thegreenurbanist:

“Designing the bicycle cars was a challenge.  For the first few years cyclists and passengers had to struggle for the same tight space in front of the doors. Now there are dedicated cycle cars with flexible parking areas.”

-copenhagencyclechic.com

thegreenurbanist:

Bike Score arrives, analyzing the most bike-friendly cities

plantedcity:

Here’s a shot of the NEU Community Garden taken from the south end of the Cambie Bridge on my walk home the other day.

The 46 plot garden gets its name from the Neighbourhood Energy Untility powering the former Olympic Village site/ Southeast False Creek mixed-use community located nearby. Vancouver now 74 community gardens with approximately 3260 garden plots citywide. Details here. 

I’ve got more photos here if you’re interested.

urbanitis:

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TWEETED (AND CROSS-POSTED)

The Center for An Urban Future has confirmed what many of all already knew:

There are a lot of tech startups in the Flatiron District

So lets hear it for NYC taking its place at the table of technology innovation. However, we’d love to see how that sort of activity is really influencing the economy. Also, we’d like to know how the economy is valuing that type of innovation.

Take for example, the recent acquisition of Instagram (a company of 12 employees) by Facebook for 1 BILLION DOLLARS (reference: Dr. Evil). We’re happy that these people have allowed us to tweet a sepia toned picture of the last hamburger we had at shakeshack. Maybe some of that creative and tech-minded energy could be better put to use trying to solve the great problems of the day?

We don’t need any more apps that cross-post and multi-tweet the latest coffee shop you walked into. Really, we don’t.

Also, since we’re all about innovation here at Urbanitis, we are also going to take this opportunity to coin a new term: SoMe. Its just so hard to type Social Media all the time. Do you think we can get a cool Billion for coining the term SoMe? I mean isn’t SoMe what social Media is all about?

CAN WE GET AN INTERNET MEME OVER HERE?

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