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I’m obsessed with Louis Sullivan’s bank buildings

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Unobtrusive way to keep the pedestrians glued to their phones safe. Hong Kong

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More sewers like this plz

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To any NYC /urbanism folks not officially going to farcon, come on down!

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It turns out, I actually never knew what an avenue and a boulevard were I think we all need a refresher! From the 100% Invisible City book 💓

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one reason why suburbs or even cities like Denver feel less walkable are bc the buildings facing streets are just too wide. when you’re walking past 100 ft of walmart wall, there’s nothing to engage with. no entryways, no people, no life. but streets with narrower buildings—20 ft or less—give you much more to interact with. more shops, more neighbors, more texture. we’re built for human-scale places, not oversized slabs made for cars. (Image by matthew Fredrick and vikas Mehta)

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Re: loneliness epidemic The internet as a variant of the third place. physical, offline third places as“3a spaces,” and online spaces “3b spaces.” Separating the two helps to rethink socialization across digital and physical realms, offering frameworks to understand contemporary loneliness. Are 3b spaces a Faustian bargain? Post-COVID, they became both a new normal and a convenient norm for social outlets. but they’ve also led to deeper loneliness, as the craving for face-to-face contact that 3a spaces provide never really goes away.

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Addressing the empty bus lane myth https://www.translink.ca/buspriority

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Chattanooga has been designated as the first National Park City in North America. The city's mayor Tim Kelly wants "to encourage folks to think about Chattanooga as a city in a park, rather than a city with some parks in it," in effort to establish the city and its community as one that prioritizes connecting people to the outdoors. https://www.chattanoogapulse.com/citylife/nature-outdoors/chattanooga-becomes-the-first-national-park-city-in-north-am/

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Appreciation post for La Plata, Argentina.

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https://warpcast.com/acidflower/0x0bdebdee

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Truest urban culture is in the ordinary street life. Street life doesn’t come out of trying to create street life. It is a natural, emergent outcome that grows from the mundane, pulse of the everyday. Ordinary ≠ boring.

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Healthy, vibrant places to live following best urbanism practices don’t have to be large metropolitan cities that produce miles of suburban sprawl. Strong towns can exist anywhere if the local communities and government prioritize it.

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Lazy take but I feel like in 20-50 years people are gonna look at suburbs fondly the way urbanists do today with mixed use buildings. (Assuming we develop more localized commercial/retail fronts that aren't plazas or malls)

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