http://www.646industries.com/beyond/ Copyright 2007 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:00:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss In Sydney, Australia multiple groups of commuter bicyclists have gotten organized and adopted routes with scheduled stops calling themselves a "bike bus". The brilliance is the purposeful combination of the age-old tactic of safety in numbers, social interaction, and... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2007/10/get_on_the_bike.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2007/10/get_on_the_bike.html Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:00:39 -0800 Pabst Farms is NOT brilliant. It's yet another exurban zone of tacky strip malls and low-grade McMansions. Well, is has a few minor merits - a bit more greenspace than average, for example. But basically it's another tragic waste of... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2007/02/mainstream_reco.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2007/02/mainstream_reco.html Environment Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:30:24 -0800 Take a look at this. I don't know anything about Tulsa, but this is one of the most well thought out urban renewal ideas I've seen in a while and to see it coming out of the bible belt is... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/10/the_tulsa_chann.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/10/the_tulsa_chann.html Urban Planning Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:01:37 -0800 There's little I can say about this other than it's awesome. A welcome maship from google.... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/09/google_transit.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/09/google_transit.html Transit Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:12:19 -0800 Rubber Sidewalks seem to be taking off. The city of Boston may start requiring them - article here. That's a pretty bold step for something relatively unproven, but will be very useful for other cities to watch and represents the... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/09/boston_sidewalk.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/09/boston_sidewalk.html Urban Planning Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:24:02 -0800 This article's gotten a lot of play and it sound's like a truly brilliant idea: Make sidewalks out of recycled tires - it's cheap, they apparantly last longer, they are easier on the feet, they don't have freeze/thaw issues in... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/07/rubber_sidewalk.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/07/rubber_sidewalk.html Urban Planning Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:41:55 -0800 One of my biggest complaints about my alma matter, Washington University in St. Louis, was the severe lack of interaction between the students and the city of St. Louis, which was always just a stone's throw away. St. Louis is... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/07/washington_univ.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/07/washington_univ.html Transit Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:16:05 -0800 LA County has placed solar panels on two key bus depots in the San Fernando valley. The panels should save the system $185k a year in electricity costs. Plus, it's a cool public display of solar potential. For a bigger... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/07/la_country_metr.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/07/la_country_metr.html Environment Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:11:35 -0800 The Milwaukee Connector is a project to build a decent - Caen style transit system in Milwaukee. It looks like a darn good idea, and ought to be considered. I worry that this time of transit system won't be a... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/04/milwaukee_conne.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/04/milwaukee_conne.html Transit Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:11:25 -0800 This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen regarding transit. Muni Haikus. A website devited to Haikus about the various bus lines in San Francisco. Some of them are brilliant, some are painful. Kind of like Muni.... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/01/muni_haikus.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2006/01/muni_haikus.html Transit Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:11:28 -0800 This is truly brilliant. A group in San Francisco concerned witht the lack of greenspace in the city recently asked the question: As long as you put money in the meter, who's to say a parking space has to have... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/12/parking_spaces.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/12/parking_spaces.html Cars Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:46:03 -0800 The Government of Canada, in partnership with IBM and UN-HABITAT, have put together a 72-hour online event in preparation for the World Urban Forum, to be held enxt summer in Vancouver. It's called "Habitat Jam" and it'll basically be a,... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/11/habitat_jam_a_c.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/11/habitat_jam_a_c.html Urban Planning Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:35:49 -0800 This website, ipodsubwaymaps.com, is one of the coolest, most useful web technology apps I've ever seen. William Bright has put a tremendous amount of effort into creating astonishingly accurate subway maps that you can download onto your iPod for handy... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/11/ipod_subway_map.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/11/ipod_subway_map.html Geography/Maps Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:54:51 -0800 I have a feeling this is more novelty than preacticalisty, since a cell phone could probably charge itself off a car's idling motor without any added deleterious effects. Nonetheless, here's a taxi with a wind turbine on the roof that... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/10/taxis_with_wind.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/10/taxis_with_wind.html Cars Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:50:50 -0800 San Francisco: On extraordinarily rare occasions the opportunity presents itself to develop a piece of land in ideal, truly brilliant fashion. Treasure Island is a former military facility on landfill in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It's laid largely... http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/06/treasure_island.html http://www.646industries.com/beyond_b/archives/2005/06/treasure_island.html Urban Planning Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:44:12 -0800