Yearly Archives: 2020

Doha tries to become more “sustainable”

I spent the third week of January in Doha, Qatar. I’d been there only once before, on a one-day trip from Dubai in 2010. On the earlier trip, I’d been extremely impressed by the Corniche—and wasn’t much taken by anything … Continue reading

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Hong Kong creates a little more parkland

Hong Kong is (famously) not a very democratic place, but, when it comes to things that do not matter very much to the government in Beijing, there can be a considerable amount of public discussion. A case in point is … Continue reading

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Was Chicago still building “too much” in 2018?

I’ve put up three previous posts in which I pointed out that, given Chicago’s continued population losses, there was an enormous amount of residential building in the Chicago urban area, or at least an enormous amount of residential-building permit-filing. This … Continue reading

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