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Countdown of the TOP 20 NEW URBAN DISTRICTS (that I have visited recently). A THREAD 🧵

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This is a dystopia.

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I just learned America has a thing called Trunk or Treat where people dress up, drive to a parking lot, and pretend it's ok we don't have walkable communities anymore.

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We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

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I am pretty excited to share what’s happening in Barcelona because it is fucking amazing. (this is not a.i.)

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Land use with gas cars vs. land use with EVs (artist’s rendering)

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People are willing to walk a lot farther when you make it a pleasant walk.

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Holy shit what is this? There is a public market in Cincinnati that has been pedestrianized...and permits deliveries with retractable bollards?!?!

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If you thought Superblocks were the big thing in Barcelona, you were right last year but now you're wrong. Here's my WTF IS HAPPENING IN BARCELONA thread. 🧵

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I am pretty excited to share what’s happening in Barcelona because it is fucking amazing. (this is not a.i.)

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The genius of Elon Musk.

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Imagine spending your total solar eclipse driving on a freeway in Dallas.

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Solar Eclipse time lapse from Dallas 📍

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Advisors told Ljubljana’s mayor that pedestrianizing downtown would be political suicide. Fifteen years later, he’s still mayor.

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I’m told American cities generally don’t use bollards because cars will hit them. And so I’m left to wonder what we prefer cars to hit.

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No one wants a new airport but I'll tell you what people really want...

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2008 v. 2023: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

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Elevated transit can create shaded people-spaces underneath like these sports facilities in Vienna.

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Vienna is a land where social housing looks more desirable than market rate back home.

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Cars make it easier to visit places that are no longer worth visiting.

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Even when you show an actual photograph of an actual pedestrian street that actually exists, people will say it is a pipe dream that can't possibly function.

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Cities aren’t crowded. They’re just full of cars.

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I don't think we realize what we gave up for cars.

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If you have a chance to live in a city, I highly recommend it.

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If you have proximity, there is really no need for speed.

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This Barcelona intersection was not a fun place for kids to play and so the city fixed it.

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We should bring back corner retail, restaurants, and cafes in residential zones.

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Walt Disney World—a place where people are willing to ditch their cars and get around on foot, bus, and monorail—superimposed over Seattle at the same scale.

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The beach is—quite literally—a 15-minute bike ride from this block.

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@jdobalina @TruthMasterGen @Qagggy In the 15 minute city model they show that you have everything you need within walking distance. Their goal is to remove cars from the streets and keep you in a 15 minute invisible prison. However there is no beach in their 15 minute city.

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In an unusual move, SDOT put comments from residents concerned about a traffic calming project right on the project web page and it’s kind of hilarious?

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This used to be a car-choked city street but the neighbors fought to transform it into a woonerf…and they won.

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Once you see how cars have radically changed our landscape, you cannot unsee it (but you can undo it).

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The “Grateful Jog” is something pedestrians can do to demonstrate submissiveness to drivers who stop at crosswalks.

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Seattle’s central library is magnificent. It’s our civic cathedral, our winter garden, our town square.

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I get a lot of the same questions about pedestrian streets over and over so maybe an infographic will help.

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People—universally, and without exception—love car-free commercial streets.

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I prefer to live in a city where walking is a pleasant part of daily life, not one where people drive to the gym to walk on a treadmill.

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But it doesn't have to be this way...

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@razrscooter @QAGreenways Hey! I'm a fellow resident of Austin, and a member of Rethink35, the org which made the TikTok. If you want less car-centric infrastructure, would you consider signing our petition against I-35 expansion?

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The changes completed in Barcelona just this year are stunning.

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If all you see are cyclists in athletic gear, your city probably isn’t serving the majority of people who would like to get around by bike.

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I was asked to see how the Dutch do bike lanes in industrial zones and—guys—this is better than the shit we have in the city.

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Imagine—instead of being greeted by pollution, noise, and danger—walking out your front door to a pedestrian street.

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The standard French approach to protected bike lanes is a granite curb, like this one in Lyon, which does the job.

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I hope everyone has an opportunity to experience the quiet and serenity of a nearly car-free city. It will radicalize you.

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The position of this guide rail lets you know the traffic engineer decided you are part of the clear zone, the area where a vehicle can leave the road and then recover before hitting anything important.

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@RandomKnicksGuy Frequently overlooked benefit of a real city.

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What's the dumbest design in Seattle's Right of Way Improvement Manual? I'll go first:

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Strasbourg dealt with traffic jamming surface transit by eliminating traffic.

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We can save the carbon equivalent of taking 10 million cars off the road if we simply take 10 million cars off the road.

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What if you could take a polluted corridor and make it an urban forest? Brussels did. (Same spot, 2009 v. 2023)

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Me: I would like to safely ride a bike in my city. My city: Whoa, tone it down, zealot.

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American cities need to flip the street hierarchy inside out. We need a pedestrian core at the heart of every city and neighborhood.

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Go to hell, King 5.

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The officer was traveling at 74 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone just before his police cruiser hit Jaahnavi Kandula in January.

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FULLY FUNCTIONING 90-year-old wooden escalators in Antwerp.

