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The Best “Digital City” in America is….
The Best “Digital City” in America is….
No, despite being the Babylon of the post-information society, San Francisco is not the top digital city in America, according to a study that is subjective in nature but telling nevertheless. Chic…
·om.co·
The Best “Digital City” in America is….
Googie: Architecture of the Space Age
Googie: Architecture of the Space Age
The futurist design movement that divided critics and and swept the nation with space age coffee shops
·smithsonianmag.com·
Googie: Architecture of the Space Age
Another Retrofittable Electric-Powered Wheelbarrow Wheel - Core77
Another Retrofittable Electric-Powered Wheelbarrow Wheel - Core77
I've drooled over Makita's battery-powered wheelbarrows, which would make yardwork and homesteading far easier. But they run about $5,000, and they're Japanese-market only. Another Japanese company, CuboRex, designed this E-Cat. It's a retrofittable electric wheel that can be added to any wheelbarrow. However, it costs $1,261.
·core77.com·
Another Retrofittable Electric-Powered Wheelbarrow Wheel - Core77
Tax increment financing - Wikipedia
Tax increment financing - Wikipedia
Tax increment financing (TIF) is a public financing method that is used as a subsidy for redevelopment, infrastructure, and other community-improvement projects in many countries, including the United States. The original intent of a TIF program is to stimulate private investment in a blighted area that has been designated to be in need of economic revitalization. Similar or related value capture strategies are used around the world.
·en.wikipedia.org·
Tax increment financing - Wikipedia
Builders Continue Pivot to Housing in Downtown Bellevue - The Urbanist
Builders Continue Pivot to Housing in Downtown Bellevue - The Urbanist
# In shift away from office and toward housing growth, Downtown Bellevue's development pipeline has seen nearly 4,000 additional homes proposed and more than two million square feet of office space abandoned in just the last couple of years. Once built, the pipeline of 14,000 homes would more than double the population of downtown.
·theurbanist.org·
Builders Continue Pivot to Housing in Downtown Bellevue - The Urbanist
The “World City” at Work: How Street Vendors Transformed Global L.A
The “World City” at Work: How Street Vendors Transformed Global L.A
By David Helps Jorge Cruz Cortes was still a teenager when the Los Angeles Police Department arrested him for selling household goods without a license in 1989. The eighteen-year-old from Oaxaca, M…
·themetropole.blog·
The “World City” at Work: How Street Vendors Transformed Global L.A
Op-Ed: Neighbors Feel Loss of Deleted Route 20 Bus - The Urbanist
Op-Ed: Neighbors Feel Loss of Deleted Route 20 Bus - The Urbanist
# King County Metro deleted the Route 20 bus in September without full replacement service. Residents along the route are mourning the loss and asking for more service.
·theurbanist.org·
Op-Ed: Neighbors Feel Loss of Deleted Route 20 Bus - The Urbanist
Chicago Americans: The City of the Second Generation
Chicago Americans: The City of the Second Generation
Editor’s note: This is the second post in our theme for November, The Latinx City. By Andres Villatoro A friend from graduate school recently visited Chicago for the first time ever to presen…
·themetropole.blog·
Chicago Americans: The City of the Second Generation
Hong Kong Tramways - Wikipedia
Hong Kong Tramways - Wikipedia
Hong Kong Tramways (HKT) is a 3 ft 6 in narrow-gauge tram system in Hong Kong. Owned and operated by RATP Dev, the tramway runs on Hong Kong Island between Kennedy Town and Shau Kei Wan, with a branch circulating through Happy Valley.
·en.wikipedia.org·
Hong Kong Tramways - Wikipedia
Energy democracy takes off in Greece – DW – 02/19/2024
Energy democracy takes off in Greece – DW – 02/19/2024
With energy prices in Greece among the highest in Europe, Greek citizens are grabbing new opportunities to generate their own energy. But problems such as a lack of grid space persist.
·dw.com·
Energy democracy takes off in Greece – DW – 02/19/2024
For Desalination, Follow The Sun
For Desalination, Follow The Sun
It’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional systems require a steady source of power. Since solar panels don’t al…
·hackaday.com·
For Desalination, Follow The Sun
Rebar and reinforced concrete
Rebar and reinforced concrete
Filling in around the edges of a recent 99% Invisible episode.
·leancrew.com·
Rebar and reinforced concrete