Sunday reading 17 January 2016
Sunday reading! I wanted to lead off the week with two important articles on migration. But first, here’s an amusing comment about technological progress: Something to consider tonight when you're paying for the taxi home@thegooglecar pic.twitter.com/NLZpcZGW41
— NZ Horse Network (@Nzhorserec) December 31, 2015 Back on topic, Michal Ignatieff wrote a great article in the New York Review of Books on “the refugees and the new war“.…
22 Comments Unitary Plan zone changes
In recent weeks the Herald would have you believe that the council bogeymen are about to turn up on your doorstep in the middle of the night and force you to turn your house into a “highrise” three storey terraced house or apartment – note: even just using the terms three storey and high-rise together is utter stupidity.…
I want to be a super transport model …
In Matt’s recent post about MoT’s work on the future of transport, there was an interesting little side-discussion about transport models, and in particular the travel demand forecasts which emerge therefrom.
We’ve previously written about the accuracy of transport models when used for project evaluation purposes. …
Sunday reading 11 October 2015
Welcome back to Sunday reading. The most interesting thing I’ve read this week is actually about macroeconomics, rather than urban issues. As it deals with trends in Asia, a region that we’re now economically intertwined with, it’s still worth thinking about.…
Exclusive NZ screening: Bikes vs Cars
This information has been cross posted from CAA.org.
The documentary Bikes vs Cars has been grabbing attention around the world for the last few months, but we haven’t had a chance to see it – until now.
Luckily, Bike Devonport has scored the first (and so far only!)…
Briefing Papers 9: Housing and transport: proximity matters
AUT’s Briefing Papers initiative has kindly allowed us to syndicate their recent series on housing. I wrote the ninth paper in the series:
The decisions that individuals and societies make about housing are deeply linked to decisions about transport. The ways in which people get around are affected by where they live and how their neighbourhoods are designed.…
Guest Post: $1 billion Fletcher/Crown housing development — Christchurch CBD – Part 2
This is part two in a five part series of guest posts on the Christchurch rebuild from reader Brendon Harre. It first appeared on the Making Christchurch blog.
You can read Part 1 here.
Part 2. The Crown/Fletcher development within the context of the Christchurch rebuild and national economy
This is the hoped for Christchurch after the CBD is successfully developed.…
Sunday reading 19 July 2015
Yonah Freemark, “For rail services, downtown sometimes isn’t the right place for a terminus“, The Transport Politic:
There’s a romantic notion of the downtown rail terminal in the American popular culture, often expressed in movies and books. It’s a scene that is easy to conjure up in one’s mind: The steaming locomotive comes slowly to a halt at the end of a track, passengers stream out into a giant waiting room, and from there they exit into the bustling metropolis.…
Sunday reading 12 July 2015
Matt Yglesias, “Here’s what the world would look like if every country had the same population“, Vox:
Maps are a great way to illustrate the world, but I’ve always been fascinated by maps that illustrate worlds that might have been. To me, redditor frayuk’s new map of the world divided into 200 countries with equal populations hits both of those bugs.…
Sunday reading 5 July 2015
Emily Badger, “The Pope’s wise advice on traffic, parking, and public transport“, Washington Post:
Here the Pope is arguing that our communities have been spoiled by all our cars:
The quality of life in cities has much to do with systems of transport, which are often a source of much suffering for those who use them.…
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