We don't need chain stores and car-oriented corporations dominating our cities. We need neighborhoods that are small, local, and personal. When we finally move past the era of car dependency, this is what the future of sustainability looks like.
Do YOU have an aging friend/relative who should stop driving? Tell them this story from San Francisco. Ask how they will feel if they kill an entire family.
But don't tell them that even then, they'll be forgiven and be able to drive again.
This verdict is obscene.
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“No, skateboarding is a healthy thing. There are some places where that this has been recognized, good places provided to do their weird skateboarding things. That’s part of freedom.”
-Jane Jacobs
📍Tulsa, OK
Found a Thomasson while walking around last night. This barbed wire is doing absolutely nothing.
Being pointless 🤝 being well maintained = Thomasson
It’s so funny that he didn’t even watch the kid rock bullshit lol.
That was the most urbanist halftime show ever
Bad Bunny’s set, like the physical set, is 🔥
Sitting here drinking my morning coffee out of my Scruff McGruff coffe mug, watching videos of Minneapolis gathering in masses for the annual sharpening of a giant pencil (thinking of better times) and have come to the realization that Kalamazoo simply isn’t weird enough for me.
Cities aren’t places, but rather collections of people. And the people of Kalamazoo are amazing.
✅ no rezoning of natural space for another car wash
✅ no harassment of our friends and neighbors
Not this time, not ever.
I was wearing hi-viz last week, but the woman who drifted over into the bike lane was eating cereal from a bowl and steering with her knees, so...
When it’s all over, everyone will have always been against this.
Yesterday I was in a real bad place (Novi) but today I’m in a real good place (on a bus whipping shitties around roundabouts).
Cross-posted from elsewhere:
My dream business is a place called ZOMBIES and is a combination of laundromat, coffee bar, and used book store.
Ramen is better by bike.
Minivan
A new fleet of 8 being prepped for service. These workhorses will be racking up tens of thousands of kilometers throughout their lifespan, saving the company substantial sums of $, all while also being eco-friendly. Can't wait to see them once they've been outfitted with new livery.
Today’s haul: work laptop, packed lunch because I’m a good boy, and the remnants of a gift bag that I’m bringing to work to rid myself of.
Michigan be lying like that
This may be a silly question but, urbanism-wise, what’s good in the Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri circuit?
Yes! Heated bathrooms for the win!
Obvs
I’m wondering what a city can offer that encourages or pulls people outdoors in the cold months?
I’m finding it harder and harder to carve out enough reading time these days but I did get some good ones in this year.
When countless cities are suffering from a massive housing shortage, keeping existing urban golf courses in place is indefensible.
Seen here, the hole-in-one is transformed into housing, with the next phase of denser development on the right side set to begin in 2026.
Carmel, IN
It’s 36F out and like any good Michigander I’m sitting in my driveway, drinking a Bell’s beer and smoking an entire deer leg.
Looking for gluten free vegan options within walking distance (for kids) of Campus Martius or along the Qline.
We all say we want the street on the left, but the street on the right is the receipt for our online shopping habits.
You can't have Amazon convenience and Main Street charm. Corporate convenience shopping will cannibalize small businesses commerce.
Paradise Valley, Detroit, before-and-after highway construction and urban renewal (seen in a publicity photo of the Graf Zeppelin making its way back from the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago). More info and photos of the neighborhood here: segregationbydesign.com/detroit/hast...
On a side note, anyone ever seen a game-losing touchdown before?
Who’s going to tell the Steelers mascot, Steely McBeam, that he’s actually been carrying around a prestressed concrete I-beam this whole time?
