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Bringing the lab to the streets

By Kat Austen

3 August 2011

BMW Guggenheim Lab, 33 East First Street, New York City, until 16 October

LIKE an increasing number of Londoners, I cycle to work every day through hectic traffic, navigating busy roads and passing huge cement trucks, heavy goods vehicles and darting pedestrians. In two years I have seen two cyclists crushed. So, why take my life in my handlebars? It is about comfort: I can’t stand the tube, the bus is too crowded and it takes too long to walk.

This is precisely the kind of thought process that journalist and self-described “urban experimentalist” Charles Montgomery wants to study. As…

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