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Feb. 04, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Street art in Ecuador

On one street in Otavalo (a town about two hours north of Quito), the lamp posts have faux stained glass…
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Feb. 03, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Lima and Quito, briefly

I had the opportunity to spend 4 days in Lima and 2 days in Quito, but only briefly had my…
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Jan. 08, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Making room for automobiles in the '40s

Jason Vanderhill, collector and historian extraordinaire, posted this newspaper clip on FB about the pending demise in 1946 of a…
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Dec. 20, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Tech uber cyclists

From The Guardian: another kind of collateral damage as tech marches on…. Despite threats of legal action from the department…
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Dec. 19, 2016 / michaelkluckner

The "access economy," not the "sharing" one.

The linked article came in as a response by reader Sylvain to an earlier post about how “sharing” is fuzzy-talk…
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Dec. 13, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Language spin #2: the gig economy

If the billionaires behind Uber and Car2Go can offer “ride shares” and “car shares,” as in an earlier post, how…
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Dec. 11, 2016 / michaelkluckner

How did "rent" become "share"?

One of the recent triumphs of branding has been the acceptance of the word “share” for what is, in reality,…
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Dec. 08, 2016 / michaelkluckner

"Our Driverless Future"

Sue Halpern writes insightfully about technology for the New York Review of Books. Below are a few excerpts from an…
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Nov. 23, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Are we becoming "as helpless as a rich man's child," as Dylan once said?

Richard Glover hosts the “Drive” show on ABC Sydney and writes an occasional opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald;…
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Nov. 22, 2016 / michaelkluckner

The end of the old Aussie dream?

“The Sydney of 2026 will have crossed over that magical Australian barrier of the love affair with the motor vehicle,”…
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Oct. 23, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Snapshots from France

Pictures of the self-driving free bus that runs around the Confluence district in Lyon… It putters along the quiet roadway…
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Sep. 15, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Is the party over?

From today’s Sun: Figures prepared for Postmedia by Juwai.com, a popular website in China that connects investors with international home sellers…
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Sep. 09, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Modernist Archive

Something to fill those pending rainy days – thanks to Jak King for the tip. All across America, architecture magazines…
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Aug. 30, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Rethinking the Viaducts

A very well-argued piece by Kenneth Chan on Daily Hive. The article is divided into several sections, with subtitles: 1.…

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