From high-speed rail to the Olympics, why do big projects go wrong? from TheEconomist

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/16/from-high-speed-rail-to-the-olympics-why-do-big-projects-go-wrong

Japan Architect Kengo Kuma Urges Building Less to Reduce Climate Impact – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-08/japan-architect-kengo-kuma-urges-building-less-to-reduce-climate-impact
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-08/japan-architect-kengo-kuma-urges-building-less-to-reduce-climate-impact?srnd=new-economy-forum

Car-Free Living Takes Off in Car-Centric Cities

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-14/can-car-free-living-succeed-in-cities-built-around-the-automobile

SVB Didn’t Just Lend to Startups. It Was Key Partner for Affordable Housing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-13/svb-was-key-lender-to-bay-area-affordable-housing-projects

The frightening prospect of greener, people-friendly streets has sent the online right – and Tory MPs – into a tailspin, says Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright

Source: In praise of the ‘15-minute city’ – the mundane planning theory terrifying conspiracists | Oliver Wainwright | The Guardian

Covid reduced Australia’s average life expectancy and lifted death rates to historic highs | Australia news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/06/covid-reduced-australias-average-life-expectancy-and-lifted-death-rates-to-historic-highs

‘Here, people shake our hands in the street’: the architects redesigning rural Australia | Rural Australia | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/05/here-people-shake-our-hands-in-the-street-the-architects-redesigning-rural-australia

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/business/what-would-it-take-to-turn-more-offices-into-housing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

HOW TALL IS TOO TALL?

The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/supertall-mega-skyscraper-building-nyc/672228/

London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city | London | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/13/londons-lost-mega-motorway-the-eight-lane-ring-road-that-would-have-destroyed-much-of-the-city