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Lior Steinberg

1 year

No matter what happens with Twitter, I’m happy to connect on LinkedIn. I publish there often, and got to know a great community of urbanists there:

Lior Steinberg - humankind | LinkedIn

I’m an urban planner, based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I help cities to look beyond functionality and to plan urban spaces that make people smile. All projects I participate in have one thing in...

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1 year

Whenever they tell you a change is impossible, show them Utrecht. An urban freeway with many lanes can become a green park with a beautiful canal. Instead of a car sewer, the water flows.

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Why don't we build more streets like this?

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Rotterdam metro train went tonight through a stop block and ended up over an artwork, creating an even more interesting artwork

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What will happen if we’ll RETHINK our street corners? We'll realize that until now, we've made them too car-centric. Street corners are designed for fast driving, which means pedestrians have to risk their safety just to cross the street.

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Smart city has nothing to do with artificial intelligence or sensors. A city is smart when children can walk and cycle freely and safely. Technology is only a bonus.

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One of the greatest achievements of the car industry is convincing people that driving is efficient and fast. London, video by @PeterStuart3

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One of the greatest achievements of the car industry is convincing business owners that parking spaces lead to more revenue. By @urbisaustralia HT @considerthefish

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4 years

Don't blame having a child for the need to buy a car. Blame your city leaders for making it impossible to cycle with children.

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8 months

I see people sharing Apple's new 'Mother Nature' video, where they rave about their sustainability and claim their offices are carbon-neutral. I'm just here to remind you that this is their GIANT private car parking garage.

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2 years

Is there a reason why car lanes don't look like that?

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4 years

What is incredible about this vid from Paris, except the efficiency of the Bicycle and the sheer amount of people moving, is the silence. The sound pollution of cars is often overlooked, but it's very important to the quality of life. Via @CommuteDeParis

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If an architect were to design your house like this - you'd fire them. Why then do we allow professionals to design our cities like this?

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4 years

Green urbanism done well 📍 Rotterdam

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'This is better than 3 parked cars' - a reminder from @the_transit_guy . 📍NYC at 10th Av/37th.

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Amsterdam opened this week the world's first underwater bicycle facility. There is room for 7,000 bike. This is an engineering masterpiece. learn more from Pieter Visser from @AmsterdamNL , Video by @Cycling_Embassy More info:

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5 years

Amsterdam will remove 1,500 parking spots a year until 2025. 11,200 in total. Bicycle parking, sidewalks, and green will replace them. Take a moment and imagine your city with 11k less parking spaces. Have a nice weekend!

A Modest Proposal to Eliminate 11,000 Urban Parking Spots

Amsterdam plans to systematically strip its center of parking spaces in the coming years, making way for bike lanes, sidewalks, and more trees.

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5 minutes, 157 cyclists, no cars. Welcome to Groningen, the Netherlands.

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Check out this brand new masterpiece in Norway 🇳🇴 🚲 It's Europe's longest bicycle tunnel, which reduces cycling time to Bergen from 40 to 10 minutes. Excellent cycling facilities are the way to get more people on bikes and leave their cars behind.

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"Dutch civil planners built a canal here, robbing their citizens of an 18-lane super highway." Brilliant video by @uniquespirit889

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Utrecht is planning a completely car-free new neighbourhood. That's how you prepare for the future

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Don't blame having a child for the need to buy a car. Blame your city leaders for making it impossible to cycle with children.

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25 seconds from Zwolle, NL. Population 125,000. It’s so quiet. We’ve forgotten how loud cars make our cities. Wonderful to hear the sound of bicycles, people chatting & laughing 🎶

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30 people getting a coffee vs 30 people getting a coffee

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Smart city has nothing to do with artificial intelligence or sensors. A city is smart when children can walk and cycle freely and safely. Technology is only a bonus.

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In a historic turn of events, cyclists now outnumber motorists on the streets of London! 🚲Since 1999, the number of cyclists has increased by a staggering 386% 🚗The number of motorists has declined by 64%.

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My favorite bus ad. Gotta love Denmark.

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Human-scale Dutch street. Why don't we build streets like this anymore?

