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Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever | MIT Technology Review
The Canadian city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong. (2022)
What’s Up with Austin? - David Perell
Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live. Since I moved to town, a bunch of people have asked me, “What’s up with Austin?” This ... (2022)
Superblocks: Barcelona’s radical urban plan to take back streets from cars - Vox
Introducing "superblocks." "In 2016, I wrote a brief story on “superblocks,” a hot new urban-planning idea out of Barcelona, Spain, that would r... (2019)
From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners - Los Angeles Times
SimCity just turned 30. It has introduced millions of players to the joys and frustrations of zoning, street grids and infrastructure funding. For ... (2019)
London Launches 5-Year Plan To Entice More People To Fall In Love With Cycling - Forbes
London launches new 5-year Cycling Action Plan. Interview with Will Norman, London's cycling and walking commissioner. (2018)
$5.25 million Knight Foundation initiative puts people at the center of local self-driving vehicle programs
New investment will support pilot projects in Detroit; Long Beach, California; Miami; San Jose, California; and Pittsburgh (2018)
'For me, this is paradise': life in the Spanish city that banned cars | Cities | The Guardian
In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans (2018)
Electric scooters: why Bird, Lime, Skip, and Spin are taking over cities - Vox
Turns out there’s a lot of latent demand for a quick and cheap way to get around. (2018)
Autonomous Vehicles Might Drive Cities to Financial Ruin | WIRED
American cities rely on car-related fees to fund public transit. But driverless cars might not need to park or fill up on gas—causing the system to... (2018)
Save the Scooters, Redesign the Streets, and Save San Francisco | WIRED
Instead of limiting scooters, officials should rebuild infrastructure with their riders in mind. Because a city made for scooters is a city made fo... (2018)
An Architect Defends the Suburbs - The Atlantic
An architect immerses himself in residential production housing to learn why people like it—and what it can teach Americans about the future of urb... (2018)
Unfortunately, the Electric Scooters Are Fantastic - The Atlantic
But can they succeed despite their essential dorkiness? Should You Ride an Electric Scooter? ... (2018)
Transit Alliance Miami → Where's My Bus? → Service Cuts
With two out of three trips on transit served by buses in Miami, the continued dismantling of the bus system is alarming and misguided. (2018)
A Smart City puts residents at the center - Knight Foundation
Technology is changing cities as we know them. From sensors that track pedestrians and control street lights, to the ways local governments deliver... (2018)
A chance to transform urban planning - The new autopia - The Economist
How autonomous vehicles will reshape cities "MODERN CITIES, PARTICULARLY in America, are habitats for cars as much as people, devoting huge amou... (2018)
How do we define affordable housing? — Strong Towns
How affordability is defined and measured can affect which solutions are implemented. (2018)
Can cars and pedestrians safely share a Miami street? Wynwood will soon find out. | Miami Herald
Wynwood is slated to get Miami’s first “woonerf,” a Dutch-inspired street design in which cars, bikes and pedestrians share the pavement. City comm... (2018)
Cities and Ambition | Paul Graham essay
“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you coul... (2018)
Why it has taken 70 years to build a new runway for London - The Economist explains
ON JANUARY 10th 1946 Britain’s cabinet approved outline proposals for a third runway at Heathrow, London’s main international airport. When Heathro... (2018)
Why Walkable Streets are More Economically Productive
What is the value of a street where people can walk safely? Why build streets that are constructed with the needs of people in mind, not just the n... (2018)
Unlocking urban resiliency by building a collaborative commons - Knight Foundation
Ric Herrero is co-founder and president of MANO, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a sustainable maker culture in the Greater Miami a... (2017)
'Shared Space' Design: Road Signs Suck. What if We Got Rid of Them All? - 99% Invisible
It seems counterintuitive, but there’s evidence that getting rid of signals, signs and barriers might actually make streets a lot safer. Towns all ... (2017)
How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge
Cities encourage potentially devastating floods by laying down asphalt and pavement. Could this be avoided by making them "spongier" and more absor... (2017)
Living on the edge: São Paulo’s inequality mapped
Cities | The Guardian | Life in South America’s largest metropolis is anything but uniform – the city’s core and its periphery are worlds apart ... (2017)
Cable Cars and Urban Renewal in Medellín, Colombia
Cable Cars Are Changing the World – How We Get To Next On the slopes of the seven hills that surround the city of Medellín in Colombia, life is ... (2017)
What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die?
For older, inner-ring suburbs in the Northeast and Midwest, the best hope often lies in merging with the city... Merger with the central city is an... (2017)
When are Citi Bikes Faster than Taxis in New York City?
Over 50% of peak hour taxi trips would be faster as Citi Bike rides, and taxis are only getting slower (2017)
How Chicago Solves its Overheating Problem
How Chicago Solves its Overheating Problem (2024)
Dubai’s Radical Plan For 2040
Is it really possible to fix Dubai? (2023)
How Singapore Solved Housing
How Singapore Solved Housing (2022)
Making It | What It Costs To Live In San Francisco
VICE News Published on Sep 11, 2017 Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Franci... (2019)
TOKYO: Earth's Model MEGACITY
Tokyo is the most successful metropolis in the history of the world with 39 million residents, 50% more people than any other urban area. It is the... (2019)
Where is the world's most liveable city? | The Economist
Where is the world's most liveable city? The Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked 140 cities based on their liveability. Melbourne, Australia, ha... (2019)
What America's shopping mall decline means for social space - Vox
The mall was America’s third place — for better or for worse. Our lives are lived in 1 of 3 places, the home, ... (2018)
Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians. Read ... (2018)
The high cost of free parking | Vox
Vox Published on Jul 19, 2017 Hidden parking rules hurt our cities. Will Chilton and Paul Mackie of Mobility Lab explain. The cities we liv... (2018)
Wooden skyscrapers could be the future for cities | The Economist
The Economist Published on Feb 1, 2018 Wooden skyscrapers are an ambitious and innovative solution to the problems posed by urbanisation. Not... (2018)
7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe | TED
More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The ... (2018)
a16z Podcast: All about Bike Sharing – Andreessen Horowitz
This episode of the a16z Podcast — including city of Dallas councilmember Lee Kleinman, chairman of their Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and S... (2018)
The High Cost of Free Parking - (book) by Donald C. Shoup
American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking ... (2018)