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I love me some grassy trams (lemmy.world)

Amsterdam Just Closed their Busiest Road (youtu.be)

How "Free Parking" Bankrupts Us (www.youtube.com)

The Uniquely American Epidemic of Traffic Deaths (bettercities.substack.com)

Interesting article with some great linked research and practical solutions to the issue of traffic deaths.

Streetmix is an online tool which you can use to 'design and remix' your own street (streetmix.net)

I thought Alt Urbanism might enjoy this! A fun little tool which I mainly use to redesign annoying junctions that I’ve cycled through. It’s a really good demonstration of just how much space cars take up and how much better things could be if less roadspace was dedicated to cars.

No, We Are Not Facing a “War on Cars” (youtu.be)

[Youtube] Doug Griffiths – 13 Ways to Kill Your Community (youtu.be)

Doug “quickly” goes through his 13, tongue-in-cheek ways to kill a community. IMO it’s a great companion piece to Strong Towns and makes for a great discussion piece with other community members.

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...