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Pocatello breaks ground on its first community garden Friday | Local https://www.allforgardening.com/1927786/pocatello-breaks-ground-on-its-first-community-garden-friday-local/ #agriculture #CommunityGardening #FoodActivism #GardenDesign #gardening #GardeningIdaho #idaho #LandUse #NewUrbanism #parks #PlantAgriculture #UrbanAgriculture

#Solarpunk, when life and innovation become part of the decision-making process

Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, gave an interview at #SXSW2024 - a festival of music, film and interactive media - where he shared his vision of design for the future by highlighting an interesting movement: Solarpunk. This movement offers a less anxiety-provoking and much more positive perspective on shaping a world where life and sustainability are at the heart of every innovation.

11 July, 2024

Except: " #Solarpunk is rooted in a wider landscape of movements and currents of thought that share similar objectives of #sustainability, #inclusion and #innovation.

#Ecodesign is an approach that aims to reduce the environmental impact of products throughout their life cycle, finding innovative and sustainable solutions and encouraging the use of #EnvironmentallyFriendly manufacturing practices. The movement is also strongly guiding the approach of current websites by limiting the media used, calculating the CO2 impact of each page and favouring sustainable hosting solutions.

The #SlowLife, or #SlowMovement, which encourages a reduction in the frenetic pace of modern life and a re-evaluation of priorities, focusing on the quality of well-being rather than the quantity of activities. This resonates with the Solarpunk movement in its more #ThoughtfulApproach to #technology and #consumption.

#RegenerativeDesign which aims for an approach where systems and processes restore and strengthen #ecosystems promoting environmental health and #resilience. This movement also shares the same positive vision of creating solutions that benefit both human beings and the #environment.

#NewPedestrianism, or #NewUrbanism, share common concerns for the sustainability of urban environments. It aims to reduce dependence on cars by promoting walking, cycling and public transport, and to reduce carbon emissions in order to improve air quality. But that's not all: New Pedestrianism, like Solarpunk, aspires to create neighbourhoods that meet human needs, where it is pleasant and safe to live, work and play, while fostering conviviality between communities."

Source:
http://www.atipik.ch/en/blog/integrating-solarpunk-principles-sustainable-design

#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunkDesignPrinciples #BuildForTheFuture #Sustainability #Accessibility #Inclusivity #SustainableTechnology #LowTech #BikeFriendlyCities #WalkableCities #EnvironmentalRestoration #BuildingCommunity

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Neue Seite der Aktiven von FUSS e.V. in #Kiel

https://1todoinst.de/fussev-kiel/

Heute hoffentlich regenfreier Jane's Walk
https://1todoinst.de/janeswalkkiel/26-hoernterritorien/

Wir entscheiden vor Ort, wenn jemand kommt, wie es aussieht. Bitte ggf. Regensachen bereit haben.

Diese Woche ist Jane's Walk Wochenende weltweit. Aber man kann auch jeden Tag laufen!

#FUSSev #Walkability #JanesWalk #JaneJacobs #NewUrbanism #Spaziergang #Spaziergänge

🌳 Remarkable example of New Urbanism landscape architecture from Fayetteville, AR.

🌟 It's a 36 mile (~60km) multilevel greenway that connects multiple urban spaces and attractions.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 The recently completed project "offers opportunities for visual and performing art throughout and serves as a hub for activity, gathering, recreation, and community."

🌞 Looks much better than concrete sidewalks through sterile grass fields.

https://architizer.com/projects/the-lower-ramble/

#Urbanism #LandscapeArchitecture
#Nature #SustainableUrbanism #NewUrbanism #Biophilia #Greenway

I think New Urbanism is mutating into New Suburbanism. Aka strip malls with integrated apartment buildings. Little mixed use complexes out in the middle of empty space. A gorgeous view from your condo balcony of a walmart. It’s so weird.
#newurbanism #urbandevelopmentandplanning #suburbia

The Corporate City: Three Models of Company Town Design

V-Plaza Urban Development / 3deluxe architecture. Image © Norbert Tukaj Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #CA #Canada #Cities #CivicEngagement #CompanyTowns #CorporateArchitecture #CorporateUrbanism #Design #Entertainment #NewUrbanism #Technology #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism #WaltDisney
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/227329/

The Corporate City: Three Models of Company Town Design

V-Plaza Urban Development / 3deluxe architecture. Image © Norbert Tukaj Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #AU #Australia #Cities #CivicEngagement #CompanyTowns #CorporateArchitecture #CorporateUrbanism #Design #Entertainment #NewUrbanism #Technology #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism #waltdisney
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/227898/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/514858/ The Corporate City: Three Models of Company Town Design #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Cities #CivicEngagement #CompanyTowns #CorporateArchitecture #CorporateUrbanism #Design #Entertainment #NewUrbanism #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism #WaltDisney

I want o buy DVD/Blu ray or download "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" from #WilliamHWhyte. I see in USA some screeings come up in September and October 2025. What source do they use?

