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02/11/2023

Kigali does it again! Jogging lanes alongside sub-urban roads in recognition that exercise for health has become an integral part of life. Now this is an excellent use of taxes.

12/08/2023

30 people getting a coffee 🇺🇸
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30 people getting a coffee 🇫🇷

04/08/2023

Do you know that Barcelona's city planning was designed and built in 1859 by urban planner & engineer, Ildefons Cerdà in a perfect grid🤩. It facilitates air flow throughout the streets, while maximizes sunshine and daylight entering shops and apartments on the lower floors.🥳😍

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26/07/2023

Baker Street Station then and now 🕰️

The world's first underground station is widely regarded to be London's "Baker Street Station," which was opened on January 10, 1863, as part of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway.
Here are some quirky historical facts about Baker Street Station:

1️⃣Reused Tunnels: The construction of Baker Street Station made use of existing tunnels that were originally intended for a different purpose – a never-completed railway project called the "Metropolitan Inner Circle." The station was built inside one of these abandoned tunnels.
2️⃣Steam Power: The trains that initially ran through Baker Street Station were powered by steam engines. This led to some rather quirky scenarios, such as the station's platforms becoming quite smoky and soot-covered due to the steam locomotives.
3️⃣Unusual Entrance Building: The original entrance building of Baker Street Station had a unique design. It was a beautiful, cast-iron structure with an elaborate arch, designed by architect John Fowler. However, it was later replaced in 1905 with a more conventional building due to concerns about congestion.
4️⃣Sherlock Holmes Connection: Baker Street Station is located on Baker Street, which is famous for being the fictional residence of the renowned detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As a nod to this literary connection, the station features several Sherlock Holmes-related decorations and references.
5️⃣First Escalator: While not originally part of the station, the nearby station at King's Cross on the Piccadilly Line became home to the world's first-ever escalator in 1911. It was a technological marvel and a novelty at the time, though it wasn't until the 1920s that Baker Street Station itself got its first escalator.
Lost River: During construction, workers discovered a submerged river, the River Tyburn, beneath Baker Street. It was diverted and used as part of the sewer system. Today, the river still flows under the station but hidden from public view.
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02/06/2023

Before New Yorkers had air conditioning, “city in summer floated in a daze that moved otherwise sensible people to repeat endlessly the brainless greeting ‘Hot enough for ya? Ha-ha!’ ” Arthur Miller wrote, in 1998. During a particularly hot September in the late 1920s, “every window in New York was open, and on the streets venders manning little carts chopped ice and sprinkled colored sugar over mounds of it for a couple of pennies,” Miller remembers. Revisit his reflection on sweaty New York summers and his first “direct contact” with an air-conditioner, in the 1960s: http://nyer.cm/JT1gU80

02/03/2023

Street Live

Car-free shopping streets swept many U.S. cities in the 1960s and ’70s, but few examples survived. Those that did could be models for today’s “open streets.”

12/02/2023

Urban designers before AutoCAD

See more: themindcircle.com/before-autocad

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04/08/2022

The relief of shade......

Photo Big Tree Seekers

03/08/2022

“Friendshoring” is the new trend as geopolitics bites.

21/07/2022

https://historycollection.com/10-african-dictators-ruined-countries/

WWII broke the back of the European Empires, and the dominos began to fall across the imperial spectrum in 1947, soon after India achieved its independence. The Suez Crisis of 1956 tended to confirm the new status of Britain and France in a post-War world, and shock of it gave the rapidly proliferat...

03/07/2022

London, Paris and Berlin all have integrated regional rail systems that serve the entire metro area. One transit advocacy group asks: Why not New York City?

24/06/2022

London, Paris and Berlin all have integrated regional rail systems that serve the entire metro area. One transit advocacy group asks: Why not New York City?

01/04/2022

Why Japanese Homes Are Better Than Ours

13/03/2022

https://fb.watch/bJDvvFXN_D/

13/02/2022

https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/kagame-unveils-multi-billion-eco-friendly-housing-project

News Kagame unveils multi-billion eco-friendly housing project By Alice Kagina & Edwin Ashimwe Published : February 12, 2022 | Updated : February 12, 2022 Twitter Facebook Email Whatsapp linkedin More Share this article Twitter Facebook Email Whatsapp linkedin All Photos by Mugwiza Olivier Twitter F...

01/11/2021

31/10/2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/22/these-chicago-residents-are-trying-revitalize-their-neighborhood-without-gentrification/

For decades, governments have favored rental housing for low-income Americans. North Lawndale is a test case of whether homeownership is a better bet.

30/08/2021

https://www.itdp.org/2019/10/01/pedestrian-bridges-make-cities-less-walkable-why-do-cities-keep-building-them/

Pedestrian bridges do not encourage walkable, livable communities, nor do they improve road safety for drivers or cyclists. Separating people from the street reinforces the prioritization of personal motor vehicles, while encouraging speeding, driver negligence, and traffic fatalities.

26/06/2021

Frost & Sullivan suggests the value your company can derive by embedding analytics in your day-to-day workflows and products.

27/05/2021

"There is little in the architecture of a city more beautifully designed than a three." Jaime Lerner; RIP

23/01/2021

Poor thinking yet rich reasoning gets us going nowhere 'fast'