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Entrepreneurship: Beyond Success or Failure

Entrepreneurship goes beyond the binary notion of success or failure. It is a way of life, a journey that encompasses much more than mere...

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Start at the Finish

The artist and writer Wandou Ya from Taiwan has created a warm conversation about the thoughts and feelings that we women face during...

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

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...

Frederick Rickmann

Moray Place in Edinburgh

There are few cities in the world that have managed to create such an incredibly well functioning and harmonic city environment. All...

Frederick Rickmann

How many new towns have that?

This is not Hallstadt am See in Austria. It is Hallstadt See, the Chinese rip off of the Austrian village. A true copy in southern China...

Frederick Rickmann

Gamla Stan, Stockholm

You walk down the street. It's a cloudless day. The air is crisp. The sky is so blue that it is bordering on indigo. Then you get that...

Frederick Rickmann

Colour in Taipei

Liberty Square in Taipei is quintessentially oriental. Also quintessentially euphemistic. The monumental Democracy Stairway on the right...

Frederick Rickmann

This used to be one of the main streets in Bangkok.

A bit too heavy-handed for a light transport system. Today we have a generation of architects that have seen their own work torn down...