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

History

• When Cities Die (4 October 2021)

Transportation

• Accidentally On Purpose (14 April 2022)
• Study: More Bike Lanes Needed to Reduce Traffic Congestion (25 February 2022) Research from Carnegie Mellon University shows how replacing short car trips with bike and scooter trips can lead to less congestion, but local areas need more micromobility infrastructure for this positive outcome.
• Street pedestrianization in urban districts: Economic impacts in Spanish cities (December 2021)
• 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 Story Behind Paris’ Iconic Art Nouveau Metro Entrances (1 May 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)

Housing

• Luxury Ghost Towns (14 December 2020)
• 'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness (3 June 2019)
• The Poor Quality of American Houses (5 April 2019)
• Portable 3D printer builds a tiny house for a tiny price (3 March 2017)
• "Enough empty floor space to cover Madrid": so why are China's ghost cities still unoccupied? (29 July 2015)
• Bulletproof, fireproof, environmentally friendly homes are being made from plastic bottles (10 July 2015)
• Scrunched in Seattle (October 2014)

Urbanism

• People On This Group Are Sharing Examples Of ‘Urban Hell’ That Look Like A Dystopian Movie But Are Sadly Real (40 Pics) (24 June 2021) I have comments on so many of those photos.
• 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)