Billy Smith
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This is just glorious. It's @notjustbikes utterly, comprehensively destroying John Forrester's arguments for vehicular cycling.
It included reading through Forrester's books, going to the 1970s studies Forrester cited, and finding he fraudulently claimed the studies said the opposite to what they actually did.
(For the unfamiliar, John opposed bike lanes and protected bike infrastructure in the US because he wanted to promote a macho masculine MAMIL cycling culture where cyclists ride like cars in mixed traffic on busy main roads. Then he whined that few people wanted to cycle, and that cycling was a niche activity few people engaged with.)
Apparently Forrester also claimed to be a cycling expert yet never actually visited The Netherlands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI
#cycling #Bicycle #bike #Urbanism #vehicularcycling #bicycling #UrbanPlanning
This is just glorious. It's @notjustbikes utterly, comprehensively destroying John Forrester's arguments for vehicular cycling.
It included reading through Forrester's books, going to the 1970s studies Forrester cited, and finding he fraudulently claimed the studies said the opposite to what they actually did.
(For the unfamiliar, John opposed bike lanes and protected bike infrastructure in the US because he wanted to promote a macho masculine MAMIL cycling culture where cyclists ride like cars in mixed traffic on busy main roads. Then he whined that few people wanted to cycle, and that cycling was a niche activity few people engaged with.)
Apparently Forrester also claimed to be a cycling expert yet never actually visited The Netherlands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI
#cycling #Bicycle #bike #Urbanism #vehicularcycling #bicycling #UrbanPlanning
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Come work with me as a project planner! You get to coordinate cutting-edge #research and #stakeholder interactions on using #VirtualReality in #UrbanPlanning focusing specifically on #mobility and #cycling.
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Come work with me as a project planner! You get to coordinate cutting-edge #research and #stakeholder interactions on using #VirtualReality in #UrbanPlanning focusing specifically on #mobility and #cycling.
So if you are based in #Helsinki, #Espoo, #Vantaa or anywhere nearby the Finnish capital region and looking for a #job #work #työpaikka, please apply!
🧵 UC Berkeley’s California Local Government Documents Collection, hosted by the Internet Archive, makes local planning treasures accessible. The 1990 Loyola Corners Neighborhood Commercial Center Specific Plan (Los Altos) shows how specific plans help cities tailor design, circulation & development standards to local needs while balancing growth & community character.
Explore more California city & county specific plans here:
https://archive.org/details/igscalocalgovdocs
Cover page of the General Plan for Albany, California, including the Albany Hill Area Specific Plan. The design shows a black-and-white illustration of hills and a bridge. Text at the top reads “Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, June 1, 1987.” Published by Duncan & Jones.
Diagram labeled “Existing View at Fremont and ‘A’ St.” showing a cross-section of a street with cars, pedestrians, poles, and signage. Below are listed problems such as overhead wires, uneven pavement, and visual clutter. Prepared by Donald A. Wolle & Associates and Hartley Associates Landscape Architects.
Architectural drawing showing the proposed elevation of a small commercial building along Fremont Avenue, with two-story structures featuring awnings, trees in front, planters, and a parked car on the street. The storefronts include signage for various shops, illustrating a pedestrian-oriented design concept.
Cover of the “Specific Plan: Loyola Corners Neighborhood Commercial Center,” prepared for the City of Los Altos. Features black icons representing cars, shops, dining, and people. Stamped “Institute of Environmental Studies Library, University of California, April 30, 1983."
#KualaLumpur is a frustratingly annoying city from a #transit and #walkability perspective.
Perfectly nice, clean, on-schedule trains, lovely stations, surrounded by horrible connectivity and terrible pedestrian access. It's a system designed to fail, and there's no reason it should be this bad.
@ncoca Welcome to the pavements/sidewalks of Malaysia! Malaysia's development overly focuses on roads, to the extent that they forget pedestrians have legs and lives too, and need to walk. Maybe the politicians are enjoying their wealthy life in moneyland while we are all in poverty, and we are blamed for our poverty.
#malaysia #infrastructure #urbanplanning #pedestrians #sidewalks #poverty #injustice #governance #sabah #advocacy #roadsafety #development #walkability
Four photos showing an unpaved, poor-quality pedestrian path next to a paved road in Malaysia.
Four photos showing an unpaved, poor-quality pedestrian path next to a paved road in Malaysia.
Four photos showing an unpaved, poor-quality pedestrian path next to a paved road in Malaysia.
Four photos showing an unpaved, poor-quality pedestrian path next to a paved road in Malaysia.
