Des' City Links of the Week
This week's planning, transport, and urban development links of interest
Hi everyone,
Here are a few interesting reads on cities, development, and transport that I’ve come across recently. Please share!
Planning/Development
“The driving, parking, and resource use of existing residents are taken as given, while the same behavior of future residents is measured, predicted, and counted against proposals to house them. Beyond political and administrative expediency, there is no particularly good reason for this approach, which is perhaps why it is rarely stated explicitly.”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0739456X21997903
The shift from tower in the park to slab in the park and the last high rise in Kitsilano:
https://pricetags.ca/2021/04/15/the-last-highrise-in-kitsilano/
In Philadelphia, a golf course gets a new lease on life as an inclusive public park:
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2021/04/10/fdr-park-golf-course-meadows/
Let’s visit a new rowhouse development on a former Philips factory site in Eindhoven! Note the brick details and the off-street parking setup:
https://architectenweb.nl/projecten/project.aspx?ID=41325 [NL, pics]
One of New Zealand’s leading redevelopers on what unaffordable housing says about the contemporary economy:
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/housing-crisis-is-the-canary-in-the-coalmine
Mobility/Transport
“Taken together, the studies indicate that creating or improving active travel facilities generally has positive or non-significant economic impacts on retail and food service businesses abutting or within a short distance of the facilities, though bicycle facilities might have negative economic effects on auto-centric businesses.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01441647.2021.1912849
Good podcast conversation with the researcher behind a paper demolishing the myth of distracted walking:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/dense-city/8-distracted-by-distracted-xKgdaicJ8ku/
This 44 stall automated parkade in central Amsterdam is something to behold:
https://architectenweb.nl/projecten/project.aspx?ID=41291 [NL, pics]