World Streets Weekly - Edition of 4 April 2011

Weekly Edition of 4 April 2011

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Stop press! Carsharing is apparently not dead after all.*

Eric Britton, editor | 1 April 2011 at 14:01 | Categories: carshare, op-ed, Europe, collaboration | URL:
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We always enjoy a good knock-up on World Streets. Keeps us thinking.

After yesterday's piece in which Nicolas le Douarec undertook to stretch
our minds and challenge us to consider carsharing from some other
perspectives, including apparently in a coffin, we hear today from an old
friend Michael Glotz-Richter from Bremen who has been orchestrating
carsharing in his city and trans-European collaboration in the field for the
last decade, running an EU program which currently goes by the somewhat mystifying acronym of momo
(see below). Here is what Michael has to say about yesterday's reported corpse.

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Carsharing is dead, long live . . . car rental?

Eric Britton, editor | 31 March 2011 at 10:23 | Categories: Cars, carshare, Europe, mental model, op-ed | URL:
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We have been reading and hearing quite a bit in the French media, and
in particular in the context of the city of Paris's ambitious planned Autolib
project , that "carsharing is dead in France". Which came as something of
a surprise given that our own read of the evidence does not at all square
with this position. So we asked Nicolas le Douarec, who has something of
a record in bringing carsharing to Paris, what he thought about that death
warrant. His heady response follows.

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Sempé: A Short History of Social Mobility

Eric Britton, editor | 29 March 2011 at 09:51 | Categories: behavior, Cycling, media, metaphor | URL:
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A Short History of Social Mobility in five small frames - from a

collection of drawings and pastels that first appeared in the
edition “Nothing is easy” (Rien n'est simple) by Jean-Jacques
Sempé, published a century ago in 1962. But even back then the
message was howlingly clear. Amazing to think of how little it is
understood two generations later, even though the indisputable
proof is right before our eyes. If only we choose to look.

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Are the telework, telecommuting guys way behind the curve?

Eric Britton, editor | 28 March 2011 at 09:52 | Categories: editorial, Telemobility | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1t6

I have the feeling, but admittedly in some ignorance. . . that the telework,
telecommuting guys may be way behind the curve. That is, quite possibly not
quite up to the challenge of the times.

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World Streets Weekly: Edition of 28 March 2011

Eric Britton, editor | 28 March 2011 at 08:03 | Categories: Weekly edition | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1t1

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This week's titles:

26 March: Honk! OpenStreetMap: Visualizing spatial data

26 March: Interview with British Transport Secretary / Attitudes towards the car
25 March: Managing Two and Three-Wheelers in Asia
24 March: Op-Ed. Time to put a stake in the ground (Lahore, Pakistan)
22 March: BMW enters the one-way carsharing market
21 March: The Battle for the Streets of New York City

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