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'Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town' will Lead the World by Installing Solar Panels and Home-use Storage Batteries in Every Household

We're sorry. This product is no longer available. DETAILS While on a trip to India, some of our team flagged down a rickshaw for a spur-of-the-moment tour of the town. Inspired by the ride and feeling a bit whimsical, we decided to design our own set of wheels, with some very special touches like a collapsible kantha-fabric canopy, handlebar streamers, a bell for brrring-bringing on the bike path and even a headlight that illuminates when the pedals are cranked. An instant conversation starter on the road or on display, we'll bet you're whisked away on the adventure of a lifetime once you hop on - or into - our quixotic carriage. No two are exactly alike.

His is one of only 50 boats out of 1,000 that survived intact — and only because he remembered the advice of old-timers and took it out to sea immediately after the tsunami warning sirens wailed. From the bay, he watched the waves hit his town.

A mapping party is an event in which a group of people get together to map their world. It is often focuses on a specific area such as a town or city and avid cartographers use Google Map Maker to add and edit roads, streams, schools, and more. Following a review for accuracy, new additions and edits are incorporated in Google Maps for millions of other people around the world to see and use.

A road in Naka, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan: left, how it was on the day of the earthquake; right, six days later (17 March) after rapid repairs. Photograph: AP

Prison Valley – France’s ARTE have been very active in funding digital projects. Prison Valley is an interactive documentary about a town in Colorado that has 13 prisons including a Supermax prison. From your base at a motel you can explore the town and the people who live there.

Every part of the process– the stripping of bark from Kozo (Mulberry) branches, the boiling of the bark with lye in huge ovens, careful cleaning of the bark with cold river water, the pounding of the resulting Kozo pulp with pine hammers– each action was performed by the entire town; children, mothers, grandmothers and farmers all participated in the transformation of wood into ‘washi’ (Japanese paper). But only one person, would be responsible for actually drawing the wet paper out of a liquid bath of dissolved Kozo pulp and Tororo-aoi roots (Japanese mountain yam– used to help bind the Kozo).

These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

I now inhabit another edge, not one one side of town, but on the outer banks of the grand archipelago that is the San Francisco Bay Area. Brentwood, CA, 94513, population 52,000 and change, a postmillenial hybrid of central valley farm town, bucolic suburb and struggling node of middle and working class diversity in the face of foreclosure. It is oddly beautiful, especially at dusk, when the central valley light bounces off the foothills of Mount Diablo and almost makes you forget that most of the people and families in the ubiquitous subdivisions are underwater (although this was once an inland sea, I mean they owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth).

Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.

Ichikawadaimon is a small zine/book (32 pages, 8.5” x 5.5”) made by Ye Rin Mok. We are used to admire Ye Rin Mok’s work for her poetical fashion shootings. In this petite book she tells us a story about a small Japanese town, demonstrating once more her ability of creating stories with a representative and lyrical vision. The atmosphere is quiet and contemplative, sometimes broken by eccentric apparitions of dogs or unused, old televisions.