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Same street, six years apart. Parking became a park, grey became green. Just imagine what it is like to open your house door and see this. Blankenstraat, 2015-2021, via @gdewith

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Whenever they tell you that bike infrastructure is too expensive or complicated, share with them these images. A 300m-long tactical bike lane was built tonight in the city center. It took 194 minutes in total. Good morning!💪

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This image of the Dutch prime minister shows what the Bicycle is all about: easily and safely biking to work, while nonchalantly eating an apple. That's what millions of Dutch people do daily, regardless their social class or income. 🚲 image source:

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How far can you travel by train within 5 hours? A cool tool by @_benjamintd

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Environmental activists put truth to car ads

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The future of transportation isn't flying cars but cycling children. 📸 @Cycling_Embass

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This parking-free residential street in Delft truly fosters mental ownership in the public space.

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Why do children no longer play outside? Because we have filled the "outside" with cars, so it is too dangerous for them. Picture by

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Rotterdam is about to redesign the giant Hofplein. Turning a car-centric roundabout into an urban green park. Much needed - looking forward!

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Don't blame having a child for the need to buy a car. Blame your city leaders for making it impossible to cycle with children.

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It is priceless to see these girls' reactions when they realize that Ariel resembles them.❤️ #RepresentationMatters

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3 years

Made a visit to Cologne/Köln, Germany. Here are my thoughts. In short: if this is how a leading city plans for bicycles in the EU's largest economy, then we are in big trouble. More in detail, below.

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Why don't we build more streets like this? This parking-free residential street in Delft truly fosters mental ownership in the public space.

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Rush hour in Amsterdam. This should be the dream of every city.

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4 years

Lovely Dutch protected intersection in Salt Lake City, Utah. Look how safe it is to cross as a pedestrian or cyclist. Using tactical urbanism, it's easy and cheap. Anyone else follows? Full vid:

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Utrecht, the fourth-largest city in the Netherlands, releases its city center vision for 2040: a place to stay, meet, safely walk and cycle. What don't you see in the image?

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A little bit of green can make a big change. Observe the contrast on the same street when measuring the temperature. The asphalt road registered a high of 33 °C, while the newly installed semi-hardened parking lots showed a considerably lower temperature of 21 °C.

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Urban Trees. The Natural Airco 🌳 video by @ecosia

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Meet London's "Wavy Kerbs". A beautiful way to create safer crossings and promote walking & cycling. 🎥 @GiulioFerrini

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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. Then, why do we spend 100 times more attention on electric cars? Why do we speak more on Elon Musk than bicycle manufacturers?

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

theconversation.com

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Human-scale Dutch street. Why don’t we build this kind of streets anymore?

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“I had to buy a car, because now I have children....” @BicycleMayor020 debunks yet another myth about bicycles.

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What happens to a car that wakes up one day and wants to be a bike? I wrote a children's book about this. It will be released in a couple of months. Would you like a copy? Leave your details and I'll get back to you! Published by @humankindcity

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It has finally happened! The Rotterdam metro Line B has a new station, Hoek van Holland Beach. Starting this week, Rotterdammers can use public transport to go swimming, surfing, and relaxing at the beach.

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This busy street could easly host two or three driving lanes and one parking lane. But Amsterdam decided to go for another layout. It’s lively, geeen, and healthy.

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Plant trees. Save lives. And the planet.

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Don't blame having a child for the need to buy a car. Blame your city leaders for making it impossible to cycle safely with children. Photos by @modacitylife

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IKEA Germany rents out e-cargo bikes to customers, making it easier to brings things home. IKEA in the Netherlands has been doing this for years with regular cargo bikes. I've delivered my entire interior in Groningen using these bikes.

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Is it the world’s most beautiful bike lane? #Amsterdam

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Next time a city official tells you: "we don't have space for pedestrians and cyclists". Love this gif by @otucis !

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Think you need to buy an SUV to move your kids around? Meet the Dutch 'bicycle buses' that transport over 50 schoolchildren to after-school activities. 📍Nijmegen. Video by @MartijnLi

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4 years

Dutch street design paradise

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Amazing photo by @jaccovangiessen / @RTV_Rijnmond

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A city that moves at the pace of its people, rather than its cars, is a city that truly understands progress.

