City Life

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All topics urbanism and city related, from urban planning to public transit to municipal interest stuff. Both automobile and FuckCars inclusive.

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Costco's bold new plan for the California housing crisis (archive.ph)
submitted 4 months ago by pbjamm to c/citylife
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Cars Are Slowing Down in European Cities (reasonstobecheerful.world)
submitted 5 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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How Detroit Lost 65% Of Its Population (libranet.de)
submitted 6 months ago by petrescatraian@libranet.de to c/citylife
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youtube.com/watch?v=tQdGFufkrN…

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Undercover Performers Take Over Manhattan Sidewalks: The Mp3 Experiment 18 (yewtu.be)
submitted 6 months ago by Hirom to c/citylife
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Mp3 Experiments feature thousands of people followed secret, synchronized instructions delivered via headphones. This 18th installment features some comments on urban planning.

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Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Like Bike Lanes. Floridians Seem To Agree. (www.strongtowns.org)
submitted 6 months ago by moral_imperative to c/citylife
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The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars (www.vox.com)
submitted 6 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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For half a century, a litany of federal policies has favored large SUVs and trucks, pushing automakers and American buyers toward larger models. Instead of counteracting car bloat through regulation, policymakers have subtly encouraged it. That has been a boon for car companies, but a disaster for everyone else.

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Colorado is offering $450 e-bike subsidies. Other states should follow suit (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 7 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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Iowans were fooled by a prank to make a busy area of Des Moines... walkable (ody.sh)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/citylife
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How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 8 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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Can Cities Drive SUVs Off Their Streets? (reasonstobecheerful.world)
submitted 8 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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How Many People Does Car Culture Kill, Exactly? (usa.streetsblog.org)
submitted 8 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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Pedestrian safety and crosswalks: Recent research (journalistsresource.org)
submitted 8 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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The obscure but extremely important battle over building codes (www.volts.wtf)
submitted 8 months ago by nix@midwest.social to c/citylife
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"The Motorist Won" - Art project emphasizing the absurdity of car-centric design (www.scalefulness.com)
submitted 8 months ago by nix@midwest.social to c/citylife
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"Suita Titan" ("The Titan Suite") - documentary film about life as a young person during the Communist regime in the iconic Titan neighborhood, Bucharest, Romania (libranet.de)
submitted 8 months ago by petrescatraian@libranet.de to c/citylife
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QvLTVXqYM0

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Why electric bikes actually give more exercise than pedal bikes (electrek.co)
submitted 8 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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After Shutting Down, These Golf Courses Went Wild: Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants — and people. (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 9 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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Hoboken Celebrates 7 Years Without A Traffic Death (patch.com)
submitted 9 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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From Montreal to Berlin, Cities Aim to Stay Open 24 Hours (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Gaywallet to c/citylife
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State funding could be withheld from Colorado cities that don’t tie housing to transit under new affordability push (coloradosun.com)
submitted 9 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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How Parking Reform Is Helping Transform American Cities (e360.yale.edu)
submitted 9 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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New York Port Authority moves ahead with $10B replacement of Midtown's miserable bus terminal (gothamist.com)
submitted 9 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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14 Patterns of Biophilic Design (www.terrapinbrightgreen.com)
submitted 9 months ago by LallyLuckFarm to c/citylife
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I found this today going through papers and reports about the cognitive effects of nature themed stimuli. Some of these design patterns aren't within our control, but some of them are very accessible and might be interesting to folks looking to make smaller adjustments in their surroundings for mental health benefits.

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Washington Legislature Advances Proposal Allowing Cafes in More Neighborhoods (www.theurbanist.org)
submitted 10 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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Jeep’s all-electric Wagoneer S to go on sale in the US in fall 2024 (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by alyaza to c/citylife
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