Daniel Reyes

Contributor

Daniel Reyes

Urban reporter. Spends his days on night buses, in planning meetings and on rooftops.

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How a harbour town keeps its night bus
Aug 25, 2026
1 min read
How a harbour town keeps its night bus

Route 9 carries six hundred passengers after midnight. Nobody wants to pay for it, and nobody can do without it.

The nine-minute city
Aug 20, 2026
1 min read
The nine-minute city

Fifteen is the slogan. Nine is the number residents actually use when they say a neighbourhood works.

What happened to the concrete stairwell
Aug 15, 2026
1 min read
What happened to the concrete stairwell

A short ode to the part of the building where people used to meet.

A year of roof gardens in a cold city
Aug 9, 2026
1 min read
A year of roof gardens in a cold city

The weather defeated most of them. The ones that survived share three habits.

The quiet economics of the corner kiosk
Aug 4, 2026
1 min read
The quiet economics of the corner kiosk

Margins are thin, hours are brutal, and the street would feel very different without it.

The night train is back, and so are its habits
May 15, 2026
1 min read
The night train is back, and so are its habits

Beds, bar cars and strangers: reporting from the first overnight service to Vienna in a decade.