"Bikes are good for business" case studies aren't new. NYC was an early adopter of protected bike lanes and started tracking the outcomes right away. After 8th & 9th Avenue projects were complete, locally-based businesses saw retail sales soar. Bike are good for business!

🥵 Urban heat stress (and all its consequences) are another hidden cost of monopolising our public spaces for driving and parked cars. Time for change!

Great cities’s cafes spill elegantly out onto wide & tree-lined pavements

Steve Jobs on why thinking without doing is incomplete:

'We can't change our city. We're not Amsterdam!' Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris: 'Hold my 🥐!': 🏞️ 500 'rues jardin' 👷 300 garden streets already implemented 🚶 every resident access to a garden within 300m 🅿️ 10.000 parking spots removed Lower pollution, improve health

#SDGs Well worth a look! #urban #planning youtu.be/_ArKif3nVz4

Sadly, the now-famous summer activation of the former highway for cars running along the Seine River in Paris, transforming it into a vibrant and popular people-place, doesn’t start for another two weeks. So this is all that’s going on. Yes, I’m being sarcastic. #ParisPlage

A judge upholds a legal challenge taken by a group of landowners against the construction of a new A5 dual carriageway. bbc.in/44sY7Dm

Morning. After visiting few proud foreign cities recently from Vilnius to Bilbao, the dereliction and shabbiness of Dublin is shocking, and getting worse. We need to sort this out quickly, with the right financial incentives. Here's a few ideas. irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

A brilliant footballer on the pitch, but most importantly an unbelievable person and family man off it ❤️ Diogo had a number of inspirational women in his life, both personally and professionally, that helped shape him and was a fantastic advocate of Women’s sport. Rest in

In the next 5 years, Paris is set to overtake both London and New York City in terms of metro length, thanks to over 200 km of tracks currently under construction. In the 2030s, they’re gonna make sure London and New York never catch up again…

🚨 Liverpool have decided to pay the remaining two years of Diogo Jota's contract to his family. ❤️❤️ (Source: Record)

Refurbishment of social housing in Barcelona, by Mias Architects, 2025 Such colour and craft hicarquitectura.com/2025/07/mias-a…

Slow versus Fast architecture. Slow is built for the speed of people walking by, rich with detail, stories, and craftsmanship. Fast architecture is built at the speed of cars, bereft of intrigue because these details can't be appreciated at high speeds. Always opt for slow!

After a $1.6 billion investment and years of hard work, the Seine River, which was once heavily polluted, is now clean enough for swimming for the first time in over a century. The city has also invested in three public swimming locations. 📍 Paris 🇫🇷

Seamus Coleman. 👏 A Liverpool fan has shared this story online of meeting Everton's Seamus Coleman at Anfield last Friday night to pay tribute to Diogo Jota. We're privileged to have him as Ireland captain.

“The best way to avoid being inactive is not join a gym, but begin with the radical act of walking. The good news is a well-designed city can give us all the regular physical activity we need, without access to pricey equipment and trainers. It’s all about the built environment.”

What is the Most Dutch Picture? Our annual contest for the students of the summer school Planning the Cycling City of the @uva_amsterdam and @cyclinginstitute. Below are the 18 contenders of this year. Vote on your favourites by Like/Retweet. And let us know why🗣️!

The significance of walkable places in our daily lives is grossly underappreciated.

It just happened in Capri… Andrea Bocelli surprised everyone by singing Schubert’s Ave Maria during mass What a wonder — holidays in Italy 🇮🇹