Sunday reading 20 August 2017
Hi, and welcome back to Sunday Reading. A while back someone in the comments section called me out for not including any articles by or about women. Indeed, this is often the case. The urbanism conversation is male defined and dominated.…
41 Comments Sunday reading 13 August 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading.
This week, I’d like to start out with two stories of self-inflicted screwups (by other people).
Self-inflicted screwup number one is Australia’s broadband rollout. As Jennifer Hewett sets out in the Australian Financial Review, it’s gone much worse than ours:
In September 2009, the Key government in New Zealand announced it would invest in an all-fibre, ultra-fast broadband network.…
Sunday reading 6 August 2017
Welcome back to Sunday Reading.
Here’s a very tragic/funny story from Tampay Bay, Florida where public transport executives are asked if they use the buses they are charged with managing. Caitlin Johnston and Taylor Telford, “Even transit leaders don’t rely on their own buses“, Tampa Bay Times.…
Sunday reading 30 July 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading. The most important story of the week was the release of the Ministry of Social Development’s new Household Incomes Report, which provides an update on wealth, poverty, and inequality in New Zealand.
The report confirms that the housing affordability crisis is at the heart of many worsening social outcomes.…
Sunday reading 23 July 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading.
Here are a bunch of housing stories starting with one from the Yale professor Robert W Shiller on the supply constraints responsible for the housing crisis in the States. Robert Shiller, “Why Do Cities Become Unaffordable?“,…
Sunday reading 16 July 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading. The best thing I’ve read this week was a post on Reddit’s Los Angeles sub-forum that outlined how parking requirements make Los Angeles too expensive. Read the whole thing – it’s a fantastic exposition of the invisible costs of seemingly innocuous rules:
EVERYTHING built in LA is defined by parking, whether we like it or not.…
Sunday reading 9 July 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading.
This week I wanted to highlight a few important comments from Yonah Freemark (The Transit Politic). Yonah’s been having a look at the high cost to build infrastructure in the US, and the consequences that has for the quality of more or less everything in American cities.…
Sunday reading 2 July 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading. If the weather forecast is accurate, we should be in for a classic Auckland winter day: overcast, a bit damp, and a bit windy (but not too cold). Good weather to justify doing just about anything, from going for a bush walk to sitting inside with a pot of tea.…
Sunday reading 25 June 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading. It’s been a pretty interesting week in New Zealand politics, if you’ve been reading. But that’s not what this is about, so we’re not going to talk about it.
Here’s a thought-provoking factoid about technological progress, from humanprogress.org:…
Sunday reading 11 June 2017
Hi and welcome back to Sunday Reading.
On Tuesday we helped host a fun event with Bike Auckland and Generation Zero featuring Jeff Tumlin. You can see the images here. We will post the video of the event when it’s available. …
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