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Truly insane that the MTA still operates on a switchboard built in the 1930s

An airport-connected Sunrail would be huuuuuge

An airport-connected Sunrail would be huuuuuge
https://baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2025/01/10/central-florida-leaders-work-towards-the-next-phase-for-sunrail--the-sunshine-corridor

Urbanists: Do you know of any projects building local maps on Farcaster or onchain? 

Google maps, yelp, and city guides offer nothing compared to what onchain maps could be.

DC me if you want to build.

“A genuinely open city would be one in which investment is channeled to serve social need rather than private gain; in which public institutions secure and protect shared, common resources from private appropriation; and in which all inhabitants have secured equal capacities to influence decisions that affect the spaces, institutions and resources shared by all. Any design intervention that claims to promote the open city without pursuing these core goals will be seriously incomplete, if not delusionary.”

Excerpt From Neil Brenner, in 
The Right to the City: A Verso Report

Free design resource created from public infrastructure :)

Free design resource created from public infrastructure :)

https://www.dayroselane.com/hydrants

“Upload an aerial or satellite photo from your city - an intersection or neighbourhood - and start mapping how much space is allocated to cars, pedestrians and bikes.”

“Upload an aerial or satellite photo from your city - an intersection or neighbourhood - and start mapping how much space is allocated to cars, pedestrians and bikes.”

https://cyklokoalicia.sk/arrogance/

I cannot recommend this book list enough:

I cannot recommend this book list enough: https://www.versobooks.com/collections/architecture-cities#pagination-target

New York forced restaurants to remove outdoor dining structures to allow for more parking – so L’Industrie added a bus for patrons to eat pizza in 😎

New York forced restaurants to remove outdoor dining structures to allow for more parking – so L’Industrie added a bus for patrons to eat pizza in 😎

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/s/qYCyzwWaRN

beautiful, well-functioning cities often naturally mimic fractal geometry, using repeating patterns to create networks of streets, public spaces, and buildings that adapt as needs change.

in contrast, the rigid, top-down plans from the 20th century, like Le Corbusier’s designs, often failed to create vibrant city life. They focused too much on uniformity and architectural consistency but ignored how cities constantly evolve and need flexibility.

to build more resilient cities, urban planning should:
1. Embrace fractal principles to support organic, flexible growth
2. Focus on networks of public spaces that connect buildings and build community
3. Use technology & decentralized systems to guide growth while staying adaptable to change

http://emergenturbanism.com/2007/11/19/complex-geometry-and-structured-chaos/

“Buildings, infrastructures and other urban technologies may be enablers of cities, but they are not the point of cities. The ‘smart city’ movement has repeatedly misunderstood this, by focusing on simplistic instruments rather than emergent complexity, operational efficiency rather than thriving cultures, control rather than conviviality.

As Brian Eno wrote, a truly smart city would be built around the intelligence, creativity and resourcefulness of its inhabitants, human and otherwise. This city is expressed via its culture, its interactions, its relationships. And adaptive urban technologies can powerfully tune systems to produce such diverse, open, and adaptable cultures—or they can inhibit them, producing the opposite.”

“Buildings, infrastructures and other urban technologies may be enablers of cities, but they are not the point of cities. The ‘smart city’ movement has repeatedly misunderstood this, by focusing on simplistic instruments rather than emergent complexity, operational efficiency rather than thriving cultures, control rather than conviviality.

As Brian Eno wrote, a truly smart city would be built around the intelligence, creativity and resourcefulness of its inhabitants, human and otherwise. This city is expressed via its culture, its interactions, its relationships. And adaptive urban technologies can powerfully tune systems to produce such diverse, open, and adaptable cultures—or they can inhibit them, producing the opposite.”

https://dialogue.city/futureurbanism/

“An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.”

All I can think about while traveling around Bangkok is how much happier America would be with affordable massage, massive investment in public transit (not just for city centers), and fewer corporate owned third spaces.