Urban living

A great Japanese idea to park bikes

Monday, June 24, 2013 / Sustainable development / Leave a Comment

While browsing my RSS feeds, I found on Inhabitat a great idea on how to park dozens of bikes without wasting space in streets. Only eight meters wide and eleven meters deep, a single Eco Cycle parking can store 204 bikes. The Japanese company Giken has installed many of these in Tokyo and around Japan. …

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The end of urban sprawl ?

Sunday, August 9, 2009 / Sustainable development / Leave a Comment

Urban sprawl poses many problems in terms of infrastructures to maintain, increased energy consumption and last but not least important health and environmental issues. With the economic downturn and high energy prices, people are sometimes returning to the urban cores. This leaves empty houses and even districts. In some cases these suburbs are litterally bulldozed …

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