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Category Archives: Travel
Afghan Cycles
“The bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.” Susan B. Anthony
Check out this great trailer for an upcoming short documentary about Afghanistan’s national women’s cycling team. An inspiring account about breaking down gender and social barriers which hopes to start a global cycling movement.
Cycling Utopia
SkyCycle is Norman Foster’s ingenious vision for a more cycle-friendly, green capital! Images of this futuristic design show plans for weaving pathways hoisted above railways and viaducts. At three stories tall, these pathways will be accessed by ramps, although there still remains some questions to be answered about safety and how wind levels will be controlled at this height A great initiative and certainly line with Boris’ cycling revolution, if plans move ahead, rumours suggest that the first stretch may be built from Stratford to Liverpool Street at a cost of £220 million.
Watch the trailer for the design here.
Enrique Peñalosa: Why buses represent democracy in action
‘ An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport’
Great TED talk from the former mayor of Bogatá on sustainability and mobility in cities.
p.s. See an earlier related post here, and while you’re at it here
is another great post about Peñalosa and cycling politics in cities
Elevating London: the story of the Pedway
Great Film!
The Pedway: Elevating London is a 40-minute documentary by filmmaker Chris Bevan Lee on the post-war redevelopment of the City of London, focusing on the ambitious attempt to build a network of elevated walkways through the city. Packed with newsreel footage, it's a fascinating glimpse back into 1950s and 1960s London and a reminder of the extraordinary scale of devastation wreaked by the Blitz.
The film centres on a blueprint originated in 1947 by architect Charles Holden and planner William Holford whereby new commercial development in the City would incorporate raised walkways and bridges that would elevate pedestrians above the exhaust fumes and danger of the increasing traffic flows on the streets below. By the 1960s the City of London corporation had included the Pedway scheme in its own plans, requiring developers to incorporate Pedway elements in their buildings in order to obtain planning permission.
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David Guttenfelder, on asssignment with National Geographic snaps DPRK on his iPhone. Follow dguttenfelder on Instagram
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COMING SOON: Solar-Powered Air Conditioning on India’s Railways!
photo via therewillbeasia.wordpress
Rarely have I heard a good word about the Indian rail network, but now Indian Railways, a government owned and operated rail network, are attempting to harness the power of the sun and make train travel a more comfortable experience! We’ve already got solar powered train bridges, and even solar powered stations, but if Indian Railways and their partner the Indian Institute of Technology are able to pull this off – it will be a big breakthrough for the Solar industry.
Tell a Story
“ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A SMALL COUNTRY THAT SAILED THE SEVEN SEAS. IN ITS BRAVE MARITIME EXPLORATION. IN ITS CARAVELS, PORTUGAL TOOK CULTURE, AND ITS LANGUAGE AND BROUGHT STORIES. WITH A FEATHER, A FOUNTAIN PEN OR A BALLPOINT, AT A TYPEWRITER OR AT A COMPUTER, PORTUGUESE AUTHORS HAVE CENTURIES OF WRITTEN PAGES THAT WANT TO BE TOLD.”
Tell a Story is a book shop selling translated Portuguese literature, which they call a ‘postcard’ of their culture. Tell a Story believe there’s no better way to remember your adventures than a book.
“ALWAYS TELL A STORY” – What a great message!
Read more about Tell a Story here.
Oh yes, and Tell a Story is a moving bookshop – that keeps travelling, to find yet more stories to be told!
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