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A Beginner’s Guide To Duck Hunting: Hunting Ducks In The Wild
Hunting is one of the fun hobbies you can get into. When it comes to the sport of hunting, duck or waterfowl hunting is widely considered to be one of the most difficult. Hunting by itself can be a very intimidating hobby. No amount of reading or research will properly prepare you because important knowledge can
How To Choose The Right M.2 2230 SSD
Are you looking for a new SSD? M.2 2230 SSDs are the latest and greatest in storage technology. They offer speeds and performance unmatched by any other type of drive. If you want to upgrade your computer, an M.2 2230 SSD is the perfect solution. With an M.2 2230 SSD, you can experience faster boot
Canberra: the post-ceremonial city
A nice processional route, like the avenue of Rams on the way to the temple of Karnak, is handy in a city. Ditto for set pieces, like the piazza framing views of St. Peters in Rome (hi to all of the students who have come with me to that spot to analyze Bernini’s fine tricks
Design new cities around cycling to make mothers’ lives easier
My box bike (or bakfiets in Dutch) can go where no pedestrian or vehicle can go. It could traverse slopes that would hurt peoples’ ankles if they walked. It can fit through gaps that vehicles are unable to fit through. It is safe enough and clean enough to be ridden indoors. And it can shrink spaces that
New York set to see some Italian style cycling
As one of the few cities I’ve ever lived in long enough to require a non-tourist Visa or enroll my children in school, I have a sense of how things could play out in New York when their city-bike scheme has had time to shake down. I’ll be there in a month to welcome an envoy
Bike Plans For Cities That Cycling Forgot
A renaissance in urban cycling is forging ahead in many cities, generally, ones that are dense, flat, and that have a wealth of building stock predating the age of basement garaging. But what if the city you live in isn’t like that? What if your city happens to be one of the thousands worldwide that grew late,
Living car-free yet using more cars—how we can solve this dilemma
If you haven’t read my blog in a while (or ever), the last few posts explain my decision to work within the literary genre of Utopian writing. Utopian visions have always precipitated new paradigms in urban planning. It is unimaginable that such a thing as a purpose-built bicycle city could even come into existence without
Imagining Plato’s Ideal Republic of Cycling
Books have been written about the wild enthusiasm with which the architectural community approached the possibilities presented by cars in the twentieth century (1, 2, 3). None, though, have mentioned a gaping hole in one piece of their logic that doesn’t tally with their espoused claims about rationalization. Whether designing a town plan, a house,
Bicycle-tech: architecture, planning, clothing and customs
Whatever happened to raincoats? On rainy days when I was in school, all the kids turned up in yellow. All our houses had hooks in the laundries or inside the front doors, loaded with yellow plastic raincoats for all of the family. Another must-have in everyone’s wardrobe was a huge pair of Wellies or gum
How will office buildings adapt to more cycling?
First, a little extraneous background to the history of the office building as a type. We could go back to the Greek stoa or Roman basilica, but that would be stupid. The earliest critical interval of significance to the evolution of the office building as we know it today was the rebuilding of Chicago in
Healthy Green Transport for a Small City. 2.
Map all the existing and potential routes for bike paths that are nowhere near cars against the redundant industrial sites those bike paths could unlock for bicycle-oriented redevelopment. For about a year now, I’ve hypothesized that that is the first planning step toward making bicycling oases in cities otherwise overridden by cars. The cities we
How To Make Bunch-Rides Safe — And Cycling Safe, Generally.
My last post arguing that groups of cyclists have an ethical entitlement to ride 2 abreast, or indeed take up the whole road the way cars do, got a few thousand hits in a few days. It’s a hot topic, clearly—not in all countries, certainly not Holland, but definitely hot in countries where many cyclists find themselves
Postcard From An Asphalt Ikea
It is hard to believe smart bohemians of the early twentieth century had a mental image of Australia like the image many of us now have of Sweden or Denmark. In a dog-eat-dog world, this newly federated nation and trade-union stronghold on the other side of Asia somewhere promised to be an ongoing project in social justice.
Building For Bikes In Car Cities
Among those of us batting for bicycle transport, many hold a quaint misconception that travel mode choices are made voluntarily. They suppose that the whole city will swap cars for bikes when they have their awakenings. Those holding onto such hopes make the inductive fallacy that because they personally choose to ride bikes, everyone else
Will The City Of Tomorrow Have Driverless Taxis Or Bikes?
