One solution to fight climate change? Fewer parking spaces - Grist (grist.org)
‘It takes bravery to recognize mistakes:’ Ukrainian architects learn from Rotterdam to rebuild their own cities (kyivindependent.com)
What Happened When This City Banned Housing Investors (youtu.be)
Not sure I completely agree with their takeaways but I thought this was an interesting case study on the unintended consequences of housing policies designed to encourage home ownership.
Solarpunk Architects resource file (docs.google.com)
Via Raddle.me
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us - Not Just Bikes (yt.artemislena.eu)
Canonical YouTube link
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope? - DamiLee (yt.artemislena.eu)
Exarcheia: Most Misunderstood Neighborhood in Athens (greekreporter.com)
New Sustainable Housing Solution Based on Lakota Tipi (yt.artemislena.eu)
Rebel Cities: Radical Municipalism (theanarchistlibrary.org)
This is quite a long text, but you don’t need to read the chapters in order and each chapter is on a different urban experiment. It looks at “radical municipalism” or a communities taking back power of their city and rebuilding it into what they want to make of it. The rebel cities are:...
Donating items to Food Banks and Little Free Pantries that people use most
Source: twitter.com/justfara/status/1716635421302497725...
Henri Lefebvre's classic work, *The Right to the City*, an important work in theorizing urbanism (theanarchistlibrary.org)
In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city...
Parkour group Storror does some guerilla urbanism (youtu.be)
I’ve recently started getting into parkour and I love its inherently political bent. It reminds of me of Graeber’s quote that “Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free,” which is exactly how traceurs behave....
YSK about urbanists.video - A Peertube instance for everyone interested in walkable, livable places. (urbanists.video)
Cincinnati was once one of the largest and densest cities in the country—before highways and sprawl tore it apart. I made a video about how it can get back on the right track - literally 🚋! (urbanists.video)
Making cities 'spongy' could help fight flooding (www.npr.org)
A Jaywalking Manifesto (theanarchistlibrary.org)
(5) To deviate from our defined spaces on the street is to become a “jaywalker.” “Jaywalking” was an invention by automobile capitalists to shift blame on accidents from cars and drivers to pedestrians. After all, the jaywalker shouldn’t have been on the road if they didn’t want to be run over!...
Are We Witnessing the END of the Car? (youtu.be)
Solarpunk: Post-Industrial Design and Aesthetics (medium.com)
The Case for a Car-Free Manhattan (www.youtube.com)
There’s also a follow up: How a Car-Free Manhattan would work
What Our Cities Are Missing - Andrewism (yt.artemislena.eu)
Greendo: Undulating Geothermal Homes Built Into the Side of a Mountain (www.spoon-tamago.com)
This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn from it. (www.fastcompany.com)
Archive.org link