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It seems to be working: "Air pollution in Barcelona has fallen by more than 30% in the last 8 years."

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There are few guarantees in politics...except this: Removing cars from your city center will make you mayor for life.

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Advisors told Ljubljana’s mayor that pedestrianizing downtown would be political suicide. Fifteen years later, he’s still mayor.

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America is car-dependent. I get that. But we’re not Chevy-Suburban-dependent. We’re not three-ton-SUV-dependent. How much of our “pain at the pump” is self-inflicted?

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Cop going 74 mph in a 25 mph zone blames the person he hit and killed for zipping across the street.

Seattle Police Officer Was Driving 74 MPH When He Hit and Killed 23-Year-Old Pedestrian - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett CONTENT NOTE: This story contains graphic descriptions related to a fatal traffic incident. Seattle police officer…

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Oslo put their waterfront highway underground and then—this part’s weird—they didn’t build another waterfront highway.

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Marble crosswalk. Never needs repainting.

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Would you like to live on a woonerf? Many Dutch people do.

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GREENING, DE-PAVING, DE-MOTORIZING…that is what cities need to be resilient in an era of climate change.

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Something I never thought I would see in America: a row of steel fuckin’ bollards on a bike lane.

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Cars create dead space in cities. Brussels is learning it’s better to fill that space with life.

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🇺🇸🇪🇺Americans (in Europe): This is dreamy. I could live like this forever! 🇺🇸🇺🇸Americans (when they get back home): Take one parking spot on my block and I swear I will burn City Hall to the ground!

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Brussels has developed a completely new model for major urban thoroughfares that other cities are smart to emulate.

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Pedestrian commercial cores are wildly popular in cities like Seville. There is no practical way to serve this volume of customers if they all arrive by car.

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What if—instead of cars—we filled our streets with people, bikes, trees, and life?

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I accidentally spilled some spaghetti pieces on the kitchen counter and—this part is weird—it made a map of Seattle’s bike network.

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My proposed municipal ordinance calls for one out of every 20 plastic flexposts to randomly have a steel core anchored in bedrock.

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“If we remove on-street parking, all of our customers will go away.”

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Drivers feel a tightness in their chest when you say it out loud…but it’s true: You don’t need cars on every street.

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Cars have adverse impacts well beyond the street.

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I walked the length of this “green axis,” a 3-kilometer corridor through the heart of Barcelona that has been completely rebuilt at human scale.

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I’m really enjoying my new electric car. I have a pay-per-use arrangement and it comes with unlimited free parking.

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I’m going out on a limb and saying this street would probably not be improved with the addition of car traffic.

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The feeling of just moving through a city, down the center of the road—without noise and fumes, without constant hyper-vigilance—is difficult to capture in a photograph. It has to be experienced.

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What’s the prettiest bike lane in your town? (not necessarily the most functional)

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American cities have parking minimums and housing maximums, and then wonder why there are so many cars and not enough places to live.

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Date Street, San Diego. Evidence that you can build successful pedestrian streets in America.

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Tomorrow, Paris’s 𝙢𝙖𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙪𝙢 speed limit (19 mph) will be lower than Seattle’s 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙪𝙢 (20 mph). Think about that.

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Ok I measured and Seattle’s brand new two-way waterfront bike lane is 108 inches wide. That’s 9 feet—well below the 12-foot NACTO standard.

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The usual Barcelona disclaimers: 👉 This is not A.I. 👉 Both pictures are the same location. 👉 I took the second picture myself last week.

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What if—instead of noise and fumes—we filled our streets with people, trees and the sound of chirping birds?

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Probably the most joyful thing ever, riding to school with these kids. Thanks for letting me tag along, @bicibuseixample !

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Big “bees too heavy to fly” energy.

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There are so many healthy and active seniors in the Netherlands, it’s like being in a real life ad for arthritis medication.

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The 15-minute city conspiracy theorists complaining about diverters need to take a closer look at how their freedom of movement is impeded by so-called "freeways."

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My new place in London has the following within a 15 minute walk: 🚇6 tube stations serving 4 lines 🍻15 pubs 🏥2 hospitals 🦷21 dental offices 🍎🥬🍒🥦🍇🥕and a truly uncountable number of supermarkets, specialty food stores, and ethnic groceries

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Brussels is working hard to reduce noise and pollution, and one strategy has been to pedestrianize major streets in the city center.

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I know we’re supposed to “need a car to go hiking on weekends” but Switzerland manages to make it work with trains (plus the air stays fresher).

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What if we built streets for children? What if we actually did it?

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The Belgian region of Flanders is an underappreciated hotbed of Urbanist innovation.

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The cars-on-every-street approach simply doesn’t work. Cities need space for walking, biking, transit and civic life.

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Let’s compare “woonerfs” in three countries: 1. Netherlands 2. Belgium 3. USA

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I was told this could never work in America but I double-checked and Cincinnati is in Ohio.

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A woonerf is a street built to such a human scale that driving a car feels like an imposition.

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All I want is a city center free of noise, fumes, and death machines.

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How do you get mail delivery in Ljubljana’s pedestrian zone? The postman opens the door and dangles his card key over a sensor in the road to lower the bollard.