#walkable

[coolthingsguyslike]

#Aachen #Germany #travel #walkable #cities #Europe

[madnessofmen]

I'm visiting a city where all the nonessential shops are small businesses run by a single person and have hours like this, and yeah it's inconvenient for me but it super rules. I love knowing people are running their shops because they want to and not because they depend on working it to survive. There's an antiques shop that's open only five hours on Saturdays.

#I anticipate this place getting super gentrified in the coming decades #it's a lovely city. very run down in most places but the underlying everything is fantastic #city planning and zoning is good #walkable #lots of gorgeous old architecture

[cnu-newurbanism]

Great Idea 20: Interconnected street networks

In order to get good streets, you have to think beyond any single street—an idea that is at the core of New Urbanism. Dendritic networks lead to fragmented and dispersed land uses. Read more.

#great ideas #new urbanism #urban design #urbanism #cities #walkability #streets #urban planning #walkable #walkable cities #street networks

[thiscitylife]

Urban Renewal: a new series on restoring community in a post-pandemic world

Over the past four years, I've felt increasing disconnected. This is despite being more digitally connected than ever- to global events, my friend's lives on social media, and my workplace. I don't think it's just me feeling this way.

Since the pandemic forced people indoors and in front of screens, we've left behind the real world and our communities for a virtual reality. The local media landscape is shrinking, so we know little of what is happening around us and the virtual workplace means we spend more time at home and less time connecting with people face to face.

This has an impact on our cities, our communities, and our wellbeing. According to a recent a Meta-Gallup survey taken across 142 countries, nearly 1 in 4 adults across the world report feeling very or fairly lonely. The survey also found that the rates of loneliness were highest in young adults.

How do we restore a sense of community and authentic connection in a increasingly digital world - one where we are instead connected to misinformation, global politics, and algorithms 24/7 infiltrating our social media feeds with influencers, who persuade us to desire lifestyles that won't make us happy and things we don't need?

I believe the urbanist community has a role to play in helping solve these societal issues, so I'm launching a series to explore this topic from the perspective of local planning - how we design our cities and parks, activate our public spaces, restore nature in cities, fund community and arts programs, develop policies on safer streets and affordable housing, and more.

I'm calling the series Urban Renewal, a negative term in urban studies that refers to a 1970s North American policy of demolishing low-income communities to build massive freeway projects surrounded by desolate highrise buildings.

Renewal represents the process of revitalizing or rejuvenating something to its original state or improving it. I want to talk about what urban renewal should be, not removing vibrant communities in favour of cars and concrete, but actually restoring a sense of community that we seem to be losing to the virtual world.

I'm hoping to talk to a diverse range of perspectives for ideas on how to address this issue. Reach out to me if you work in urban issues and have thoughts about how to rebuild community in a post-pandemic world!

Photo credit: Street Lab (Uni Project)

#urbanism #city issues and ideas #pandemic #community #loneliness #public spaces #walkable #urban planning

[nando161mando]

#and walkable #walkable #walking #walk #streets #footpath #pedestrian #foot traffic #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #urban #city #country #humanrights #class war #government #corrupt government #corrupt politicians #politicians #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #antinazi

[georgedearing]

“Americans are placing greater value on homes in close proximity to nearby shops, cafes and parks—and they may even pay more for such properties, according to the National Association of REALTORS®’ newly released 2023 Community & Transportation Preferences Survey.”

#walkability #realestate #housing #walkable #walkable cities

[mae-stillthrive]

post-college adult life in the US is really just that, huh. the people you love most in the world have mostly scattered. you will never have to see the people that hurt you again. you can curate your immediate environment to whatever is healthiest to you. you will never live in a dense, walkable community ever again. you will never have to worry about grades, tests, or homework. the things you do worry about are so, so much bigger than that. you are happier and healthier than you've ever been. you're miserable when you think of everything you've lost.

