I think New Urbanism is mutating into New Suburbanism. Aka strip malls with integrated apartment buildings. Little mixed use complexes out in the middle of empty space. A gorgeous view from your condo balcony of a walmart. It’s so weird.
#newurbanism #urbandevelopmentandplanning #suburbia

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I want o buy DVD/Blu ray or download "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" from #WilliamHWhyte. I see in USA some screeings come up in September and October 2025. What source do they use?

Would like to show it in small cinema in Kiel/Germany. I only find Youtube movies with bad quality.

#NewUrbanism #Architecture #TheSocialLifeofSmallUrbanSpaces

Sep 19 Park(ING) Day Reimagining Public Space: Design Charette
https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/parking-day-reimagining-public-space-design-charette/

#EcoDesign #PublicSpaceDesign #Design #Community #Urbanism #NewUrbanism

bin nicht #NeuHier Blogge seit 2006, Kieler Blog seit 2009, Twitter ab ca. 2013, Mastodon ab ca. 2022.
Schreibe über Politik & Gesellschaft mit u.a. Fokus aus Kiel/SH und einfach was mich beschäftigt, Reflexion, auch aktivistisch und nicht immer neutral, bemühe ich aber fair zu bleiben und andere Argumente zu hören. Interesse auch an #Stadt und #Stadtentwicklung, #Anarchismus #JanesWalk, #Newurbanism , Musik etwas durcheinander, aber in letzten Jahren viel #JapaneseCityPop und #Shibuyakei

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Among existing tech that could be used for a hyperlocal social service, maybe something like Hometown?

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

See also the keynote @darius prepared for the online-only #APConf in 2020;

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/lets-play-and-win-our-own-game/953

Or maybe Bonfire Community, or a @bonfire flavour specifically for the purpose?

https://bonfirenetworks.org/app/community/

#localism #NewUrbanism #5MinuteCities #Hometown #Bonfire #Neighbourly

Bus is a public transit board game that comes in a two-inch tall box. It imagines a flexible route rather than a fixed route system. https://brucefnesmith.blogspot.com/2025/04/game-review-bus.html
#BusGame #gamereview #NewUrbanism #placeMaking #transportationplanning

Was wäre, wenn wir in einer 15-Minuten-Stadt leben würden? Die Sony Computer Science Laboratories haben die Studie "A universal framework for inclusive 15-minute cities" veröffentlicht: https://whatif.sonycsl.it/15mincity/15min.php?idcity=6248
#15minCity #15mC #15MinutenStadt #Stadtentwicklung #UrbanPlaning #NewUrbanism #Urbanism #SonyCSL

City for All on youtube has made an interesting video with suggestions about how to improve a US city with urbanism. Specifically Boise, Idaho.

What do my dear followers here on Mastodon think? Interesting content?
I'd say it's very constructive and well explained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ver1xJef_A

#Boise #Urbanism #NewUrbanism #YIMBY #Yimbyism #LRT #Transit

I’m all for new tech but all that’s really needed are Dutch style separated bike lanes and protected signal crossings if they really have this kind of money to burn. The vast majority of both cars and cyclists aren’t going to download a “watch out for bikes” app, this is silly and a waste of time and money. But wait– this is not the end-all-be-all DOT approved solution getting shovels into dirt; it’s just a tech showcase:

The tech behind it is kind of neat; giving cyclists some kind of transponder that will work with the “smart roads” systems of intelligent streets conditions networks. These are the different components that measure and relay auto traffic and post congestion info to those big signs over the roadways, or into your favorite mapping apps. But why are all the news outlets covering this technology exhibition as if it’s the thing to solve the larger problem though?

We suburbanites really need to remain laser focused on real shovel-in-the-dirt ideas that can save lives and enable alternative transport modes like safe cycling and building better modal transitions and pathways for example. Prepping for a once-a-season bike race is one thing, but being able to use a combination of my bike and a bus to get across Gwinnett County without killing or injuring myself would be pretty cool…

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https://starrwulfe.xyz/a/2nHj
#atlanta #cycling #gwinnettCounty #newurbanism #safety

@ancient_catbus this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities

#urbanism #newurbanism

Hey, I wrote this. A tale of two cities' street conversions. #kalamazoo streets are changing, #southbend changed theirs years ago, so.... how did that turn out for them? #StrongTown #newurbanism #CompleteStreets
https://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/features/South-Bend-has-been-where-Kalamazoo-is-now-and-the-future-is-promising.030724.aspx

Jordan B. Peterson has become really… interesting ever since he fried his brain with beef and benzos.

