Cities

2021-05-20T09:24:44+02:00

The following Vox video details how the invention of a “Chinatown style”, that can be found in cities around the world, can be traced back to an earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 …

2020-08-27T17:45:59+02:00

Living in the Netherlands now for over two years I cannot begin to explain how amazing the cycling infrastructure is. It’s in the little things such as the traffic lights, as …

2019-04-22T10:55:38+02:00

Fascinating video on the daily background maintenance and repair that is required to keep the city of Venice “working”. Check out the website of the project Venice Backstage as …

2019-01-11T16:47:36+01:00

What a wonderful short excerpt from BBC documentary about Venice from 1969. I learned something new as well about the creation of “ghettos” in Venice: “physically isolating a …

2018-11-17T13:53:55+00:00

A victim of modernist urban planning and architecture in Brussels: lavish halls that were replaced by a bland parking, which itself is now demolished again. Read more about it …

2018-11-07T16:45:20+00:00

Some people in Brussels are probably dreaming of this kind of changes to cycling infrastructure: “How Sevilla Became a Bicycle City in Just 18 Months”" Via @Kottke.