Hints and tips:
...Travis & Emery, 17 Cecil Court, London WC2; travis-and-emery.com...
...ranging from Borneo Isle in Amsterdam, a new canalside development that doffs its cap to vernacular dockside buildings, to the 2019 RIBA award-winning, car-free co-housing community in Cambridge, Marmalade Lane...
...At more than 20 storeys, Nairn feared that Lewis Solomon Kaye and Partners’ Hilton Hotel on Park Lane was in danger of “urbanising Green Park”....
...The director defendants Jack Dorsey, Martha Lane Fox, Omid Kordestani, Patrick Pichette, David Rosenblatt, Bret Taylor and Robert Zoellick remain on the board today....
...It was bound to end in tears and it did so at Uber, where Benchmark had to plot to defenestrate the wilful co-founder Travis Kalanick, and at WeWork, whose guru-like leader Adam Neumann was brought down...
...Mazzucato has correctly emphasised the contribution of state funded basic research to Silicon Valley, but thank goodness the development was in the hands of Steve Jobs, Travis Kalanick and Elon Musk rather...
...Others this week include builders’ merchant Travis Perkins, packaging group DS Smith and rail and bus operator Go-Ahead....
...Freshly painted bike lanes have appeared — as they have in large global cities....
...Olympic Pride, American Prejudice by Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher (Simon & Schuster RRP£20/Atria RRP$28, February) tells the story of the 18 black American athletes at the 1936 Berlin Olympics...
...They saw Travis Kalanick’s bad behaviour and all the consequences of it,” she said, arguing that investors in Benchmark and other WeWork backers including the Vision Fund and Hony Capital “should be livid...
...Travis Elborough, author and historian, sees a process that he calls “re-Edwardianisation” here....
...He also created the university’s first car-sharing programme and advocated for bike lanes and higher parking prices....
...They were looking for highly mobile young tech enthusiasts who could, as Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick would later put it, “always be hustling”....
...“Bird is putting safety above growth and the rest of the industry is not,” said Travis VanderZanden, Bird’s founder and chief executive. “We cap at 15mph even when city does not require it.”...
...While that could include Latin America or China, Europe already has a lot of dedicated cycling infrastructure, such as bike lanes, which make riding safer for electric scooters, he said....
...I’ve been trying to find John D MacDonald’s Travis McGee books. They were paperback original, hard-boiled crime novels published in the 1950s and 1960s....
...“We try to go in [to cities] and be the nice guys,” said Bird founder Travis VanderZanden, who previously held senior positions at Uber and Lyft....
...Similarly, Uber has had no lack of applicants for the open role of chief executive since its founder Travis Kalanick moved to the passenger seat....
...One is its team: Bird’s founder and chief executive, Travis VanderZanden, worked at both Uber and Lyft in San Francisco before moving to LA....
...Entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, crossbench peer in the House of Lords and a director at Twitter, said: “The tech industry can be a powerful force for good....
...In a blog post on Tuesday, Chief executive Travis Kalanick underscored that Uber has no plans to make its own cars. “Making cars is really hard,” he wrote....
...Uber’s self-driving cars hit San Francisco’s streets on Wednesday, the same day that its chief executive Travis Kalanick was appointed to President-elect Donald Trump’s business policy forum....
...In a blog post on Tuesday, chief executive Travis Kalanick underscored that Uber has no plans to make its own cars. “Making cars is really hard,” he wrote....
...Pausing at a stoplight, Rob Cortis — the float’s owner — received a thumbs up from a pedestrian crossing the street, and a middle finger from the driver stopped in the lane next to him....
...Volvo already offers lane assistance technology in its latest XC90 SUV vehicles. Uber will use the cars to offer driverless taxis, while Volvo will also develop the vehicles to be sold to consumers....
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