The Wrong Side of my Car
The blog that wants to go obsolete
Urban or suburban?
Some people think apartments in cities are great. Even for families. Kids can play in the park. It is close to everything.
Other people think apartments are slums. Keeping kids in apartments borders on neglect.
And I fully agree with both of them.
Park or Parking?
One of the more odd features of Hobson Street is the little cluster of businesses on the corner with Victoria Street. A few restaurants and grocery shops, surrounded by large apartment towers. In between we find a handful of parking spaces (with the obligatory collection of tow-away signs).
But is parking really the best use of that space? Is that really the way to draw in as many customers as possible?
Learning how to ride a bicycle in an apartment.
What is it about kids and suburbs? Why do you have to move out of the city centre once you get those little ones?
Many theories exist. Maybe people just don’t get it. That is a popular theory amongst urbanists. And if you’re arrogant enough to actually believe that, what about you go do some proverbial stuff with yourself.
So let’s try another approach. Some empathy. A popular opinion amongst the same urbanists is that riding a bicycle is awesome. So how will that work out with kids?
The Tow-Away sign, the measure of success in Auckland
In Auckland, the way to show you have successfully established your business, is by displaying a Tow-Away sign:
