tag: cars
The cars that ate Vivian Street - part 1
posted 06.26 in news.
Wellington City boasts an enviable location, nestled tightly around a sheltered port on a harbour that curls in from the ocean. It’s a dense and lively city with streets painted on the side of rugged hills. Constrained on all sides, it has a...
Vault 2016: Streets of our town - staying on your feet
posted 03.25 in news.
This is one of a series of unpublished posts from late 2016 and early 2017 concerning the safety of streets. I’m resurrecting them for publication as, though some are a bit heavy on stats, they seem more relevant than ever. I’ve tidied...
Vault 2016: Watch your step
posted 03.25 in news.
This is one of a series of unpublished posts from late 2016 and early 2017 concerning the safety of streets. I’m resurrecting them for publication as, though some are a bit heavy on stats, they seem more relevant than ever. I’ve tidied...
The missing link
posted 08.13 in news.
The term “missing link” was originally applied to old fossils. It’s fitting that it is now being used to describe Melbourne’s East West Link. This little project has been floating about since the 1950s, but in it’s current form...
Sprawling from Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanisation
posted 01.13 in resources.
This U.S. documentary from 2008 sells the virtues of the New Urban town centre to the general video-watching population. Unfortunately it uses scare tactics to do so. The first two-thirds warns of impending doom in the peak oil sense. It is only...
Fat house, fat car
posted 05.10 in news.
The Age tells us that Melbourne’s largest display home is open for insection in Point Cook. People aren’t too interested in it and there won’t be any more at that size. It’s 52 whopping squares, or 481 square metres, or 52...
New town, old ideas?
posted 04.10 in news.
Toolern A new $15B city is to be built on the road to Ballarat. It’s called Toolern, and will plug lots of the rural gap between Caroline Springs and Melton. The new town’s footprint, if overlaid onto a map of Melbourne, would stretch...
Bad Subjects: The Congestion Coalition?
posted 09.08 in resources.
A debunking of a Washington Post article in 2007 that suggested that suburbs and their cars are good. Pro-automobile advocates love to talk about the ‘right to drive’ or the ‘freedom’ to travel, but they never talk about the freedom to...
Sydney's problem with cars.
posted 01.08 in news.
A panel of holidaying experts ponder what the blinkers to do with Sydney. Jan Gehl’s pricey 10 months-in-the-making report seems to have left locals a little down. They don’t seem to hate The Toaster as much as they used to, but...
The cars that ate the city
posted 11.01 in news.
“So many people. Where are they coming from… where are they going” Bela Lugosi introducing the awful movie “Glen or Glenda?” (1950s) while the camera zooms in on a new-fangled freeway. The city is an organism. Cars...