The planned Saudi linear city revives a 19th century idea
by Rashmee
Posted on October 9, 2022
Politico’s ‘Living Cities’ edition had a fascinating piece the other day on the linear city, …
Read MoreWhere in the modern world is waste being repurposed to build?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 4, 2021
It’s interesting to consider the way in which that particular breed of person, the innovation …
Read MoreThe world needs more Ithacas
by Rashmee
Posted on November 7, 2021
One American city plans to decarbonize every building. The Washington Post reports that Ithaca in …
Read MoreThe ‘cloud car’ of Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C.
by Rashmee
Posted on October 1, 2021
At 08:37 one weekday morning, we got to see the “cloud car” of Adams Morgan, …
Read More#CHfuturescapelondon is fantastic – as a video game – not as a brave new world
by Rashmee
Posted on April 18, 2021
/ TRAVELS IN MY MIND I’ve often thought that Aldous Huxley would’ve been a good …
Read MoreAs Paris pact turns five, climate change is the new cold war
by Rashmee
Posted on December 7, 2020
This is the week the Paris Climate Agreement marks its fifth birthday. December 12 is …
Read MoreAi Weiwei’s ‘History of Bombs’ makes an interesting point 75 years after Hiroshima
by Rashmee
Posted on August 4, 2020
This is the right week to be considering the great wrongs done by bombs. Small …
Read More75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a novel about the crack that joins broken objects to their past
by Rashmee
Posted on August 3, 2020
In August 1946, a year after an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic …
Read MoreLondon reopens for business - but Covent Garden remains largely silent
by Rashmee
Posted on June 18, 2020
On Day Two of the great reopening of England’s economy a dead iPhone and an …
Read MoreBubbles, air bridges, green lanes: Travel in a post-pandemic world
by Rashmee
Posted on June 6, 2020 / The Focus
It is a truism that the pandemic will change travel. How we travel, of course, …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK