The City Corner

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

Highlights

• The city with grand designs
• Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokio (20 pics)
• Carsystem Technology - model building - model railway Hamburg

Transportation

• The O-bahn Busway – Obscure Transit For The Masses (10 September 2020)
• Barcelona is redesigning 21 downtown streets to prioritize people, not cars (13 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)
• Vancouver council consensus: Remove 400 parking spaces from Columbia Street (25 February 2020)
• De l'utilité d'en finir avec la voiture particulière dans les centres-villes (25 February 2020)
• Dropping speed limits in central Toronto has made pedestrians safer, new report says (9 February 2020)
• No Cars in Downtown San Francisco? It's Happening. (January 2020)
• Vision Zero! Norwegian Capital Completely Quashes Road Deaths (3 January 2020)
• Barcelona's car-free smart city experiment (2 January 2020)

• This Decade’s Mobility Winner? The Bicycle (21 December 2019)
• Lille passe à 30 km/h : "L'idée c'est vraiment que tout le monde se sente plus en sécurité" (20 August 2019)
• They were saying no one would ride it': 10 years on, Burrard bike lane is N. America's busiest, officials say (15 July 2019)
• Oslo: The city that's banned cars (30 June 2019)
• Carmageddon: it’s killing urban life. We must reclaim our cities before it’s too late (20 June 2019)
• Why the soft machine will dominate urban transport (17 June 2019)
• Automobiliste en ville, ou l'art de perdre son temps (12 June 2019)
• Londres, le vélo est plus rapide pour les services de secours (10 June 2019)
• The Magic of Red Painted Bus Lanes (7 June 2019)
• Quels véhicules tuent les piétons à Paris ? (29 May 2019)
• 405 freeway travel times continue to slow (6 May 2019)
• Birmingham isn’t a big city at peak times”: How poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle (31 January 2019)

• Cyclists Spend 40% More In London's Shops Than Motorists (16 November 2018)
• Gratuité des transports publics : une idée pas si «stupide» (12 October 2018)
• Uzbekistan's Secret Underground 📷 (16 August 2018)
• Americans spend 30 billion hours a year commuting. And it’s killing them (26 February 2016)
• The Mind of a Helmet Camera Cyclist: Red Lights, and Red Herrings (August 2015)
• How to Restore Walking as a Way of Life (14 October 2014)
• How the Shinkansen bullet train made Tokyo into the monster it is today (30 September 2014)
• How to Get the World Walking (30 April 2014)
• The Safest Suburb In The World Did It By Ending The Culture Of Cars (26 November 2013)
• Groningen: The World's Most Bike-friendly City (30 October 2013)
• Bicycling as a Way of Life (21 September 2010)

Pandemic

• 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)
• The Word from Wuhan (22 February 2020)

Architecture

• See the secret buildings that make cities run (5 October 2020)
• Anomalous Architecture (14 October 2019)
• The Poor Quality of American Houses (5 April 2019)
• Modernist ruin is an 'albatross around our neck' says church (12 January 2019)
• Forest Foundation: The 10,000,000 Underwater Logs that Hold up Venice (26 June 2018)
• Portable 3D printer builds a tiny house for a tiny price (3 March 2017)
• Bulletproof, fireproof, environmentally friendly homes are being made from plastic bottles (10 July 2015)
• Man 3-D Prints A Concrete Castle In His Backyard (28 August 2014)

Housing

• Luxury Ghost Towns (14 December 2020)
• 'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness (3 June 2019)
• "Enough empty floor space to cover Madrid": so why are China's ghost cities still unoccupied? (29 July 2015)
• Scrunched in Seattle (October 2014)

Urbanism

• A Love Letter to the Slums: The Urbanism of Final Fantasy 7 (13 May 2020)
• The scary real-life town that inspired the Silent Hill movie (22 October 2019)
• Virtual Cities explores the urban landscapes of 40 video games (19 July 2018)
• Revealed: the insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London (24 July 2017)
• Scrolling Beat ’em ups, urban blight and the neoliberal city (27 February 2017)
• Why even driving through suburbia is soul crushing (10 June 2016)
• Lessons of DIY Urbanism in a Syrian Refugee Camp (18 July 2014)
• Shared Space and Slow Zones: Comparing Public Space in Paris and New York (14 May 2014)

Cities

• Bucharest - Asymptote (April 2016)
• Ghost Streets of Los Angeles (December 2015)
• People In Toronto Created A Memorial To A Dead Raccoon After The City Forgot To Pick It Up (10 July 2015)
• Nara’s deer continue their summertime tradition of commandeering one of the city’s streets (27 July 2014)
• Scenes From The World's Northernmost Big City—A Polluted Hell On Earth (24 June 2014)
• The Depressing Industrial City of Norilsk (21 June 2014)
• 11 Remarkable Ways Detroit Changed The World For The Better (7 March 2014)
• Welcome to Ordos, China: The World's Largest "Ghost City" (February 2014)
• Giving Away Free Houses to Build Literary Community in Detroit (8 February 2014)

New York

• Stunning Aerial Photographs Find The “Hidden City” Inside New York City 📷 (10 November 2020)
• The NYPL's Map Expert Explains This "Wondrous" Map Of 1920s Manhattan (15 March 2016)
• A New York Writer's Take on How His City Has Changed (15 November 2015)
• Panorama of the City of New York (November 2013)
• New York City Plans to Fix Its Crumbling Harbors Using 3D-Printed Concrete (29 May 2013)
• Why Everyone Films At The Same Damn New York Chinese Restaurant (14 January 2013)
• Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City (24 April 2012)
• Romanian and Bulgarian Culture in New York City (22 April 2007)

London

• London opens a bar where you can pet owls (February 2015)
• 7 Private Islands That Cost Less Than A Flat In London (26 September 2013)
• Bob Mazzer On The Tube 📷 (19 July 2013)
• The (Secret) City of London (23 July 2012)
• The Ghosts of Old London 📷 (26 December 2010)

Paris

• New Eiffel Tower Park Plan: More Trees, Fewer Cars (May 2019)
• Mayor of Paris remains committed to the struggle to reclaim her city from the car: Hume (10 January 2016)
• The Increasingly Bad State of Disneyland Paris: A Neverending Story (14 July 2013)

Hong Kong

• 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.
• Wild boars make a home in urban Hong Kong’s high rises and highways (April 2019)
• Boxed in: life inside the 'coffin cubicles' of Hong Kong – in pictures (7 June 2017)