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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


An electric Christmas
Christmas has to be fun. The happiness factor has to be a part of your winter season. So it was natural to see how sustainability and...
DNgroup


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...
70MEDiA


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


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...
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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...
Frederick Rickmann


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...
70MEDiA


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
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