Most people equate Tokyo with dense-urban – something the city does exceedingly well, but Tokyoites will appreciate how the city opens up in pleasant and …
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The social cost and benefits of placing any new infrastructure in an urban space. And the infrastructural cues that make it more or less approachable …
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ATM includes the usual touchscreen (at the bottom of the photo) and a display that updates infrequently – to the unobservant eye it could just …
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If you want to understand China you need to travel to the suburbs, the communities where tower blocks and half empty shopping malls nudge up …
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This acure Shibuya station vending machine by the JR East Water Business Co. is interesting on a number of levels: it’s using a touch screen …
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The urban etiquette for running a generator in Mazar e Sharif is to place it out by the open sewer and run a cable up …
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I suspect that arboriculturalists have heart palpitations when they arrive in Almaty – one of the features of leafy city is the proximity between the …
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The method of attaching street signs to poles doesn’t easily support two signs to be horizontally aligned. Wonderful example of a design decision becoming part …
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Just some of ~dozen ATMs in Austin’s 6th Street bar area – certainly the densest sustained row of cash machines I’ve come across anywhere in …
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