Would like to show it in small cinema in Kiel/Germany. I only find Youtube movies with bad quality.

#NewUrbanism #Architecture #TheSocialLifeofSmallUrbanSpaces

Sep 19 Park(ING) Day Reimagining Public Space: Design Charette
https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/parking-day-reimagining-public-space-design-charette/

#EcoDesign #PublicSpaceDesign #Design #Community #Urbanism #NewUrbanism

bin nicht #NeuHier Blogge seit 2006, Kieler Blog seit 2009, Twitter ab ca. 2013, Mastodon ab ca. 2022.
Schreibe über Politik & Gesellschaft mit u.a. Fokus aus Kiel/SH und einfach was mich beschäftigt, Reflexion, auch aktivistisch und nicht immer neutral, bemühe ich aber fair zu bleiben und andere Argumente zu hören. Interesse auch an #Stadt und #Stadtentwicklung, #Anarchismus #JanesWalk, #Newurbanism , Musik etwas durcheinander, aber in letzten Jahren viel #JapaneseCityPop und #Shibuyakei

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Among existing tech that could be used for a hyperlocal social service, maybe something like Hometown?

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

See also the keynote @darius prepared for the online-only #APConf in 2020;

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/lets-play-and-win-our-own-game/953

Or maybe Bonfire Community, or a @bonfire flavour specifically for the purpose?

https://bonfirenetworks.org/app/community/

#localism #NewUrbanism #5MinuteCities #Hometown #Bonfire #Neighbourly

Bus is a public transit board game that comes in a two-inch tall box. It imagines a flexible route rather than a fixed route system. https://brucefnesmith.blogspot.com/2025/04/game-review-bus.html
#BusGame #gamereview #NewUrbanism #placeMaking #transportationplanning

City for All on youtube has made an interesting video with suggestions about how to improve a US city with urbanism. Specifically Boise, Idaho.

What do my dear followers here on Mastodon think? Interesting content?
I'd say it's very constructive and well explained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ver1xJef_A

#Boise #Urbanism #NewUrbanism #YIMBY #Yimbyism #LRT #Transit

This week on Fern River Club, Lena & Quinn meet up on a quiet weekday morning for a sauna at the Wellness Center.

Lovers of playful exhibitionism, nudity shared between close friends, and secret glimpses are in for an early summer treat.

https://fernriver.club/scenes/lena-quinn-wellness-center/

#FernRiverClub #erotica #EroticFiction #EroticStory #homoerotic #DigitalGarden #indieweb #shower #sauna #nudity #braless #nipples #breasts #voyeur #PublicNudity #sensuality #exhibition #CityLife #bicycle #walkability #NewUrbanism

I’m all for new tech but all that’s really needed are Dutch style separated bike lanes and protected signal crossings if they really have this kind of money to burn. The vast majority of both cars and cyclists aren’t going to download a “watch out for bikes” app, this is silly and a waste of time and money. But wait– this is not the end-all-be-all DOT approved solution getting shovels into dirt; it’s just a tech showcase:

The tech behind it is kind of neat; giving cyclists some kind of transponder that will work with the “smart roads” systems of intelligent streets conditions networks. These are the different components that measure and relay auto traffic and post congestion info to those big signs over the roadways, or into your favorite mapping apps. But why are all the news outlets covering this technology exhibition as if it’s the thing to solve the larger problem though?

We suburbanites really need to remain laser focused on real shovel-in-the-dirt ideas that can save lives and enable alternative transport modes like safe cycling and building better modal transitions and pathways for example. Prepping for a once-a-season bike race is one thing, but being able to use a combination of my bike and a bus to get across Gwinnett County without killing or injuring myself would be pretty cool…

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https://starrwulfe.xyz/a/2nHj
#atlanta #cycling #gwinnettCounty #newurbanism #safety

@ancient_catbus this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities

#urbanism #newurbanism

Jordan B. Peterson has become really… interesting ever since he fried his brain with beef and benzos.

