A quick look look at some stats that make urban chicken farming in your city work (or not): Number of chickens raised annual for meat and eggs: 50 billion Percentage of world’s poultry meat raised using intensive farming techniques: 74 Worldwide chicken to human ratio: 16:9 Number of varieties of domestic chickens: 150 Hours of...
A quick look at some of the things that makes sizzling summer days in your city intolerable (or not): Percentage of Earth’s surface covered by urban area: 3 First year UHI (Urban Heat Island) effect was discovered: 1810 Number of times concrete can hold more heat than equivalent volume of air: 2000 Percentage of New York’s...
A quick look at some of the things that make Urban Vertical Farming in your city work (or not): Average distance ingredient in a meal in US is grown away from home: 1500 miles Amount of energy global industrial food system accounts for in worldwide fossil fuel consumption: 21% Number of farmer markets in US...
A quick look at some of the things that make Parking in your city work (or not): Most expensive parking spot in Toronto: $100,000 Most expensive city to park: London Cost of Ferrari 458 Italia: $320,000 USD Cost of parking spot near Harrods in London: $320,000 USD Cost of parking per hour: $7 Time...
A quick look at some of the things that make Maglevs work (or not): Year maglev trains were first patented: 1934 Years until first commercial maglev available: 50 Year the world’s first commercial high-speed maglev opened in Shanghai: 2004 Energy consumption of high speed rail travelling at a speed of 300km/hr: 51 watt hours per...
Note: Nick Chu is presently on vacation in China but still managed to smuggle the follow observations out from behind The Great Firewall. A quick look at some of the things that make urbanism in China work (or not) – all stats from The Concrete Dragon by Thomas J. Campanella: Length of Shanghai’s Inner...
Note: Nick Chu is presently on vacation in China but still managed to smuggle the follow observations out from behind The Great Firewall. A quick look at some of the things that make urbanism in China work (or not) – all stats from The Concrete Dragon by Thomas J. Campanella: Percentage of Chinese population living...
A quick look at some of the things that make bike-sharing work (or not): Number of bike share programs worldwide: 200 Number of bike-sharing schemes earning yearly profits: 0 Number of US cities with Bike Share programs: 10 Number of bikes in Washington’s bike share program: 1,000 Number of members: 12,000 Cost of subsidization per...
A quick look at some of the things that make free public transportation work (or not): Arguably, the most successful free public transportation initiatives in the world: Hasselt, Belgium Year free public transportation was first implemented there: 1996 Cost per household to implement free transportation in Hasselt: 22.64 Euros ($32 USD) Urban bus rides per year before free...
A quick look at some of the things that make small (or big) space living work (or not): American home size in 1950: 983 sq.ft. Minimum home size in New York State: 900 sq.ft. In Hillsborough, California: 2500sq.ft. How to stick it to the man (i.e. Hillsborough): Home on wheels Size: 130 sq.ft. Year...