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Pocket park - Wikipedia A pocket park (also known as a parkette, mini-park, vest-pocket park or vesty park) is a small park accessible to the general public. While the locations, elements, and uses of pocket parks vary consi...

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Pocket Park

A small, public green space, created within urban areas on often irregular or underutilized land to provide nearby residents with accessible nature, seating, and a community gathering spot.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Like many Americans, he judged the automobile a disruptive and fearsome technology. By the 1920s cars had claimed tens of thousands of human lives, frayed social contracts, and demoted pedestrians to second-class citizens.” Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet — Ben Goldfarb Ben Goldfarb standing with their hands in pockets looking at the camera, on a highway with hills in background

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Stroad - Wikipedia A stroad is a thoroughfare that combines the features of streets and roads.[1][2][3][4] Common in the United States and Canada, stroads are wide arterials (roads for through traffic) that also provide...

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Stroad

A pejorative portmanteau of street and road: an expensive, dangerous, and ugly design that tries to be both a high-speed commuter road and destination street with businesses, failing at both while being equally frustrating for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.

By Not Just Bikes Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud

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"Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud"
— Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes

Missing middle housing - Wikipedia Missing middle housing refers to a lack of medium-density housing in the North American context. The term describes an urban planning phenomenon in Canada, the United States, Australia and more recen...

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Missing Middle

The gap in housing options between single-family homes and large apartment blocks (e.g., duplexes, row houses, or small courtyard apartments), essential for gentle density and affordability.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Our problem was not, and is not, a lack of growth. Our problem is 60 years of unproductive growth -- growth that has buried us in financial liabilities. The American pattern of development does not create real wealth. It creates the illusion of wealth.” — Charles Marohn Photo of Charles Marohn, with his hands up, while giving a talk at an event.

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Desire path - Wikipedia A desire path, also known as desire line in transportation planning and many other names,[a] is an unplanned small trail formed by erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The path usually represent...

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Desire Path

The unofficial, worn-down trail created by feet that ignores the intended, often longer, paved route; it's the public "voting with their feet" to show planners the most logical path.

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"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."
— Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Two cross-section diagrams show street layouts: the top illustrates on-street parking with variable-width parking lanes on each side, 5–6 ft. wide bike lanes adjacent to both curbs, and travel lanes in the center; the bottom shows parking prohibited with 5–6 ft. wide bike lanes on both sides next to the curb and travel lanes in the center. Both diagrams indicate a normal solid white line separating the bike lane from the travel lanes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet

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Road Diet

Reconfiguring a four-lane road to three lanes (one travel lane each way and a center turn lane) to make space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian islands.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Our problem was not, and is not, a lack of growth. Our problem is 60 years of unproductive growth -- growth that has buried us in financial liabilities. The American pattern of development does not create real wealth. It creates the illusion of wealth.” — Charles Marohn Photo of Charles Marohn, with his hands up, while giving a talk at an event.

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From: The Growth Ponzi Scheme

Transport Poverty: What Is It, And How Can We Address It? NZ researchers found that cutting the cost of public transit can enhance in affordability and accessibility, specifically for people on lower incomes

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Transportation Poverty

The financial hardship experienced by low-income households when the combined cost of owning and operating a vehicle (or paying for transit) and the resulting lack of mobility consumes an excessive portion of their income.

By Not Just Bikes Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud

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"Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud"
— Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes

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"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."
— Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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15-Minute City

An urban planning concept where most daily necessities and activities, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure, can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point in the city.

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From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
— Jeff Speck

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Frontover

An incident where a slow-moving vehicle (often a large SUV or truck with a significant front blind zone) drives forward and strikes a person, typically a small child, who is invisible to the driver over the ever-increasing hood heights.

By Ray Delahanty | CityNerd The Venn Diagram of Sunny Weather, Urbanism, and Affordability

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"In consulting, it's often said, when working on scope, schedule and budget with a client: Good, fast, and cheap: pick two. I think about good weather, good urbanism, and reasonably housing prices the same way—it's very hard, maybe impossible, to get al...
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Sneckdown - Wikipedia A sneckdown (or snowy neckdown) is a temporary curb extension caused by snowfall, where snow has built up in the road but not been flattened by traffic, effectively reshaping the curb. Sneckdowns show...

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Snekdown

A pejorative portmanteau for a "snowy neckdown", coined by
@naparstek.bsky.social -- the natural, temporary curb extension formed by unplowed snow, revealing pavement areas unused by drivers that can be reclaimed for safer street design.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.” — Bill Vaughn Photo of Bill Vaughn wearing glasses posing for the photo. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then

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From: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then

Induced demand - Wikipedia In economics, induced demand – related to latent demand and generated demand[1] – is the phenomenon whereby an increase in supply results in a decline in price and an increase in consumption. In other...

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Induced Demand

The counterintuitive phenomenon where increasing the supply of a resource (like widening a road) doesn't solve congestion; it simply attracts more usage until the new capacity is also completely full.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Like many Americans, he judged the automobile a disruptive and fearsome technology. By the 1920s cars had claimed tens of thousands of human lives, frayed social contracts, and demoted pedestrians to second-class citizens.” Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet — Ben Goldfarb Ben Goldfarb standing with their hands in pockets looking at the camera, on a highway with hills in background

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#Urbanism+DailyQuote “As long as we tell our urban ancestors' stories, no city is ever lost. They live on, in our imaginations and on our public lands, as a promise that no matter how terrible things get, humans always try again.” From: Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age — Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz standing against a blank wall, button down shirt, tie, short hair, glasses, head off to the side a bit

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Form-based code - Wikipedia A Form-Based Code (FBC) is a means of regulating land development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-Based Codes foster predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical ...

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Form-Based Code

A land development regulation that shapes the physical form of buildings and public space to create a specific, desired urban character—prioritizing how a building looks and relates to the street over what the building's use is.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote “By square footage, there is more housing for each car in the United States than there is housing for each person.” — Henry Grabar Henry Grabar, professiona headshot looking at the camera with books in the background

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Autobesity - