In the UK, some 3 million people live in areas with 20 mph speed limits. The experience there shows that not only do slower speeds save lives, but lowering the limit to 20 mph improves the way local streets function in...
Category - Video
Greater City ProvidenceTime Lapse World-Tour
Well, OK, not the whole world, but a few places. After we posted the Japan and London time lapse videos, a reader sent us some links to a bunch of other time lapse videos.
Enjoy.
New York:
You’ve Got to Love London
Yesterday we posted a great time lapse video of Japan. Today we find one focused on London:
Via: Urbanolphile
Jef NickersonSundance Channel documentary looks at Newark
Created and directed by the award-winning filmmakers Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin, BRICK CITY, is a five-part documentary series that captures the daily drama of a community striving to become a better, safer, stronger...
WPRI Newsmakers looks at the Central Landfill audit
Channel 12 Newsmakers talks with the executive director of the Rhode Resource Recovery Corporation about the recently released audit of the Central Landfill…
ugh.
‘Objectified’ screening October 6, 2009 at Trinity Rep
The Rhode Island IDSA Chapter announced today the screening of the film Objectified by Gary Hustwit. The IDSA Rhode Island Chapter is the leading group in the state, representing product designers of all types...
Danish bike superhighway and the Green Wave
Photo (cc) Eliel Copenhagenize reports on the city’s plan to boost bicycle commuting from the suburbs. Currently 55% of Copenhagen residents ride a bike everyday. However, only* 37% of residents of Greater...
Video: Flexing Manhattan Bridge
All bridges flex but seeing this time-lapse video of the Manhattan Bridge is slightly scary.
Sound Session kicks off this weekend
Sound Session ’08 video from YouTube Providence Sound Session kicks off their weeklong music festival this weekend with events scheduled across the city including Waterplace Park, Westminster Street, Kennedy...
Video: Barcelona by streetcar in 1908
Barcelona by streetcar in 1908; via Bicycle Fixation.
Worth A Watch: James Howard Kunstler
For any that are not familiar with TED, it is a gathering of relevant minds with the purpose of sharing their thoughts on whatever it is that they specialize in. The speakers have ranged from Michelle Obama to John...
David RochaTunnel of LED
“Multiverse” by Leo Villareal, video by Jef Nickerson When we were in Washington earlier this month, Matt dragged us to the National Gallery of Art to see this LED Tunnel between the old and new buildings...
Video: Kai Tak Airport
This is a crazy cool video that at once fascinates and terrifies me. It is Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak Airport which sat right in the heart of Kowloon. Kai Tak closed in 1998 when Hong Kong’s new airport opened...
Pixel City
This is a demonstration of a program I wrote to generate and fly through a dynamically generated city. You can read the step-by-step of how it was made at my website. The program was built on vanilla OpenGL, Windows...
Copenhagen // City of Cyclists
Copenhagen – City of Cyclists from Colville Andersen on Vimeo. Via Streetsblog.
