# high speed train (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover high speed train. Page: Feed: --- ## [watching the eclipse](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/watching-the-eclipse/) _2026-08-20 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ ## [流氷ドラフト\[Abashiri Okhotsk Blue Ryuhyo Draft\]](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/%e6%b5%81%e6%b0%b7%e3%83%89%e3%83%a9%e3%83%95%e3%83%88abashiri-okhotsk-blue-ryuhyo-draft/) _2026-08-20 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ ## [and it is getting worse… \[verbatim\]](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/and-it-is-getting-worse-verbatim-4/) _2026-08-18 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ “In many cases we were requiring 72 jabs for our beautiful, healthy, lovely, delicate little children“ — DT, 10 Aug. 2026 “\[Autism\] is many, many times what it used to be years ago, and it gets progressively worse. And we had progressively more and more vaccines” — DT, 10 Aug. 2026 “A vaccination looks like the \[…\] ## [a journal of the Hugo year (post ultimum, flight mode)](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/a-journal-of-the-hugo-year-post-ultimum-flight-mode/) _2026-08-17 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ Still banking on the Hugo Award package, as I realised the Best series category also cames with most of the novels, I started reading th Goblin King series, by Katherine Addison, quickly realising I had already read (and enjoyed) the first volume. Thanks to being stuck in Sapporo airports for an unspecified duration, I went \[…\] ## [Магучіх синій та золотий \[B’ham European Athletics 2026\]](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/%d0%bc%d0%b0%d0%b3%d1%83%d1%87%d1%96%d1%85-%d1%81%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%96%d0%b9-%d1%82%d0%b0-%d0%b7%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%be%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%b9-bham-european-athletics-2026/) _2026-08-16 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ Over the past two days, I watched some events at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham (if on TV). Partly due to the heat that hugely reduced my range of options. And partly in reminiscence of the 2024 Championships in Rome. Among the amazing feats, Jimmy Gressier’s lead on most of the 5,000m, if not \[…\] ## [post-vacation tee-shirt design](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/post-vacation-tee-shirt-design/) _2026-08-15 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ ## [Round-robin (with Claude)](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/round-robin-with-claude/) _2026-08-14 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ A few days ago I had a coffee in Paris with my long-time friend (and former Statistics & Computing editor) Gilles Celeux, and he mentioned me stopping solving and posting maths puzzles like those weekly published by Le Monde. They have indeed vanished with the retirement of the authors, but Gilles added that the arrival \[…\] ## [piano tuners on France Inter](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/piano-tuners-on-france-inter/) _2026-08-13 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ During the summer months, the Belgian physicist Fabrizio Bucella delivers a daily and funny unit of wisdom every morning just before 8am (CET) on the French public radio. Often addressing every day question to uncover a scientific principle. A recent morn, he mentioned Fermi’s estimates, which is a numerate way to guess(timate) a physical quantity \[…\] ## [BayesComp²⁰²⁷ mirror in Aussois](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/bayescomp%c2%b2%e2%81%b0%c2%b2%e2%81%b7-mirror-in-aussois/) _2026-08-12 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ Here we go! We have just completed the webpage for the BayesComp 2027 mirror conference in Aussois, French Alps, and launched the call for contributions. This meeting mirrors the main BayesComp 2027 conference, held in Texas on the same week. As such, it will broadcast live and delayed sessions from the main conference, including plenary \[…\] ## [BAYST 2027 \[01-03/03, Karlsruhe\]](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/bayst-2027-01-03-03-karlsruhe/) _2026-08-11 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RttAb6GKZuf9) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## [岡崎の矢作橋 \[ISBA 2026\]](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/%e5%b2%a1%e5%b4%8e%e3%81%ae%e7%9f%a2%e4%bd%9c%e6%a9%8b-isba-2026/) _2026-08-10 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ ## [風不死岳 \[jatp\]](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/%e9%a2%a8%e4%b8%8d%e6%ad%bb%e5%b2%b3-jatp/) _2026-08-09 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ ## [women’s circle \[women behind the lens\]](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/womens-circle-women-behind-the-lens/) _2026-08-08 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ ## [back from Japan \[flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict\]](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/back-from-japan-flotsam-jetsam-lagan-and-derelict/) _2026-08-07 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ Our last day in Japan was wrecked by Japan Airlines, as our JAL flight from Sapporo to Tokyo Haneda got delayed by five hours… The worst part was being kept in the dark about the delay till the initial departure time and then more as the actual departure time was only given hours later. An \[…\] ## [never again](https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/never-again/) _2026-08-06 · xi'an · Xi'an's Og_ ## [Forests: The Climate Infrastructure We Keep Underestimating](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2026/07/forests-climate-infrastructure-we-keep.html) _2026-07-17 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ Why Forests Matter to the Climate While I write this, New York, Baltimore, DC and large parts of the US are under a code red or purple air quality alert casting everything into an otherworldly light from pollution caused by smoke drifting south from massive Canadian wildfires. Another reason to think about forests, their benefits and the risks when they die. Next to the oceans, forests are the… ## [AI Can Draw Anything. Frei Otto Shows Why It Shouldn't.](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2026/06/ai-can-draw-anything-frei-otto-shows.html) _2026-06-28 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ During my time studying architecture the architect-engineer and Pritzker Prize winner Frei Otto was a full time professor at my alma mater, the University of Stuttgart and his Institute of Institute for Lightweight Structures was a flagship for innovation. He designed structures guided by gravity not ego, and like Buckminster Fuller before him he was guided by the credo of doing more with less. In… ## [The Architecture of Belonging - Why Cities Need it More Than Ever](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-architecture-of-belonging-why.html) _2026-05-22 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ What Makes a Good Third Place? In my brother’s hometown of historic Herrenberg, Germany (population 34,000), running for office—he serves on the city council—involves setting up a stand on the central market square. City hall, a church, and stately half-timbered medieval gabled buildings frame an irregular plaza in the center of town whose spatial quality rivals the Piazza del Campo in Siena,… ## [Clean Streets, Empty Blocks: Converting the CBD to a CSD?](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2026/04/clean-streets-empty-blocks-converting.html) _2026-04-28 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ The State of Downtown , according to its boosters, the various downtown BIDs, is always good. To many residents, however their downtown is a rather sad affair, at least since the pandemic. The BIDs continue to clean and sweep with their uniformed "ambassadors" which are a familiar site in many US cities, but the clean streets are largely empty. Retail sales are down, hotel and office occupancies… ## [Apocalypse or Paradise - Where Are We Heading?](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2026/04/apocalypse-or-paradise-where-are-we.html) _2026-04-04 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ The arc of history bends towards progress Most people born after the age of Enlightenment take it for granted that progress is inevitable. Science, technology and medicine lead to ever more health, wealth and mobility. Productivity and education increase hand in hand, only the sky is the limit. Democracy unfolded, social justice and civil and women's rights became goals including more people into… ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Gr3rLPbsE4qj) _2026-04-04 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [High-speed trains switching sides between France and Spain](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2026/04/high-speed-trains-switching-sides-between-france-and-spain/) _2026-04-01 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ I ve written a lot in the past about trains and trams switching from left to right hand running across Europe, but here is a new one: high-speed trains switching sides when crossing the border between France and Spain. Google Maps \[ \] Continue reading ## [A Review of Bruno Carvalho"s Book "The Invention of the Future - A History of Cities"](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-review-of-bruno-carvalhos-book.html) _2026-02-27 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past" Bob Dylan, Bye and Bye Most of human history was static. It was the British physicist David Deutsch in his book "The Beginning of Infinity" who first made me understand that the idea one could invent the future would have been ridiculously foreign to people who repeated what their fathers had done, their grandfathers and so forth. The… ## [Architecture, Philosophy and AI](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2026/01/architecture-philosophy-and-ai.html) _2026-01-31 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ To live is to leave traces (Walter