#strongtowns

Face it, roads are subsidized for motor vehicles. Stop falling for the Potemkin village pipe dreams the government road agencies prop up. Robust pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, that is safe and

Smart contracts can be used to link campaign promises to actual action once in office. They can also be used to programmaticly account for every decision made along the bureaucratic chain, something that

Review of two articles with interesting topics. The first is covering social perceptions of bicyclists, how we interact with each other and influence the general public. The second is a massive and impressive

Check out the Urban Bikeway design guides. NACTO Posted from my blog with SteemPress :

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“You can create a social contract and make tons of promises. We now live in the day when those promises are coming due.” — Chuck Marohn The work of Strong Towns is prominently featured in a new documentary

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What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficient transportation systems, access to healthy green space,

Another excellent resource found at Car free America Posted from my blog with SteemPress :

Check this out. Brightline Train. Fast , privately funded. Sure looks nice. The first things I noticed were the bike share kiosks, Lyft drop off areas and the expansiveness of the project. Multi-modal

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Excellent book if you are interested in making changes happen in your area Tactical Urbanism, written by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia, two founders of the movement, promises to be the foundational guide

RAND PRIZE: Crosstown Concourse, Memphis, Tennessee Transformation of a former Sears distribution center into full-service live-work community. Looney Ricks Kiss   Crosstown Concourse is the 1.5 million

Large complex systems require feeding. When the system is linked to fiat currency and fractional reserve lending you end up with centralized governance that requires non stop growth to feed the hungry

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Excellent article from Strong Towns regarding local commerce. I predict that a hybrid brick and mortar close to your community will become a spoke in the advanced Amazon style supply chains that will progress

Please read and report your takeaway Human scale and Human action are A Priori. For five thousand years, human settlements were nearly always compact places. Everything a person needed on a regular basis

Lots of information here. pick what works. Pedestrian urban focus. The report Bounce Forward: Urban Resilience in the Era of Climate Change endeavors to capture what we learned during this initial phase

Implementation of blockchain into the road development process could lead to accountability. Keep an eye on this. Governments protecting against governments The main purpose of blockchain in governance,

Congress for New Urbanism Research journal   Posted from my blog with SteemPress :