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  1. Dan Fumano: Police, protest, and art intersect again at Vancouver’s Woodward’s building — 55 years later

    At the VPD training academy’s opening ceremony this week, the backdrop of the celebratory affair was hard to…
    #Canada #Vancouver #HowardChow #PeterDickinson #publicspaces #SimonFraserUniversity #StanDouglas #VancouverPoliceDepartment #VPD #VPDTrainingAcademy
    europesays.com/canada/207854/

  2. @crazyeddie @aworkinglibrary
    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. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalki
    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

  3. youtu.be/-8gb0U_rqcw

    Very interesting first hand account of breaking in Australia and how RayGun won the female breaking crown and went on to become an embarrassment that non-Dancers use to insult the sport.

    It talks about how sports and hobbies that are not popular are difficult to do because they depend on the participants having money, and how lack of competition makes it difficult to reach world class levels.
    #sports #dance #bgirls #breaking #olympics #poverty #publicSpaces

  4. Colonial carceral legacies
    Incarceration and "military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures" for some

    "A victim of crime advocacy group has quickly risen to prominence in Queensland and has been consulted on sweeping changes to youth justice laws."
    abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/voi

    "First Nations human rights experts lodge UN complaint over 'racist' tough-on-crime laws"
    abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/un-

    "First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."
    theconversation.com/first-nati

    "NT government-funded security patrol caught on camera kicking man in the head"
    "Military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures."
    abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/nt-

    #HumanRights #incarceration #HyperIncarceration #Intervention #violence #mobility #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #children #trauma #unhoused #housing #governance #privatisation #policing #PublicSpaces #MilitaryStylePatrols #law #Queensland #NT #Australia

  5. I also found an unfortunate example of #HostileArchitecture under a bridge. Seeing this makes me wonder where our priorates should really be.

    #Stratford #StratfordUponAvon #PublicSpaces #archetecture