In a nation where the car is the sole transportation choice for most people and where transportation agencies are set up to build highways, is it surprising that all our traffic solutions look like roads? The only winning play is not to create new demand https://t.co/dcF6OKeHK6
When you look at a street, you see not only what it is today, you see the outmoded, car-focused future envisioned by city planners generations ago. Updating streets with more more human-powered transportation choices is the challenge for a more urban age. https://t.co/irFrj994YZ
Can the advances in technology be used to build back better from afar? A group of International urban planners & local technicians of the Ukrainian City of Mykolaiv believe we can! Watch our unprecedented collaboration effort here: https://t.co/5r49czQyvm
The Milan miracle: 250,000 sq ft of street space converted into 38 community piazzas in less than three years. Half of residents now live w/in walking distance of new, active public space. Milan reclaims roads and recovers an entire city for its people. https://t.co/H5K1zHhvtl
Se tutti i cinesi volessero condurre un'auto, ci vorrebbero, solo per loro, circa 70 mln/barili petrolio/giorno. Ma ogni giorno, in tutto il mondo, se ne estraggono 95 mln. Se noi abbiamo due auto è perché per ciascuno di noi 10 cinesi vanno in bici e 20 africani a piedi. Dico.
The bike stops here: Just a few months ago, the federal government withheld funding from cities it deemed "anarchist" jurisdictions. These days, US Transportation @SecretaryPete bike commutes.
Sniegs parāda, kā krustojumus padarīt drošākus ekonomiskākus:
✔️Divas reizes īsāks un drošāks ceļš gājējiem pāri brauktuvei;
✔️Vairāk vieta labiekārtojumam;
✔️Mazāki izdevumi brauktuves uzturēšanai, jauna asfalta klāšanai, remontam.
Cycling is deeply social: It allows you to take out your sweetheart for dinner, without wearing a steel cocoon. 💞
(ultimate #dinking picture by Mariska van der Meij)
With the inauguration behind us and with new transportation leadership in Washington, people-focused cities may no longer be left out in the cold. A special #tbt to Times Square in 2009, a time when a pedestrian plaza was the radical stealing the show.
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Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change
Rethinking car dominance is happening in cities all over the world
Great pilot in #Panama 🇵🇦🇵🇦
When I told Jan Gehl (@citiesforpeople) that people in North America often objected that if you put out benches in public, they’d just be occupied by the unhoused, he replied:
"Then put out twice as many benches!"
#Copenhagen solution
in re: @StreetsblogUSA
‘If the most urgent crises of this era — climate adaptation, social cohesion, the state of democracy — have arrived right outside our doorsteps, perhaps it makes sense to claim that space as the starting point for change!’ 👏🏃♀️🪁🚲🛴 https://t.co/C5AQxfmHCg
How does a 5 yr old perceive the road? Let’s engage kids in the design process in order to bring back safe streets for play! 🪁🪁 https://t.co/6KWippGNUf