Amsterdam Just Closed their Busiest Road (youtu.be)
How "Free Parking" Bankrupts Us (www.youtube.com)
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.
“We needed to act”: Parents set up unofficial guerrilla School Street after several near misses for children cycling on narrow road used as shortcut by motorists (road.cc)
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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.
Montreal Shows What a City Can Be (www.discoursemagazine.com)
[Video essay] "How To Build A Solarpunk City" by Andrewism (youtu.be)
I believe our cities should belong to us. They should be cooperative, co-creative, ecological, and egalitarian spaces, by and for the people. We have so much untapped urban potential just waiting to be explored. Join me as we determine how to build a solarpunk city.
[Video essay] "Anarchism, Marxism & the Right to the City" by Hamish Kallin (youtu.be)
The ‘right to the city’, as a slogan, a demand, and a body of intellectual work, calls for a radically democratic city. It comes from the work of Henri Lefebvre – French philosopher, Marxist, sociologist, flamboyant revolutionary – from a short piece that came out in 1968, that canonical year in left wing mythology. The...
Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community (today.ucsd.edu)
How to decarbonise transport (www.youtube.com)
How Indianapolis advocates use Public Health to advocate for better transit and urbanism (urbanists.video)
This is my full interview with Kim Irwin, the Executive Director of Health By Design about her work advocating for expanded transit and other urbanist policy in Indianapolis. It was a great conversation. Check out the more polished version of the video here.
Advanced simulation of air currents can result in more habitable cities (norwegianscitechnews.com)
Densely-packed housing makes urban areas vulnerable to overheating, pollution and dangerous wind gusts. The effects of climate change can aggravate these problems, but we can also work to prevent them. This can be done by simulating microclimates. …...
No, We Are Not Facing a “War on Cars” (youtu.be)
Henri Lefebvre's classic work, *The Right to the City*, an important work in theorizing urbanism (theanarchistlibrary.org)
In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city...
Beyond Bike Lanes: What Really Impressed Us About Cycling in the Netherlands (www.youtube.com)
The 20-year-old game SimCity 4 now has a new feature: walkable cities (community.simtropolis.com)
Well, mods have enabled walkable cities for some years, but it didn't work well. Recently, the modders of SimCity 4 invented a new way of building walkable cities. And I have to say, it's pretty fun....
Re-purposing malls as solarpunk co-housing (solarpunkstation.com)
[Youtube] Doug Griffiths – 13 Ways to Kill Your Community (youtu.be)
Doug "quickly" goes through his 13, tongue-in-cheek ways to kill a community. IMO it's a great companion piece to Strong Towns and makes for a great discussion piece with other community members.
[YouTube] Not Just Bikes: The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities (06/19/2023) (www.youtube.com)
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