#urbanism #newurbanism #trafficviolence #traffic #visionzero #WarOnCars #thewaroncars

Last month I talked about how with Georgia’s new federal funding for rail corridors, we could imagine a regional rail system that would make moving through the area so much better?

Turns out, I’m not the only one, and our new favorite ATL urbanist Youtuber Nathan Davenport is back with another video detailing a bit about Atlanta rebuilding its rails would also be recapturing its true identity.

A few fun facts I like to remind people:

• Atlanta is the only city in the US that was born from the rails, not the river. (no, Chicago started because of the Chicago River, the rails came much later!)
• It used to be called “Terminus” because 3 railroads terminated here. Before there was much of a town actually.
• In the 1920’s, over 150 trains ran through Atlanta’s busy railroad stations… Yes, that’s an ‘s’ on the end. We had THREE STATIONS.
• We will have close to 10 million living our state within the next 20 years. There’s no way all of us can fit on I-20, 75 or 85 so we need a good plan!

Check out the video, then make sure to visit ATLTrains.com for a detailed “what if” look at what we could be using in just a decade’s time with a few small changes to how things get done in Georgia.

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https://starrwulfe.xyz/2024/01/what-happenend-to-atl-passenger-rail/

#atlanta #georgia #newurbanism #transit

As the AJC reported, X (formerly Twitter) appealed to the Development Agency of Fulton County to try and grab over $10 million in property tax breaks on their data center here in Atlanta to upgrade the server farm… But providing no additional jobs… which is why the tax breaks are there in the first place! 🥴

source: Atlanta Journal Constitution dated 3 Dec 2023

Everyone knows that these tax breaks should be going to fund any development that directly enhances the livelihood of Atlanta residents and for no other purpose. Job creation, educational, cultural and infrastructure enhancement are all good reasons to consider giving a company a tax break as an incentive to be here and will soon show up tangibly as residents have easier ways to get around, are better educated, healthier and of course prosperous. This equates to a win-win as it usually shows a bump in tax revenues a few years later.

However since X’s datacenter currently only has 24 full-time staff and no other staff are planned on being hired, there’s really no reason to give away $10 million + of our tax bucks that really need to be spent on the things I outlined above.

I agree with @[email protected] when he says:

Atlanta needs to reject this ingrained culture of giving away tax inducements to major developments that offer little or no benefit to neighborhood residents (or to neighborhood small businesses for that matter).

https://www.threads.net/@threadatl/post/C0cglEUPAo7

We have to shake this culture of “giveaway to play” when it comes to our civic monies and assets unless they directly, tangibly, OSTENSIBLY provide benefit to ALL within the boundaries of the city/county/state’s taxpayers.

Thankfully, it did not pass, likely due to a lot of councilmembers suddenly hearing about it from their constituents I’ll bet:

 

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https://starrwulfe.xyz/2023/12/08/16/33/seriously-elon-was-trying-to-get-a-tax-break-for-x-here-in-atlanta/

#atlanta #newurbanism

ATL is the transit Bizzaro Land we need to fix

Last time in this series, I talked about an organization called Better Atlanta Transit that counter to its name, wants to end all talk of having light rail alongside the Beltline Trail, the very popular, used-to-be-murder-tracks encircling central Atlanta that’s now a multipurpose trail, linear park, and real estate gentrification money printing machine.

Of course in a way only Upside/DownLand Atlanta could do, we somehow got the multipurpose trail part built first, and are behind in the light rail installation. We now seem to be on the precipice of bringing tracks to the trail but of course the NIMBYs aren’t done yet; under the guise of “making transit in Atlanta better,” they ask “should we be building an old-timey streetcar next to our beautiful trail?”

Of course this was a rallying cry to all rail supporters around our beleaguered metro area, a place which hasn’t seen any serious transit expansion since 2000 when MARTA opened the Red Line northern extension and added Sandy Springs and North Springs stations. We’re not gonna talk about how we’ve added over 1.7 million more people to the metro area since then according to the US Census Bureau. That’s bonkers.

Luckily I’m not the only one all worked up; Nathan Davenport also wanted to get his points across as well, and put together a video to really give insight into what the group is actually saying, why rails on the trails is a smarter idea, and how to get involved.

