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a metafictional excavation of Armenian literary history A Book, Untitled [my review]

what does a book cost? the finances of a small publisher Galley Beggary

some observations about Tokyo: notes on the world's most successful failing society Persuasion

"How a compact metro area of 37 million people manages to feel this relaxed isn't really a mystery: the city declared war on cars, and then won that war."

ring-road severance to cycling in Oxford: Barton Park Oxford Blog

Vienna goes big on heat pumps and a heating network Bloomberg

Stoke-on-Trent's schools have been wrecked by 25 years of Private Finance Initiative BBC

a great obituary for Donald Shoup, scourge of free parking Works in Progress

"The way we manage parking is of profound importance to nearly every aspect of our lives. It's also something local planners have a lot of control over."

76% of Munich trips are now by sustainable transport, with car modal share down from 34% to 24% Vision Mobility

Arizona's car-free 'Culdesac" neighbourhood has been a success dwell

how the Dutch use real-time detection to prioritise cycling at signal junctions Mobycon

69% of Britons support better enforcement against excessively noisy vehicles ITS

synergies between push and pull measures to change transport behaviours: some evidence from Sydney University of Sydney

"Each policy by itself generally has a lower relative elasticity compared to when it is combined with another policy."

a quarter of London's main cycleways have "socially unsafe" sections Standard

UK cities are increasing GDP while reducing traffic John Siraut

why northern England is poor Tom Forth

"the concrete action of establishing the UK’s first AI Growth Zone in Oxfordshire (the South) [trumps] the promise of such growth zones benefitting post-industrial towns (the North) and coastal Scotland"

it was Swiss women who stopped the highway expansion project Urban Cycling Institute

"61% of women opposed the expansion, compared to only 44% of men"

Scottish study suggests a £15/day congestion charge (discounted to £7.50 for those on low incomes) would be needed for Oxford to achieve the county's 2030 car reduction target transport.gov.scot

electric cars now last as long as petrol and diesel cars - and their reliability is improving more rapidly New Scientist

infrastructure costs: how Britain compares with peers BCG

fifty years ago: the first red cycling path in the Netherlands Karen Romme

Claes Tingvall and Sweden's shift to Vision Zero BBC

"officials were no longer allowed to design roads for idealised drivers who never became distracted or exceeded the speed limit. They had to make roads for real people who made mistakes."

Utrecht is making all roads without separate cycling infrastructure 30km/hr (18mph) Utrecht

an update on what's happening in the Russia-Ukraine war Stefan Korshak

elementary explanations of a hundred mathematical results Theorems of the 21st Century [my review]

the use of oracles in understanding computational complexity Quanta

can't find good evidence for rape on 7 October, so execute Palestinians for stealing avocados instead? Electronic Intifada

the Dutch are using zero-emission zones to shift urban freight ZAG

using Machine Learning in climate modelling Real Climate

"can we distinguish between real advances and vaporware?"

high-quality social housing from Spain Dwell

how a local government reorgnisation might affect Oxfordshire Oxford Clarion

the problems with US healthcare are broader than insurance BIG

short stories about gay students from Batak Christian backgrounds, and their mothers Happy Stories, Mostly [my review]

62% of Copenhagen residents now cycle to work or school LA Times

climate change and insurance in the US - a looming disaster Volts

from political divergence to possible futures Korea: A New History of South and North [my review]

one-upping the 15-minute city: Denmark's 5-minute city Guardian

Zionism's injustice encapsulated in one Bedouin village 972 Magazine

if Iceland were to join the EU, Norway might follow RUV

should older drivers have to retake tests? different Australian rules ABC

yokochō alleyways, zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, ankyo streets + dense low-rise neighbourhoods Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City [my review]

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