How the white brick curve speaks to the circle of glass in the church next door. Southwark, London

Late Art Deco 1939 Banespa building downtown São Paulo

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

No more diesel fumes in the face from airport boarding buses at São Paulo Congonhas. All-electric.

this week I was happy to see its renovation is in full gear.

Rush hour in Stockholm. If they were all in cars, the flowers would have to go.