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Design Details 2

This article proposes a draft quality checklist for ‘continuous footway’ designs (outside the Netherlands).

Netherlands, Safety, Street design

I want my street to be like this…

I want my street to be like this… Reclaiming residential streets, Dutch street design, and why this REALLY REALLY matters. … More

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Popular, Street design

Imagining better designs…

What if the rules everyone tries to work within aren’t up to the job? What would be safe at side roads?

Street design
Image shows a plan of a junction between a major and minor road where the footway of the major road, and a cycle track beside it, continue unbroken across the entrance of the side road.

Design Details 1

Article 1: Continuous footway. Side-road crossings. Simplicity and clarity. Getting it right. Getting it wrong.

Amsterdam, Infrastructure photos, Netherlands, Safety, Street design

Six key ideas on changing the world

Are you trying to change the world? Here are some key ideas about how to go about it.

Adaptive change, Change

Divide and rule

What I say when I encounter conversations about conflict on shared walking/cycling spaces.

Behaviour, Safety, Street design

Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (part 3)

PART 3. Comparing typical street design in the Netherlands and Denmark, and comparing these to UK designs.

Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Denmark, Netherlands, Street design, Utrecht

Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (part 2)

PART 2. Comparing typical street design in the Netherlands and Denmark, and comparing these to UK designs.

Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Denmark, Netherlands, Popular, Utrecht

Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (part 1)

PART 1: Comparing typical street design in the Netherlands and Denmark, and comparing these to UK designs

Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Denmark, Infrastructure photos, Netherlands, Popular, Utrecht

What nobody told me…

Why did nobody tell me to look out for these amazing things when first visiting the Netherlands?

Amsterdam, Infrastructure photos, Netherlands, Popular, Utrecht

Changing ‘the system’

What is ‘the system’ and how should we think about changing it?

Change

This isn’t going to be easy

So you think that getting people onto bicycles, walking, public transport, and out of their cars is going to be easy?

Change

Falling out of love (with my city)

It’s not you it’s me. I’m sorry. I know I said I loved you…

Amsterdam, Change, Netherlands, Popular

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