The greenest car

Certainly a great idea for other (discarded) oldies… This one is driving around South Brooklyn. Read more about the brains behind it here, and about other “rolling agriculture”-projects at The City Fix blog.

Long live the pedestrians. / Länge leve fotgängarna.

New tactic from our fellas across the border. Volvo pander the motorists worst enemy, the pedestrians, in their ads for a new (orange!) car. “Long live the pedestrians”? Are they making fun of us? (Enlighten me please.)

Volvo anno 2010

Anyhow, by reading more about the thoughts behind the ad, apparently they’re thinking outside the shell (literally). Some how this car detects pedestrians hidden from the drivers view while driving slowly around the city. “…driving slowly…”? I think we already found a fault. Even worse, they hope to improve the urban environment by adding this new wonderful car…

And did James Dean ever imagine he would front a Swedish car-campaign?

Nostalgic moments

Reclaim the streets!

An addition to the last post about owning the streets… I’d say 2009 was a kick-start for a world wide “street renaissance”. Much thanks to the newthinking New York City mayor. World cities are important trendsetters, and if motorized NYC can do it, so can we. The question is – at what phase? How soon will we reclaim the streets?

This video from Streetfilms.org shows how quickly NYC were overtaken by cars, and adresses the problems the city now faces…

And as noted before, what Oslo needs is most likely an election…