Urban Angle KC

Delivering a unique perspective on urban design challenges in KC.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

The roads are racist.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

Following up on this discussion:
https://t.co/0KXkHsXKwV

This 1934 housing survey map shows majority black neighborhoods. Current highways overlaid.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

KCMO families spend thousands per year to own a car - a kind of regressive tax to access jobs and basic services. Having safe mobility options expands opportunities for residents to invest in themselves and their neighborhoods instead of fuel, insurance, and auto loans.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

More than one in five KCMO 3rd District households have no access to a car. In many census tracts it's more than a third of households. In some it's more than four in ten. What should community-serving infrastructure look like in a neighborhood where 4 in 10 don't drive?

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

@UrbanAngleKC Data suggests 71 Hwy may be the most destructive thing to happen to Kansas City since 1970; construction, then nghd impacts

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

In KC, areas near hwys have twice the demolition density of other areas, NOT including demos to build the hwys.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

https://t.co/nPhbxv9UFa

[Secretary Pete Buttigieg @SecretaryPete]

Let me be clear: American highways were too often built through Black neighborhoods on purpose—dividing communities, adding pollution, and making pedestrians less safe.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

@WesKCMO @ThomasinKC @TomGerend @JoshBoehm The blight and vacancy is caused by the highways.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

This is your periodic reminder that outdoor vehicle storage takes up more land in Downtown Kansas City than every other use combined. Not counting thousands of street and podium spaces.

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Highway Robbery: How 80 Years of Land Use and Transportation Policy Slowly Strangled a Neighborhood: https://t.co/QE8YZTwETb

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

Kansas City's 1923 zoning map. Interesting that the River Market and Columbus Park had more permissive zoning than Downtown and the Crossroads. It's the opposite today. https://t.co/UxPZC0HJyu

[Fred Feng @fredfeng]

@Strava Now add a third heat map of pedestrian-involved crashes in the past 10 years and it's even more stunning.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

Bike trips by month in Kansas City compared to other climate regions.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

Here is a rough sketch of how some well-known streets balance different uses and users, with some help from @streetmix. In a way, each street has its own #streetdna sequence that influences how it looks and functions.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

@ScottKCMO @WalkableDFW Here's another: https://t.co/2JrmkOUyWk

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

This is how much of KC's urban core has been demolished in the past 45 years, if you were wondering. #urbanangle

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Typo in the link: https://t.co/Xkv0hi1vuG

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

Households in Kansas City spend approximately 23% of income on transportation - nearly as much as is spent on housing. https://t.co/wGOvepP911

[Jens von Bergmann @vb_jens]

Comparing city densities through time. And extracting radial density patterns. https://t.co/5FrdP3g278

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

@staubio And that's after this: https://t.co/TJPfYwn9zx

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

In the 1950s, a little less than half of what is now Columbus Park was demolished to build a new highway system.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

As recently as the 1980s, and after all the highway construction, Independence Avenue through Columbus Park was a mixed-use corridor.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

@eollig @skcopeland OP has been installing bike lanes quickly! Happy to add any you see missing.

[Urban Angle KC @UrbanAngleKC]

Here is a network map for dedicated bicycle facilities in the Kansas City region. Or perhaps a tasteful art piece.