- Canberra: good planning can lead to better public transport
- Electric hybrid car emits four times more CO₂ than advertised, real-world testing shows – a purportedly eco-friendly hybrid electric car emits four times more greenhouse gas than manufacturers claim
- Is this the world you should want? – We use a machine learning algorithm to identify potential social capital measures that best predict neighborhood-level variation in labor market networks
- Becoming more urban: attitudes to medium-density living are changing in Sydney and Melbourne
- Study finds Bus Rapid Transit more comparable to light rail than previously thought – A new study challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the superiority of light rail over bus rapid transit
- De Blasio’s traffic plan won’t work – Mayor de Blasio’s new gridlock-busting scheme to ban rush-hour deliveries is a non-starter according to transit experts
- Sirius heritage listing – Minister’s decision on NSW Heritage Council’s recommendation and reasons
- Back to the future for London – Londoners have always envisaged the future, sometimes bizarrely
- ‘Our central forecast will almost certainly be wrong’: Reserve Bank deputy Guy Debelle – applies to other forecasting too e.g. population, traffic
- The Flip Side of NIMBY Zoning – Richard Florida argues land-use restrictions make cities unaffordable, but they also keep inequality between regions from becoming even worse. Noah Smith disagrees.
- The case that humans are creating new species despite killing off so many – biodiversity is flourishing in parallel to the extinction crisis, according to a conservation biologist. Matt Ridley reviews the book and agrees with the author
- ‘Acting white’ for white people and On Safari in Trump’s America – The country’s elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth?
Weekend reading 28/29 October
Canberra: good planning can lead to better public transport Electric hybrid car emits four times more CO₂ than advertised, real-world testing shows – a purportedly eco-friendly hybrid electric car emits four times more greenhouse gas than manufacturers claim Is this the world you should want? – We use a machine learning algorithm to identify potential […]
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