Commuters received an unpleasant surprise last week when Jakarta’s popular governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, temporarily suspended the capital’s three-in-one system, which … More
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China’s vision of a “Silk Road Economic Belt”
Mr. Xi proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt, one of the effort’s pillars, on a Central Asia visit in September … More
on urban transport systems
Recent Guardian pieces on Beijing’s subway and Jerusalem’s light rail: Mao declared the city needed a subway after he visited … More
Mapping London over the years
Saw this on The Guardian on mapping London over the years — just as I’m about to leave London for Singapore…
mapping cities by their aural geographies
Saw this post on Chicago, “the most American of American cities” shared by Richard J. White, and found this paragraph particularly … More
Some popular fallacies of (cutthroat) intercity competition
Harvey Molotch: Zero-Sum Urbanism How then to help cities compete more effectively? I raise my complaint against the question itself. … More
“Urbanists can never afford to be apolitical.”
Urbanists Can Never Afford to be Apolitical: An Interview with Nezar AlSayyad on Urbanization in the Middle East. I think … More
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