During her 6 years (2007-2013) as Commissioner of New York’s Department of Transportation, Janette Sadik-Khan partially restored 317 linear miles of 19th-century streets so they could be used for a similar kind of non-motorized mode (cycling) to the mode for which they were laid out (horse-drawn transportation). 317 sounds like a lot. Like a revolution, coupled with statistics showing
Summary Of Bicycle Urbanism Design Lab Experiments In Recent Months
For the past year, I have been leading teams of MA and Ph.D. students at the University of Tasmania, Australia, in a range of pure research and research-by-design projects. One of the questions we have been asking is, “what might a purpose-built bicycling city actually look like?” Would it have streets, alleys, or free-flowing ground
You can’t say utopia on the radio
Don’t you hate when a media outlet preps you with questions, you spend an hour or two writing responses on paper, preparing your mind for the big moment, then when the interview comes, it is about some other topic entirely? A producer for ABC Radio National Drive got in touch last week and asked what
The elegant device as a paragon for city planning
This might seem arcane, but it’s obvious that every architectural or urban design act refers back to a pinnacle. In Renaissance times, it was the body. Whether through analogy (e.g., the civic administration building is the head, the church is the heart, the neighborhoods are the hands, etc.) or simply by copying proportions, architecture and
Blue Maps – The Recycle Space Map
Here is a mapping technique highlighting the possibility of bicycling heterotopias in just about any city. It has been designed to help people imagine greenways built along non-vehicular easements (waterways and rail corridors, for example), unlocking potential new redevelopment districts where bike-friendly building types like the one below would be the basis of a new kind
Toward a critical regionalist approach to bike planning
Pedestrian advocates will never tell you that life as a walker invariably leads to one thing: public transport. Driving always struck me as a very expensive way to get fat. As for life as a car-free pedestrian, I gave it a shot, first when I lived in Singapore and later when I lived in New
Cycle Specific Attire: The good, The bad And The Worth Owning
Riding a bike in the city wearing business attire is like walking a dog in Central Park. It’s an innocuous, necessary act for some people, but one that they obviously love for the opportunity afforded to parade yuppie status. If carrying a mug of tea made at home past all the cafes is too gratuitous,
Cambridge Raincoat Company [Review]
At the risk of reading too much into too little, I should like to begin this raincoat review with a deep and meaningful observation that you might find a tad sanctimonious, even for me. The marketing imagery presented by this raincoat company out of Cambridge, UK, does not emphasize walking from the subway to the
Velotopia: A Touchstone Notion
It is time we had a touchstone notion of a Cycling Utopia. Tempting though it may be to dismiss such a thing as a straw man, it is worth remembering that the garden city and car city both have their Utopian models for planners to hold at the backs of their minds. Bike planning does not
Top Ear Piercing Gun Kit In 2021: Safety To Use!
Even though we might need to get our ears pierced, we don’t generally have the advantage of going to a parlor to complete them. Fortunately, a few organizations get this and have fabricated home ear puncturing packs. That way, we can get that desired ear puncturing yet in the solace of our own homes. Here,
Top 10 Shooting Glasses Interchangeable Lenses In 2021: You Do Not Want To Miss
For many gunners, finding shooting glasses interchangeable lenses is very important. Shooting as a sport has been practised for hundreds of years in European countries, with some German shooting clubs dating back more than 500 years. Nowaday, this sport is becoming such a popular adventure sport that everyone can play it. However, shooting can cause
Top 10 Best Mini 14 Picatinny Rails 2024: Good For You!
Are you looking for the best mini 14 Picatinny rail? The Mini-14 is a semi-automatic rifle that is originally designed as an economical, lighter-weight alternative to the full-size M14 rifle. The Mini 14’s lightweight means it can be used for hunting and shooting sports. The design places emphasis on ruggedness and reliability with long service
A Review Of The Top Benefits Of Moonlight Jewels Co
Suppose you’re looking for a unique and beautiful piece of jewelry to give as a gift or to wear yourself. In that case, you need to check out Moonlight Jewels Co. This company creates stunning pieces with an ethereal feel, using only the finest materials. Here are just a few of the benefits of buying