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NYT: French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality
"80 percent of the initial 20,600 bicycles stolen or damaged": Compare to the considerable success of Barcelona's technically all-but-identical Bicing system. A perfect case study in the locally differential adoption of technologies; namechecks Bruno Marzloff.
paris  cycling  mobility  networks  transportation  urbancomputing  rage 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: France Unveils Bold Architectural Proposals for Metropolitan Paris
Sorry for all the NYT links. Nico's on top of it this week, though. Looks like top-down planning hasn't quite died. Also: maglev!
urbanplanning  infrastructure  paris  cities  maglev! 
march 2009 by Urbanscale

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