Essays · notes · arguments
Writing
On the gap between how cities are planned and how they actually get made.
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Governance · Jun 2025
When the state won't enforce its own laws
A concept note for independent oversight that steps in when political pressure stops enforcement, without replacing the state.
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Mobility · Jun 2025
Learning from the GOAT of bicycling: Copenhagen
Mothers with children in cargo bikes, parked cars as a shield, and why cycling there doesn't feel like a special activity.
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Public space · May 2025
Is this development, or just vertical isolation?
Gleaming towers in thick smog, and what gated communities do to the cities around them.
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Parking · Dec 2022 · with Tahir Noronha
Reforms in Panaji's pay and park policy
For Our Parking Magazine: a city designed for 15,000 people, no count of its own parking, and the case for congestion pricing.
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Rivers · Essay
The Cheonggyecheon restoration
How Seoul tore down an expressway to bring back a buried stream, and what it did for heat, air, floods and people.
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Supply chains · on LinkedIn ↗
Uneconomic growth and the palm oil supply chain
When environmental and social costs grow faster than the benefits of production.