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A paper on parking and walkable retail
Here’s my recent working paper Small, local and cheap? Walkable and car-oriented retail in competition. Parts are a bit technical but most of it is policy and, I’d like to think, compulsively readable.
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Why I left America
It’s really depressing to be a pedestrian in an American city. I am reminded by Streetsblog’s contest to find the Worst Intersection in America. Now they’ve announced the winner. Well done, Omaha!
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In paradise, build on the parking lot
Now cars only, soon no cars In a more civilized country this would be entirely unremarkable, but in the city of my birth it’s a sign of great progress: for at least the second time in a year, the San...
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CO2 and shopping: walking better than web, web better than driving
Home delivery of groceries produces far lower CO2 emissions than driving to the supermarket: Erica Wygonik and Anne Goodchild find this in a recent study of the Seattle area (thanks to Tanya Snyder at...
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Such a linear, ordered, minimalist …. purposeful graffito
Book him, Danno. Anthony Cardenas was arrested by Vallejo police for felony vandalism. … Cardenas is in [jail] for painting one crosswalk and adding cross-hatching to the three official ones…. [jail]...
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Green Lanes consultation: deference to traffic
New Green Lanes area traffic consultation is now available. There are some good elements to it, worth supporting, and there are tweaks that are worth proposing. The consulation documents outline some...
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Green Lanes Consultation: Item by Item
Yesterday I blogged about the severe limitations of the Green Lanes Traffic & Transport consultation. There’s a lot in the consultation, however, much of it pretty good, some of it excellent, and...
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For good, affordable food in 15-minute cities, we need public markets
San Benedetto Market, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Google it, or just visit). This 8,000 sq metre market is the largest of four municipal markets in a city of just 150,000 – less than a London borough....
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