@bekakakabadze.bsky.social
cities and sustainable mobility. tbilisi 🇬🇪🇪🇺. he/him 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Someone appears to have gotten their hands on a NO PARKING ANY TIME sign, but they blocked out the par part so it says no king lol
ooh well done
18.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 3871 🔁 801 💬 20 📌 29
In February 1972, Bologna conducted a cordon survey of cars entering the area inside the ring boulevard.
It's challenging to compare data across all entry points, but here's how the numbers for six selected access points look: 1972 vs 2022.
That's quite the reduction 📉
There’s rounded shapes too!
11.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The highlight has to be this public restroom.
11.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Recently reopened Vere Park in Tbilisi. Love the way the underpass entrance is utilised for amphitheater-like seating and the use of natural stones for paving.
11.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Now that’s a convenient transfer
03.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 139 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 1Ugh I knew you’d bite regional airports like that 😡😡
10.10.2025 06:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...
06.10.2025 11:09 — 👍 226 🔁 80 💬 5 📌 21
Some of the bus services are surprisingly fast and frequent. Fare collection system is ancient tho: a conductor collects cash on the bus. I’ve been told this is largely due to the cash-dominant culture in Albania.
06.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is not a TFL bus stop but a bus stop flag in Tirana 🇦🇱 only saw a few of them across the city, mostly in central areas.
06.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Paris before and after street transformation
New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall
A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
Just the start.
Common sense.
Safer cycling.
02.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vienna deserves more recognition and hype for how it’s transforming its streets. Stormwater collection and safer streets.
02.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Zurich is the latest city to make parking more expensive for oversized cars like SUVs.
Cities including Paris and Montreal have taken similar steps to counteract car bloat.
Surprising amount of well-preserved modernism is highly appreciated.
01.10.2025 08:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Skopje 2014 really did this city dirty. A decade on, all of it is falling apart and the buildings start to look increasingly dilapidated. Since these plazas were designed recently, I wonder whether more could have been done to avoid them turning into massive heat islands in scorching Skopje summers.
01.10.2025 08:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I spent some time in the Balkans this Summer. Skopje is known for being, umm, the kitsch capital of Europe. I personally found it positively quirky and absolutely loved the fake routemasters (Yutong City Master). One downside is the total absence of passenger info, gmaps has wrong/outdated data.
01.10.2025 08:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And this is what the same street looks like 363 days of the year.
29.09.2025 18:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The street borders a park with a sizable children’s playground, which fails to encourage spontaneous play that occurs outside traditional play structures. This becomes evident as children flock to the reclaimed street to engage in a myriad of fun activities! 🌳🚲
29.09.2025 18:26 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This is Kankava street in Tbilisi, in an area that will hopefully soon turn into the “London Park Superblock”.
For the second year now it is being reclaimed from cars during #EuropeanMobilityWeek - turned into a people-first space.
Planters, outdoor seating - simple things, massive impact.
