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Rachel Bok

PhD Candidate | Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

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Experiments in traffic planning in Jakarta, Indonesia

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

cities, Jakarta, traffic

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

Asia, China, links

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

Beijing, cities, Jerusalem, power, space, urban transport

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… 

London, maps

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

Chicago, cities, city sounds

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

Bruce Katz, cities, Harvey Molotch, Jennifer Bradley, Michael Storper, urban economies

“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

cities, Middle East, Nezar AlSayyad, social movements

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