Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’

A Glimpse into the Past: Archival Infra Films

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

These archival infra films show us how things used to be built, and how systems used to run.

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TECH FOR TRANSIT: DESIGNING A FUTURE SYSTEM

Friday, March 25th, 2011

LATITUDE & NEXT AMERICAN CITY
In late 2010, Latitudeº asked 18 participants (10 from Boston, 8 from San Francisco) not to use their cars for one week. The vast majority of participants had ranked cars as their most necessary form of transportation, with the remainder using their cars at least weekly.

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Inhabitat: Can San Francisco Become 100% Sustainable by 2020?

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

“San Francisco has always had a reputation as an environmentally conscious city, however it has set its sights on becoming the greenest city in the country by turning 100% sustainable by 2020. The plan was announced by outgoing Mayor Gavin Newsom, who last week launched an initiative to make the city fully ‘green’ within a decade.”
-Timon Singh, Inhabitat

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Video: Vision of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) for San Francisco

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Vision of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) for San Francisco
-italolyra on YouTube

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Bike Lane Fail in San Francisco

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Townsend Street’s new bike lanes are taking some getting used to.
-eviltoddx on YouTube

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PHOTOS: Ports, Ships, Canals and Cargo

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

A glimpse of our vast shipping infrastructure

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Solar Waste Recycling: Can the industry stay green?

Monday, August 16th, 2010

CROSSCURRENTS
Solar energy is the most widely available resource we have. Every hour, enough solar energy strikes Earth to meet human energy needs for more than a year, according to NASA. Now the solar industry is poised for huge growth in the United States, thanks to policy changes, incentives, technological improvements and economies of scale. Solar photovoltaics have recently become less expensive than nuclear energy on a per-kilowatt-hour basis, according to a new report from Duke University. Also, solar is widely expected to reach cost parity with fossil fuels in most markets by 2013.

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Traffic Jams from Sea to Shining Sea

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

How can we put an end to this?

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Bridges 2010 Conference: San Fran, November 17-19

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

“With more bridges being declared structurally deficient or obsolete, there is a need for immediate and novel engineering solutions in order to be well prepared for potential disasters and minimize future maintenance costs.”

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U.S. Parking Policies: An Overview of Management Strategies

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY
The relationships between parking infrastructure and transportation choices are as important as that between road infrastructure and transportation choices. Yet research on roads abounds while there is very little on parking.

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