Cities columnist

Daniel Okafor

A former urban planner who writes about streets, transit and the human scale of cities. He walks to work and rarely lets anyone forget it.

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Give the pavement back to the people who walk on it

16 October 2026, 03:33 · 2 min read

Squeezed by parked cars, signposts and clutter, the humble pavement is the most honest measure of how much a city values its people.

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