Links for urbanists No. 5
Posted: December 1, 2011 Filed under: Miscellaneous 1 Comment
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Assorted links to some of the useful, the informative, the interesting, and sometimes even the slightly weird sources I stumble across from time-to-time:
- Council against paid parking at shopping centre
- The secret to a long and healthy life: bike to the shop
- What does it cost to build a subway?
- Transportation costs too much
- A transit city is a centralised city
- National Geographic photo contest 2011
- Animals like you’ve never seen them before
- The limits of congestion pricing
- Public transport patronage trends in Australasian cities – updated
- Dawn of the dead mall
- Jane Jacobs – an urban legacy in need of renewal
- Parking datapoints of the day
- US road fatalities – map of every fatality 2001-09
- Quirky cycling images
- Copenhagen: cycle city
- Downtown office development
- How to look better with Photoshop – before and after
- A list of fallacies
- Is High Speed Rail a real alternative?
- Urbanised – the movie
- What is the limit to population growth?
- Can public transport defeat congestion?
- Melbourne’s city square
- Are the US 99% in the richest 1% in the world?
- What a child of two lesbians is like
- Vlogging
- How good are robots?
- Daniel Kahneman answers readers’ questions
- WTF!? The earth is a net exporter
The Melbourne Urbanist 
I love these round-ups, thanks for them.