2:22 pm in Cars & Transportation, london, public transportation, Science & Technology, transportation, UK by TreeHugger
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Google has recently announced that its Google Maps service will
provide real-time transit updates, a great way to make public transportation more convenient and efficient for millions of commuters. This service has now been launched for
London, UK. "One of Europe's largest metropolitan areas, London is a major destination for both business travelers and tourists. More than 1 billion passen...
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8:59 am in london, prefab, prefabricated, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
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BoxPark is "the world's first pop-up shopping mall", being built at the Shoreditch High Street station in London. It's designed by
Waugh Thistleton, known to TreeHuggers for their
Nine Storey Apartment Built Of Wood in Nine Weeks By Four Workers. I am beginning to understand why I like Andrew Waugh so much; he is an architect in a hurry. He loves the idea of BoxPark because it will take three months to outfit a store off...
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12:53 pm in bike friendly city, bikes, biking, london by TreeHugger
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TreeHuggers will be familiar with bikeshare programs like the
Vélib or the
Bixi, where durable city bikes are borrowed from and returned to docking stations. These systems are not without their problems, including often not finding a convenient place to return the bike. The Brompton Dock is an interesting experiment in a different kind of bikeshare.
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8:42 am in architecture, flatpack, london, prefab, survey by TreeHugger
I was shocked and appalled at Bonnie's post on the
London Olympic basketball stadium; it gives flatpack a bad name. It looks the the shrink-wrapped boats you see at marinas in winter. It looks like a giant bunion pad. Now I know this is not a money-no-object extravaganza like Beijing was, but British architects have done great temporary designs, from
Archigram in the sixties to
Mark Fisher and Jonathan Park with their rock sets for...
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7:29 am in birds, london, Travel & Nature, united kingdom by TreeHugger
Photo: challiyan under a Creative Commons license.
In April, Brian lamented
new population maps that show Americans are still moving to the suburbs. But the study was restricted to the United States, and only looked at
human population shifts. Which means that it offers no help in solving a mystery that's troubling British scientists: why have tens of thousands of rose-ringed parakeets, native to India and Africa...
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