"Many people say, ‘That’s just how it is’, or ‘America just isn’t built that way’, but those answers fall flat to me when I have experienced walkable communities in a variety of settings. These places are pleasures to live in, not just something to make the best of for a little while."
#Walkability
In his latest fence review, ‘The Haunting of Ginnie Cook,’ our fearless editor in chief, Jules Octavian, explores the boundaries of an old friend’s new home.
https://countyfencemagazine.com/the-haunting-of-ginnie-cook/
Parking minimums have been unnecessary, anti-business, anti-community, and generally unhelpful for as long as I can remember. Who wants a city of parking?
I would prefer parks, interesting, locally owned and operated businesses, different types of housing, a transit stop... All of this is way more useful than a non-permeable surface for polluting and dangerous hunks of metal.
#transit #cars #walkability #zoning #carbrain #urban #urbanism
The charming, pedestrianised main street of Windsor.
#urbanism #walking #walkability #NSW #Australia
#urbanism #walking #walkability #NSW #Australia
On Being Able to Walk to a Recycling Centre
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For a few days I fled from the Caribana music festival because during this event it is impossible to sleep due to noise pollution. Switzerland, despite being so strict about other forms of noise pollution is lax about the noise pollution from music festivals. Most people plan holidays to flee it. I did too, but I still denounce it. Having said this I stayed in a small village half way up the Jura and was able to walk a short distance to recycle cardboard, cans and PET bottles.
If I want to walk to the local recycling centre for my 'home' I need to walk along a road, with no provision for pedestrians or cyclists. If I walk to the recycling centre I need to walk on a busy road, where people do the bare minimum to avoid cyclists and pedestrians, regularly enough for the most beautiful walks I can do from home, to be off limits.
Nyon, and Switzerland make a big deal about wanting to replace car use with cycling and walking, but if you want to walk, or cycle, you need to go along dangerous roads, with dangerous traffic, or drive, to get to where you can walk.
A Short Walk
The recycling centre is two and a half kilometres away, so it's a very easy walk. The problem is that it's along a main road with no foot paths or cycling lanes. If you want to walk to recycle you either walk in long grass, and risk picking up ticks if you're wearing shorts, or getting your trousers soaked, if it's early in the morning, or cars.
When I was in the village I could walk in a 30 zone, with markings on the ground where people should walk. I could go at any time between 0800-2000 or so. It's open, self-service, so to speak, and convenient. As there are no opening hours it's convenient.
Routine
I have recycled for decades by now. It's routine. What is less routine is going to drop things off at the recycling centre. I usually wait a month between trips. I prefer to wait until I really need to go, and when it feels good to see a big chore done, rather than dribbles of recycling every now and then.
If I had a convenient recycling point I would take things to be recycled on every walk I do.
Unfriendly Roads
Between Signy and Eysins the road is wide, and there is a track left by people walking along a track in the grass, but it gets overgrown. Near Apples they have a gravel path for pedestrians, and potentially bikes too.
Between Signy and Borex they narrowed the road, and put edges to the road, to force cars to slow down. Traffic calming failed though. When cycling, and walking, because the road is narrow, cars shoot the narrows, to use a kayaking/canoeing term. They speed up to get through before another car comes from the other direction. Pedestrians and cyclists are endangered, which is why I no longer walk along that narrow secondary road that commuters love to use. It used to be a quiet road.
And Finally
I hear and see a lot about mobilité douce, and encouraging people to be active, and yet I see nothing to encourage people, living in villages, to leave their cars at home. Having a convenient recycling centre with a safe walking path would help. Having a local shop, or at least vending machine would help.
There is a nice five kilometre walk. If it was safe to do on foot then every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening, at rush hour, I could do it on foot with whatever needs to be recycled on that day. Due to the route being walk unfriendly it makes more sense to take the car. In my eyes this is an example of Nyon, and Vaud failing. Mobilité douce has to consider the needs and requirements of people living in villages, not just towns and cities.
#environment #environmentalism #mobilitÃDouce #recycling #safety #walk #walkability
Ten+ planning lessons from “The Biggest Little City in the World” – Reno
Source: travelnevada.comProvided below are a list of ten planning lessons from Reno, Nevada. There are NOT presented in order of importance. Peace!
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- Preserving and incorporating mountainous open space and parklands such as Rattlesnake Mountain and Huffaker Hills close within the city limits allows all its citizens regardless of socioeconomic status to enjoy the great outdoors.
- Reno was smart to concentrate the majority of its casinos in the downtown area. This builds vitality and foot traffic in its core. Unfortunately, some recent resorts have been built away from the city center. Hopefully, this is a short-term trend that will be soon corrected.
- Surrounded by mountains and adorned with beautiful streams like the Truckee River and nearby lakes such as Tahoe, Reno is an outdoor enthusiast’s paradise.
- The developing Reno Experience District (RED) may get more recent press, but it’s Midtown Reno that instantly captured this retired visiting planner’s attention with its charming blend of old, new, cute, quaint, and weird. Did I mention there was great food too!
- Reno’s proximity to Northern California population centers has always been one of its attributes. Today, it has a strong identity and draw of its own beyond just gambling.
