Commentary on urbanism and nonprofit communications by Jeff Muckensturm.
Engineers at MIT are finishing up their City Car design. The City Car is, according to CNet, “envisioned as a two-seater electric vehicle powered by lithium-ion batteries. It would weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds and could collapse, then stack like a shopping cart with six to eight fitting into a typical parking space. It isn’t just a car, but is designed as a system of shared cars with kiosks at locations around a city or small community.”
This week’s episode of This American Life was about mapping. While people normally only use maps to get directions, the subjects of this episode map sounds, tastes, and smells.
You’ll find a map of houses with Halloween pumpkins shows more about income than you might think.
Link: Mapping
City Invincible has been lacking in content lately. Not because I lost interest, but because I’ve been so busy. I recently took a month-long trip to India, got a new job, and adopted a greyhound.
But I want to get things going again. My plan is to continue to monitor news about poverty, development, work, and housing. The “Selected News” section on the right has articles, found from all over the web, I suggest for reading and is updated almost daily. You can subscribe to it as an RSS feed in addition to this site’s RSS feed.
The main posts of this site will be more sporadic. During the week, I’ll write a few posts on really interesting news stories (maybe one or two). On weekends I’ll write longer commentary pieces about the week’s news.
Also, I started an actively growing NewsVine group called Urban Vine. There, we share stories about urban issues. Users vote on articles they like and the most voted-on articles make it to the front page. The goal is to get urban issues into the forefront. Please consider joining our group.
So don’t give up on me yet. There will be plenty more to come.