These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us - Not Just Bikes (yt.artemislena.eu)
Canonical YouTube link
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope? - DamiLee (yt.artemislena.eu)
Exarcheia: Most Misunderstood Neighborhood in Athens (greekreporter.com)
New Sustainable Housing Solution Based on Lakota Tipi (yt.artemislena.eu)
Rebel Cities: Radical Municipalism (theanarchistlibrary.org)
This is quite a long text, but you don’t need to read the chapters in order and each chapter is on a different urban experiment. It looks at “radical municipalism” or a communities taking back power of their city and rebuilding it into what they want to make of it. The rebel cities are:...
Donating items to Food Banks and Little Free Pantries that people use most
Source: twitter.com/justfara/status/1716635421302497725...
Parkour group Storror does some guerilla urbanism (youtu.be)
I’ve recently started getting into parkour and I love its inherently political bent. It reminds of me of Graeber’s quote that “Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free,” which is exactly how traceurs behave....
YSK about urbanists.video - A Peertube instance for everyone interested in walkable, livable places. (urbanists.video)
Why Pedestrians Never Die In This New Jersey City (youtu.be)
Cincinnati was once one of the largest and densest cities in the country—before highways and sprawl tore it apart. I made a video about how it can get back on the right track - literally 🚋! (urbanists.video)
A Jaywalking Manifesto (theanarchistlibrary.org)
(5) To deviate from our defined spaces on the street is to become a “jaywalker.” “Jaywalking” was an invention by automobile capitalists to shift blame on accidents from cars and drivers to pedestrians. After all, the jaywalker shouldn’t have been on the road if they didn’t want to be run over!...
Making cities 'spongy' could help fight flooding (www.npr.org)
Are We Witnessing the END of the Car? (youtu.be)
The Case for a Car-Free Manhattan (www.youtube.com)
There’s also a follow up: How a Car-Free Manhattan would work
Solarpunk: Post-Industrial Design and Aesthetics (medium.com)
Greendo: Undulating Geothermal Homes Built Into the Side of a Mountain (www.spoon-tamago.com)
This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn from it. (www.fastcompany.com)
Archive.org link
Designing Circular Cities (yt.artemislena.eu)
dezwijger.nl/programma/designing-circular-cities
Arcology - The City In The Image Of Man (1969) (www.organism.earth)
Guerilla Gardeners turn Toxic Soil into Eco-Oasis (yt.artemislena.eu)
What Our Cities Are Missing - Andrewism (yt.artemislena.eu)
Hundertwasser - In the Meadow Hills (hundertwasser.com)
I’m very new to Solarpunk, but Hundertwasser seems to gel very nicely with what I’ve seen of the ethos....
The Lively Neighborhoods That Can't Be Built in the US (youtu.be)
The Insane Ways Traffic Engineers Try to Make Streets "Safe" For Walking (CityNerd) (piped.video)
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