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When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders

Today it is a commonplace that the automobile represents freedom. But to many Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.

Written on: 08/04/25:
Filed under: design Urban Walking Books

The Pedestrian

To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.

Written on: 07/01/25:
Filed under: design Urban Books

Foundations

Foundations – Why Britain has stagnated Setting the scene. Here are some facts to set the scene about the state of the British economy.

Written on: 02/10/24:
Filed under: design Urban economics

Work In Progress

Works in Progress is a magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world.

Written on: 05/09/24:
Filed under: design Urban economics

Occasional-Paper-6-Traffic-and-towns

This paper offers a number of conclusions that policy makers would do well to heed in an election year. In the context of moves to devolve decision-making powers to cities and localities, an opportunity is identified to take a much more ambitious stance than has hitherto been possible

Written on: 16/07/24:
Filed under: design Urban travel

On A Road to Nowhere? Military Urbanism and the Architecture of Segregation

For example, the “Westlink” section of highway, which forms a physical “cordon sanitaire” alongside west Belfast, significantly reduced connectivity to the city center

Written on: 09/05/24:
Filed under: design Urban politics

One False Move

in 1971, we found that 80 per cent of 7 and 8 year old children were allowed to go to school on their own. By 1990, this figure had dropped to 9 percent.

Written on: 07/05/24:
Filed under: design Urban Books Behaviour

THE URBAN IDIOT: Radburn

In Radburn the entire layout was predicated on cul-de-sacs and the street network was confined to history.

architecture design Urban

Gordon Cullen Archive

Gordon Cullen, an alumnus and renowned illustrator, urban theorist, planner and architect. Illustrator of Traffic in Towns.

Written on: 03/05/24:
Filed under: architecture design Urban

A blueprint for better state investment

Until recently, the Irish State did not have to be good at investment. That’s because, before the 1990s, Ireland quietly dwindled. It didn’t have to get good at building homes and transport systems for a growing population because it had a shrinking population.

Written on: 29/01/24:
Filed under: design Urban economics

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