archive for March, 2012

what the kusttram is to Belgium the Gaza marathon is to the Palestinian territories

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

so it turns out that, since last year, they have a marathon in the gaza strip. even better, this is the only marathon which covers the entire coast of a state territory (much like Belgium is the only county in the world that has a tram running along it’s entire coastline). the Volkskrant article that […]

Rio de Janeiro as a smart city

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

the New York Times has a longish article portraying the Operations Center of the City of Rio that has been build by IBM’s smarter cities unit. In the article both the city of Rio de Janeiro and IBM portray the operations center as some kind of magic wand that enables the benevolent city government to […]