#urbanism

[rabbitrah]

"Le repos du fakir" (2003), Stéphane Argillet and Gilles Paté

[sylviaodhner]

The Shopping Center Disconnect

[perry-88]

>:(

America’s collective decision in the 20th century to make cars and the roads serving them the bedrock of all urban and regional planning will go down in history as just another of our nation’s awful, ruinous ideas that we nevertheless clung to for generations, like slavery or lead paint.

Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad

[whereserpentswalk]

Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they'd be like to skateboard on. I want "Please loiter" signs. I want people to be kind. I want...

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[transit-fag]

Fuck it, Urbanism hot take night, none of you bitches actually know what gentrification is

[heronhawk]

[thebreakfastgod]

America's Roads: Dangerous by Design

[archiveofaffinities]

Hong Kong

[typhlonectes]

Responsible lighting for wildlife/nature and sky viewing.

via: Driftless Stargazing LLC

[naesarchive]

Early 2000's architecture of Hong Kong. Photographer: Michael Wolf

[sylviaodhner]

Cars and Independence

My Patreon

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

[nyancrimew]

the urbanism x brutalism crossover we all deserve

[whereserpentswalk]

I have decided to become a walkablity extremist.

Cars should not be allowed in towns and cities at all. The only places where they should be at all present is in rural areas where any other means of transportation should be impossible.

High speed rail networks should allow for a trip from Mexico city to Montreal in under 24 hours.

All public transportation should be 100% free.

Lawns should not exist.

It doesn't make sense for single family homes to be built in most American cities.

Architecture must be beautiful again.

Every commercial street should have at least one bench.

Public restrooms must be free, common and accessible.

The pigeons are not enemies. The pigeons are freinds.

[may-odaigahara]

the funniest argument in the world is that detached single family homes with yards are somehow better for the environment than dense cities, just true delusion