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Stephen Graham on global cities & biking. Urban Planning and Global Finance NYU. Former research director Citi and Goldman
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If you've fantasized about blowing up your local expressway blocking access to the waterfront, here's what it looks like (Rio de Janeiro)
How the white brick curve speaks to the circle of glass in the church next door. Southwark, London
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
How the white brick curve speaks to the circle of glass in the church next door. Southwark, London
Main football stadium in Freiburg, Germany. Fits almost 35 thousand people, but the only on-site parking spaces are the ones you see. It does have 3,700 bike-parking spaces. Every game ticket includes free passage on 18 different transit providers: trams, buses, local trains, regional trains.
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Main football stadium in Freiburg, Germany. Fits almost 35 thousand people, but the only on-site parking spaces are the ones you see. It does have 3,700 bike-parking spaces. Every game ticket includes free passage on 18 different transit providers: trams, buses, local trains, regional trains.
Late Art Deco 1939 Banespa building downtown São Paulo
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Late Art Deco 1939 Banespa building downtown São Paulo
Rather liked this schematic on a sales brochure for new building in São Paulo. Shows what's reachable in 2, 3, or 5 minutes walking, including subway stations, or on the outermost line 10 minutes biking. No info on parking, thank you.
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rather liked this schematic on a sales brochure for new building in São Paulo. Shows what's reachable in 2, 3, or 5 minutes walking, including subway stations, or on the outermost line 10 minutes biking. No info on parking, thank you.
What happens to bike uptake and safety when you build protected cycle networks
October 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
What happens to bike uptake and safety when you build protected cycle networks
NYPD and their cars. Lawsuit says it was intentional. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...
October 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
NYPD and their cars. Lawsuit says it was intentional. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...
EVs are better than fuel-burning cars, but take the same urban space. Here we can fit five cars, but eight bikes are in the space of one car and two more in the corner. Gripsholm, Sweden
October 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
EVs are better than fuel-burning cars, but take the same urban space. Here we can fit five cars, but eight bikes are in the space of one car and two more in the corner. Gripsholm, Sweden
People from Bangladesh migrated to England in numbers from about the 1950s to 1970s. Street signs in their London neighborhood of Spitalfields, now half gentrified, remain.
October 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
People from Bangladesh migrated to England in numbers from about the 1950s to 1970s. Street signs in their London neighborhood of Spitalfields, now half gentrified, remain.
No surprise that the results of speed cameras in San Francisco are the same as everywhere else: they work. On the block with the most abuses, people speeding at least 11 mph over the limit dropped from 31% of all drivers to 3%. www.sfexaminer.com/news/transit...
SFMTA data: Drivers a lot slower around cameras
Pedestrian-safety advocates say “encouraging” findings should prompt more action.
www.sfexaminer.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
No surprise that the results of speed cameras in San Francisco are the same as everywhere else: they work. On the block with the most abuses, people speeding at least 11 mph over the limit dropped from 31% of all drivers to 3%. www.sfexaminer.com/news/transit...
Swedish small-town urbanism, Trosa
October 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Swedish small-town urbanism, Trosa
Further up the same Stockholm street from the clip below is another traffic-calming device: intersections where cars may cross but the design is a sidewalk with low curb. Drivers tend to inch across, some of them likely not sure if they're really supposed to be there.
October 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Further up the same Stockholm street from the clip below is another traffic-calming device: intersections where cars may cross but the design is a sidewalk with low curb. Drivers tend to inch across, some of them likely not sure if they're really supposed to be there.
Urban cul-de-sacs are a cheap, immediate way to calm down side streets. Cars can reach any address, but not cut through. Foot traffic instead good for business.
October 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Urban cul-de-sacs are a cheap, immediate way to calm down side streets. Cars can reach any address, but not cut through. Foot traffic instead good for business.
This 1970s mosaic by Burle Marx has been called the largest work of public art in the world. Three miles by 160 feet of individual hammered stones, not counting the paved lanes, in classic Portuguese red, black, and white only. Leme and Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.
October 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This 1970s mosaic by Burle Marx has been called the largest work of public art in the world. Three miles by 160 feet of individual hammered stones, not counting the paved lanes, in classic Portuguese red, black, and white only. Leme and Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.
In 2010 I was stuck in traffic in a black cab on London's Victoria Embankment. The driver blamed it on construction of a ridiculous "Cycle Superhighway" along the route by the idiots at Transport for London, even though no one would use it because Londoners don't cycle. Here it is at rush hour now.
