Helsinki Master Classes – Working notes
Note to the reader: What follows here is still very rough and as you can surely see I am still struggling with it. But I think the pieces are starting to fall into place, and we should have something...
View ArticleHelsinki, Equity and Common Sense: What is the non-car majority and how do we...
When it comes to investing in the transport sector, we make continue to make some strange choices. In city after city around the world we are spending hard-earned taxpayer money for a distinct...
View ArticleHelsinki Focus Group Workshops – First guidelines
The Focus Workshops are a central pillar of the March 2021 collaborative enquiry: Examining the prospects for Equity-Based Transportation Practice in Helsinki. This open dialogue is hosted by the...
View ArticleEquity/Transport 2012: Road map for Helsinki Stage 1
This collaborative project takes the form of an “open conversation” looking into the pros and cons, the possibilities, barriers and perhaps eventual impossibilities, of creating an equity-based...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Equity/Transport/ Helsinki
What are, say, the five questions concerning transport and equity (and Helsinki) that you would like to have me ask in your behalf in Helsinki starting tomorrow in our first Stakeholder/Peer Group...
View ArticleEditorial: On the plane to Helsinki
I have always thought of myself not as a consultant – that is, someone with specific expertise to whom you ask directed questions and who gives you what you think/hope are the right answers – but...
View ArticleLate Night Thoughts on Equity from Helsinki
Equity? Hmm. This, it turns out on inspection, is not quite so easy a concept to get across. In English, and after two days of discussions with a wide variety of groups and people here in Helsinki,...
View ArticleTransport, Equity and Safe Streets: A Tale of Two Cities
Sitting here in Helsinki right in the midst of a teeming two weeks of meetings, presentations, dialogues, site visits, and Master Classes, all to be capped by a final public presentation of key...
View ArticleWeekend Musing: Less, More and Mozart
These slipped in over the transom in the last days here in Helsinki, and while some of you will be well on top of all three let me take the risk and share them with those who may not have … Continue...
View ArticleWe’ve never needed geniuses more than now.
Look around the world today. Consider your country, your city . . . Do you see signs of genius or even better “excess genius”, a deep-seated, awe-inspiring 21st century Renaissance already underway?...
View ArticleWorld Transport Policy & Practice – Vol. 18, No. 1
The Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice is the long-standing idea and print partner of World Streets and the New Mobility Agenda since 1995. The Spring 2012 edition appears with articles by...
View ArticleTransportation Innovation and Reform: Finding the Way to Social Sustainability
As wise and balanced a summary as you will find of the fine art of dialogue and engagement when it comes to the hard job of developing and integrating new transport arrangements into a space as varied...
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