Tag Archives: infrastructure

The Remarkable Electric Vehicles Of Spijkstaal

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday August 23, 2010

What would our vehicle landscape look like without the ongoing inventions of the Dutch company Spijkstaal? Here we would like to shed a light on the…

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Lunch On The Highway!

By David van Moppes | Published: Tuesday July 20, 2010

Did you ever have the chance to have lunch right on a heavily used highway? Two days ago, the inhabitants of the complete Ruhr Metropolis was given this…

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Subway Bathroom

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday February 16, 2010

Our highly appreciated reporter in Hamburg Rudolf from Urbanshit recently wrote about a project by graphic designer and illustrator Christoph Niemann, who’s currently living…

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The Amsterdam Subway Dream

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday January 4, 2010


Amsterdam is building its 10 kilometers long North-South subway line. It’s an ultimate effort to change a village into a true metropolis. This leads to plenty of inevitable…

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Telok Blangah’s Flying Infrastructure

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday July 27, 2009

Singapore’s Telok Blangah Hill Park is an amazing park structure consisting of different landscape types connected through a fly-over-like infrastructure. Within the context of the Weak…

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NYC High Line: Reclaimed Green Space

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday May 23, 2009

A couple of months ago we blogged about the High Line, the urban transformation project in New York City. What was once an old traintrack trough Manhattan will be…

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The Flying Car: Stop Building Roads!

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday April 9, 2009

Half a year ago I read an article about the Dutch police wanting to use flying cars for their work. Finally now it’s here: the personal flying car.…

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