I love me some grassy trams (lemmy.world)
Designing Urban Places that Don't Suck (www.youtube.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)
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...
Old highway becomes public park with 24,000 plants in Seoul (archive.curbed.com)
56 High Speed Rail Links We Should've Built Already | CityNerd (invidious.lunar.icu)
the Ontario Science Centre, a piece of sustainable brutalist architecture designed to integrate into and show respect to it's environment, is slated to be torn down (i.ibb.co)
I thought those of you who aren’t torontonians, and may have never heard of the science center, would be interested in this story. The science center is a phenomenal building that most people living in Ontario have fond memories of. It was designed to draw attention to the environment it existed in, emphasizing natural...
How are the Dutch using trains to create a megacity? (www.youtube.com)
‘It takes bravery to recognize mistakes:’ Ukrainian architects learn from Rotterdam to rebuild their own cities (kyivindependent.com)
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us - Not Just Bikes (yt.artemislena.eu)
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‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
Donating items to Food Banks and Little Free Pantries that people use most
Source: twitter.com/justfara/status/1716635421302497725...
Getting bike lanes built quickly and cheaply (youtu.be)
Trees planted in parking lots are often STRESSED! (vid.priv.au)
About Strong Towns (www.strongtowns.org)
I just wanted to introduce this group to Strong Towns, a non profit devoted to making development make sense. I worked with the founder of Strong Towns years ago when the idea was new....
Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town (youtu.be)
It's the cars 🚗 (lemmy.world)
Source: seattle.gov/…/2020_GHG_Inventory_Oct_2022.pdf
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.
Implementing a Personal Transportation Hierarchy (collindonnell.com)
London flooding: Should the capital become a 'sponge city'? - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
MetaWindow: Noise Reduction from Deutsche Bahn (www.railtarget.eu)
The scaling back of Saudi Arabia’s proposed urban mega-project sends a clear warning to other would-be utopias (theconversation.com)
Resisting Evictions of the Urban Poor: A Resource for Housing Rights Advocates (www.inklusibo.org)
Inklusibo’s new manual on housing rights provides an in-depth narrative of the urban poor’s right to housing and livable spaces. This is the first free publication under the Housing and Living Spaces category.
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?...
St. Louis' Crash Apparatus Shows the Sickness of Car Dominance (www.riverfronttimes.com)
