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Monday, 19 September 2011
The Gated City
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I've just finished reading Ryan Avent's book The Gated City, which UK readers can download for Kindle or PC/Mac reading here . Anyon...
Sunday, 18 September 2011
Congestion and road pricing links
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It's been an interesting couple of days in the wacky world of congestion and road pricing. First, the House of Commons Transport Committ...
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Speak up
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Matt Yglesias recommends that people who want to see progressive policy changes should (a) badger their elected representatives about it an...
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Empty homes not to the rescue
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Simon Jenkins attacks the NPPF again, and as before the effect is to make you wonder if it's such a bad idea after all. But I just want...
Friday, 9 September 2011
The war for the streets
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Aaron Naparstek's article from a few months ago on the 'war for the streets' in 1920s America is well worth a read: University...
Taxi cabs: Deregulate and tax
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Matt Yglesias says people who want to see less car ownership, less space used for parking and less driving overall "should support rel...
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Let's get dense
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I've been reading Ryan Avent's new book The Gated City , and it provides some good arguments in favour of the point I was making ab...
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
People should read Ryan Avent and Andrew Lainton
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Just a quick post to point anyone interested in housing and planning issues towards two people currently writing up a storm on these issues....
Friday, 2 September 2011
We need to measure subjective cycle safety
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Following the recent tragic death of a cyclist in on Cavendish Road in Clapham, a local resident who witnessed the crash asked TfL what t...
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Grow up as well as out
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It has been fascinating to see debate about housing take over the news and comment pages in the last couple of weeks, started by arguments ...
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