The City Corner

"We have laws to ensure sufficient parking, but no laws to ensure sufficient parks."

2020

• In Photos: The Disfigured Urban Landscape of Hong Kong (24 December 2020): The city will never be the same, and you can literally see why.
• Luxury Ghost Towns (14 December 2020)
• Barcelona is redesigning 21 downtown streets to prioritize people, not cars (13 November 2020)
• Stunning Aerial Photographs Find The “Hidden City” Inside New York City 📷 (10 November 2020)
• Here’s what happened when a country let people trade in old cars for electric bikes, scooters (1 November 2020)
• How Oslo Achieved Zero Pedestrian and Bicycle Fatalities, and How Others Can Apply What Worked (13 October 2020)
• See the secret buildings that make cities run (5 October 2020)
• The O-bahn Busway – Obscure Transit For The Masses (10 September 2020)
• European cities bet on pedal power after lockdown (20 April 2020)
• The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities (24 April 2020)
• S’inspirer de l’urbanisme tactique pour adapter les villes à la distanciation sociale (23 April 2020)
• In a Pandemic, We're All 'Transit Dependent' (7 April 2020)
• Vancouver council consensus: Remove 400 parking spaces from Columbia Street (25 February 2020)
• No Cars in Downtown San Francisco? It's Happening. (January 2020)
• Vision Zero! Norwegian Capital Completely Quashes Road Deaths (3 January 2020)

2019

• This Decade’s Mobility Winner? The Bicycle (21 December 2019)
• The Prophetic Demise of an Ancient City (July 2019)
• Carmageddon: it’s killing urban life. We must reclaim our cities before it’s too late (20 June 2019)
• The Magic of Red Painted Bus Lanes (7 June 2019)
• 'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness (3 June 2019)
• Quels véhicules tuent les piétons à Paris ? (29 May 2019)
• New Eiffel Tower Park Plan: More Trees, Fewer Cars (May 2019)
• Wild boars make a home in urban Hong Kong’s high rises and highways (April 2019)

2018

• The Anti-Olympic Torch arrives in Tokyo (28 November 2018)
• Cyclists Spend 40% More In London's Shops Than Motorists (16 November 2018)
• Virtual Cities explores the urban landscapes of 40 video games (19 July 2018)
• Forest Foundation: The 10,000,000 Underwater Logs that Hold up Venice (26 June 2018)

2015-2017

• Revealed: the insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London (24 July 2017)
• Boxed in: life inside the 'coffin cubicles' of Hong Kong – in pictures (7 June 2017)
• The NYPL's Map Expert Explains This "Wondrous" Map Of 1920s Manhattan (15 March 2016)
• Mayor of Paris remains committed to the struggle to reclaim her city from the car: Hume (10 January 2016)
• Ghost Streets of Los Angeles (December 2015)
• The Mind of a Helmet Camera Cyclist: Red Lights, and Red Herrings (August 2015)
• "Enough empty floor space to cover Madrid": so why are China's ghost cities still unoccupied? (29 July 2015)

2014