Urban
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The CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition has just revealed its 2018 winners. The resulting winners highlight some amazing snaps that often illustrate the growing disconnect between people and their lived environments.
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This week is UN Road Safety Week, which highlights road traffic deaths and injuries and focuses on ways to reduce them. This year the week is headlined by the #SlowDown campaign, which is part of a plan to reduce road fatalities by 50 percent before 2020. Its suggestion? Lower speed limits.
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Along with the usual concept cars, Mini has branched out to house and camping concepts in recent years. The latest Mini Living installation, launched in Milan, is an eco-minded six-floor house squeezed into a 50 square-meter (538 square-foot) urban plot.
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A plan is afoot to ease the congestion of New York City's existing transportation system with cable cars. The East River Skyway proposal envisions a high-speed urban gondola that would provide swift transport between Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.
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Renault is taking aim at the urban car market with a major redesign for the third-generation Twingo set at recapturing the spirit of the original release in 1992. Based on last year’s Twin’Z and Twin’Run concept cars, Renault calls the new Twingo a fun, ultra-maneuverable city car.
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Inner city living can often mean cramped accommodation with little access to outdoor space. With this in mind, a project in Manchester, UK, is offering people the chance to book a garden for an hour at a time. Plot is a private urban garden that explores the notion of access rather than ownership.
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Many projects in cities across the world have reclaimed disused areas to transform them into community spaces. New York's High Line and Sydney's Goods Line are two such examples. Now, a project in Liverpool, UK, hopes to transform a flyover into a urban park and alternative events space.
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Cylo is a brand of urban bicycle that's completely new to the market, and its creators are so confident they've brought together the right mix of ingredients that they're claiming Cylo is the "ultimate urban bicycle."
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Germany's affection for all things automotive may , with the city of Hamburg setting the wheels in motion for its "Green Network," a bold plan make cars an optional mode of transport in the city within 15-20 years.
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Compact personal mobility vehicles are a great option for commuters looking to solve the "last mile" problem. The latest such vehicle to hit the streets aimed at filling this need is the Urb-E from Urban Mobility, which claims it is the "world's most compact electric vehicle."
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Of all the questions one might like to ask Manuel Domínguez about this project, why he called it Very Large Structure is low on the list. The concept depicts compactly planned cities atop vast mobile structures, capable of crawling to new locations as the needs or desires of the populace dictate.
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Hyundai’s i10 hatchback has sold over 450,000 units in Europe since 2007 and this week at the Frankfurt Motor Show Hyundai officially unveiled its successor. Gizmag was on hand for the debut of the company's new entry into Europe’s A-segment market.
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