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"exico City has over 1,500 ya-kinda-just-gotta-know-about-them bus routes making up one of the largest bus systems in the world. The buses, or "peseros," are the primary mode of public transit in the city, accounting for 60 percent of Mexico City's commutes. That's 14 million rides a day. But nobody knows exactly where all of the buses go. There is no official route map. Pinning down the system and all its routes presents a daunting task, but this month, a group of collaborators achieved it by creating a citywide participatory mobile app game. They relied on crowdsourcing, cell phones and algorithms to make it happen."

"En attendant demain, testez le GPS fait pour vous perdre. Développé par Nogo Voyages, ce GPS 6.0 vous propose une errance totale dans les lieux que vous pensiez connaître. A mille lieux des chemins tout tracés et des automatismes, on s'abandonne à la machine, guidé vers des territoires inconnus, sans autre but que le voyage lui-même. Votre trajet est déterminé aléatoirement et recalculé sans cesse pour vous éviter de revenir sur vos pas. "

" When you jump into a taxi the first thing you do is telling the driver where to go. That's not exactly the case with these Converse-branded cabs that are currently driving around the dark streets of Amsterdam. "This is a ticket to a gig tonight. Stop this car and get in" says the text that's spray-painted on each of the black Fiat Pandas. If you stumble upon a cab with its light on green, you're able to stop it and get in. The driver of the Converse Ticket Cars will take you to a concert somewhere in Amsterdam, but you don't know where you will be taken to until the moment you arrive at the venue and get free two tickets for a gig that's taking place that night. The destinations include some of Amsterdam's famous night clubs and concert halls, such as Paradiso, Bimhuis, and Bitterzoet."

"hether you're new to a city like Amsterdam, with its spider-web complexity, or simply failed to learn your left from right, cycling a bicycle around a fast-paced, unfamiliar place can be pretty off-putting."

"La multiplication des modes de déplacement amène à repenser l'espace public. Or favoriser une compatibilité entre les différentes composantes de cette multimodalité conduit les villes à envisager un ralentissement de la vitesse et à redonner toute leur place aux piétons."