
Saudi Arabia’s Housing Dilemma: Cooling Prices Without Stalling Growth
On September 10, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman openly admitted that Saudi Arabia’s housing prices had risen to “unacceptable levels.”
Invited by TU Vienna and sponsored by STO Stiftung, I was invited to speak about public space in cities.
In my lecture, I highlight the focus of city making on creating buildings, while many of the challenges we are confronted with in relation to climate change and densification have a significant part of their resolution in open space.

On September 10, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman openly admitted that Saudi Arabia’s housing prices had risen to “unacceptable levels.”

Europe has been praised for its cities. Wherever I go in the world I get the same stereotypic answers when

It all sounds so smart and its vision is seductive: the smart city. Imagine a place where traffic flows seamlessly,

What Happens When Your Car Isn’t Under Your Bedroom I own cars in several cities where I live. That is

For more than thirty years, China’s property sector functioned not

In August 2023, I gave a lecture at Cityscape Global

The “15-minute city” — that seductive vision of urban life

When leaving the house in Shenzhen, one thing keeps striking