4x4 Returns!

floooooooooooooooood!

Finally I heard back from the Environment Agency today, they provided me with some pretty interesting stuff including the above image.

bikespot - initial image

bikespot - concept image

living library - precedent - kids republic bookstore

bikespot - precedent - velo-city

Velo-City is an elevated bikeway, enclosed in tubes to provide protection for all season cycling. The tubes create a natural tail wind which reduces air resistance and increases speed. Cyclists can zip through a network of tubes like lab rats and resurface at various exit points in the street.

bikespot - precedent - bikedispenser

Cyclists pay a small fee to hire a bike, and then they can take it where they please. Once they’ve finished, they can return it either to that machine, or another one across town. And because they’ve been fitted with RFID tags, they won’t all have been nicked before you can get one.

liverpool, capital of culture?

it's been two years since i last made a trip to liverpool but visiting the Le Corb exhibition over the weekend i notice the change is outstanding, the city seems to have been transformed through a series of key high quality new landscaped routes which run through recently opened retail developments, high quality top notch stuff! very impressed.

American Library Bill of Rights Excerpt

The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.
I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
II. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
III. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
V. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
VI. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/statementspols/statementsif/librarybillrights.cfm

thought for the day. . libraries are not just an institution but a pheonomenon in society

The Leeds Library is the oldest subscription library in the UK, could this form a collaboration with the Living+Library?

There as 53 Libraries in Leeds but none are specialist children's ones.

Leeds Central Library currently houses a number of collections which could also be tied into a collaboration with Living+Library archives

• The Gott Bequest of Early English Gardening Books
• The Forton Collection of Judaica
• The Gascoigne Militaria Collection

The four main areas that living library needs to encompass are:

• Collection - Childrens Literature with Archive Storage for special collections or first editions
• Current and future use
• Modes of access to information
• The future of libraries in a digitalised world

define/REDEFINE/propose

a collaboratie with karl/rick

DEFINE/redefine/propose

a collaborative with karl/rick

twinned cities

just for interest. . .a quick look at the similarities and differences between the many cities that leeds is twinned with. a collaborative with ollie/karl/seyed/sunil/sunny/yassar/abby

disecting briggate

collaborating with - ollie/karl/seyed/sunil/sunny/yassar/abby