A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.
Category: Transit
Brand New Subway
GAME
Brand New Subway, July 2016
It’s an interactive transportation planning game that lets players alter the NYC subway system to their heart’s content. Players can choose to start from scratch or one of several NYC subway maps (including present-day, maps dating back to the early 1900s, or maps from the future). They can build new stations and lines to expand the system to new areas, or tear it down and redesign the whole thing.
Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2016 Laureate: Medellín
SHORT FILM
Lee Kwan Yew World City Prize, 2016
We live in a time when billions of people are moving into cities. Many of these cities, especially the new mega cities, are very dangerous and disorganised. Many of them are getting worse, and many of them are are looking for role models of cities which have transformed themselves, and no city has done as great a job as Medellín has.
For more about the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize, click here.
Why buses represent democracy in action
TALK
Enrique Peñalosa, TED Talk, September 2013
Mobility in developing world cities is a very peculiar challenge, because different from health or education or housing, it tends to get worse as societies become richer. Clearly, a unsustainable model. Mobility, as most other developing country problems, is more than a matter of money or technology, is a matter of equality – equity. The great inequality in developing countries makes it difficult to see, for example, that in terms of transport, an advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport, or bicycles.