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anarchistfrogposting · 2 days

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One thing about me is that I’m kinda obsessed with urban planning and another thing about me is that I’m furious, ENRAGED. About the blatant contempt that modern infrastructure projects have for walkability.

#urban planning #urban #cities #city planning #design #urban design #autism #autistic #special interest #the autism turns this one up to 150

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sylviaodhner · 7 months

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The Shopping Center Disconnect

#urbanism #walkability #sustainability #urban design #pedestrians #humanscaled #art #comics

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writing-with-olive · 14 days

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So i'm working on a project that involves looking at people's opinions on public transportation, and something that keeps coming up is that a lot of people like the idea of public transportation but ridership is at the same time low, so I wanna figure out what stops people from riding.

If you could reblog this for bigger sample size that would be so so appreciated

#public transportation #city development #urban design #walkable cities #public transit #busses #trains #streetcars #metro #subway #poll #civic engagement #research #academia #opinions

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atomic-chronoscaph · 2 months

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The Metropolis of Tomorrow - art by Hugh Ferriss (1929)

#hugh ferriss #the metropolis of tomorrow #retro futurism #modernist architecture #20s sci-fi art #urban design #architects #1920 #1929

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fixing-bad-posts · 2 months

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car culture is so fucking annoying.

#fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #blackout poetry #walkable cities #walkability #city planning #urban planning #urban design #miscellaneous

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american-boyboss · 2 years

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#4th of july #america #usa #transit #roads #car culture #political #multipost #urban planning #car dependency #not just bikes #moodboard #usa moodboard #american dream #urbanism #urban design #bike lanes

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solacene · 4 months

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Little vision for a more beautiful, sustainable, tactile future.

#sustainability #urban design #community design #rewilding #green cities #solarpunk

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croyl · 3 months

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Galia (L419) table lamp by Michael Red for Vistosi, c. 1974

#urban design #aesthetic #minimalist #minimal #street fashion #streetstyle #style #high fashion #street wear #streetfashion #furnituredesign #furniture #lamp #light #beige aesthetic #minimal aesthetic #aestethic #croyl

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solar-sunnyside-up · 7 months

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Since yall went so wild over those solar farms here some more--

^^some theoretical usage of colorful solar glass

^^Here's some as artwork

^^ some canopy ideas for over plazas/markets

^^And some hybrid Solar/water catching structures as well

#solarpunk #hopepunk #art #cottagecore #anticapitalism #community #solar farms #urban design

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architectureandfilmblog · 3 months

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Siedlung Halen, Atelier 5, 1961

“More than 50 years on, it’s one of the most successful housing estates in existence“

PARKOUR HALENSIEDLUNG (2007), SIEDLUNG HALEN (2010)

These videos offer two perspectives on the iconic Halen development - one looks at history and design detail, while in the other its massing, human scale, and playfulness are demonstrated through parkour.

The 79-home Swiss project was designed by 5 young architects on a forested site overlooking a river, 15 minutes cycle ride from Bern. The land had been intended for their own houses, until costs necessitated a higher density. Communal facilities such as the swimming pool, playground and community hall have shared ownership, and the internal streets are pedestrianised. For additional reading, this feature in Monocle (quoted above) includes short profiles of some of the residents. They reflect the fact that the buildings, arranged on a slope with high walls between gardens, seem to have found a sweet spot between community and privacy. As one resident says: “You can sunbathe on the top floor balcony as God intended without anyone seeing.”

Perhaps part of Halen's success lies in how well it resolves two areas of tension in our relationship to spaces. Firstly the public/private balance, something like what Le Corbusier referred to as "silence, solitude, but also daily contact with mortals.” And secondly, Prospect Refuge theory, in which we crave immersion within nature, but also shelter from it - a view of the surrounding landscape, but also a feeling of enclosure and protection.

#siedlung halen #brutalism #urban design #planning #parkour #atelier 5 #le corbusier

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hellsgate-roadhouse · 13 days

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sixth-light · 1 year

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I am extremely not going to dignify that 'walkable cities ARE ableist actually' post which has crossed my dash with a reblog, but four things to keep in mind:

'Walkable cities' is almost always a shorthand for 'cities which deprioritise cars as a mode of transport and make it possible and enjoyable to travel by other modes instead', rather than a call for everybody to walk and only walk everywhere all of the time. We live in a golden age of micromobility options, for starters. And when most people do not need to use cars, it will be much easier for people who do.

Advocacy for walkable cities and active transport often does slide right into ableism and fatphobia and this needs to be directly challenged whenever it appears (as someone who has been a cycle commuter my whole adult life and overweight for all but five minutes of my whole adult life, if I never hear "if everybody cycled we would solve the '''obesity epidemic'''!!!" again...)

AT THE SAME TIME, while this will change in degree from place to place, the Venn diagram between 'people who advocate for walkable cities' and 'people who advocate for accessible cities' has a significant degree of overlap. There's probably at least one car-centric conservative out there who genuinely advocates for accessibility by the law of averages, but it's neither a coherent nor common position. Walkability IS a form of accessibility. It is not accessibility for everybody but no single kind of accessibility is, which is why we need cities with MULTIPLE kinds.

Therefore, as with goddamn near everything in life, if you actually want to see more accessible cities...advocate for more accessible cities, and what that means for you. Going 'but there are some people who will always need cars therefore walkable cities is ableist' does exactly nothing except turn people off the idea of change. Say what you want to see. Be specific. Imagine better futures. TL;DR - cui bono when we lock ourselves into "cars vs walkability"? you guessed it - people who benefit from the (observably harmful) car-prioritising status quo. so is this assertion always a cynical psy-op? No. Does it function as one in practice? fuck yes. be smarter.

#transport #urban design #accessibility

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carcosacurations · 8 months

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