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It is probably about car dependency, car-centered areas. Like in the US where in many towns without a car one would struggle to do anything: getting to the grocery store, getting back from the store, reaching the other river bank as many bridges are motor vehicles only.

People can’t live without cars in such places. Even food banks have huge lines of cars, four "lanes". Some homeless people drive cars as well. Imagine the closest grocery store being 1 hour walking distance away, and the weather may be extremely hot/cold.

Many such areas don’t even have sidewalks or anything for walking at all. At the same time so called "jay-walking" is prohibited by law. The term "jaywalking" actually was invented by the cars lobby in the early 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
Moving around by walking is extremely inconvenient, dangerous, taking ridiculous amounts of time, basically incompatible with everyday activities.

Also the parking lots, roads, intersections take up huge chunks of the city. Consider how much longer it takes to walk somewhere compared to what it could be without all these. Urban areas could look very different if they were human-centered and Points Of Interest were packed tightly.

And the bigger the city, the more space car infrastructure takes up. More lanes, wider intersections, parking lots can have up to many thousands spots, highways, freeways, interchanges of ridiculous sizes and shapes.

The topic is huge, what I mentioned is just the tip. Think of what you see around every day. Also all the noise. And danger it brings to everyone, not just drivers. The number of so called "accidents", another convenient term for the horrible things that happen everyday.

The areas which are pedestrian-friendly, bicycle friendly, have public transportation tend to have happier residents, more attraction points, more small businesses, more street life, way better air quality, less noise among other benefits.
Also social connections and interaction happen there and not on a 4-lane highway.

#Cars #Car #City #Urban #Streets
#Cities #CarFree #Roads #CarDependancy #StreetLife #Safety #Bycicles #Walking #UrbanSprawl #OneMoreLane #InducedTraffic #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #Access #PublicTransportation #Accessibility #Accessible #PublicSpaces #Socialization #Capitalism #Subsidies #Lobbying #WordsMatter #History #CarsAreDangerous #FuckCars

Which do you prefer?
#carlight #publicspaces #cardominated #pedestrianfriendly

https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2026/06/22/the-pasts-of-the-city/

Had a scan through the videos from the #PublicSpaces conference - this has been my subject for the last 30 years: https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos

My takeaway is that there is a lot of activity, but not much movement. A lot of discussion, frameworks and technical thinking, but no real questions - What kind of #openweb culture are we actually building?

Too often we end up with the same cycle of
more complexity → more infrastructure → more maintenance → more dependency → more #techshit.

The problem is not that people are building things, building is good. The problem is when the culture keeps producing paths that push more mess into the commons, then the people build alternatives have to spend their energy cleaning up, mediating, and rebuilding the native social layer that was ignored.

The #OMN question is - Are we creating tools that strengthen communities, or are we creating more technical problems that communities have to carry?

The #openweb was never only about technology. It was about participation, trust, shared ownership and social infrastructure. Without that, we just keep producing more mess that someone has to compost later.

The work we need is growing the culture that makes better tech possible.

#OMN #4opens #openweb #FOSS #techshit

We Didn’t Get Ruder—We Just Stopped Noticing Each Other: A Pagan View of Everyday Harm

https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/we-didnt-get-ruder-we-just-stopped-noticing-each-other-a-pagan-view-of-everyday-harm/

The elegance of the essential: design for inclusive public spaces
Proportion and smoothness of form, key to a functional space that makes what is elementary a benchmark.

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◻️ #inclusive #design #architecture #publicspaces #urbanism #inclusif #espacespublics #urbanisme #inclusivo #diseño #arquitectura #espaciospúblicos #urbanismo #amusementlogic

Time for the obligatory #paneldiscussion at the #PublicSpaces conference #Pubconf2025 with Paris Marx, Emma Ghariani, Zuzanna Warso and Michiel Leenaars.

‘Urban Green Space Project’ for Bitterne Precinct .... >> https://bitternepark.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13109:urban-green-space-project-for-bitterne-precinct&catid=166&Itemid=92

#Southampton #bitternepark #localnews #bitterne #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign #CommunitySpaces #UrbanRenewal #PlanningUpdates #TownCentre #PublicSpaces #SustainableDevelopment #CityRevitalisation #LocalPlanning #NeighbourhoodUpgrade

‘Urban Green Space Project’ for Bitterne Precinct .... >> https://bitternepark.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13109:urban-green-space-project-for-bitterne-precinct&catid=166&Itemid=92

#Southampton #bitternepark #localnews #bitterne #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign #CommunitySpaces #UrbanRenewal #PlanningUpdates #TownCentre #PublicSpaces #SustainableDevelopment #CityRevitalisation #LocalPlanning #NeighbourhoodUpgrade

‘Urban Green Space Project’ for Bitterne Precinct .... >> https://bitternepark.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13109:urban-green-space-project-for-bitterne-precinct&catid=166&Itemid=92

#Southampton #bitternepark #localnews #bitterne #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign #CommunitySpaces #UrbanRenewal #PlanningUpdates #TownCentre #PublicSpaces #SustainableDevelopment #CityRevitalisation #LocalPlanning #NeighbourhoodUpgrade

‘Urban Green Space Project’ for Bitterne Precinct .... >> https://bitternepark.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13109:urban-green-space-project-for-bitterne-precinct&catid=166&Itemid=92

#Southampton #bitternepark #localnews #bitterne #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign #CommunitySpaces #UrbanRenewal #PlanningUpdates #TownCentre #PublicSpaces #SustainableDevelopment #CityRevitalisation #LocalPlanning #NeighbourhoodUpgrade

‘Urban Green Space Project’ for Bitterne Precinct .... >> https://bitternepark.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13109:urban-green-space-project-for-bitterne-precinct&catid=166&Itemid=92

#Southampton #bitternepark #localnews #bitterne #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign #CommunitySpaces #UrbanRenewal #PlanningUpdates #TownCentre #PublicSpaces #SustainableDevelopment #CityRevitalisation #LocalPlanning #NeighbourhoodUpgrade

‘Urban Green Space Project’ for Bitterne Precinct .... >> https://bitternepark.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13109:urban-green-space-project-for-bitterne-precinct&catid=166&Itemid=92

#Southampton #bitternepark #localnews #bitterne #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign #CommunitySpaces #UrbanRenewal #PlanningUpdates #TownCentre #PublicSpaces #SustainableDevelopment #CityRevitalisation #LocalPlanning #NeighbourhoodUpgrade

#Building and #Designing #EcoFriendly #Homes for #People With #Disabilities - EcoWatch

Concert #venues, shopping #plazas and sporting #arenas are continuously #constructing #accessibility #improvements to make #publicSpaces more #comfortable for people with disabilities. But unfortunately, there’s one place that continues to be a #challenge for people with disabilities to navigate — their own #homes.

https://www.ecowatch.com/eco-friendly-homes-for-people-with-disabilities.html