Walk this way(economist.com)
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Walk this way
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/01/crowd-dynamics
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This reminds me of the experiment the German town Bohmte ran getting rid of the majority of their road signs and lights. Forcing people to remain attentive to their surroundings resulted in a substantial drop in serious traffic incidents.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1821731...
http://www.drive.com.au/editorial/articledetail.aspx?Article...
Jane Jacobs is once more beating Robert Moses.
"... Robert Moses ..."
I didn't know anything about Moses so I looked it up. There's a big difference in the wikipedia entry ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses compared to the Atlantic ~ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1939/02/robert-m...
One thing both articles didn't make clear, does NY have a real transport problem now?
I didn't know anything about Moses so I looked it up. There's a big difference in the wikipedia entry ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses compared to the Atlantic ~ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1939/02/robert-m...
One thing both articles didn't make clear, does NY have a real transport problem now?
IMHO this is the interesting part:
"Correction: In an earlier version of this post we said that Space Syntax's model represented road intersections as nodes of a graph and streets as connections between the nodes. The clever trick was, in fact, to turn that intuitive reasoning on its head. This has now been corrected. Apologies."
What's funny is that many UWashington CS students tell you that trick in their job interview, from some popular class project they do.
The examples shown are great positives for London, but one can't make a great city out of traffic modelling alone - even pedestrian (rather than vehicular) traffic modelling. Space Syntax take note...
As some one who works in central London it is not going to stop nutters on fix wheeled bikes riding at full pelt through clusters of pedestrians is it though?
Nope. To me, London has a separate problem with cyclists who think central London is a velodrome. Not to blame all cyclists, because most of them are fine - but there are some idiots out there with a complete disregard for safety..
http://people.revoledu.com/kardi/index.html