[News] America is becoming a country of YIMBYs (www.cnn.com)
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Silicon Valley's wealthiest want to build their own city outside of San Francisco (www.popsci.com)
They have already invested $800 million in the secretive urban project, while recently revealed plans remain vague.
Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city (www.theguardian.com)
Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buy 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California
Help Plan Eugene Parks
KLCC article explains:...
Urban Details — a community celebrating everything that cities do right, from tiny Easter eggs or interesting street art pieces to city-encompassing infrastructure projects or unusual public spaces
Check out the pinned post for a general guide to the community that includes lots of relevant examples....
Golden Mile Complex: Five Decades of an Architectural Icon (biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg)
The collective sale and conservation of Golden Mile Complex will restore a visionary building designed for a “new look Singapore”......
So Much for ‘Carmageddon’ (Philadelphia Edition) — Streetsblog USA (usa.streetsblog.org)
Great article on induced demand and how traffic did not get worse after highway collapse. Shows how building more lanes and more highways often contributes to the traffic problems we have.
[Strong Towns] Jersey City Achieved Zero Traffic Deaths on Its Streets. Here’s How They Did It. (www.strongtowns.org)
I love the idea of “tactical urbanism”. A way to quickly make (and unmake) changes to our roads to better serve our communities without getting bogged down in studies and communities. Seeing the change good design can make is so much more effective than just talking about it.
