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Reinventing the Cities of the Future 🌆🌃🌉 | OpenMind
Nature, ecology and energy efficiency in the cities of the future: Internet and big data. That is the portrait of the future cities at MIT
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Massachusetts Will Now Punish Suburbs That Refuse to Build Apartments
Some towns will play along. Others will “have to go kicking and screaming.”
Lego7
NIMBY push back is a lot stronger than most will think it is...
- July 4, 2023
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Why Sweden Clears Snow-Covered Walkways Before Roads
It’s part of “gender-balanced” policy that reflects the fact that women walk more than men.
Lego7
American urban planners priority:
1- flow of private cars
2- bus transit for the poor/desperate
3- small sidewalks here or there for one pedestrian
European urban planners priority:
1- walking by foot
2- biking
3- many different public transit access everywhere
4- private cars
1- flow of private cars
2- bus transit for the poor/desperate
3- small sidewalks here or there for one pedestrian
European urban planners priority:
1- walking by foot
2- biking
3- many different public transit access everywhere
4- private cars
- July 4, 2023
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The Highest City in the World Celebrates Its Indigenous Culture with Freddy Mamani’s Neo-Andean Architecture
The city of El Alto isn’t just distinguished by its impressive altitude of over 13,000 feet above sea level or its self-governing status. This Bolivian municipality also sets itself apart with the dis...
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That is what modern architechture *should* have looked like.
- November 26, 2021
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Europe’s best walking cities: Six wonders of the wandering world
From atmospheric Berlin to Joyce’s Trieste, via Marseille’s markets and a wellbeing walk in Copenhagen, city strolls reward the curious rambler
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Paris, France is investing $290 million to make the city entirely bikeable. 🚲
Paris Plans to Be Completely Cyclable by 2026
Many European cities are bike-friendly, but cars often still dominate the roads. In a new initiative to update its existing Plan Velo for a more cycle-friendly city, Paris, France is investing $290 mi...
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A City Without Cars Is Already Here, and It’s Idyllic
Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana has been car-free for over a decade. Is it time to export their model?
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Free Parking Is Killing Cities
With the pandemic opening up streets, Donald Shoup and his followers say it’s time to stop subsidizing drivers at the expense of everyone else.
innsegall
'Free Parking Is Killing Cities' said no one but some greedy jew cunt...
- September 26, 2021
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Lego7
Check out Strong Towns, Urban3 and read the books written by Chuck Marohn.
Free car parking is not the issue, it is too much free car parking that is a problem. Again, cars are not the problem, it is car DEPENDENCY that is making us bankrupt.
Free car parking is not the issue, it is too much free car parking that is a problem. Again, cars are not the problem, it is car DEPENDENCY that is making us bankrupt.
- July 4, 2023
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Barcelona has reclaimed around eight hectares of the cityscape from motor vehicles! This space will be transformed into sidewalks, playgrounds, bike lanes or restaurant terraces.
This is Barcelona’s plan to boost pedestrian green spaces
Areas once used for traffic have been turned into sidewalks, playgrounds, and more - but the work has drawn criticism from business groups.
Lego7
Cities are for the wealthy. Middle class and working class folk will have a hard time relating to this in the coming years.
- July 4, 2023
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Gov. Newsom abolishes most single-family zoning in California
SB 9 allows up to four units on what are now single-family lots throughout California — with some caveats.
Lego7
Minnesota was the first to ban all single family zoning, not California.
That was Minnesota attempt to up zone single family zoning into triplex or fourplex buildings to accommodate "population growth."
That was Minnesota attempt to up zone single family zoning into triplex or fourplex buildings to accommodate "population growth."
- July 4, 2023
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