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25 seconds from Zwolle, NL. Population 125,000. It’s so quite. We’ve forgotten how loud cars make our cities. Wonderful to hear the sound of bicycles, people chatting & laughing 🎶

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Smart city has nothing to do with artificial intelligence or sensors. A city is smart when children can walk and cycle freely and safely. Technology is only a bonus. Video by @Hackneycyclist

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In a fair city, you don't need to buy a vehicle for thousands of euros just to get around

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Lovely Dutch protected intersection in Salt Lake City, Utah. Look how safe it is to cross as a pedestrian or cyclist. Using tactical urbanism, it's easy and cheap. Anyone else follows? Full vid:

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Two cyclists. Each depart to a different direction. Nonchalantly saying goodbye. Urban cycling is the best ❤️

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Remember: humans don't *need* a car. It's just that many cities are designed to make you buy a car to move around with you family.

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Same space, different impacts. This satellite view of the area near Eindhoven's main train station illustrates a stark reality. The bicycle lot accommodates hundreds of people, while the car park, of approximately the same size, serves only 50 cars.

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A fresh bicycle street it Utrecht. Makes the street so beautiful

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Utrecht adds green roofs to its bus stops: improves the city's biodiversity, helps with storage of rainwater, and helps with cooling in the summertime. Let's make public transport even greener! Video via @brightvibes_com 's @thepitcher

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Creating the street of the future in 3 steps. Schimmelstraat, Amsterdam

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Interesting: differences in perceived speed

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I hear often people wanting to leave the city because it's not green enough. Or because it's too noisy and dirty. But the solution isn't leaving the city. The solution is getting rid of the cause of the problem: too much space is given to cars. Look, it's possible!

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It takes real leadership to realize that one made a mistake but an even better leadership to try to make things right. Utrecht shows leadership. HT @fietsprofessor

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A good cycling city takes care of cyclists also during renovations. Here's an example from Rotterdam:

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What do you prefer in front of your house? - Option 1: a car - Option 2: a modular parklet allowing neighbors to sit, meet and play Photos by @jaapstronks | Project by @rotterdam & @humankindcity

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Korenstraat in Groningen, before and after. Just imagine the rise in quality of life and housing value there...

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4 years

This is how a 21st-century urban street should look like. Video by @BCI_realm

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5 years

I’ve been hopping on trams, the metro & busses, and I have to say that Milan’s public transit system is great. Traveling in the city center is seamless and affordable, and that’s really how a good transit system should work.

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This is brilliant: the Lego-like bike lane. Lasts longer than traditional roads, buffers rain water, modular & made of recycled plastic!

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Ladies and gentlemen, take a look at the future of great cities. Champs-Élysées, Paris. 📽️ @EmmanuelSPV

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From streets completely filled with cars. To complete streets. Another great illustration by @otucis

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2 years

Is there a nicer grid?

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Why don't we make more streets like this? Image by @mobycon

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We must relearn the art of making streets like this. 📍 Amsterdam

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3 years

If an architect were to design your house like this - you'd fire them. Why then do we allow professionals to design our cities like this?

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4 years

People pay for beers and chips, cars don’t. That’s why repurposing of parking space is a no-brainer.

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Catharijnesingel, Utrecht. Winner European Urban Public Space Award 2022 by OKRA landschapsarchitecten

OKRA Receives the European Urban Public Space Award 2022

The Dutch firm OKRA landschapsarchitecten has been awarded the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2022.

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The incredible Dutch SUV (sustainable urban vehicle) image via @Cycling_Embassy

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This tool is cool! It turns @streetmix designs into 3D renderings and virtual reality. Check @3dstreetapp by @kfarr

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Do you know London's "Wavy Kerbs"? It's a beautiful way to create safer crossings and promote walking and cycling. 🎥 Video by @GiulioFerrini

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Every time that I'm in Antwerp, I want to speak with shop owners to explain to them how much business they lose for not having on-street parking. I guess they are just bad entrepreneurs...

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Beautiful tactical urbanism in Barcelona. The pattern is based on the classic city tiles designed by architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Source:

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The Dutch national bike sharing scheme is the best I know. At any train station, one can pick a bike with their national transit card. Here's the station in the Hague 🚲

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5 minutes, 157 cyclists, no cars. Welcome to Groningen, the Netherlands.

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Some cities use Photoshop - Rotterdam makes it real. The transformation of a dull street corner into a green pocket park in Rotterdam is a great example of how beautiful our cities can be. Location: De Sint-Mariastraat, photos by @rotterdam .