ICTs and the global city are not substitutes but complementary, and often modify each other in qualitative new ways.

Beginning in June 2010, a storefront in Coolidge Corner, Brookline, and in Dudley Square, Roxbury will be transformed into large video screens, providing pedestrians of each neighborhood with a portal into one another's worlds. Running 24/7, life-size screen images and AV technology will enable real-time communication between residents of the two neighborhoods.

The BETTER BIKEWAYS signage system was designed with the goals of easy legibility and comprehension in mind.

The system focuses on four categories of information, each of which is denoted by a specific sign format. These categories are:

• NAVIGATION

• CAUTION

• CONNECTIONS

• POINTS OF INTEREST

The link between the urban plan and the body is not obvious on a daily basis but becomes more apparent over time trough the routine. The daily rhythm allows to connect the physical experience with the memory of the activity.

Montreal's Cote St-Luc Collector, named Oval Flow by discoverers Nel and Andrew, is a collector sewer that drains the streets and toilets of a swath of western Montreal. Like many of the systems recently discovered in Montreal, it's very long, very deep, and very full of combined sewage.