Category Archives: Urban

Miami Beach Walk comes close to being finished

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Christopher Winters

I recently spent a week in Miami Beach, where I was delighted to discover that, since my last visit there two years ago, what is now known at Miami Beach Walk had been more or less completed. This is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Transportation, Urban | Leave a comment

Bangkok keeps building rail lines outward

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Christopher Winters

I rode three new rail transit lines while in Bangkok last month: the extension of the MRT Blue Line west to Lak Song; the MRT Blue Line connection between Tao Poon and Tha Phra; and the BTS Light Green Line … Continue reading →

Posted in Transportation, Urban | Leave a comment

Doha tries to become more “sustainable”

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Christopher Winters

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 →

Posted in Transportation, Urban | Leave a comment

Hong Kong creates a little more parkland

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Christopher Winters

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 →

Posted in Urban | Leave a comment

Was Chicago still building “too much” in 2018?

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Christopher Winters

I’ve put up three previous posts1 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 →

Posted in Urban | Leave a comment

Singapore’s Coast-to-Coast Trail

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Christopher Winters

I’ve written about Singapore’s “park connectors” before.1 These are paths for pedestrians and cyclists that are generally separate from the city’s conventional sidewalks. The park connectors often follow Singapore’s coasts or its abundant watercourses. Sometimes they pass through parkland as … Continue reading →

Posted in Transportation, Urban | 1 Comment

Bordeaux pushes back—a little—against the automobile

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Christopher Winters

I recently spent nearly a week in Bordeaux, a city I had previously been in only briefly. I was particularly interested in looking at all the ways that Bordeaux has been attempting to push back against the hegemony of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Transportation, Urban | Leave a comment

Using OpenStreetMap to map urban pedestrian facilities

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Christopher Winters

Most of the maps on this site were created at least in part with GIS data from OpenStreetMap (OSM). OSM (for those who do not know) consists of GIS data—that is geographic data in a format usable by computer mapping … Continue reading →

Posted in Transportation, Urban | Leave a comment

Facilities for pedestrians and cyclists in central Moscow

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Christopher Winters

Moscow, as I pointed out in an earlier post, is quite a good city for pedestrians. There are high-quality sidewalks nearly everywhere, and there are lots of people using them. The enormously varied and generally attractive built environment guarantees that … Continue reading →

Posted in Transportation, Urban | Leave a comment

The new ION light-rail line in Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Christopher Winters

I visited Kitchener and Waterloo last week and rode on the new ION light-rail line there. I also walked along the route for several kilometers. This line is distinctive in that it’s in a relatively small urban area. According to … Continue reading →

Posted in Transportation, Urban | 1 Comment