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Bike helmets looked ridiculous in 1948
Did you know that bike helmets in the 1940s looked kind of like a cross between a Devo outfit and a bouncy castle?
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The great cities vs. suburbs rivalry, and why it matters
The cities are winning! No, the ’burbs are! Why do we bicker about census numbers?
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Babes in bikeland: Advice for cycling with kids
A request for advice on biking with kids elicited a flood of enthusiastic and inspiring insights from parents about the joys of cycling with little ones.
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These fruit-shaped bus shelters make public transit more delicious
Waiting for a bus is never the most fun part of a commute, but if you lived in Isahaya City, Japan, you could at least pretend you were some kind of magic bus-riding mouse in a fairy tale. Bus shelters in the city are sculpted and painted to look like giant fruit.
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New York’s massive new bike-sharing program tripped up by computer problems
Computers don't want bikes to succeed. Computers NEVER want bikes to succeed.
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Book lovers make mini public libraries out of trees
These hollow-log bookshelves were erected in Berlin a few years back to help encourage the reuse of books. The German team behind the project explains: The project adopts the idea of putting up a bookcase in a public space, in which people could release their used books to be picked up by others. This way […]
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You can help make this bike-in movie theater a reality
[protected-iframe id=”56fa6e0fc78268992ddb7ec4c39f24da-5104299-30166106″ info=”http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manifold/bike-in-theater-nyc-sf/widget/video.html” width=”470″ height=”350″ frameborder=”0″] Coworkers Jason Anello and Anna Boyarsky set up a bike-in movie theater in Brooklyn last year, and now they want to do it again — but bigger, better, and bicoastal. They’re raising funds on Kickstarter for permits and licensing, because the show itself won’t make any money: The plan is […]
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Thinking outside the parks: Green space spreads in the Big Apple
When you think of parks in New York City, you probably imagine the big dogs -- Central Park, or Prospect. But the green is seeping through the city, and we’d be wise to take notice.
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City officials are waging a war on gardens
We've heard one too many stories in which people decide to use their yards to grow some fresh vegetables, only to have city officials come down hard on them, forcing them to tear out their food or bulldozing the gardens themselves.
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How to make a tiny car: Just cut a regular car in half
Look, it still totally works!
