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…
Transport accounts for around one third of global carbon emissions. Active travel (walking, cycling, and wheeling) is the mode that simultaneously reduces car dependency and builds climate resilience. Istanbul’s GCAP and SUMP show how these two goals become one. At…
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…