#urbandesign — Public Fediverse posts

Here are two reminders from my bike commute today that, despite all the recent high profile hand wringing in the NZ media about e-scooters, these are not the big reason why the streets of our cities are dangerous.

Of course it's all the cars.

It's a choice that we design our cities like this.

#nz #roads #Transport #UrbanDesign

🚀✨ Gablok Nederland at #SmartCityDay2025 📡🌐

💡 Building tomorrow’s cities starts with smarter construction methods.

🗓 September 10ᵗʰ, 2025
📍 Hamburg Cruise Center Baakenhöft
⏰ Noon – 6 pm
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#PassiveBuildings #PassiveConstructions #ModularConstruction #PrefabHouse #PrefabConstruction #ConstructionInnovation #SustainableNeighbourhood #SustainableBuilding #UrbanDesign #Urbanism #Architecture #SmartCity #SmartCityDayHamburg #Gablok #BVSC #BVSCnet #BVSCevents

"Paint is not protection, here's why": Damage to cycle lane sparks calls for properly protected cycling routes
https://road.cc/content/news/damage-bike-lane-sparks-calls-protected-cycle-routes-312483

Magic paint simply does not work. Some motorists require a physical barrier to stop them losing their minds, imagining they're a cyclist, steering their large and heavy motor-vehicle into the wrong lane, and injuring or killing cyclists.

#Cyclist #Cycling #RoadSafety #RoadToll #UrbanDesign

Sasaki (company) (Ecology 🏞️)

Sasaki is a design firm specializing in Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Design, Space Planning, Landscape Architecture, Ecology, Civil Engineering, and Place Branding. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, but practices on an international scale, with offices in Shanghai, and Denver, Colorado, and clients and projects globally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_(company)

#Sasaki #Ecology #Planning #UrbanDesign #InteriorDesign

Another motor vehicle ran into fence of Monterey’s North Fremont St center-of-street bike lanes. This design was 1st such design in California. (BTW #CalBike referred to the project as "Worst award-winning bikeway” of 2020 https://www.calbike.org/calbikes-best-and-worst-of-2020/.)

San Francisco followed Monterey's lead, putting center lanes on Valencia St, then realized that (for most locales) center bikeways aren’t the smartest design. Thanks to persistence of advocate & organizer @LukeBornheimer & other supporters of protected curbside bike lanes—not center lanes—things are looking up for Valencia. Links&resources for advocates: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/valencia-bikelanes/

Meanwhile in Monterey, sharp debris from latest N Fremont collision, plus fence wire sticking out into bike lane, is shown in post—along with how to report conditions in #Monterey County &on #California hwys: https://bikemonterey.org/report-bikeway-maintenance-needs-e-g-north-fremont-monterey.html
#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #NorthFremont #transportation #infrastructure #UrbanDesign #TransportationDesign #UrbanPlanning #ActiveTransportation #PublicSafety

Car infrastructure: bridge over the creek

Pedestrian/bike infrastructure: path under the bridge that floods and gets muddy every time it rains

Tomorrow on Nextdoor: wHy ArE pEoPLe uSiNg tHe cRoSsWaLk aNd NoT tHe uNdErPaSs

This is what you get when walking and biking are seen solely as recreation, rather than critical transit.

#infrastructure #bikeinfrastructure #biking #urbandesign #CarBrain #fuckcars #cycling #pedestrian #activetransit #activetransport #transit #activetransportation