mapping people densities

mapping out across some of the bike lane streets  (pink) some routes that our tourists (yellow) or locals (blue) might take to get around.   Also placing some hexagon footprints near the train stations in a variety of capacities as well.  Some other ones near where a larger train station one might run out of space or bikes and could overflow to a piazza a few blocks away, which may benefit from having a 2-or-3 configuration on its own anyway.
Also looking into Jan Gehl on Caitlin's recommendation who is responsible for designating streets for pedestrians or cycles or whatnot.

...Ninjas on the net

Just so I have this handy for the meeting in an hour and a half, I'd mentioned these diagrams that are posted to the site ArchitectureMNP. Every week they post links to interesting stuff in the NOTN posts, but they(him, her?) always sticks a real interesting map or diagram at the top of each.

All streets in the US.

'objects orbiting earth'.

internet connections in europe

Cartogram showing countries' military spending

Fun stuff to say the least. Check out Ninjas on the Net posts here. There are lots of really interesting things linked in the posts too, though much of it would be only loosely related to what we're working on.

Anyway, i thought some of these might inform our graphic description of the network of bikes throughout danmark. perhaps we could make some approximation of useage and directionality and make a sweet map that could serve as an example of what their traffic analysts and urban planners would see from the incessant stream of RFID and GPS information coming in.

See y'all soon...

...Bike Silo (in the nick of time)

Hey,
I managed to make use of my boss' absence today and bang out a plan and section of the bike silo in CAD. Check it out---->


(click to check out the largeness)

This is a nine story tower of bikes and has a maximum capacity of 270 bicycles (30 per level)!!!! This one is nearly eighty feet tall from the top of the giant cog to the ground; but obviously it can be made lower in conformation with the surrounding structures..

Unfortunately I'm not going to have time to print this out for tonight so I'm e-mailing out a PDF copy of it so we can at least look at it on the computer... Its 1/4"=1'-0" scale on ARCHD paper (24x36)

one more thing

Not really on point with what we're going after, but in the same vein, I think...

TA put on a design competition recently (who knew?) that asked entrants to design infrastructural modifications to NYC to increase the ease and facility of cycling here.


Worth checking out. find it here (via streets blog)