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Idealog—in the ideas business

  • Straddling traffic congestion

    2010-09-03 11:45:43 // // The Idealog Blog
    What better way to optimise road space and ease traffic jams than by creating a bus that doesn’t require its own lane, but rather drives over cars on the road? The "three-dimensional fast bus" allows cars less than 2 meters high to travel underneath the upper level carrying passengers, and it's coming to Beijing.
  • Urbanisation gets interactive

    2010-07-13 17:10:35 // // The Idealog Blog
    The 220,000 square meter pedestrian-oriented Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing was designed as a means of countering the numerous privatised urban developments in China, and at the same time, encouraging interactive relationships in public spaces.