Cars are killing Earth, in more ways than we think
Cars are harmful to our health and to our environment.
29 April 2025, 03:00 AM
Are school buses the answer to our traffic woes?
There are plenty of great examples of improving the traffic situation around schools and making the children's lives better.
21 March 2025, 06:00 AM
Public health must prioritise disease prevention
There is a common confusion around the subject of health.
31 January 2025, 06:05 AM
Helping street children requires a holistic, evidence-based approach
The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised.
20 November 2024, 04:01 AM
Democracy dies undefended
What can we learn from the American disaster? First, that democracy isn’t easy.
11 November 2024, 11:37 AM
World Cities Day 2024: Cities should be for people, not cars
It is time to greatly restrict the use of private motorised vehicles and make our cities more liveable.
31 October 2024, 02:00 AM
The wisdom of youth
If we have learnt nothing else in the last several months, it is not to underestimate the power of young people.
19 October 2024, 08:00 AM
Bigger isn't always better
The belief shared by corporate and government leaders that bigger is always better is founded on the false assumption
26 June 2024, 06:00 AM
Play should be a fundamental right for all children
Play is not a unique human construction: baby animals engage in play, using it to learn a variety of important skills
11 June 2024, 04:00 AM
The contradiction of comfort
How comfortable is it to not have clean air to breathe?
26 April 2024, 06:00 AM
Risky play and adventure playgrounds
Children flourish when given the opportunity to explore their environment and calculate risks.
31 March 2024, 09:09 AM
Acknowledge negativity, but don’t ignore the positive
People assign varying weights to their experiences, and so some of us focus on the positive.
2 March 2024, 02:00 AM
Respecting boundaries and holding men responsible
I wish we lived in a world where the perpetrator, not the survivor, was blamed for their actions.
30 January 2024, 14:00 PM
Can we have bicycle highways, too?
Let’s get over the prejudice that expressways are for cars.
10 January 2024, 04:00 AM
A plea for common humanity
Attitudes that insist on finding differences rather than commonalities are troubling.
14 November 2023, 02:00 AM
World Car-free Day: Decarbonise transport for climate justice
What happens to be a great solution for decarbonising transport is enabling and promoting walking, cycling, and pedal-powered rickshaws.
22 September 2023, 00:00 AM
Our forgotten elderly
In many cities around the world, elderly people literally cannot cross the road because the timing on crossing signals is too brief. At least we don’t have that problem in Dhaka, if only due to the absence of functional traffic lights.
7 September 2023, 00:00 AM
Is health an individual or collective responsibility?
The importance of government policy, not just individual motivation, for health becomes evident when we consider the behaviours needed for a person to stay healthy.
20 July 2023, 12:00 PM
An ode to local economies
Let’s shape the future in partnership with, rather than in destruction of, our local economy and local communities.
25 June 2023, 15:00 PM
Why Dhaka should invest more in bicycle lanes
Cycling infrastructure is far less expensive to build than roads, flyovers, elevated expressways, and parking garages for cars.
21 June 2023, 01:00 AM