People In This Group Are Sharing The 30 Best And Worst Examples Of ‘Urban Planning’

There are many photos and film where you seen him on his bike on the way to a meeting, wearing jeans, sneakers, on his bike and munching an apple. Great !

I went to college in a place that was primarily a mining town. The stuff aimed at the college kids (Taco Bell) closed down when the bars did. The stores and public services aimed at the miners and their families (grocery store, public library, etc) were open 24 hours a day because so were the mines. There were 16 year old kids working on their GEDs at 2am after getting off work and mom's picking up a replacement pair of steel toed boots in the middle of the night to get back to work after the old pair saved her toes . When I graduated and moved to the big city, I was genuinely surprised to discover Famous Footwear and the local library would close at 8pm. A larger percent of people worked weird shifts in my small college town but volume wise there are a lot more people in a city of 1 million who don't work 9-5. 24 hour Walmarts made many of those businessed moot but I still wonder why you can only improve yourself at a library when the sun is up.

These two absolutely don't exclude one another, the need each other. Self driving cars can couple where possible and be not just used by one person for "the last few miles" into sleeper towns for inatance or when privacy is preferable. While larger public transport vehicles are there for the high volume routes (routes between sleeper town and cities and cities and cities) and low capacity routes (inner city)

Boston.

Yeah because 1. Americans are insane for sports and athletes make WAY TOO MUCH MONEY. 2. They rely on the tourism/income that Stadiums bring to the city. Stupid if you ask me. Should be spending that money on the poverty sticken/homeless and feeding their hungry.

how will they get all their deliveries?

Looks like every petrolhead's dream home.

The Hague, NL

Wow a stream!!! As a kid I'd be all over that.

That is a remarkably civilized idea.

Less noise pollution, less air pollution, better air quality, lower temperatures due to tree shade, and just a much nicer place to live in.

Yes it does. This is someone who has never been there. I lived in Tokyo for two years. It 100% happens.

I'm not keen on pedestrian crossing on the entries/exits to the roundabout. On a busy roundabout you are watching several other cars and then out of the corner of your eye you spot a pedestrian wanting to cross the road. At least this one has good visibility, but locally we have one that doesn't and it would be better with the crossings further away from the roundabout.

After: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/trinity-college-s-wildflower-meadow-what-it-was-trying-to-achieve-1.4675965

As soon as you build sidewalks! And bike lanes! With a fence or something so we don't get hit by cars

It wasn't the global start. It was already happening in other parts of the world.

Before making this transformation, you have to build a good public transportation system. You are making the public walk miles from their parking lot to these areas. These little parklets are cute and everything but build a solid public transportation system first.

SimCity.

Bikes are healthy! :D

That kind of makes sense? You want to enjoy your shopping trip and if the environment is nice to be in you will walk around and you'll browse longer and maybe even buy more stuff! Otherwise you get what you need and get out.

It would be the "Notre Dame brought to you by Burger King"

This is common everywhere and its called coving. The modern version was pioneered in Minneapolis, MN, USA and spread. The original idea was to decrease the cost of building roads and utilities (1st generation saved ~20% in costs). Its evolved to cram the maximum number of homes into the smallest amount of space and make homeowner feel like they both have more land than the actually have and feel more secure (no one can see in your windows from another house). 4/5th generation models save close to 60% of construction costs. There is an entire branch of data science and specialized software designed to make these new neighborhoods. Badly made ones are obvious before you hit the first intersection. When buying a new home, use that street crossing as an indicator. If it feels wonky, there's a good chance the developer cut other corners so your basement will leak in a couple years and you'll hear the neighbors having sex.

After millennia of people using underground Paris as quarries vast parts of the city would make a new skyscraper collapse into a sinkhole before the tenth story was finished. Not that I mind Paris keeping its charming face, but "allowed" is far too generous a term. (one example: https://parisianfields.com/2015/09/13/a-city-built-on-air/). i believe Rome, for one, has a similar problem.

Ugh, I hate this false equivalence. It's not a question of one or the other, since we absolutely need BOTH mass transit AND electric, autonomous cars, because there is no way you can build mass transit to absolutely everywhere, but an autonomous car can serve multiple people - instead of sitting idle in the garage, it can work as an autonomous taxi - this way it brings in money for the owner and more importantly it means some people might choose to be car-less if they can just call one through an app and not have to worry about driving, parking or maintaining it...

Parks and libraries are a good idea <3

I guess cars in 1950 and on can only go in straight lines but in 1920 they could go curvy. Current bicycles are ridden by drunks apparently.

What are these parking spots for? You park, and you go... where? Genuine question

"Come to the USA we have roads!" "Yeah what else?" "More roads!"

Is this meant to be a good thing?

Downtown Cleveland is now a vibrant residential area and many of the parking lots in this old picture are now gone. There is now significant greenspace and many new hotels and apartments. There are several high capacity (and some free) public transit lines, both light rail and green-fuel buses that serve the area. But you do you BP.

Great start, now plant some trees.

What a great illustration

Last time I was in Vancouver, the junkies were smoking crack and messing on the streets.

They have curry! And McDonalds!

Clearly we need an investigation into the wonky seating on those buses...

And it will only cost.............100 Billion dollars!

As an old person I do not miss that, never have. Age has nothing to do with that.

So they’re getting rid of green areas in the middle?…. Hm.

How does the construction of a giant dildo reclaim streets?

where I live it's 8 lanes

I honestly don't agree with this. It is so hard to walk around these restaurants who seat people on the side walk. Now think about people with mobility issues (wheelchair, blind, etc) and how challenging it is to navigate these spaces. No accessibility.

LOL

The Arena has underground parking and is located near a train/metro station with great connections.

"People can walk" - except for those who can't? Because of disabilities, because they live to far from work, because it's + or - 30 degrees, because they have to travel for work all over the city, sometimes with heavy equipment? Basically, just because something works for you doesn't mean it's a universal solution.

Home of Professor Utonium.

Dawn winds for me, every time I get up in the morning.

I’m confused

Bicycles are not much fun when it is 111F out there...

This looks like a lovely place to eat, work and live.

I still see cars

America has more room and didn't have to squeeze every thing into smaller areas.

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Dumbasses

This is not a typical street anywhere.

There's more to it that this. We need to add in good public transport, green spaces, little local shops that can pop into on your way home from work, schools your children can walk/cycle to, links to transport hubs to move from one area to another, local services etc.

hideous, to many buildings and people, the newer picture is a down grade.

Would someone translate this?

Remind me how people get around ?