Benjamin, German philosopher) "I f architecture is where most of human existence takes place it cannot fail to be a topic of philosophy " (Graham Harman, American philosopher) Anxiety and Challenges I recently participated in a luncheon with the local AIA Fellows. The prevailing topic was AI: how it will change architectural practice, if it will replace… ## [How Cities Stay Young](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-cities-stay-young.html) _2025-12-12 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ The Perception In my hometown of Baltimore it is a widespread conviction that the redevelopment of former industrial sites adjacent to downtown such as Harbor East, Harborpoint and the further out Port Covington did nothing but suck the lifeblood out of downtown and even out of neighborhoods. The new developments did not only draw residents and jobs out of the old downtown and its neighboring… ## [Quadruple track tramway in Brno, Czechia](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/12/four-track-tramway-brno-czechia/) _2025-12-03 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ I ve written about a few odd track layouts on European tram networks before, but this is something difference a quadruple track tramway in the Czech city of Brno. Photo by Paul Korecky, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-2.0) The section of \[ \] Continue reading ## [Architecture - Nature and Culture in Sri Lanka](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/11/sri-lanka.html) _2025-11-05 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ Your work knows no borders—neither should your professional network. With an AIA membership, you gain access to the world’s largest, most influential network of architects and design professionals. And with more than 200 global chapters, you’ll find connections, opportunities, and support no matter where you are in the world. (American Institute of Architects website ) Sri Lanka Architecture… ## [Model train layouts at German railway stations](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/11/model-train-layouts-at-german-railway-stations/) _2025-11-05 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ Germany has a long long history of both full sized and model railways, and at a number of railway stations across the country they combine the two with coin operated modellerlebniswelten. Wimmelbahn photo A company called Wimmelbahn a play \[ \] Continue reading ## [Back to the Office—or Forward to Something Else?](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/10/back-to-officeor-forward-to-something.html) _2025-10-03 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ In a world where much seems to be going backward, it isn’t just the current federal government asking its workers to return to the office. Recent studies show that especially larger firms now require employees to come back. The benefits of working from home (WFH Research\*) Fortune 100 employees may need to prepare their good-byes to hybrid work. For the first time since the onset of COVID, more… ## [Bicycle trailers on Stuttgart’s trams](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/10/stuttgart-rack-railway-trams-and-bike-trailers/) _2025-10-01 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ In the Germany city of Stuttgart their trams have an interesting feature bicycle trailers! Photo by Joma2411, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0) The bicycle trailers are found on the Stuttgart Rack Railway, a 2.2-kilometre electrified railway opened in 1884 to \[ \] Continue reading ## [Too Loud to Live Well? Noise in Architecture and City Planning](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/09/too-loud-to-live-well-noise-in.html) _2025-09-12 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ The traditional definition of noise is “unwanted or disturbing sound”. Sound becomes unwanted when it either interferes with normal activities such as sleeping, conversation, or disrupts or diminishes one’s quality of life. The fact that you can’t see, taste or smell it may help explain why it has not received as much attention as other types of pollution, such as air pollution, or water… ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/a7mCs3Rbqbwj) _2025-09-12 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Street running trains through the Polish city of Kołobrzeg](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/09/street-running-train-tracks-kolobrzeg-poland/) _2025-09-03 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ Another recent online find that caught my eye was a photo of a train headed along a street in Poland so where was it taken, and why was a train headed along there? Photo by Radek Koleśnik, Kołobrzeg Nasze \[ \] Continue reading ## [Beyond the Fences: the Hidden Costs of Privatized Nature and the Benefits of Access](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/08/beyond-fences-hidden-costs-of.html) _2025-08-14 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ “By natural law, these things are the common property of all: the air, the running water, the sea, and