Does anyone know (personally, professionally, or otherwise) of municipal regulations requiring green space on commercial property? US is most useful, but I'll take anything, and from green roof to potted plants by the door.
Please boost, and please suggest hashtags that might help!
White people invented the suburbs specifically to get away from ni-, I mean, "urban thugs," and we're all continuing the (literally) pay the stupid, stupid price.
I've been in barely ♿️ #accessible towns and very accessible towns but so far, #LasVegas is the most fake-accessible I've been in. It's modern, it's beholden to the #ADA, it should be easy to use its sidewalks, but between all the pedestrian overpasses trying to feed us* through casinos instead of down the sidewalk and adding lots of distance, and the constant construction tearing up sidewalks, rarely marked before we headed down them, it's barely accessible. Quito, with its cobblestones and narrow sidewalks, was easier.
We're here for a family wedding, but won't be coming back as tourists.
*Us:
One nearly 13 multiply #neurodivergent person who is overwhelmed by some kinds of visual and auditory simulation. And yeah, shoulda grabbed ear protection, but it would have been too much regardless.
One 60 year old disabled by pain, deformities, and poor balance due to 2+ decades of medication-resistant #rheumatoid disease.
Renovated Food Hall has just (unofficially) opened at the Queen Victoria Market! Still setting up the shops but you can just wander inside to take a look
“Where you live is as important as what you eat”
“Air quality, heat, and food in your neighborhood have a big influence on your health. Future urban design needs to take this into account.”
That’s why all people need easy access to healthy food and healthy surroundings. Otherwise, only people who can afford it, lead long and healthy lives. https://www.wired.com/story/wired-impact-cities-health/
A beautiful example of a red sandstone gushet tenement on the corner of Shaw Street and Langlands Road in the Govan area of Glasgow. I just love those curves. Why can't new buildings look as good as this? Or as typically Glaswegian?
"The more green spaces there are in cities, the more accessible #nature and its benefits are to all levels of society.
"One of the greatest inequalities in society is health. #Rewilding can improve living conditions and mental and physical health for everyone, but particularly for those living in deprived areas."
Mixed land uses are associated with greater social cohesion, according to a new study. Without diverse land uses, dense places can have the opposite effect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104903
How would you make this street better for biking & walking? Capt Bertie’s Way is a short 20 MPH street with residences and an entrance to a major town parking lot at the end. There’s a planned shared use path to connect a new housing development (highlighted parcel). Thoughts? #BikeTooter#UrbanPlanning#SafeStreets#sidewalk#bikelane#UrbanDesign#streets#CompleteStreets
I'm watching a documentary on the US Horn & Hardart Automats (on Prime). It's fascinating how the rise of the suburbs hurt them. Meanwhile, automats are still around in Europe (where they're from). #urbandesign
We don’t need this much parking; we really, really don’t: “We treat our cars well. Grabar reports that, by square footage, there is more housing for each car in the U.S. than there is housing for each person. In many cities, the number of parking spaces devoted to each household is staggering: Philadelphia, 3.7 spaces per household; Seattle, 5; Des Moines, 20!”
Loving this block of flats in Darmstadt, Germany. Not just for the sloping roof garden, but the whole approach with onion domes and the painted lines and individually designed windows that create a sense of irregularity.
It's called Waldspirale ("forest spiral") and was designed by an Austrian artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who had a strong dislike for straight lines.
'Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas: Premonitions of the Mystical Rebirth of Urbanism' by Gian Piero Frassinelli (www.readingdesign.org)
Glorious hallucinations that are reminiscent of Calvino's Invisible Cities but also of Borges. Here's an extract:...