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Office Space - 99% Invisible
Office Space - 99% Invisible
Right now, in Manhattan, 18% of office space is vacant. At the same time, the city of New York has a major housing problem, with more than 100,000 people using the municipal shelter system. So Eric Adams and city officials are talking a lot about taking those empty offices, and filling them with people. New
·99percentinvisible.org·
Office Space - 99% Invisible
The end of cool small cars
The end of cool small cars
The Taliban has fresher trucks than us. The Honda Fit is dead. U can’t find a sauced-out 2-door to save your life. How did we get here??
·blackbirdspyplane.com·
The end of cool small cars
“Jackrabbiting” Away from Urban Spaces
“Jackrabbiting” Away from Urban Spaces
The third entry in our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest is by Julie Haltom. She writes about the myriad of stumbling blocks faced by mid-twentieth-century homesteaders in Southern California&…
·themetropole.blog·
“Jackrabbiting” Away from Urban Spaces
The Power Of Power Density
The Power Of Power Density
Paul Krugman hypes renewables in the New York Times, but the Iron Law of Power Density won’t be repealed
·robertbryce.substack.com·
The Power Of Power Density
Everett Turns a Corner with Madison Street Bike Lanes - The Urbanist
Everett Turns a Corner with Madison Street Bike Lanes - The Urbanist
The project is a big step for Snohomish County's largest city, which has been slow to expand safe bike and pedestrian infrastructure. This spring, city crews working on a repaving project put down something that hadn't been seen before in Everett: green paint to mark a bike lane and some concrete barriers for that bike
·theurbanist.org·
Everett Turns a Corner with Madison Street Bike Lanes - The Urbanist
The death of the great American city
The death of the great American city
The flight of office workers to the hinterlands will have profound effects on society.
·spiked-online.com·
The death of the great American city
Sunday Video: Seattle’s Urban Drinking Water is Sacred - The Urbanist
Sunday Video: Seattle’s Urban Drinking Water is Sacred - The Urbanist
Do you know where Seattle, or your town, gets drinking water? Is it reliable and safe? Will we have enough water in the Puget Sound region as the population grows? What does today's drinking water in the Seattle area, the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, Spring Street downtown, migrating wild salmon, and a river that
·theurbanist.org·
Sunday Video: Seattle’s Urban Drinking Water is Sacred - The Urbanist
The hope of Solarpunk
The hope of Solarpunk
Solarpunk is an art movement that envisions sustainable, utopian futures and it has helped the author realise that the fight isn’t over yet
·shado-mag.com·
The hope of Solarpunk
Take a Car Lane, Save a Transit Project - The Urbanist
Take a Car Lane, Save a Transit Project - The Urbanist
Transit: Why Don't We Do It in the Road? Transit has been getting some tough breaks lately in the Puget Sound region and across much of the United States. Projects are behind schedule and overbudget, and agencies are struggling with labor shortages and with attracting riders back following the shock of the pandemic. Many have
·theurbanist.org·
Take a Car Lane, Save a Transit Project - The Urbanist
Urban Patriarchy
Urban Patriarchy
Cities were designed to accommodate corporations, cars, and the needs of men. It might be time to build anew.
·antoniomelonio.substack.com·
Urban Patriarchy
Stub Yesler Way Bike Lane Illustrates Lack of Planning for Waterfront Bike Access - The Urbanist
Stub Yesler Way Bike Lane Illustrates Lack of Planning for Waterfront Bike Access - The Urbanist
Early last week, crews with Seattle's Office of the Waterfront installed a very short stretch of two-way bike lane, at the foot of Yesler Way approaching Alaskan Way and Washington State Ferries Colman Dock. The new bike lane was timed to go in at the same time that new traffic patterns around the state ferry
·theurbanist.org·
Stub Yesler Way Bike Lane Illustrates Lack of Planning for Waterfront Bike Access - The Urbanist
Why loving trees sometimes means cutting them down
Why loving trees sometimes means cutting them down
Public misconceptions, based on outdated land management ideology, are the single biggest hurdle to forest conservation in California.
·grist.org·
Why loving trees sometimes means cutting them down
The Question of "Developed" Land -- And Its Impact On Housing
The Question of "Developed" Land -- And Its Impact On Housing
The Congress of the New Urbanism has always been a good starting point for me when attempting illustrate development intensity. Does it ne...
·cornersideyard.blogspot.com·
The Question of "Developed" Land -- And Its Impact On Housing
How to save the high street: 10 quickfire solutions
How to save the high street: 10 quickfire solutions
As retail giant Wilko collapses into administration, people are asking: what can be done to save the UK's high streets? Here are some ideas
·positive.news·
How to save the high street: 10 quickfire solutions