with it, the shores of the sea.” ( Institutes of Justinian , by the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I, published anno 533) Back to Nature - Not as Easy as it Seems Temporary urban beach on a reclaimed industrial site in Baltimore (Photo: Philipsen) Ahh summer! Pack up the camper or the tents, enjoy… ## [Turning a crane into a hotel](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/08/crane-hotel-faralda-amsterdam-netherlands/) _2025-08-06 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ Continue reading ## [Forgotten liveries of the Russian Railways carriage fleet](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/07/russian-railways-branded-train-carriage-liveries/) _2025-07-02 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ When I travelled by trains across Russia back in the early-2010s, the usual livery on the passenger trains I saw was the plain grey of the Russian Railways, with the «РЖД» logo in red across the side. And the oddballs \[ \] Continue reading ## [Leon Krier 1946-2025 - Not a Eulogy](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/07/leon-krier-1946-2025-not-eulogy.html) _2025-07-02 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ "The most important thing in life is to never make compromises (...) because accepting compromises means losing. I have seen it in all my friends who build." (Leon Krier per Architecture Viva ) The Back Story Leon Krier who died in June this year at age 79 had admired his eight years older brother Rob who died in 2023 age 85. Both were architects and both derided modernist architecture and current… ## [The Just City](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-just-city.html) _2025-06-27 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” (Jane Jacobs) Why the Just City? Our cities are ground zero for the tensions, fissures, shortcomings, and successes of our society. Before the pandemic struck, cities seemed to undergo an unstoppable renaissance. Then COVID-19 brought a sharp reversal from which cities… ## [DJ spins the turntables on a turntable](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/06/dj-spins-the-turntables-on-a-turntable/) _2025-06-04 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ DJs are known for spinning tunes on a turntable but what if they themselves were being spun around on a turntable themselves? Well, Slovakian DJ producer Johnny de City did that recently, thanks to Slovak rail operator Železničná \[ \] Continue reading ## [High Stakes: Can Single-Exit Buildings Tackle the Housing Shortage?](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/05/high-stakes-can-single-exit-buildings.html) _2025-05-30 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ Is Housing Overregulated? First, we make the building codes, then they shape our cities, which then shape us. Occasionally, when the codes become too thick and the cost too high, we fight back, as in the quest to lower the cost for multi-family housing by allowing the cheaper wood construction we know from single family homes. Model codes now permit up to six floors in what is aptly called,… ## [Foreign in the US: Placemaking in Puerto Rico's Ciudades Viejas](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/05/foreign-in-us-placemaking-in-puerto.html) _2025-05-03 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ History There is no older architecture anywhere in the Americas and the old towns are quainter even than Quebec City or Montreal. The style is decidedly Hispanic, the people mostly speak Spanish among each other, there is a strong local identity, a blend of native, African, British, Spanish and American cultures. You can get here from the US without a passport, the currency is the US dollar, US… ## [Y-shaped railway sleepers in Germany](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/05/y-shaped-railway-sleepers-germany/) _2025-04-30 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ This photo of a Deutsche Bahn train running through on tracks almost covered by floodwater is quite extraordinary, but when I looked closer it at I found something else I had never seen before Y-shaped railway sleepers. So that s \[ \] Continue reading ## [Cities without transit?](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/04/cities-without-transit.html) _2025-04-18 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ Transit in Crisis Mass transit has always been an afterthought in the US. Sprawling, low-density American land use patterns which replaced the old streetcar villages never allowed it to be efficient. With some short exceptions, such as the development of streetcar villages at the in the early 20th century or the brief period following the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 , as well as the 1991… ## [Building a tourist railway in the mountains above Sochi](https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/04/building-a-tourist-railway-in-the-mountains-above-sochi/) _2025-04-02 · Marcus Wong · Euro Gunzel_ Over the years there have been many examples of former railway lines being turned into roads. But in the Caucasus Mountains