologies already in use in small areas across the world. Such as a public bike systems as seen in Paris with the Velib' system, or Barcelona, Lyon and countless other European cities. Or we could do something like what some Asian cities have done with the Oystercard system,  they taken the use of a transportation card such as the oyster card way beyond what we can currently do in London. The card is now used to not only buy metro and bus tickets, but also groceries and other goods. 

So now the question is, instead of re-inventing things that already exist, can't we take ideas that are still at the prototype stage and create a city that could accommodate for them? such as the flying cars that are currently being developed in Israel.

Below are a few ideas that i have found floating around the internet.

http://current.com/groups/on-current-tv/92613645_flying-cars-from-the-future.htm

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=gm-segway-roll-out-an-electric-scoo-2009-04-07

http://www.nextautos.com/etc/tired-of-walking-hit-a-bikedispenser-and-go/

http://www.clicker.com/web/mit-world/The-City-Car-72223/

Farm to Table

For the group investigating urban farming, this is a little something i found that happens today in NYC

http://popupcity.net/2010/10/apartment-building-gets-farm-to-table-food-service/

enjoy

and other links:

http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/vertical_farms_future_urban_food

http://dornob.com/green-in-3d-16-vertical-farm-skyscraper-park-designs/

MIND MAP

CPH BIKE CITY

Click on the images above to enlarge.

TRANSPORT NYC

It's not just Copenhagen that's pushing for bicycles...

MAKING CITIES FOR PEOPLE

CONTRAST

I feel this image is a good representation of the contrast between industry and leisure. What do you think?

Swimming pool designed by Dirk Paschke and Daniel Milohnic.
Zollverein coal mine industrial complex, Essen, Germany.

designline.de

View over San Francisco

Grace Cathedral - San Francisco

An attempt at drawing a Greenspace in S.F. with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge

Urbanism Examples

Hello Everyone,

Here's a few web sites that might be of interest which have some good examples of urbanism included.

Enjoy!

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.buildingfutures.org.uk/

Information is Beautiful

Hi all,

Have a look at this website:

www.informationisbeautiful.net

It might be a good idea to try to represent our information gathered in a similar type of way, using simple diagrams and sketches.

David