Some holiday viewing…

Stuart Brand’s “How Buildings Learn”, a 6-part BBC series from 1997 about what systems, often overlooked by architects, take hold of a building after it is built.

Totally applicable 13 years later for architects, designers, and web designers as we wonder why our “perfect” designs evolve once they are out in the real world.

Train goes through Thai market! Unbelieveable!

• The energy and resources needed to build one medium-sized car could produce 100 bicycles.


• 95% of a car’s energy goes towards moving the car itself, and only 5% to moving the passenger—vs. a 30-lb. bicycle: 83% of the energy goes towards transporting the rider, not the vehicle

• Traffic congestion wastes three billion gallons of gas a year.


• AAA of Minnesota puts the annual cost at $7,754 for 2003 for a vehicle driven 15,000 miles.


• Thirty percent of morning traffic is caused by parents dropping their kids off at school.


• The design capacity for a freeway lane is roughly about 1,500 persons/hour.


• Each fully loaded 18-wheeler does nearly as much damage to a roadway as 9,600 automobiles


• The number of trips taken on foot has dropped 42% in the last 20 years.


• On average, states spent just 55 cents per person of their federal transportation funds on pedestrian projects in the years studied, less than 1% of their total federal transportation dollars. Average spending on highways came to $72 per person.

via Treehugger

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