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Where the wheels fall off

t’s about six months since I started coming home from the pub and watching urbanist videos. It didn’t take YouTube’s algorithm long to notice. Oh, it said, you’ve just watched all 40 minutes of someone biking around Amsterdam praising the intersections and talking about mixed-use development – here’s some more of that for you. It occurred to me I was

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