Selected essays on urban infrastructure, city governance, and the places nobody is writing about. Published via Substack since 2017.
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Everyone is watching Singapore. Everyone is writing about Amsterdam. I want to know what is happening in Plovdiv, in Recife, in Bnei Brak. The interesting experiments are always in the places that cannot afford to fail.
Read on Substack →Tel Aviv's red line opened after thirty years of delays. What does a delay that long actually cost a city — in money, in behaviour, in the way people relate to public space?
Read on Substack →I am not against ambition. I am against ambition that announces itself before it has earned the right to.
Read on Substack →I grew up in a neighbourhood the municipality treated as a placeholder. Not neglected exactly — just unprioritised. You learn a lot about infrastructure from the places that have to wait for it.
Read on Substack →The eruv is a form of spatial governance that no urban planning curriculum I know of takes seriously. It should.
Read on Substack →The second city of a country losing population for thirty years. Every infrastructure decision made under demographic decline. More interesting than anything Amsterdam has done lately.
Read on Substack →When I talk about quiet infrastructure, I do not mean invisible infrastructure. I mean infrastructure that does not require you to believe in it before it works.
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