The Green Lane Project is bringing together six U.S. cities – Austin, Chicago, Washington D.C., Memphis, Portland and San Francisco – to build more protected bike trails. We interviewed Martha Roskowski - the project’s Director.
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What are the best urbanism blogs on Tumblr?
I can hardly believe it’s been over a year since I published this post featuring ten of the best urbanism tumblogs. I think it’s time for a follow-up!
I’m keen to highlight ten more awesome urbanism tumblogs and share them with our 170,000 Tumblr followers as well as the readers of thisbigcity.net. I’ve got a few ideas in mind, but I would love your input!
Please let me know which urbanism tumblogs you love (and heck, if you feel like a bit of self-promotion then stick your own name in there!) and I’ll check out your suggestions before putting together my shortlist.
Thanks!
- Joe
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Rise of the Megacity - A megacity generally defines a metropolitan area that has a population in excess of 10 million people.
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Want more studies and data on bike lanes improving local economies? You got it.
Can better placemaking encourage healthier lifestyles?
What tags to follow?
My tag list needs some new additions - what tags do you follow to keep up with interesting urbanism stories?
- Joe
“Since I first visited Singapore around 1994, the population has grown to slightly more than five million, almost double what it was in the early nineties. In that same period, the greenspace — as defined by parks, mini-gardens, and rooftop green gardens — has increased to nearly half of the surface space of the city.”
Roger Wood on urban design in Singapore.
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Congested city? How about congestion pricing? Nope? Our latest post looks at a couple of cities who aren’t so keen on congestion pricing proposals.
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Pedestrians are poorly catered for in most Indian cities, with insufficient infrastructure and high accident rates. And despite policy stating people priority over automobiles, the pedestrian remains forgotten. Check out our latest post.
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Check out this urban design equation. Could we persuade city blocks to merge, and create more liveable cities in the process? Our latest post looks at this concept from the perspective of Istanbul. Could it work in your city?
“If we want to make streets safe and create cities for people not traffic, we need to take a new approach. We need bold politicians who make real changes. We need to stop using signage to defend poor urban design and traffic engineering schemes. We need to better understand human behaviour, responding to individual circumstances, places and people and not just predicted traffic volumes.”
Rachel Smith on creating safer streets
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Is university getting it wrong? Read about the future of urban design education on This Big City.
大學出問題了嗎？關於都市設計教育未來發展，請見城事。
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「按個讚吧」
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Children who live in walkable areas, with a child-friendly park nearby and access to healthy food have 59% lower odds of being obese. More on This Big City.
兒童若居住在適合步行的環境，住家附近又有兒童公園，亦有商家販售健康食品，肥胖機率會下降59%。更多內容請見《城事》。
“One can objectively judge whether urban architecture is fulfilling the most basic needs of citizens. But what about the social and emblematic functions of architecture? Who gets to say what older buildings with more complex histories symbolize?”
Sharon Gochenour on the psychology of designing spaces
「人們能夠客觀判斷，都會建築是否滿足市民最基本需求，在城市漫步，也能觀察市容是否美觀，但建築的社會與象徵功能何在？誰來定義背負複雜歷史的老舊建築？」
Sharon Gochenour談論設計空間心理。
