The Street Is the Only Room Everyone Uses
Cities spend fortunes on buildings almost nobody enters and pennies on the surface every single resident crosses daily. The imbalance is not an accident — it is a procurement habit.
Urbanism
Streets, blocks, density, and public space: the decisions that shape a city long after the architects leave.
4 posts · Latest Aug 4, 2026
Parking Was Never Free
A parking space costs roughly what a small bedroom costs to build. Bundling it invisibly into every flat, office and shop has shaped cities more than any zoning code.
Density Is a Verb
Two neighbourhoods at identical dwellings per hectare can feel like a village and like a warehouse. The number describes an outcome and explains nothing about how it was reached.
The Estate That Was Blamed for Its Budget
The layout was sound, the flats were generous, and the plan is still being copied. What failed was a maintenance settlement that nobody wrote down and everybody assumed.
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