Right so first post in quite a while! So to ease myself back into the grand scheme of things I shall just be dropping a few links.

To kick it off the Strong Towns Blog have been running a series of posts on suburbanization in the US:

The Growth Ponzi Scheme

• Day 1: The Mechanisms of Growth – Trading near-term cash for long-term obligations.

• Day 2: Case studies that show how our places do not create, but destroy, our wealth.

• Day 3: The Ponzi scheme revealed – How new development is used to pay for old development.

• Day 4: How we’ve sustained the unsustainable by going “all in” on the suburban pattern of development.

• Day 5: Responses that are rational and responses that are irrational.

The TransportPolitic has a great post on the MASSIVE Paris metro expansion plans

Dublin Bus announced its plans for the Swords / Santry / Rathfarnham / Terenure area as part of Network Direct with some interesting route choices and very high frequencies.

The RPA has on the charm offensive with its promotion of Metro North on the facebook page

Ireland after NAMA has an obscure piece on the GAA and its tracking of players migrating from club to club

Last but not least

To round off the mixed bag of links check out the Mapping London Blog for a cool visualization of foot traffic through Londons tube stations.

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