urbanism

Can't believe we fumbled covid dining sheds so badly. The diversity of style, the takeover of the pavements, the reclamation of the streets. Felt so joyfully human.

Yes, they weren't perfect. Unsafe, nor as hygienic, and noisy to neighbours. But just to go straight back to boring rivers of cars. Booooo

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it’s so difficult to change deeply embedded behaviors like this…felt like covid forcing this option would’ve opened peoples eyes🥲

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So much this. To see fellow humans out and about and not tucked and hidden away. So nice!

Now the streets are sterile again.

Massive agree. They were so atmospheric and really enhanced the local community.  The chance of seeing someone you know walk past and have a quick catchup was great. Very sad to see all that disappear.

In Boulder we shut down an entire Street and converted the road into dining space. It was glorious! Chamber of commerce sabotaged it, two businesses in particular threatened to leave if they did not open it back up to cars. 

I refuse to eat at those places. Ridiculous.

all the covid local creativity needs to come back, just more organized. will have no choice at some point