October 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
In 2010 I was stuck in traffic in a black cab on London's Victoria Embankment. The driver blamed it on construction of a ridiculous "Cycle Superhighway" along the route by the idiots at Transport for London, even though no one would use it because Londoners don't cycle. Here it is at rush hour now.
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*Me listening in on a lady who just tried an ebike for the first time and came back to the bike shop*
"That was amazing! I felt like I had super powers. I have to get my husband to try one!"
And yes, she bought the bike. It was a Gazelle.
"That was amazing! I felt like I had super powers. I have to get my husband to try one!"
And yes, she bought the bike. It was a Gazelle.
This rules so hard. It's been a longstanding conviction of mine that the best way to convince people to replace car trips with ebike trips is by letting them try out an ebike for free.
Love the Oakland Public Library. oaklandside.org/2025/09/25/o...
Love the Oakland Public Library. oaklandside.org/2025/09/25/o...
Oakland launches an e-bike lending library
There are now 50 electric bikes available for rent at the Fruitvale BART. It just takes a deposit and a modest fee.
oaklandside.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
*Me listening in on a lady who just tried an ebike for the first time and came back to the bike shop*
"That was amazing! I felt like I had super powers. I have to get my husband to try one!"
And yes, she bought the bike. It was a Gazelle.
"That was amazing! I felt like I had super powers. I have to get my husband to try one!"
And yes, she bought the bike. It was a Gazelle.
One smart, cheap, urban response to global warming: shade canopies. Seville, Spain
September 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
One smart, cheap, urban response to global warming: shade canopies. Seville, Spain
Can't get over this building. Liège, Belgium train station by Calatrava and the Jetsons.
September 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Can't get over this building. Liège, Belgium train station by Calatrava and the Jetsons.
Blue skies in Lisbon. Doesn't hurt that at this station electric bikes and scooters connect to electric trams, which connect to antique electric trams, which connect to electric buses, which connect to electric surface trains, which connect to electric subway trains. Even electric ferries out back.
September 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Blue skies in Lisbon. Doesn't hurt that at this station electric bikes and scooters connect to electric trams, which connect to antique electric trams, which connect to electric buses, which connect to electric surface trains, which connect to electric subway trains. Even electric ferries out back.
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The rapture, but for cars in cities.
September 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The rapture, but for cars in cities.
No more diesel fumes in the face from airport boarding buses at São Paulo Congonhas. All-electric.
September 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
No more diesel fumes in the face from airport boarding buses at São Paulo Congonhas. All-electric.
This Brazilian-modernist marquise by Oscar Niemeyer in Ibirapuera Park opened in São Paulo in 1954. It's six football fields long and connects five museums and event spaces. Every weekend it was a festival of activity under its shelter. Unfortunately it was falling apart, but 1/2
September 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This Brazilian-modernist marquise by Oscar Niemeyer in Ibirapuera Park opened in São Paulo in 1954. It's six football fields long and connects five museums and event spaces. Every weekend it was a festival of activity under its shelter. Unfortunately it was falling apart, but 1/2
Rush hour in Stockholm. If they were all in cars, the flowers would have to go.
September 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Rush hour in Stockholm. If they were all in cars, the flowers would have to go.
Lane assignments, Seville, Spain:
-Two protected half lanes for bikes, scooters, e-wheelchairs, etc., one each way
-One exclusive lane for buses, certain vans, taxis, and motorcycles, up to 50 km/h (31 mph)
-Two lanes where private cars are OK, up to 30 km/h (19 mph)
-Two protected half lanes for bikes, scooters, e-wheelchairs, etc., one each way
-One exclusive lane for buses, certain vans, taxis, and motorcycles, up to 50 km/h (31 mph)
-Two lanes where private cars are OK, up to 30 km/h (19 mph)
September 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Lane assignments, Seville, Spain:
-Two protected half lanes for bikes, scooters, e-wheelchairs, etc., one each way
-One exclusive lane for buses, certain vans, taxis, and motorcycles, up to 50 km/h (31 mph)
-Two lanes where private cars are OK, up to 30 km/h (19 mph)
-Two protected half lanes for bikes, scooters, e-wheelchairs, etc., one each way
-One exclusive lane for buses, certain vans, taxis, and motorcycles, up to 50 km/h (31 mph)
-Two lanes where private cars are OK, up to 30 km/h (19 mph)
Gotta like this speed limit, just under 5 mph
September 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Gotta like this speed limit, just under 5 mph