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YouTube channel City Beautiful travels to Medellin, Colombia to document a functioning transit system based on urban gondolas. Several proposals could bring similar transit options to the United States, where cities like New York and Portland have already adopted small scale urban gondola use.

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Sources:

• A. The Gondola Project. http://gondolaproject.com
• B. Image via Wikimedia Commons user MO Stevens
• C. Brass, Kevin. 2014. “Transit Planners Look to the Sky with Cable Cars, Gondolas.” Urban Land. https://urbanland.uli.org/industry-sectors/infrastructure-transit/public-transit-takes-sky-cable-car-gondola/
• D. Image via Wikimedia Commons user Presidencia de la Republica Mexicana
• E. Alshalalfah, B., Shalaby, A., & Dale, S. (2013). Experiences with Aerial Ropeway transportation systems in the urban environment. journal of urban planning and development, 140(1), 04013001.
• F. Dávila, J. D., & Daste, D. (2013). Pobreza, participación y Metrocable. Estudio del caso de Medellín. Boletín CF+ S, (54), 121-131.
• G. Alshalalfah, B., Shalaby, A., & Dale, S. (2013). Experiences with Aerial Ropeway transportation systems in the urban environment. journal of urban planning and development, 140(1), 04013001.
• H. Burnett, Victoria. 2016. “Near Mexico City, Cable Car Lets Commuters Glide Over Traffic.” The New York Times.
• I. Cerdá, M., Morenoff, J. D., Hansen, B. B., Tessari Hicks, K. J., Duque, L. F., Restrepo, A., & Diez-Roux, A. V. (2012). Reducing violence by transforming neighborhoods: a natural experiment in Medellín, Colombia. American journal of epidemiology, 175(10), 1045-1053.
• J. Ferguson, Tim. 2017. “Albany-Rensselaer gondola plans move forward.” News10.com. http://www.news10.com/news/albany-rensselaer-gondola-plans-move-forward/1081381586
• K. Georgetown-Rosslyn Gondola Feasibility Study. http://www.georgetownrosslyngondola.com/
• L. Vaccaro, Adam. 2018. “Here’s what the proposed gondola system for the Seaport would look like.” The Boston Globe. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018…
• M. Images via Handel Architects via City of Boston.
• For more information: http://citiscope.org/story/2014/how-medellin-revived-itself-part-2-reclaiming-city-violence

Produced in sunny Sacramento, California. Filmed on location in Medellin, Colombia.

Tags: Cable Cars, City Beautiful, Colombia, D.C., Georgetown, Gondolas, Medllin, New York City, NY, OR, Portland, Washington DC

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