Sunday reading 16 October 2016
Welcome back to Sunday reading. One of the best things I’ve read in the last few weeks is a 2014 article about water in the New Zealand Geographic. Dave Hansford tells the story of New Zealand’s water problems: “Liquidation“. It’s a broad-ranging and troubling tour through a policy with some sizeable benefits: Some sizeable costs: And some vexing questions about the way that our society and economy works: Read it in full.…
7 Comments Sunday reading 9 October 2016
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here is a collection of stories I found interesting over the week. Add your links in the comments section below.
Here’s another study that quantifies the health benefits of cycling – “Bike lanes are a sound public health investment“, Fox News Health.…
Sunday reading 2 October 2016
Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week, we’re starting with an important article that all of our readers who work in the transport planning field should read in full and share with their colleagues. David Levinson (Transportist) writes about “Dogfooding: why transit employees and managers should use transit“:
The term “dogfooding”, derived from “eating your own dog food”, is popular in the tech sector, and implies that a company should use its own products wherever it can.…
Sunday reading 25 September 2016.
Hello, and welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here are a collection of articles, videos and commentary I found interesting over the week. Please add your own links in the comments section.
Here is a good article on the illogic of sprawl from a fiscal standpoint.…
Sunday reading 18 September 2016
Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week, we’re starting with two bits of authentic Kiwiana. First, in Stuff Henry Cooke reviews New Zealand’s best and worst town slogans. You’ve got to read the entire article for the full effect, but here were some of my favourite ones: MOST IMPROVED: THE HUTT
Someone once suggested a slogan for the wider Hutt area “Right up my Hutt Valley,” which sounds like a joke the marketing agency pitched by accident.…
Sunday reading 11 September 2016
Here’s this week’s Sunday Reading. Please add any interesting links in the comments below. Have a great day. When you learn that Pawnee from #ParksandRecreation is actually just Christchurch pic.twitter.com/kML8Sqayxy
— Jordan T. (@Xenojay) September 5, 2016 Here’s a disappointing story about how “micro-housing” one of Seattle’s innovations used to address housing affordability and choice has lost in a war of attrition. …
Sunday reading 4 September 2016
Welcome back to Sunday reading. Our lead article: sheep.
A Guardian article by Will Coldwell describes how the Faroe Islands have developed Google SheepView to map their landscape:
Living across 18 tiny sub-polar islands in the north Atlantic, Faroe islanders are used to working in difficult conditions.…
Sunday reading 28 August 2016
Hi y’all and welcome to Sunday Reading. Here’s a collection of stuff I found interesting over the week. Please add your links in the comments below.
Whoops, we forgot to build housing. During all the backslapping about the urban renaissance it has become clear that not providing/allowing for housing has crippled the opportunity engine of city living. …
Sunday Reading 21 August 2016
why Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week, let’s start with a look at one of nature’s hardest-working organisms: the urban tree. In the New Yorker, Alex Hutchinson asks: what is a tree worth? The emerald ash borer, which has killed a hundred million trees across North America in recent years, offers a grim natural experiment.…
Sunday reading 14 August 2016
Hi, and welcome back to Sunday Reading.
The 25th of July marked the 100th anniversary of zoning. Increasingly zoning is being attributed to a growing number of city ills including low productivity, segregation, and reducing economic mobility. Just as conventional traffic engineering (eg.…
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