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Urbanism if there's enough interest please! Somewhere to talk about urbanist issues like cycling, transit, housing, and close to home stuff. There's politics, but but discussing what you saw on the bike path might not fit. There's technology which fits for things like ebikes and using speed cameras to keep stoplights red unless a car is doing the speed limit or less, but that may not fit into other spaces. Humanities would work for things like transit programs, housing programs, etc..
So an urbanist community could encompass all of those things that would be split among different forums in one place. And hopefully be a little less abrasive than fuckcars :P
@Butterbee @alyaza Urbanism would be a great addition, indeed. And fuckcars seems more like a place of venting frustration indeed. On Reddit, I subscribed to r/fuckcarsromania, where the mods actually try to create a movement and stir civic action, from reporting cars parked on the sidewalks (a rampant problem, in Bucharest, but not only) to asking authorities for more pedestrian spaces, better public transit etc.
I imagine !urbanism@beehaw.org would be a great community to discuss different ideas and stories about better urban planning and how one can make better cities overall, as well as preserving great cities.
see below, as long as people are fine with it being named citylife it should go up tomorrow
I swear half of my Reddit usage in the past few months has been NotJustBikes and FuckCars. So yeah, something like that might be nice.
see below, as long as people are fine with it being named citylife it should go up tomorrow
this is one we'll be adding tomorrow as long as people are fine with the community being named "citylife". we debated other names; in the end we think that one will cover the most topics of an urbanist nature while also still being clear in what it's about (particularly to people who might not know what urbanism is)
Awesome! Thank you!
@alyaza @Butterbee seems neat enough