Mobility&Trends is experimenting a new approach in this section by focusing on a specific city and highlighting its latest trends and innovations in the fields of mobility and use of public space. And what better city than New York to start with?…
… in Vienna. The billboard's fluorescent tubes used to light posters were replaced on that occasion by IKEA LED lights. …
Cities have long been presented as the exact opposite of nature. However, this dichotomy tends to disappear as environmental concerns grow and the aspiration for more sustainable and livable cities develops. Nowadays, the integration of nature in the city…
We recently wrote on Mobility&Trends about Amsterdam's “Goedzak”, a transparent garbage bag aiming to contain items that could still be used by others.In the same vein, a new service called "Trashwag" was recently launched in Toronto…
Whereas Lima's atmospheric humidity reaches 98%, Peru's capital city faces a dramatic lack of precipitations.The University of Engineering and Technology in Lima teamed with marketing agency Mayo DraftFCB to design a billboard able to capture air moisture…
There might be a treasure in your trash... at least for your neighbors! Amsterdam-based design agency Waarmakers created a transparent garbage bag called the "Goedzak" ("good bag" in Dutch) aiming to contain items that could still be used by others.It can…
Matteo Straforini designed a self-sufficient and user-friendly information station.The station is equipped with a curved shaped photovoltaic panel which can rotate to benefit from the solar rays all day long and provide shade to facilitate users’ reading…
To prepare the Olympics and offer its residents smarter recycling bins, the city of London installed 25 “Renew Bins”. Each one costs £30 000 and embeds 2 digital screens.Apart from offering a space for products to be recycled, it also provides general…
BING is a new bike sharing project in Denmark designed by Slaatto. The idea stems from the observation that 400,000 bikes are thrown away annually in this country. BING thus recycles old bicycle frames to form the main structure of the bike while a theft…
In cities nowadays , not only is there a growing demand for a patch of greenery (see Tendances Mobilités n°102), but due to the increasing concerns about forthcoming shortages (water, food, energy), areas are becoming organized around a more self…