The Case for a Car-Free Manhattan (www.youtube.com)
There’s also a follow up: How a Car-Free Manhattan would work
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There’s also a follow up: How a Car-Free Manhattan would work
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/6168675...
Interesting article with some great linked research and practical solutions to the issue of traffic deaths.
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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:...
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....
(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!...
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dezwijger.nl/programma/designing-circular-cities
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1221218...
I loved the parallel between transit strategies and public health. Might be a useful approach in many areas given the resistance to reducing car infrastructure that we see in many areas.