Rona Gilbertson, who clearly has too much time on her hands, came across this and simply had to pass it along:
Condom Fashion Show in China
Models parade in outfits made of condoms during a fashion show at the 4th China Reproductive Health New Technologies & Products Expo in Beijing July 11, 2007. Condoms of all shapes [...]
From Councillor Peter Ladner’s newsletter:
U-Bike everywhere:
The Lyon/Paris model of thousands of rental bikes placed in electronically-linked racks around the city for registered users has grabbed the imagination of other cities around the world. Cycling trips in Lyon jumped 95% in the two years since it was instituted, all paid for by JCDecaux (an earlier name [...]
Story here.
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PRICE TAGS 96 – B.C. Towns
After a tour by rail and car through southern British Columbia this summer, I realized there are (to generalize) two kinds of towns in B.C. – the stripped or the constrained. You can probably guess which ones I like. But take a tour and see [...]
Michael Kluckner and Christine Allen drive a thousand K from New South Wales to Brisbane along the coast:
It’s not like they remember. Find out here.
A street design that has been used in cities in Europe but never in New York City:
The city is planning to remake seven blocks of Ninth Avenue in Chelsea into what officials are billing enthusiastically, perhaps a bit hyperbolically, as the street of the future.
The most unusual aspect of the design, which will run from [...]
This is really delicious - and it comes from a pretty reliable source:
Regarding the Evergreen Line, a mayor of an eastern municipality is convinced an announcement is coming soon. Perhaps at the UBCM. The mayor also thinks that the Evergreen Line will take the southwest route along Lougheed AND a branch will head off over the Port [...]
According to Leif Toudal Pedersen from the Danish National Space Centre, the ice-covered area (light green in this image) is currently around 3 million sq km, which is about 1 million sq km less than the previous minimum levels recorded in 2005/6. Over the last ten years the sea ice coverage has shrunk by around [...]
… to find out what’s happening in Vancouver.
Here’s a report from one of the coolest named papers in the States:
Four Cleveland designers among the winners in global design competition in Vancouver
Cleveland Plain Dealer architecture critic Steven Litt
Four architectural interns from Cleveland emerged as winners in an international design competition in Vancouver, along with designers from Rome [...]
Got a moment? Check out these portraits of apes by Jill Greenberg in The New Republic:
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