Diigo Bookmarks 05/31/2008 (a.m.)
May 30, 2008 at 5:32 pm | In cities, links |-
» Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this (food) wall! • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape - Annotated
For a view of how Toronto would propose to “nanny” the street vendors, see Shawn Micallef’s article here. It’s amazing to note that the city would rather create an additional arm of bureaucracy “in charge” of the actual food carts, versus letting the vendors decide what sort of cart they want to use.
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“The Toronto Society of Architects presents Food in the City” Canadian Architect - 5/29/2008 - Annotated
Here’s some food for thought: “A city without food is a city without soul. Many of our favourite urban spaces in the city are places where we buy food: think of St. Lawrence Market, Kensington Market and Dufferin Grove Park. Many of the city’s great festivals are about food, such as the Taste of the Danforth or the various food festivals at Harbourfront in the summer. All of our great cultural neighbourhoods are defined by their flavours, like Corso Italia, Little India and Chinatown.”
On Tues. 6/3 the Toronto Society of Architects presents “Food in the City.” Wish I could be there…
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RFID Enabled Public Bike Service on PSFK
This sounds like a great idea for urban bike sharing, a concept that has been discussed on Victoria and Vancouver blogs, too. The problem is always keeping track of the bikes, making sure they’re in good shape, and that they’re returned. This design by Continuum (the Ubicycle public bicycle service system) addresses most of those problems: the RFIDs allow the service provider to keep track of the bikes as well as the users; and with buy-in from the users via their regular transit cards, this should help ensure that the bikes are treated reasonably well. Vandalism is a separate issue, which requires push-back from the community as a whole.
The Diigo Bookmarks 05/31/2008 (a.m.) by Yule Heibel, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
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