Driverless cars – What about the Pedestrians
An interesting article on Citylab highlights something I’ve been saying for a while when it comes to the hype around driverless cars – what about the pedestrians. It’s based of the video (below) from MIT’s Senseable City Lab showing how an urban intersection might work in a world of driverless cars.…
40 Comments The Nation’s Generation Debate
On the Weekend TV3’s The Nation discussed what could end up being one of the defining issues of the next few decades, generational inequality. At its most basic it’s the idea that through various policy decisions older generations have effectively pulled up the ladder behind them on issues such as housing and infrastructure thereby making it much more difficult for younger generations.…
Sunday reading 7 June 2015
Marquette University, “Humanity’s Greatest Invention? Face-to-face with Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City“, Medium. I encourage you to go and read the entire interview – it covers a very wide range of topics: Density matters because we’re a social species geared to learn from people around us.…
The Worlds Most Bike Friendly Cities
A few days ago Copenhagenize released their index for the worlds most bike friendly cities.
The Copenhagenize Index gives cities marks for their efforts towards re-establishing the bicycle as a feasible, accepted and practical form of transport. The interest in taking the bicycle seriously as transport once again continues unabated around the world.…
How Manhattan’s density changed over 210 years
A neat video showing how population density in Manhattan has changed over 210 years. It was created by NYU urban scholars Solly Angel and Patrick Lamson-Hall and shows neighborhood population densities on the island from 1800 to 2010 using historical maps, aerial photographs, and census ward statistics.…
Last chance for a say of Simplified Fares
If you haven’t already make sure you submit of AT’s simplified fare proposal. It’s a nice, quick and easy form to fill in so doesn’t take long. I’ve talked about it here and in general I think the changes are good although there are a few little improvements I think are needed.…
Isolated in the quarter-acre pavlova paradise?
The other week, the NZ Herald reported on some new research into Kiwis’ sense of social connectedness. The results, unfortunately, are fairly dismal:
New research has found that New Zealanders are losing touch with their neighbours – and it’s affecting our wellbeing.…
Helping Our Heritage Come Alive – Parnell Rise
This is an image from Mark Bishop. Here are the previous posts: Queen and Wellesley, Newton Rd, Kingsland, Mt Eden Rd, Dominion Rd, Karangahape Rd, Mt Eden South
These images were developed by merging together various historic black and white photographs (all from the “Sir George Grey Special Collection” – Auckland Library) with contemporary colour photographs taken at the same location.…
Auckland’s new Parking Stategy
Last week Auckland Transport finalised their region wide parking strategy which they first consulted on a year ago. All up AT received more than 5,500 submissions.
The strategy is potentially one of the most important that AT have as parking has huge impacts across a wide range of areas so managing it right is critically important.…
Jean Batten Place time lapse
Through the wonders of modern smartphones I’ve put together a sped up clip of a few minutes activity at a downtown intersection. This shows the intersection of High St, Shortland St and the Jean Batten Pl shared space in action. This clip shows everything, pedestrians crossing every which way, cyclists weaving through queues of traffic, drivers going the wrong way down the street and the inevitable tradesmen doing dodgy u-turns.…
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