above Sochi in Russia the opposite is happening the former Krasnopolyanskoe Highway running through the Akhtsu Gorge is \[ \] Continue reading ## [Wird KI Architekten ersetzen und für digitale Unsterblichkeit sorgen?](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/03/wird-ki-architekten-ersetzen-und-fur.html) _2025-03-31 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ NOTE: The English version of this article can be found here . KI wird Menschen nicht ersetzen, sondern Menschen mit KI werden diejenigen ohne ersetzen (Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School) Der Tod des Architekten wurde bereits mehrfach angekündigt, verdrängt von Ingenieuren, von CAD, von parametrischem Design und jetzt durch Künstliche Intelligenz. Gleichzeitig können wir als unser virtueller… ## [Will AI Replace Architects and Provide Digital Immortality?](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2020/02/how-our-virtual-alter-ego-makes-us.html) _2025-03-28 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ AI will not replace humans but humans with AI will replace those without ( Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School) The death of the architect has been predicted before, killed by engineers, by CAD, by parametric design , and now by AI. At the same time we may achieve immortality as our virtual twin . At architecture conferences sessions addressing AI were packed by people seemingly motivated by… ## [How Design Professionals Can Find the North Star in the Fog of Upheaval](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-design-professionals-can-find-north.html) _2025-02-28 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ Missing Guardrails and Signposts There has been a lot of talk about the missing guardrails that would keep government in check and democracy intact. However, there is less discussion about the suddenly missing guideposts and milestones that disappeared overnight. Professionals who are guided not only by rules, codes, and regulations but also by societal values. Firm in the center of turmoil: The… ## [Beyond the Mall: Creating Authentic Town-Centers and Transit Hubs](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/01/beyond-mall-creating-authentic-town.html) _2025-01-29 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ Invited by ULI to speak about the potential of a failing mall in Baltimore County to become a successful Transit Oriented Development (TOD), and appointed to a Redevelopment Authority which includes a 100 acre failing Mall, motivated me to outline what it takes to transform a mall into an attractive mixed-use, a town-center, or a TOD. A label is no substitute for substance Traditional town center:… ## [Towards a New American Downtown](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2025/01/towards-new-american-downtown.html) _2025-01-10 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ Amazon's requirement to work from the office will not solve the problems of the American downtown that blew up with Covid, the need for cities as places of interaction and innovation notwithstanding. “Amazon is reinforcing the importance of its headquarters’ location in Seattle and signaling that its mission to embrace and foster innovation is not a spatially distributed endeavor but a socially… ## [Is Enlightenment Passé? How Knowledge Can Survive Fear, Irrationality and Rumor](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2024/12/is-enlightenment-passe-how-knowledge.html) _2024-12-19 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ This article explores whether the quest for knowledge is the motor of civilization and if knowledge depends on growth . It addresses current cultural pessimism vs the value of rationalism and the scientific method and culminates in some optimistic vision for the future. “The future is open. It is not predetermined and thus cannot be predicted – except by accident. The possibilities that lie in the… ## [Impressions of Hong Kong](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2024/11/impressions-of-hong-kong.html) _2024-11-07 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ The international chapter of AIA had its annual conference this year in Hong Kong. The conference included presenters from around the world as well as many tours to experience the city and the Territory. I spent a week there. The below impressions are necessarily limited. Towers, mountains and the sea Whether seen form the water, the street or above, Hong Kong is foremost the experience of the… ## [Does Smart Technology Make Us Less Resilient?](https://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2024/10/does-smart-technology-make-us-less.html) _2024-10-04 · Klaus Philipsen · Community Architect_ “We’re often easily distracted by the idea of something new and flashy, but then we learn it’s quite hard to deliver on those promises, and while we’re chasing something flashy, the problems become more entrenched and it becomes harder to deal with them.” ( Shoshanna Saxe , Civil Engineer University of Toronto) The idea that technology will make life not only easier but will also increase…