What were the most-read articles published by The Urbanist in 2015?

A “top-20” list of those articles published by The Urbanist that attracted the largest numbers of readers over the course of 2015, from trains to bicycles, architecture, motorways, and much more

What were the most-read articles published by The Urbanist in 2015?

What books to read over the holiday season?

It’s almost Christmas so here’re some pre-certified suggestions for good novels to read over the holidays. They’re mostly quite recent and some of them are even very fashionable reading at the moment

What books to read over the holiday season?

Recap: all the topics discussed by The Urbanist last month

Including liveable suburbs, the media and cities, what Turnbull should do on cities policy, public transport, traffic congestion, airport rail, distinctive city architecture, Paris Metro, cycling in Amsterdam, and inner suburban parking

All the topics discussed by The Urbanist last month

Friday’s links for urbanists

Links to ten interesting new articles for urbanists and others from around the traps

Friday’s links for urbanists

Damming an urban river for a damn motorway? Seriously?

‘River may be dammed for new tollway’ says The Age. Either Victoria’s Andrews Government has jumped the shark after just one year in office or Fairfax is getting further and further out of its depth

Damming an urban river for a damn motorway? Seriously?

Thursday’s links for urbanists

Links to nine interesting new articles on cities from around the traps

Thursday’s links for urbanists

Should the walls come down at the North Fitzroy Star hotel?

Residents are increasingly looking to state and local government planners to protect a hard-to-define ambience or a special quality that’s come about serendipitously rather than by design

Should the walls come down at the North Fitzroy Star hotel?

Are equity concerns with congestion charging a deal breaker?

There’s lots of support for the principle of congestion charging but many progressives are ambivalent because of concerns about the equity of the policy. That view needs a rethink

Are equity concerns with congestion charging a deal breaker?

Should we deck over motorways to provide more urban parkland?

Decking over motorways to provide more parkland in our cities might sound like a wonderful thing but it would be extraordinarily expensive and very hard to justify in our low density cities

Should we deck over motorways to provide more urban parkland?

Multifarious links for urbanists

Multifarious links for urbanists

What should we be doing now to prepare for driverless cars?

If our cities are going to benefit from the transformative potential of autonomous vehicles, we need to start building a consensus now that they should be implemented strictly as shared vehicles

What should we be doing now to prepare for driverless cars?

Innovation: haven’t we been here before?

The Prime Minister’s innovation statement looks like the grandchild of the high profile programs Bob Hawke and his Industry Minister, John Button, set up in the early 1980s to promote, well, innovation

Innovation: haven’t we been here before?

Do the Walkleys promote hard-nosed policy debate?

The Walkleys capture a view of journalism that’s extraordinarily important but it’s not the only one. The Awards could do more to encourage journalists to spend time on analysing “boring” policy issues

Do the Walkleys promote hard-nosed policy debate?

What the hell is a bloody “metro” anyway?

The term ‘metro’ is thrown around a lot in discussions of better public transport but there’s precious little consistency in the way it’s used or consensus about what a metro actually is

What the hell is a bloody “metro” anyway?

Does Melbourne really extend five times further than London?

The Age reported yesterday that a visiting London transport expert reckons Melbourne houses only half the population of London, but covers five times the area. This old canard isn’t true

Does Melbourne really extend five times further than London?