#urbanism #newurbanism #trafficviolence #traffic #visionzero #WarOnCars #thewaroncars

Last month I talked about how with Georgia’s new federal funding for rail corridors, we could imagine a regional rail system that would make moving through the area so much better?

Turns out, I’m not the only one, and our new favorite ATL urbanist Youtuber Nathan Davenport is back with another video detailing a bit about Atlanta rebuilding its rails would also be recapturing its true identity.

A few fun facts I like to remind people:

• Atlanta is the only city in the US that was born from the rails, not the river. (no, Chicago started because of the Chicago River, the rails came much later!)
• It used to be called “Terminus” because 3 railroads terminated here. Before there was much of a town actually.
• In the 1920’s, over 150 trains ran through Atlanta’s busy railroad stations… Yes, that’s an ‘s’ on the end. We had THREE STATIONS.
• We will have close to 10 million living our state within the next 20 years. There’s no way all of us can fit on I-20, 75 or 85 so we need a good plan!

Check out the video, then make sure to visit ATLTrains.com for a detailed “what if” look at what we could be using in just a decade’s time with a few small changes to how things get done in Georgia.

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https://starrwulfe.xyz/2024/01/what-happenend-to-atl-passenger-rail/

#atlanta #georgia #newurbanism #transit

And yes I realize they're mostly parroting the police report, and that's part of the problem. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/5/10/the-problems-with-police-crash-reports #StrongTowns #PedestrianDignity #Walkability #NewUrbanism

As the [AJC](https://www.ajc.com/news/fulton-board-to-consider-10m-tax-break-to-x-formerly-twitter/4V66VOJ73RCFPA5DI54FAFVLBA/) reported, X (formerly Twitter) appealed to the Development Agency of Fulton County to try and grab over $10 million in property tax breaks on their data center here in Atlanta to upgrade the server farm… But providing no additional jobs… which is why the tax breaks are there in the first place! 🥴

source: Atlanta Journal Constitution dated 3 Dec 2023

Everyone knows that these tax breaks should be going to fund any development that directly enhances the livelihood of Atlanta residents and for no other purpose. Job creation, educational, cultural and infrastructure enhancement are all good reasons to consider giving a company a tax break as an incentive to be here and will soon show up tangibly as residents have easier ways to get around, are better educated, healthier and of course prosperous. This equates to a win-win as it usually shows a bump in tax revenues a few years later.

However since X’s datacenter currently only has 24 full-time staff and no other staff are planned on being hired, there’s really no reason to give away $10 million + of our tax bucks that really need to be spent on the things I outlined above.

I agree with @threadatl@threads.net when he says:

Atlanta needs to reject this ingrained culture of giving away tax inducements to major developments that offer little or no benefit to neighborhood residents (or to neighborhood small businesses for that matter).

https://www.threads.net/@threadatl/post/C0cglEUPAo7

We have to shake this culture of “giveaway to play” when it comes to our civic monies and assets unless they directly, tangibly, OSTENSIBLY provide benefit to ALL within the boundaries of the city/county/state’s taxpayers.

Thankfully, it did not pass, likely due to a lot of councilmembers suddenly hearing about it from their constituents I’ll bet:

 

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#atlanta #newurbanism

And if you're wondering: I personally took all of these photos today on Black Friday 2023. #BlackFridayParking #StrongTowns #NewUrbanism #ParkingMandates #ParkingMinimums #Parking #CobbCounty #Georgia #Atlanta

"Cities have parking mandates because they want to make sure there's enough parking for a Taylor Swift concert, or for busy shopping days. Black Friday comes but once a year, and Taylor Swift once a lifetime. But parking mandates make our lives worse all year," says Tony Jordan of the Parking Reform Network" #BlackFridayParking #StrongTowns #NewUrbanism #ParkingMandates #ParkingMinimums #Parking #CobbCounty #Georgia #Atlanta

"Traditional downtown districts can't be built in most cities today due to modern parking mandates. These regressive regulations require property owners to build excessive parking spaces that make places unwalkable, uninviting, and financially unproductive." #BlackFridayParking #StrongTowns #NewUrbanism #ParkingMandates #ParkingMinimums #Parking #CobbCounty #Georgia #Atlanta

"Before we did it, we had a lot of people say, ‘No way. You can't build a studio apartment in two parking spaces!’" Sara Lind, Open Plans’ co-executive director told me. "But people don't realize how big [parking spots are] and how much space they take up.”

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/11/22/what-if-your-parking-spot-was-a-studio-apartment

#StrongTowns #BlackFridayParking #NewUrbanism