Here is a neat tool (created by Benjamin Td) that allows you to quickly see how far you can travel in Europe by rail in 5 hours. The way it works is that you just hover over a train station and then the relevant isochrone… Read More
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China is building and megalopolises are now national policy
Well here are some interesting figures (via MIT Technology Review): In the past two decades, about 400 million people moved into China’s cities — so more than the entire population of the United States By 2035, about 70% of China’s entire population is expected to… Read More
How coffee grew São Paulo
For all of us who are involved in the building of cities, it is important to remember that cities emerge and thrive as a result of economic purpose. Take, for example, Sao Paulo. Once one of the poorest of Portuguese colonies, it is today the… Read More
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima designs Japanese commuter train
In commemoration of the company’s 100th anniversary, Japanese rail operator, Seibu, recently unveiled a new commuter train designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima. Sejima is a founding partner in the Tokyo-based firm SANAA, which has started branching out beyond buildings. She recently designed a… Read More
Blue lights on train platforms
Sadly, Japan has one of the higher suicide rates in the world. According to the World Health Organization, the rate from 2000 to 2016 was about 18.5 deaths per 100,000. The only country in Asia with a higher rate is South Korea. They are at… Read More
Microsoft Canada moving to CIBC Square
Today, Microsoft announced that it will be moving its Canadian headquarters from Mississauga to the new CIBC Square development that is currently under construction in downtown Toronto (and rendered above). According to RENX, Microsoft will occupy 132,000 square feet across 4 floors in the first… Read More
Local rail-driven agglomeration economies
This morning I came across the below graph in a Medium article by Eric Jaffe of Sidewalk Labs. It is taken from a research paper by Elisabeth Ruth Perlman called, Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America. What this… Read More
European cities by rail connectivity
This is a terrific set of maps published by The Washington Post (2015) using data originally collected and published by Peter Kerpedjiev: What they show is how far you can travel in a 24 hour period using only trains and brisk walking from a collection of… Read More
Let’s fix the UPX train, together
I am a big fan of the UP Express train that runs from downtown Toronto to Pearson Airport. I love the station architecture, the branding and identity, the trains themselves (with wifi), and the local retailers they house at Union. I also happen to live… Read More
Out of sight, out of mind
Henry Grabar has an interesting piece in the March 2016 issue of The Atlantic talking about Paris’s ambitious metro expansion. By 2030, and after $25 billion of investment, the Paris system will gain four new lines, 68 stations, and more than 120 miles (192 kilometers)… Read More
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