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Frederick Rickmann
The right product at the WRONG time
It's exciting to be a front-runner. But frustrating as well. The right product at the WRONG time is a dilemma that haunts many a...


Frederick Rickmann
A place to live
London has been a very densely populated city for centuries. But the striking thing about London is that round almost every corner you...


Frederick Rickmann
The street as a generator of wealth
When a city design gets it right it becomes a generator of well-being. It can be just a great place to live. It can have just the right...


Frederick Rickmann
How to think forward when your AI is thinking backwards
In today's fast-changing world of product creation, innovation always seems to be the name of the game. In most boardrooms you will hear...


Frederick Rickmann
The new ChatGPT is my latest intern
ChatGPT is a new kind of digital text generator that is supposed to create text and information. It has been making quite a stir in...


Frederick Rickmann
Bring back the street!
We are constantly campaigning to bring back the "street" as an element of urban design. Cities and towns in times past have arranged...


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Not an exceptional street
There is nothing exceptional about the architecture, yet there is something about the soul of this street in Nuremberg that is just...


Frederick Rickmann
Street Signs from East Berlin
When Germany was reunited, many of signs of the East were removed - literally. Yet here is the graphic design of East Berlin. With its...


Frederick Rickmann
Corona and the new shape of cities
Quite suddenly, under the corona crisis, our city streets have been rediscovered. Traffic has vanished in the lock-downs and people have...


Frederick Rickmann
After the pandemic
In the aftermath of the global virus, the old "normal" just does not exist anymore. So we cannot simply "go back to normal". The streets...


Frederick Rickmann
Colour in Washington DC
Grand avenues of imposing marble and stone buildings form the normal international image of Washington DC. Yet within the fabric of the...


Frederick Rickmann
Lille in France is Blessed with Streets on a Human Scale
Tourists flock to Lille in the north of France, not because of any grandiose masterpiece of architecture or theme park. They come because...
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