This post on how to clean air hockey table is really for the game’s devoted fans. The air hockey game offers enough fun, just like

How much is an air hockey table remains one of the questions on the lips of the newest players to the game. After playing it for

Air hockey is a very exciting game that is played for fun and does not require outdoor presence, but there is still a very common question of how

A nice processional route, like the avenue of Rams on the way to the temple of Karnak, is handy in a city. Ditto for set

My box bike (or bakfiets in Dutch) can go where no pedestrian or vehicle can go. It could traverse slopes that would hurt peoples’ ankles if they

As one of the few cities I’ve ever lived in long enough to require a non-tourist Visa or enroll my children in school, I have

A renaissance in urban cycling is forging ahead in many cities, generally, ones that are dense, flat, and that have a wealth of building stock

If you haven’t read my blog in a while (or ever), the last few posts explain my decision to work within the literary genre of

Books have been written about the wild enthusiasm with which the architectural community approached the possibilities presented by cars in the twentieth century (1, 2,

Whatever happened to raincoats? On rainy days when I was in school, all the kids turned up in yellow. All our houses had hooks in

First, a little extraneous background to the history of the office building as a type. We could go back to the Greek stoa or Roman

Map all the existing and potential routes for bike paths that are nowhere near cars against the redundant industrial sites those bike paths could unlock

My last post arguing that groups of cyclists have an ethical entitlement to ride 2 abreast, or indeed take up the whole road the way cars do,

It is hard to believe smart bohemians of the early twentieth century had a mental image of Australia like the image many of us now

Among those of us batting for bicycle transport, many hold a quaint misconception that travel mode choices are made voluntarily. They suppose that the whole

During her 6 years (2007-2013) as Commissioner of New York’s Department of Transportation, Janette Sadik-Khan partially restored 317 linear miles of 19th-century streets so they could be used

For the past year, I have been leading teams of MA and Ph.D. students at the University of Tasmania, Australia, in a range of pure

Don’t you hate when a media outlet preps you with questions, you spend an hour or two writing responses on paper, preparing your mind for

This might seem arcane, but it’s obvious that every architectural or urban design act refers back to a pinnacle. In Renaissance times, it was the

Here is a mapping technique highlighting the possibility of bicycling heterotopias in just about any city. It has been designed to help people imagine greenways built

Pedestrian advocates will never tell you that life as a walker invariably leads to one thing: public transport. Driving always struck me as a very

Riding a bike in the city wearing business attire is like walking a dog in Central Park. It’s an innocuous, necessary act for some people,

At the risk of reading too much into too little, I should like to begin this raincoat review with a deep and meaningful observation that

It is time we had a touchstone notion of a Cycling Utopia. Tempting though it may be to dismiss such a thing as a straw