Posts Tagged ‘China’
China’s idea of the future
China is dreaming up some pretty radically innovative ideas for the future of it’s cities. The latest idea is this “bridge bus,” which I’m not even sure exactly how to describe. Here’s an attempt: Basically you take a bus and make it 15′ high or so – just a hair shorter than whatever the standard [...]
De Lange Conferece: Day Three
Highlights again from a fine set of presentations, and we’ll dig into some of the meat of this in the upcoming days. We started the morning off with a really mind-blowing presentation by William Mitchell from the MIT Smart Cities Research Group. Mitchell highlighted some of the work of his group, including what they call [...]
Food for thought, September 25
First, this was great: “My Car is More Important Than My Body” for a LOT of people, their cars are their livelihoods. It gets them to work, to school, to the store, and it hauls around other people and things. It get them from point A, to point B and C and D and back [...]
Falling behind
Great column on energy efficiency in other parts of the world today, courtesy Thomas Friedman. Here is the key quote: Unlike America, Denmark, which was so badly hammered by the 1973 Arab oil embargo that it banned all Sunday driving for a while, responded to that crisis in such a sustained, focused and systematic way [...]