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#montreal#good news#nature#science#environmentalism#environment#climate change#carbon emissions#cars#car free
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good morning to people who hate lawns, cars, and golf 😍
everyone else, hi i guess 😒
#Solarpunk#Biodiversity#conservation#Ecology#No cars#Anti car#Golf courses#Anti golf#Car free#solarpunk
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CNBC’s Diana Olick joins 'Power Lunch' to report on America's first car-free city.
#CNBC Television#solarpunk#culdesac#Tempe#arizona#USA#car free community#car free#walkable neighborhood#Diana Olick#Youtube
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“walkable cities” and the “car free” movements sound nice but they’re such jokes because their core is white liberals who despise that the U.S. doesn’t look more like europe. And there’s no real understanding that the reason we have car-centric development isn’t because of “car culture” but because we live in a apartheid state that routinely sells technologies of war and war industries to the (upper) middle class and deploys these technologies to destroy Black and other communities of color!! Let’s think about why cars and airplanes received so much federal $$$ after the growth of their industries in World War II.
So they pursue these neo-liberal measures for pedestrian friendly cities which are often incredibly weak, patchy, ecologically insufficient, and almost always tailing or preceding gentrification and the displacement of POC from the inner city. Or in the case of suburbs, it’s the neo-mall new urbanist movement of simulated urbanism where everything is an outdoor shopping mall with shitty overpriced apartments. All while doing nothing to address settler colonialism, racism and segregation, war, or the oil and mining industries responsible for this in the first place!
#i need to fight everyone in my profession#this bs is so maddening#urbanism#urban planning#car free#walkable cities#using cars as a scapegoat for white supremacy
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My newest zines
Here are zines I made in the last couple months. These are all available for purchase in my Etsy shop.
Playground games in the 1990s - A mini zine about recess activities that were popular in elementary school. Pros and cons are listed for each game, with small illustrations on each page.
An Incomplete History of Zany Brainy - A 20-page zine about a U.S. retail chain from the 1990s. These stores focused on affordable, educational toys for children.
This zine is also available as a digital version on itchi.io. You can download it for free or pay what you want.
Things we wouldn't have to worry about if we didn't depend on cars - A mini zine about car-related stress.
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Riding through North Corktown. 🌿 10/6/23
#detroit#mlk#corktown#ncorktown#bike#urbanism#car free#carfree#walking detroit#walkingdetroit#northcorktown#corecity
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"But if you only have a bike how will you transport large heavy impulse purchases like the cool scooter you see at the yardsale?" A bungee cord and Bike lock go a long way next question
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This is a shame because there are numerous compelling reasons to think that a civilisation built around the expectation that most of us have our own personal tonne of metal to move around in was kind of a bad idea. To wit:
1) They waste a lot of space.
2) They waste a lot of energy.
3) They pollute.
4) Look, car-free spaces are just nicer, OK?
5) They kill people.
No, there isn’t a war on the motorist. But it’s about time there was.
Read the full article in the New Statesman
#cars#fuckcars#fuck cars#urbanism#automobile#cycling#war on moterists#motorist#pollution#car-free#car free
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I'd actually get out more if I didn't have to drive everywhere.
#amerikka#Can we fix this infrastructure pls? And just...get some actual public transportation in more cities? Thnx#And i want to have nice bike lanes where i dont get killed#Or be a pedestrian and not get killed#Car free#Anti car#Urbanism#Cityscape#Capitalism#Walkable cities#City nerd#Not just bikes
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We live in San Diego. Near the top of a hill. So the car-free life would not be practical. But I've thought many times about getting an e-bike.
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America is well known for its dependency on cars and nowhere is that more prevalent than the Phoenix metro area. However, there's a new neighborhood that's planning to shake up the idea of car centric zoning! Let's visit Culdesac, Americas newest car free neighborhood!
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#Climate and Transit#solarpunk#culdesac#Tempe#arizona#USA#car free#walkable neighborhood#car free community#Youtube
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I really live in such good place. I forget that sometimes, and just complain that I don't have a garden. But I can walk with my kid to the nearest store to buy ice cream or something without crossings or even walking next to any car road. This area is such a good place for kids ❤️
I love that she can walk around in the area closest to home without holding anyone's hand.
I love that we don't need to own a car.
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Reflecting back, looking forward
The top articles for 2022 have a lot to say about the world of city building and where we are headed for the new year.
On Public Square we often write about big topics and projects, such as regional plans or freeway transformations, but the most popular article of 2022 is focused on something small—a grouping of eight houses in a “cottage court” (see photo at top). The article from March, “Endearing and enduring, cottage court is designed to last a millennium,” covers a strikingly attractive group of homes built by designer and mason Clay Chapman that brings an abandoned building technique back to life—foot-thick brick-and-mortar walls.
The next article to go viral, also published in March, had “car-free” in the title. “Car-free hill town is designed in nature” reported on Las Catalinas, a new urbanist resort town in Costa Rica where people arrive at the edge of town and then walk everywhere they need to go.
The next popular piece, from June, covers “Seven stroads that have been converted to streets.” Most Public Square readers will not need an explanation, but a “stroad” is a ubiquitous half-road, half-street that is found all across America, especially in the suburbs.
For a few weeks in September, the US was obsessed with the life and death of Queen Elizabeth and a new monarch on the throne, King Charles. Despite a forcible divorce from Britain nearly 250 years ago, we still love the royal family. At Public Square our contribution to this global story was an article on Charles’s long-time interest in architecture and urban design, and the development of a remarkable new town called Poundbury (“The new urbanist developer King”).
Rounding out the top five is an article that posted just before Christmas, “Turning an office park into a town center.” Many Americans are tired of the automobile-oriented sprawl that has consumed the US landscape for more than seven decades, and are looking for better ways to use some of these places.
Read the full article.
#journalism#public square#2022 reflection#office parks#new urbanism#urbanism#city planning#cottage court#car free#stroads#sprawl#monarchy#development
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Map: Visioning a Better Future for Detroit's Belle Isle
Map: Visioning a Better Future for Detroit’s Belle Isle
by: Paul Jones III
Belle Isle is undoubtedly Detroit’s most beloved park. The city’s island getaway is regularly flooded with people on warm days, and welcomed 5.2 million visitors to its beaches, picnic groves, and lakesides last year alone. Detroiters love Belle Isle and have for generations. It has played a significant role in the city���s history since its development in the 1880s. More…
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