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Hamburg’s ambitious HafenCity
In the world of urban planning, Hamburg has perhaps become best known for HafenCity, which has been slowly replacing Hamburg’s obsolete 19th-century port in the years since 2003 (an enormous new container port has grown up across the Elbe). HafenCity is claimed to … Continue reading
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The skyscraper apartment buildings (and some other distinctive features) of Panama City
I spent a few days in Panama City at the end of January. I had been there only once before, in 2012, before the Metro opened. It’s a surprisingly distinctive place. Panama City’s most astonishing feature is surely its skyline, … Continue reading
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The difficulties of carfree life in Bangkok
I’d been in Bangkok half a dozen times since the 1990s and had come to know the city moderately well. Although it’s a large, pleasantly complicated place, with a rich traditional culture and a distinctive approach to modernization, Bangkok had … Continue reading
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Glimmers of non-autocentric urbanism in Austin
Austin, with a population of just under a million, is now the 11th largest city in the United States. Both the city of Austin and its urban area grew by more than 16% between 2010 and 2016. No other U.S. … Continue reading
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Some notes on Hong Kong’s newish waterfront “promenades” and on its other pedestrian facilities
Hong Kong is perhaps best known in the world of urban studies for its extraordinarily high transit share. Public transit accounts for a larger percentage of journeys in Hong Kong than in any other city in the world. Something like 77.6% of … Continue reading
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Harbin and Vladivostok
I was in Harbin and Vladivostok last week. These two cities may be in different countries, but they are only 500 km apart and have a common late-19th-century origin as Russian railroad towns. Harbin was the administrative center of the … Continue reading
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Some notes on the transportation geography of San José, Costa Rica
Costa Rica is in many ways one of the world’s most admirable countries. It gave up its army in 1949 and has been a democracy ever since, holding freely contested elections every four years. No other Latin American country has … Continue reading
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Detroit’s new QLine streetcar
Most of the new, short, slow, and infrequently-running streetcar lines built in the United States in the last few years appear to have been constructed at least to some extent for reasons having little to do with any possible role as transportation facilities. Many seem … Continue reading
Phoenix urbanizes itself
Among all of what today are the largest cities of the United States, Phoenix was very nearly the smallest in the middle of the 20th century. In 1950 it had only 106,818 people—it was smaller than New Bedford!—and its metropolitan … Continue reading
Waiting for traffic lights to change on the new Expo Line
When I was in Los Angeles three weeks ago, I naturally rode the new Expo Line between Santa Monica and downtown a couple of times. I can confirm that the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has a hit on its … Continue reading