My take: Having the Beltline without tracks is like having a building with no door or airport with no runway and apparently even Ryan Gravel, the urban designer who dreamed up the city-shaping project as a graduate student at Georgia Tech, said rail transit is the "centerpiece of the Beltline's vision and funding” according to Axios. The opposition group says they’re still in favor of transit options along the corridor, then point at share bikes and scooters, autonomous vehicles and other “gadgetbahnery” to add transit there because “streetcars are old tech."

None of those concepts will offer the real throughput to move people around the corridor, don't help take the most cars off the road, but only help the able-bodied and well-heeled living immediately in the formerly-ghetto-now-ritzy areas around the trail itself. Most importantly isn’t the package we were sold 12 years ago when we voted on the measure.

#atlanta #beltline #newurbanism #streetcar #transit

Urbanism: Use AI to Dutchify your streetview!

Was playing around with Netherlands Cycling Lifestyle’s AI powered street pedestrianizer doohickey and decided to see what my old street in Yokohama would look like if it were a Dutch style pedestrian street.

Feel free to hit up dutchcyclinglifestyle.com and have a go at it yourself… Also note the usual AI image generator results may vary!

#AI #newurbanism #yokohama

https://starrwulfe.xyz/p/Caf

I had heard of the new "no car" housing development near Phoenix. Here's a recent article about the founder and organization behind it. My imagination starts running quickly towards if this type of housing solution could be perfect for members of the disabled community who are happier walking and taking public transport, including taxis, than driving. Link:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/oct/11/culdesac-car-free-neighborhood-tempe-arizona
#blind #disability #disabled
#newUrbanism #cities #publicTransit #housing #inclusivity

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• Keeping my eyes on Japan this first day of 2024 as the Sea of Japan coast reels in the aftermath of a M7.6 quake. After living there so long, I already know the preparedness and strict building codes there and personally dealt with the larger M9.0 East Japan Quake in 2011. Perhaps because I do…

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• ♻️ one last dad joke for the ‘23

  I’m going to make sure to stay tuned in to this one this year…

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• Currently: last day of 2023

  Last day of 2023 getting already started here in Atlanta. Let’s go! ⌚ Currently: Logged in online monitoring work stuff (yup, today’s a work day, at least til 2PM EST.) Quiet. 🎶 #nowplaying: Cowboy Bebop Lofi ( Lofi hip hop ) 💻 Coding: nothing at the moment. I’m probably gonna tinker with my indieweb process…

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• It’s 2024 in Nippon!

  Do you have your ticket to ride?明けましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。

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It took me a month to get to this but it’s very good. #cities #TwinCities #cars #transportation #NewUrbanism https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/19/rethinking-the-unthinkable

Merges the personal with public policy, kid who grew up here with #UrbanPlanning professional.

“…I-94 continues to do active harm…

So I will resist my own impulse to triangulate and think smaller, and instead embrace those who are asking what kind of city we really want to live in in 50 years. And why on earth there should still be a freeway running through it.”

The US Is Ugly. THIS is Why. - Leeja Miller

From the description:

"The US is UGLY. How did this happen? How did we get this suburban sprawl that we all have to live with today? And what can we do to improve our communities? Turns out it's lots of money, PR, and, you guessed it, racism."

#LeejaMiller #USA #Ugly #Suburbs #CityPlanning #NewUrbanism

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=imAGg5Lj8lc&feature=youtu.be

Florida's #CompleteStreets guidance tells road designers how to translate context into target speeds, including transitions through rural town centers.

It also tells local governments what their built environment should look like.

via @NewUrbanism @cnupublicsquare
#RoadDesign #TrafficEngineering #NewUrbanism

Thank you, Florida Department of Transportation, for making this pedestrian crossing safer by informing pedestrians that it's dangerous.

I'm glad that tax dollars were spent on this sign instead of literally any kind of temporary #TrafficCalming measure.

#PublicSafety #NewUrbanism #CarBrain

Resorts are now drawing on #urbanism, particularly #NewUrbanism, and for some reason food trucks are an exciting vacation amenity

Interests:
#Baltimore
#Maryland
#Appalachia
#FolkMusic
#ClassicalMusic
#OldTimeMusic
#Folklore
#Horror
#Mystery
#History
#Science
#Skepticism
#Art
#Photography
#Nature
#Progressive
#Liberal
#PublicTransit
#Gothic
#TTRPGs
#Poetry
#Hiking
#Cooking
#LGBT
#Gay
#Theater
#Mythology
#Archaeology
#Fungi
#Owls
#pulps
#BluesMusic
#BLM
#ProChoice
#Antifa
#NewUrbanism
#Urbanism
(More to come as I think of it)