Cars Are A Disaster For Society -- Here Are the Numbers | CityNerd (vid.puffyan.us)
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.
One solution to fight climate change? Fewer parking spaces - Grist (grist.org)
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...
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!...
The Case for a Car-Free Manhattan (www.youtube.com)
There’s also a follow up: How a Car-Free Manhattan would work
Are We Witnessing the END of the Car? (youtu.be)
Solarpunk: Post-Industrial Design and Aesthetics (medium.com)
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
Designing Circular Cities (yt.artemislena.eu)
dezwijger.nl/programma/designing-circular-cities