Good plans fail not in design, but in delivery. The missing layer is governance. Most sustainable mobility plans begin with good intentions. Reduce car dependency. Improve walking and cycling. Strengthen public transport integration. Make streets safer. Cut emissions. Improve access…
Most cities don’t have a data problem. They have a decision problem. They have transport data, land-use data, demographic data, environmental data, infrastructure data, satellite imagery, sensor feeds, survey results and policy documents. The problem is different. Cities often have…
Data doesn’t make the masterplan obsolete. It makes good masterplanning more important. Every few years, someone declares that the masterplan is dead. Too static. Too slow. Too top-down. Too detached from how cities actually behave. I understand the criticism. Many…
Smart city projects start with sensors and platforms. Almost never with a specific street. That’s the problem. In nearly every smart city project briefing, the conversation starts with technology: sensors, connectivity, platform integration, data governance. It almost never starts with…
Transport causes a third of global emissions. The answer is already on every pavement — we’re just not investing in it seriously enough. At a recent session on resilient cities and net zero targets, I had the opportunity to speak…
Targets are the easy part. The hard part is the spatial logic that makes them real. Every time I hear a city announce a net zero target, I think the same thing: that’s the easy part. Amsterdam net zero by…