Posts about Tokyo
And...: An artist makes portraits of subway riders using only paper and scissors. (NYT) ... Montgomery gets an interim planning head, Rose Krasnow. (Gazette) ... One resident is unhappy with the choice of BRT for the the Corridor Cities Transitway. (Patch) (Comment)
And...: Sand Box John has some renderings of the Dulles Airport Silver Line station ... Could something like the Baby Cafe in Tokyo, which creates space for both children and adults, work here? (Child Mode) ... The free, temporary art exhibition Artomatic opens tomorrow in Crystal City. (RPUS) (Comment)
And...: If you thought 7th & H or M & Wisconsin are busy pedestrian intersections, check out Tokyo's Shibuya district. (Atlantic) ... 4 Orange/Blue stations on Capitol Hill will close for the weekend. (Post) ... With new spokesperson Dan Stessel, WMATA is now Tweeting back to customers @metroopensdoors. (Comment)
Tokyo molded itself well: Researchers grew some slime mold around food sources arranged like the map of Tokyo's rail stations, and discovered that eventually the mold coalesced into a network of lines resembling Tokyo's. Many articles said "maybe this means mold is better than planners," but what it really tells us is that Tokyo's designers did a good job laying out their system. (MSNBC, Steven) (Comment)
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