#college #post-college #maespeaks #walkable

[yellowballoonx]

#cartoon #polotics #walkable #private lives #fight #coffee shop #car dependency

[detroitography]

A Bolder Vision of Highway Removal for Detroit

A Bolder Vision of Highway Removal for Detroit

by Paul Jones III Detroit has an incredible opportunity to reduce the impact of highways on our urban fabric.  Our highways are some of the worst examples in the nation of racist, mid-century urban planning practices, and removing them has been a topic of interest in transportation, planning, and racial justice circles for decades. As more cities start to make decisions that recognize the…

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#Black Bottom #Chinatown #Detroit #downtown #expressways #freeway #geography #map #MDOT #mobility #Paradise Valley #reparations #transit #transportation #urban fabric #walkability #walkable

[mourning-again-in-america]

decided to pour some latent rage into actually making a nethack like game

i'd previously gotten distracted by either rendering or trying to use ncurses so i decided to make that architecture simple: each level has some set of buildings and entities, only the current level is drawn

a "building" has a 2d grid containing blocks and an offset from the upper left hand corner

an "enttity" has an xy coordinate

a "screen" has a set of buildings and entites, corresponding the the currently active ones on the current level

all of the locations are stored sparsely, so i don't have to worry about arrays nearly as much which is part of what's gotten me before on the rendering step; it's only turned into a 2d array once, for rendering

i managed to solve the vewy difficuwt problem of making sure that the doors that rooms have end up on the right part of the wall, and not say, in a corner, in the middle of the room, or not even in the room

next up: the difficult problem of connecting paths to doors between rooms

#overlappable entity #walkable #i'll probably need to have something like #which will be annoying #but currently i'm assuming that a square has one entity or building object #and that entities only exist in squares #procgen might be hard but it sound seasier than writing a level editor lol

[openlylyingforclout]

Houston, TX recently declined an award for "Most walkable city in the American south," on the grounds that it's "not the south, it's Texas"

#lies #misinformation #disinformation #houston #walkable

[cnu-newurbanism]

The Neighborhood, The District, and The Corridor - Charter Principle 12

#new urbanism #urbanism #design #urban design #walkability #cities #walkable #15 minute city #interconnection #networks

[sylviaodhner]

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

#urbanism #car dependency #walkability #new urbanism #sustainability #comics #art #humanscaled

[urbanexcursion]

blog question 1

Our "ideal" city would be walkable with good public transportation, clean area, kept up area with good things around like commercial stuff, entertainment, etc. Having all these things within the city makes it very useful for the people living within the area. Similar the the garden city concept the city should have lots of well kept easily accessible green space. Green space is really important within an area which brings in different useful ways to help the city look and work better. The city should not be inhumane and overbearing in scale like Le Corbusier's tower cities.

Comparing these different types of using the land area are both seen in the world. Normally the tall city building look (Le Corbusier's towers) are seen more of work areas while garden cities are more of the housing area look, due to the welcoming clean look.

This neighborhood which is in Augusta, Georgia has a wide variety of needed things within an area. The area is a very mixed use of the area which makes it a lot easier and planned out to everyone needs.

#urban planning #greenspace #walkable #welcoming

[biketalkla]

Fix it: Brake maintenance advice from fixie rider, activist, and Los Angeles Metro Bikeshare mechanic Anne Marie Drolet.

5:36 https://on.soundcloud.com/nS5hG Consult: Jeff Speck, author of "Suburban Nation" and "Walkable Cities," on making cities walkable and bikeable. With Taylor Nichols.

40:20 https://on.soundcloud.com/45DaG Legislate: Getting the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to mandate Bicyclist Emergency Braking in deadly autonomous vehicles. With Ken McLeod, Policy Director of League of American Bicyclists, interviewed by Taylor Nichols.

#BikeTalk #Jeffspeck #walkable #bikeable #liveable

[dragonqueenslayer6]

Has anyone ever just acted like a video character, especially in a new place? I just moved to my college campus, and have spent the last few afternoons just wandering around campus. At first it was just to get a feel for the layout, but I genuinely enjoyed myself just walking around and looking at stuff. I read posters, tried to open doors, going around the perimeter of buildings looking for anything interesting. I would enter a building, interact with the worker or receptionist, walk around the edge of the room looking at objects and things on the wall, talk a bit more, then leave.

Is this just normal human behavior and I'm just weird or out of touch? Is this just because I have never lived anywhere walkable before?

#walking #player character #walkable #college #you don't always have to be entertained #it's ok to be bored sometimes