et après ça, la ville

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good: In 1897, a wealthy American businessman named Horace Dobbins began construction on a private, for-profit bicycle superhighway that would stretch from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. It may seem like a preposterous notion now—everyone knows Angelenos don’t get out of their cars—but at the time, amidst the height of a pre-automobile worldwide cycling boom, the idea attracted the attention of some hugely powerful players. And it almost got built. Continue to vice.com Bike-loving white people have been trying to ruin Highland Park for more than a century I guess.

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In 1897, a wealthy American businessman named Horace Dobbins began construction on a private, for-profit bicycle superhighway that would stretch from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. It may seem like a preposterous notion now—everyone knows Angelenos don’t get out of their cars—but at the time, amidst the height of a pre-automobile worldwide cycling boom, the idea attracted the attention of some hugely powerful players. And it almost got built.

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Bike-loving white people have been trying to ruin Highland Park for more than a century I guess.

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Tags: infrastructure bicyles los angeles
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« Musk quips that it's easier getting rockets into orbit than navigating his commute between home in Bel-Air and his Space Exploration Technologies factory in Hawthorne. »

In the twenty-first century, billionaires donate money toward basic public infrastructure rather than charity or culture. 
Tags: infrastructure los angeles elon musk the fucking westside
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I lived directly above the Church & Chambers station for a while, and was, evidently, below average.

I lived directly above the Church & Chambers station for a while, and was, evidently, below average.

Tags: nyc inégalité infrastructure graphique
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a) This is a terrible, terrible name and b) 10€ de Paris à Marseille sounds great.

a) This is a terrible, terrible name and b) 10€ de Paris à Marseille sounds great.

Tags: too old for a 12-25 but still poor france infrastructure
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via itskoseph

via itskoseph

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Tags: infrastructure chantier
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« Lost Rivers » par Caroline Bâcle et Katarina Soukup

Tags: film urbanisme infrastructure
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(My favorite thing about Los Angeles is that it’s always incomplete, equal parts disappointment and thrilling potential. It’s the anticipation that holds us here.)

(My favorite thing about Los Angeles is that it’s always incomplete, equal parts disappointment and thrilling potential. It’s the anticipation that holds us here.)

Tags: los angeles infrastructure transportation mapping
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Wal-Mart invades Vermont.

Wal-Mart invades Vermont.

Tags: First you strategically position your pieces logistics infrastructure wal-mart
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« One of the problems with looking at transit as a sexy lifestyle amenity is that things like prettier stations can come at the expense of providing the best possible ways to get from one place to another. »
Tags: infrastructure thesis transportation will doig urbanism
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« Localities have responded by pouring funds into more gentrifiable transit systems at the expense of the city bus — even if ridership on subways and light rails represents a relatively boutique market. »

“Isn’t the bus kind of sketchy?”
Tags: transportation infrastructure gentrification
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via archimaps

via archimaps

Tags: paris infrastructure métro
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Tags: infrastructure paris métro
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Tags: nyc infrastructure penn station
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« Meanwhile infrastructural crises that affect millions of people a day drag on, among them our abysmal airports ; noisy, erratic subways ; lack of high-speed rail ; and Penn Station. No other great city in the world would abide a station like it. »
Tags: Michael Kimmelman nyc penn station infrastructure
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Underground reservoir in Houston

Underground reservoir in Houston

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