Bjørnar (he/him)
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Urbanists.video is a PeerTube video server for anyone interested in walkable, livable places and wanting to publish videos about them:
You can find out more at https://urbanists.video/about/instance or contact the admin accounts @mattcaff & @alex
#FeaturedServer #Urbanism #Cities #Urbanists #UrbanPlanning #PublicTransport #WalkableCities #PeerTube #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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Urbanists.video is a PeerTube video server for anyone interested in walkable, livable places and wanting to publish videos about them:
You can find out more at https://urbanists.video/about/instance or contact the admin accounts @mattcaff & @alex
#FeaturedServer #Urbanism #Cities #Urbanists #UrbanPlanning #PublicTransport #WalkableCities #PeerTube #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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@NewtonMark I think I know a way to save NEOM/The Line.
Here's how the Crown Prince, Beloved Leader of Saudi, can not only deliver, but enhance his vision of a ~180 kilometre long city of the future.
First, we need to save some money. So let's start by taking the roof off the travel corridor.
Instead of "the line", I call this cost-reduced version "the street".
In this configuration, you have an open-air "street" with separate "buildings" on either side.
And sure, a single long east-west street is certainly visionary.
But you know what's better than one? Twenty.
That's right, we'll have 20 streets running east to west.
But why stop there?
Let's bisect the 20 east to west streets with 20 more running north to south.
That's 40 streets in total.
If we divide the 180 km total length between these 40 streets, we're left with a length of 4.5 kilometres each.
I call this vision "the grid".
Now, because each of these streets are now 4.5 kilometres long, we can travel from one end of each street to the other far more quickly than a maglev could travel 180 kilometres.
And we'll do this in a futuristic pod-like vehicle powered by renewable electric power.
I call these vehicles: Trams.
So you'll have a "network" of these "trams" running along this "grid" of 4.5 kilometre long "streets". With 20 "streets" running north to south and 20 "streets" running east to west.
Best of all, instead of being one continuous building, in this configuration the buildings are divided up into "blocks" that can be developed as people move in!
I know it's a bold and futuristic vision.
But in this "grid" configuration, with streets, blocks, and trams, I believe the Crown Prince can deliver his vision of a city of the future.
#neom #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #cities #TheLine #tram #trams #futurism
@NewtonMark I think I know a way to save NEOM/The Line.
Here's how the Crown Prince, Beloved Leader of Saudi, can not only deliver, but enhance his vision of a ~180 kilometre long city of the future.
First, we need to save some money. So let's start by taking the roof off the travel corridor.
Instead of "the line", I call this cost-reduced version "the street".
In this configuration, you have an open-air "street" with separate "buildings" on either side.
And sure, a single long east-west street is certainly visionary.
But you know what's better than one? Twenty.
That's right, we'll have 20 streets running east to west.
But why stop there?
Let's bisect the 20 east to west streets with 20 more running north to south.
That's 40 streets in total.
If we divide the 180 km total length between these 40 streets, we're left with a length of 4.5 kilometres each.
I call this vision "the grid".
Now, because each of these streets are now 4.5 kilometres long, we can travel from one end of each street to the other far more quickly than a maglev could travel 180 kilometres.
And we'll do this in a futuristic pod-like vehicle powered by renewable electric power.
I call these vehicles: Trams.
So you'll have a "network" of these "trams" running along this "grid" of 4.5 kilometre long "streets". With 20 "streets" running north to south and 20 "streets" running east to west.
Best of all, instead of being one continuous building, in this configuration the buildings are divided up into "blocks" that can be developed as people move in!
I know it's a bold and futuristic vision.
But in this "grid" configuration, with streets, blocks, and trams, I believe the Crown Prince can deliver his vision of a city of the future.
#neom #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #cities #TheLine #tram #trams #futurism
Liziba Monorail Station, where the #trains go through a residential building! 🚈 (Which do you think came first? The answer: Both the station and the #building were actually constructed together!) Chongqing, #China.
#Train #Transit #Transportation #PublicTransit #Rail #Railway #Architecture #Buildings #City #Cityscape #Urban #UrbanPlanning #UrbanPhotography #Landscape #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photo #Photography #MobilePhotography #ShotoniPhone
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Transcript available for 1.5: Defending Democracy Via Urban Planning with Dr Jayde Lin Roberts on our #Patreon - it's a free-access post. https://patreon.com/solarpunkpresents
#transcript #podcastTranscript #EpisodeTranscript #SeasonOne #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #solarpunk #Interview #UrbanPlanning #Democracy #Infrastructure
Transcript available for 1.5: Defending Democracy Via Urban Planning with Dr Jayde Lin Roberts on our #Patreon - it's a free-access post. https://patreon.com/solarpunkpresents
#transcript #podcastTranscript #EpisodeTranscript #SeasonOne #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #solarpunk #Interview #UrbanPlanning #Democracy #Infrastructure