November 2023

Utrecht again: "private cars really have no business in city centre streets" - Bicycle Dutch

Jakarta's rapid transit buses are hugely popular - Guardian

(to go with this, Jakarta needs some "sticks" to deter motor vehicle use)

medieval staircases weren't clockwise to give defenders an advantage - Tales of Times Forgotten

Wellington goes for fast, cheap and connected cycle infrastructure - Spin Off

car financing creates car dependency and financial vulnerability - Guardian

sisters feuding: Margaret Drabble and A.S. Byatt - Slate

content policing: infrastructure matters more than Facebook - EFF

metafiction and massacre: scripting the Philippines - Insurrecto [Gina Apostol]

car-free housing developments are possible even in Phoenix! - Guardian

seven famous philosophical thought experiments - Big Think

a legal attack on Barcelona's biggest pedestrianisation project - City Lab Barcelona

the complexities of pre-colonial Aboriginal food production - Conversation

free parking is not a solution - Parking Review

from Röntgen to the Large Hadron Collider - The Matter of Everything: A History of Discovery [my review]