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Cars and Independence
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Update: This comic has received a lot of both positive and negative attention, and I decided to post a follow-up comic to address some of the criticism: Revisiting Independence
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Protect the porch
The porch is more than just another single-family architectural feature, it's an important part of the culture of Black neighborhoods. Read more.
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Late night research: eco-anxiety, solarpunk, new urbanism
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Oh NO I think I'm slowly falling into local politics and activism (falling? nah girl, you fell ages ago when you volunteered for a city council board) but anyways I've thought I don't have enough stick-to-it to be involved in politics in a meaningful way.
I underestimated my hatred of pickup trucks.
Well ok technically it's my love of being a pedestrian and like, being alive. But I'm starting to research how one would campaign against the increasing size of pickup trucks and SUVs and whoopsie, I think I'm doing an Activism.
(Anyways y'all should go watch These Stupid Trucks Are Literally Killing Us to know what I'm talking about.)
#now researching how to contact Transport Canada and who I should talk to about monster pickups#activism#pickup trucks#suvs#these stupid trucks are literally killing us#local politics#new urbanism#urbanism#not just bikes#strong towns
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‘I still hate Chicago’
Chicago:
from an urban design perspective: checks out
reading the street signs: with things that I miss
#boy ep#was everything for the urban design girlies#I didn’t actually mean to put this image of the street signs here I was looking in my archive for suburbia#which apparently is remembered this as#new urbanism#I’m still your boy#luke hemmings
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New Town Saint-Charles, Missouri, USA Par : DPZ CoDesign Date : 2002
Projet de 3500 logements en banlieue de Saint-Louis au Missouri. Le projet intègre résidences, commerces et loisirs afin de créer un milieu de vie complet, selon les principes du New Urbanism. Les basins de rétention et de drainage de l'eau sont intégrés avec élgance dans le paysage de la ville.
A projet of 3500 homes in the suburbs of Saint-Louis in Missouri. The project include housing, commerce and recreation, according to the principles of New Urbanism. The retentions ponds needed for the project are integrated into the cityscape elegantly.
Source : https://www.dpz.com/projects/new-town-saint-charles/
#architecture#design#missouri#united states#saint louis#urbanism#urban planning#new urbanism#new classical architecture#classical
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Howl
And so the wolf howls
perched atop the sprawl,
his path laid out
in roundabouts
and copy paste homes.
No more, he screams.
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time to spiral
#new urbanism#i have this breakdown at least every other week aha xoxo#wish i could just fix planning why but unfortunately like everything it’s a game of money and power#god dammit who invited capitalism
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the things that are reported matters. the language used matters. what is left out of the story matters.
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The Walk Light
Does crossing an intersection on foot have to take this long? I think we can do better. My friend Alex Zorach helped me come up with the idea for this one.
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Modular cottage designed to be cute
Why do factory-built houses tend to look ugly? Why can’t they be cute, like a cottage that would fit into a walkable neighborhood? New urbanists have been wrestling with that question for many years.
Bruce Tolar, an architect based in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, asks: “Would you rather have a little manufactured house with the wrong-sloped roof and no porch, or would you like one that's very similar in square footage but has a great roof and a little bit of nice detailing on the porch?”
The assumption is that many home buyers would prefer the attractive cottage, and such a modular house recently won an Urban Guild Award. Built in the Franklin Homes factory in North Alabama, the house prototype was placed in Tolar’s development of cottages in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. “We have a tenant who’s very happy with it,” he says. “Now that we’ve done it, we can do it again under the right conditions. We hope to make that happen.”
Read more.
#urbanism#new urbanism#walkability#walkable cities#cute#cottage#cottage aesthetic#urban guild#modular#housing
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"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.
In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.
Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.
“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”
Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.
The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.
These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.
Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.
“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”
At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.
“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.
The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”
And the urban planting continues to this day.
The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...
“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”
Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”
The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...
In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]
There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.
Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.
“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."
-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024
#colombia#brazil#urban#urban landscape#urban planning#cities#civil engineering#green architecture#green spaces#urban heat#urban heat island effect#weather#meteorology#global warming#climate change#climate hope#climate optimism#climate emergency#climate action#environment#environmental news#city architecture#bicycling#native plants#biodiversity#good news#hope#solarpunk#ecopunk#hopepunk
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O combate ao uso do automóvel nas cidades
Barcelona, 2023: via exclusiva para transporte coletivo sobre trilhos. Automóveis foram banidos deste tipo de via Quanto mais o tempo passa, menor fica o espaço social para o automóvel particular nas cidades. Qualquer iniciativa, política ou programa de sustentabilidade urbana que se preze adota ações de desincentivo ao uso do carro para deslocamentos cotidianos. Não há como desenvolver soluções…
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#arquitetura e urbanismo#cidade#cidade sem automóvel#cidade sem carro#cidades#cidades brasileiras#combate ao automóvel#combate ao carro#combate urbano ao carro#desenho urbano#eficiência#faixas exclusivas#faixas exclusivas para ônibus#mobilidade urbana#new urbanism#novo urbanismo#obras viárias#planejamento de transportes#planejamento urbano#planejamento urbano e mobilidade#rejeição ao automóvel#rejeição ao carro#Ricardo Trevisan#solução de transporte#substituto do automóvel#substituto do carro#transporte urbano#urban design#urban plan#urban planning
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