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One solution to fight climate change? Fewer parking spaces - Grist (grist.org)

What if bikes had been invented earlier?

Why do alt-history people never focus on infrastructure or innovation? What would have happened had bikes been invented centuries before cars instead of around the same time? How different would the built environment and our culture have looked?...

I love me some grassy trams (lemmy.world)

Re-purposing malls as solarpunk co-housing (solarpunkstation.com)

Your City's Wealth Isn't Where You Think (www.strongtowns.org)

Light pollution is the easiest pollution to fix — so why aren't we doing it? "If we can't do this to simply not waste light... then we will have failed the fundamental test of progress and change i... (www.salon.com)

It's the cars 🚗 (lemmy.world)

Source: seattle.gov/…/2020_GHG_Inventory_Oct_2022.pdf

Old highway becomes public park with 24,000 plants in Seoul (archive.curbed.com)

Bike lanes are good for business, but store owners still hate them (www.businessinsider.com)

Pothole mosaics — a somewhat common form of city art, where the artist fills small cracks with colourful tiles. Photo from Marseille (media.kbin.social)

Is Automated Enforcement Making U.S. Cities Safer or Just Raising Revenue? — Streetsblog USA (usa.streetsblog.org)

Street trees are planted incorrectly in many cities! (inv.vern.cc)

Additionally: 99% of the time they specifically plant non-fruiting trees....

He’s Got a Plan for Cities That Flood: Stop Fighting the Water | A landscape architect in China has a surprising strategy to help manage surges of water from storms supercharged by climate change. (www.nytimes.com)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8079352...

The solarpunk building where I'm working in (slrpnk.net)

I usually work from home, but at the moment I’m working in that zero-energy building. It’s not the most beautiful, but it actually generates more energy than it consumes! There is a small garden on the rooftop with vegetables for employees to pick up and wooden picnic tables. The wooden structure holds solar panels and...

Guerilla Urbanism asks forgiveness, not permission (www.cnu.org)

The Land of Ferrari and Lamborghini Has a New Speed Limit: 30 K.P.H. (www.nytimes.com)

The scaling back of Saudi Arabia’s proposed urban mega-project sends a clear warning to other would-be utopias (theconversation.com)

Planting trees on rooftops? (yt.artemislena.eu)

The Uniquely American Epidemic of Traffic Deaths (bettercities.substack.com)

Interesting article with some great linked research and practical solutions to the issue of traffic deaths.

Donating items to Food Banks and Little Free Pantries that people use most

Source: twitter.com/justfara/status/1716635421302497725...

To Feel Less Heat, We Need More Trees in Our Cities (www.sierraclub.org)

Streetmix is an online tool which you can use to 'design and remix' your own street (streetmix.net)

I thought Alt Urbanism might enjoy this! A fun little tool which I mainly use to redesign annoying junctions that I’ve cycled through. It’s a really good demonstration of just how much space cars take up and how much better things could be if less roadspace was dedicated to cars.

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