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Fun! Temporary Urban Gardens

October 29, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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As an entry to the 2009 edition of the International Garden Competition in Bilbao, Spain, landscape and urban designer Diana Balmori and her studio entered the temporary urban garden project. The proposal is a garden of contrasts, between native and exotic plants, as well as grass and pavement. [read more]

Exchange Your Car for a Lifetime Bus Pass

July 14, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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That's one way to communicate the point. In an effort to promote public transit use, the city of Murcia, Spain placed cars in impossible parking spots, demonstrating the difficulty of parking in the city. Photo by Mejor en Tranvía. In an effort to promote its new tram system, cut congestion and reduce air pollution, the city of Murcia,... [read more]

Spain's Plazas: The Takeover

May 23, 2011 by polis blog
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This past Sunday, May 15th, over 130,000 people in more than 60 cities across Spain took to the streets under the banner of, and to claim, Democracia Real YA (Real Democracy NOW). As 13 of Spain’s 17 autonomous communities and over 8,000 municipalities are holding elections tomorrow, Sunday May 22nd, the mobilizations were a popular... [read more]

Worlwide wind capacity increases in 2010 at the lowest growth rate since 2004

April 19, 2011 by Rodrigo Herrera Vegas
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  A few days ago the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) released the World Wind Energy Report 2010 which introduces the latest data on worldwide wind capacity. According to the report worldwide capacity reached 196,630 Megawatt, out of which 37,642 Megawatt were added in 2010, slightly less than in 2009 (38,147 MW). This means... [read more]

High Speed Rail: A No-Brainer

October 7, 2009 by Chris Nelder
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For Energy and Capital last week, I surveyed the explosion of high speed rail around the world, and prescribed some stiff medicine for the U.S. “‘Boondoggle‘, ‘Loss-making whim‘, ‘Monument to bad territorial planning’. . . Such are the arguments of high speed rail critics, as the United States finally gets on board the passenger rail... [read more]

Vegetation on Life Support

May 18, 2009 by Lisa Town
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via luzinterruptus, photo by Gustavo Sanabria Luzinterruptus, a group from Madrid, Spain who performs outdoor interventions through the use of light, feels that the city is looking less and less green with the ripping out of trees to make way for improvements. They feel the city looks as though it is dying. It becomes more and more... [read more]