- Compared to its larger competitor to the south (Vegas), Reno feels much more like a traditional city that grew organically and which has a richly diverse economy.
- Enormous white rooftops abound in office, technology, and industrial parks. While these may keep the buildings cooler, they would be more efficient and effective as rooftop solar farms.
- “The Biggest Little City in the World” has grown up to be an impressive and vibrant community with its impressive downtown districts including the Arch District, the Riverwalk District, the Brewery District, the Neon Line District, the Freight House District, as well as the University of Nevada in the heart of the city.
- Linking Reno with nearby Lake Tahoe is an excellent marketing and branding idea that best reflects the regional nature of the city and its role as a gateway to the vast abundance of staggering scenic beauty surrounding it.
- Reno is one of those rare places where your approach to it from any direction is filled with incredible beauty and jaw-dropping vistas. As the area continues to grow, protecting these visual and geographical attributes is paramount.
- While some of the extraordinary art created for Burning Man is displayed in Reno, the connections between permanent Reno an temporary Black Rock City should be enhanced exponentially so they build upon one another as a continuously positive example of artful coexistence, inclusion, environmental stewardship, civic responsibility, people-focused urban design, volunteerism, and the other principles of both Burning Man and Urban Planning.
#biking #BlackRockCity #BurningMan #cities #coexistence #environment #gambling #geography #history #LakeTahoe #landUse #MidtownReno #Nevada #planning #RED #Reno #solar #transportation #travel #TruckeeRiver #walkability
Idea: A map where you plot in where you want to go to and from, and it draws up a line and tells you how far it is, and:
How much shorter it would have been if there was no street level parking between the two points.
#urbanism #city #WalkableCities #walkability #pedestrianization #StealThisIdea
Visual AI and urban walkability in older adults, Hong Kong
Beyond the 'walkability design guidelines' in which it culminates, what is interesting about this study is its methodology.
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👵🏙️ #smartcities #agefriendly #urbanplanning #Architecture #accessibility #AI #hongkong #walkability #inclusivedesign #ciudadesinteligentes #urbanismo #diseñoinclusivo #urbanisme #accessibilité #DesignInclusif
Anybody out there in GIS or urbanism or sustainability or transportation planning or any related field interested in taking over this server? I hate to have move again...but the owner is leaving mastodon.
#fediadmin #fedimods #sustainability #urbanism #bike #GIS #transportation #trains #walkability #Community
Make Disney World American Again!
via Streetcraft
#DisneyWorld #Disney #Carbrain #Motonomativity #Fuckcars #Carfree #LowCar #WarOnCars #15MinuteCity #CarsDestroyedOurCities #CarsRuinCities #Walkability #WalkableCities #PeopleOverCars #PedestrianFriendly #SafeStreets #TransportationJustice #HalfHeartedFanatic
I knew immediately from the title alone that I was in for a great video from StreetCraft. Immediately showing how absurd city ordinances, etc, are with favoring cars over pedestrians
My walkable neighborhood; where neighborhood shops are allowed to exist.
#Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Malagasy #Ambatobe #Urbanism #15MinuteCity #CarsRuinCities #Walkability #WalkableCities #PeopleOverCars #YIMBY #Photography #OriginalPhoto #HalfHeartedFanatic
Diriyah May 2025Diriyah, the historic city northwest of Riyadh, is quietly reshaping its urban landscape with the Diriyah road development. Recent works have begun to revitalise inner roads and pedestrian paths as part of this road development. These efforts weave together modern accessibility with the deep cultural memory of the place. #Diriyah #SaudiCities #UrbanProjects #Walkability
https://archup.net/diriyah-redraws-its-streets-urban-renewal-rooted-in-heritage/
On Development: Some rather pedestrian attempts at walkability
A collection of poems about walking: https://bikestylelife.com/2023/10/12/walking-poems/.
#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #walkability #walking #PoetryOfPresence #OnAWalk #WhileWalking #WalkingLife
#Japan erkunden, das geht am besten zu Fuß, findet Sumikai-Autor Robert. Denn die japanischen Städte sind überraschend erlaufbar - und belohnen diejenigen, die sich Zeit für Entdeckungen nehmen. Ein Plädoyer für 20.000 Schritte am Tag. #Kyoto #Tokyo #Walkability
A small contribution to the 15-minute cities 'debate', looking at options and issues for Sydney, NSW: https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/31115
My overall frame as an access-focused researcher: rather than using 15 minute cities as an aspirational vision, what are the promises and difficulties of actually quantifying and improving x-minute destination access in Greater Sydney?
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#transport #access #15mincities #walkability #cyclability #Sydney
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/dallas-parking-reform-local-business-walkability/ “This is barely incremental compared to what other cities are doing. But at least it's taking us in the right direction from the 1960s, where the parking code still rules in most of our city." #Dallas #ParkingReform #housing #walkability
I often take a pair of pruners on my walks around town in case there is a stray branch impeding the way, but I may need to start lugging around a machete (yes, I have one). Jokes aside, I wish homeowners would show a bit of respect to the low-vision residents in the neighborhood who have to navigate these obstacles. #swarthmore #walking #sidewalks #plants #walkability #pruning #hedges #yardwork #streets #traffic #pedestrian
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