Mid-week reading: Burglaries, governance, and managing change
Mid-week reading!
One of the more thought-provoking things I read this week was Patrick Lyons’ interview (in Vice) with Geoff Manaugh, who runs the incredibly interesting website BLDGBLOG and who has just written a book on burglary. Manaugh argues that burglary is an essentially architectural crime:
A Burglar’s Guide to the City takes a look at our everyday urban environments through the eyes of the criminals aiming to hack them, illuminating the spatially-specific tactics used to break in, escape, and stay hidden in today’s surveillance-heavy metropolises.…
28 Comments A brief CRL history in cartoons
It’s taken some time but last week the government finally came around to starting the City Rail Link in 2018. In the end they were effectively forced into the position as they could no longer ignore the rapidly increasing ridership .…
A Brilliant Invention
By Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig…
Motor Mania
I think we’ve posted this before however it’s worth repeating. This cartoon from Disney in 1950 on how we so often change to be much more angry and arrogant when we get behind the wheel of a car. Of course lets not forget the other Disney classic, the Magic Highway.…
Photo of the day: Clearing the weeds
An excellent cartoon from Andy Singer on how our cities have treated Transport over the last few decades.…
You really want more roads
Another great cartoon from Emerson in response to the governments package of rural roading projects…
Great Transport Cartoons
Over the years there have been a few great cartoons about transport, here are a few of them. Most are from the Herald.
28 April 2014 – NZ Herald – the day the first electric trains started running. 9 March 2013 – NZ Herald – In response to the Auckland’s desire for more investment in public transport.…
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