This Focus, second component of a trilogy dedicated to the innovative ways through which citizens can directly take action to change their cities, will look at crowdsourcing as a powerful tool to empower citizens, enhance mobility and create better…
The "Social Swipe" is an interactive poster set-up by German agency Kolle-Rebe at Hamburg International Airport, encouraging people to donate to charitable organization Misereor.To make donations easy and concrete, the poster features a slit in the middle…
By a coincidence of history, April 3rd 1973 was a crucial date for two major technological innovations of the 20th century: mobile phones and barcodes. On April 3rd 1973, the first mobile phone call was made in the streets of New York by Motorola engineer…
New figures unveiled this week by Transport for London show that London's traffic has clearly slowed down, from 19.33 miles per hour in 2012 to an average of just 16.5 miles per hour this year.Many diverse factors explain this trend. London is currently…
What is a bike-friendly city? For sure, a city that invests in bike infrastructure or develops an efficient bike sharing service, a place where cycling is both safe and easy, like Amsterdam or Copenhagen. If US cities seem far behind these two cycling…
Following the launch of the world famous video game Angry Birds on Samsung Smart TV, the Korean brand has transformed Madrid’s Nuevos Ministerios district into a large playground.Visitors were invited to experiment the new gesture control system developed…
The charge cycle project proposes both a funny and healthy way to charge your smartphone in the street.This project imagined by American designers David Krawczyk and Navjot Kaur consists on stationary bikes equipped with an iPhone dock allowing users to…
Mexico is the country with the highest proportion of overweight people in the world.In order to encourage Mexicans to take up physical exercise, French insurance company Axa launched the "Kilos malos, Kilos sanos" ("Bad kilos, good kilos") public health…
… JCDecaux has been selected as Baku's long term street furniture partner. For the first time JCDecaux has … phone and internet. The introduction of such functional street furniture comes just in time for Eurovision which …
As a very common mobile activity, reading is also concerned by the proliferation of innovations within the field of mobility. Technologies and practices have evolved quickly in the past years and have given birth to a true “mobile reading” culture.« E…
To promote its position as one of the world's leaders in the "Internet of Everything" (IoE), Cisco set-up, on a highway close to San Francisco International Airport, a digital billboard able to deliver customized messages in real time. According to…
Innovation in the field of bicycle riding is not limited to the bicycle itself, it also concerns services and infrastructure, starting with bicycle paths. It is hardly surprising that the most innovative projects in that area come from the countries with…
In the same vein as the maps based on RunKeeper data we recently mentioned on the blog, activity tracking app Human published interesting visualizations showing how its users move in 30 different cities around the world.This app aiming at encouraging…
If London has the oldest underground system, and New York the greatest number of stations – 425 actually, and more are going to be added soon - the world’s longest subway is much more recent. China beats all other subway networks with the Shanghai metro,…
In Brazil, people only read an average of about two books a year. Sad statement. To promote reading, book publisher L&PM Editores created the operation Book Tickets, a collection of ten classic novels with an RFID card inside, …
Milan is widely known as one of the most polluted cities in Europe. And this warm and dry winter have not helped: with 30 days of high pollution level last December, local authorities had to react quickly, by temporarily banning cars and offering discount…
As part of a competition organized by the City of Stockholm, Swedish agency Belatchew Architects unveiled the project of a giant parking garage for bicycles.The building will have the capacity to hold 700 bikes and is designed to meet the specific needs…
American "National Association of City Transportation Officials" (NACTO) recently published a study entitled "Walkable station spacing is key to successful, equitable bike share".Based on data from five different cities (Minneapolis, Boston, Washington,…
Since its earliest uses, street lighting has traditionally aimed at protecting pedestrians from potential obstacles or bad encounters. Besides convenience and security purposes, new uses of light in urban environments are emerging, giving birth to…