One of the greatest misnomers of our times is that roads were built for cars. The cycling world’s leading and best-rounded journalist, Carlton Reid, evidently heard it said one time too many, enough to get 648 Kickstarter […]

The architectural study tour I lead every year naturally takes me to Vicenza, Palladio-land. For an unimaginably low fee, this city has been made into an unimaginable paradise, without the faintest sound of a car or motorbike engine. With a […]

It is good for some European cities that their bicycle modal shares are in the order of one or two thirds. How though would life be made better for me by living in Utrecht or Lund as compared to living in Inner West […]

Every year at this time I drop the bicycle urbanist persona and take a bus load of architecture students on a grand tour of Italy. I have developed quite a routine with a chronological itinerary focusing on the […]

To be fair, if it wasn’t for thousands of other cities that are oil dependent by design, there wouldn’t even be a Dubai. So in one sense it is fitting that Dubai be a celebration of machine […]