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by pouetpouet 10y ago
Barcelona is planing somthing similar. Some streets will allow through traffic while most only local traffic + through biking and walking. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/17/superblocks-re...
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
It should be noted that this Qing Dynasty encyclopedy was printed in 1726, seven centuries after the invention of movable type and more than 270 years after Gutenberg's Bible. It is also a Government sponsored project and probably wasn
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
> Moveable type printing was in fact invented in China I know that's my point exactly. It was definitely not as widespread and explosive as Gutenbergs printing press though. The number of characters is two orders of magnitude small
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
Recently on HN on vietnamese writing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10888755 and how the population of Vietman grew rapidly literate with the romanisation of the written language. Another thing comes to mind: movable
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
Meanwhile in Utrech, NL: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/motorway-remov...
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
As you stated Yubari is an extreme example. It was a coal mining town. The mines closed down in the 1980s. There is a global trend of concentration in big cities with the service industry, woring women, specialisation...
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
Link to the study http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/29/dc...
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
This is a draft of book yet to be published. In the meantime Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan are worth the read.
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
Anybody has any numbers on the share of translated literature in other markets?
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
Who needs the printing press when you have cheap copists?
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
The I-670 cap in Columbus, OH is a good example. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cap_at_Union_Station...
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
Yes! Add offsite parking requirements / minimums to the list.
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
The land use favors the long trip. It's not just about cheap land. You have to pay for more infrastructure per person. More roads, pipes, lines, pumps, delivery miles, per person etc. All subsidised.
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
In european center cities, car mean speeds are usually <= 12mph (<20 km/h). You can get faster on a bike if you are made confortable enough to do this (it boils down to bike infrastructure).
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
The North-East is as dense as France. The mid-atlantic is denser than France, slighty less than Germany. And yet those regions severely lack in the train department. The size of the USA as a whole is irrelevant. 2000 mile train rides are no
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
I confirm that it's common in bakeries and many takeout places in Germany and many western european countries.
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
Markets do not operate in a vacuum. There are fiscal, regulatory and financial incentives for sprawl. A new equilibrium with less sprawl and more walkable places is possible.
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by pouetpouet 11y ago
Hausmann widened some streets because all of them were small. When most streets are wide, narrowing some is the thing to do.
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Reverse engineer Apicrypt, used by french health-care professionals(renaud.schleck.free.fr)
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
You are interpreting. That's on you. An enlightened society should aim to peacefully put aside religious fundamentalism. That's obviously a personal opinion as everyone can have a different idea of what's enlightened. People
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
No. I am very serious. Religious fundamentalists should be mocked and ridiculed. I find it very offensive that you would suggest otherwise. See? Different things can be really offensive to different people. Religious people don't have
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
First I find it really offensive that you bring that point up. Because I think you are blaming the victims. They had every right to publish what they did. Because anything can be sacred to anybody, so we won't be able to discuss anythi
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
I live in Europe, and love the bakeries within walking distance. I can walk to the movies or the opera house in a city of 300k.
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
There is a thing called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mortgage that can help old owners go on with their life without losing their shelter.
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
Nobody knows. Robotaxis are a bit like carsharing, they change the economics. A private ownership car bears a lot of fixed costs, and each mile get cheaper. Once you own one, you are likely to use it all the time. With pay-as-you-go robotax
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
I totally get that it can be desirable to some. The problem is that sprawling suburbs are not only bad for the environment, they are financially unsustainable with current financing schemes. They will scale back. The nicest ones will stay f
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
European 'traditional' cities don't burn down all the time. They just have smaller engines, and because they are less sprawling, the fire truck come from a closer place and can afford to negotiate the streets a little bit slo
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
You can have some larger streets between neighbourhoods with higher buildings. Not every single street needs to be really narrow, but you need to have them. http://urbankchoze.blogspot.de/2014/04/japanese-zoning.h
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
The only examples you see are centuries old. There is no reason why you couldn't bild something accessible today.
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by pouetpouet 12y ago
You don't necerally need high buildings to create density. You can have density with single family homes, if you have narrow streets and less parking. http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2011/061211.html

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