Jul
30
2010
Image credit: Associated Press
From
Pamela Anderson stripping people at airports via
women donating their bodies for barbecue to
making fun of fat women, PETA is no stranger to using women's bodies to make their case for animal rights. But, perhaps wisely, they were unusually restrained when they too...
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Jul
25
2010
A rendering of the future system. Image credit: Amman BRT.
Having already begun to
reclaim its sidewalks for pedestrians, the city of Amman, Jordan is setting out to reclaim its streets from traffic chaos.
The Jordan Times reported this month that construction is underway on a new
Bus Rapid Transit system in centr...
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Feb
26
2010
Istanbul sidewalks aren't the sole province of pedestrians. Photo by Jennifer Hattam.
Sidewalks in Istanbul, when they do exist, are often narrow, uneven, rutted, and frequently torn up entirely, forcing
pedestrians into the street to dodge fast, erratically moving cars. So it doesn't seem all that hyperbolic to me when
New York Times writer Michael Slackman describes Amman's "new, flat sidewalks that do not end suddenly, for no apparent reaso...
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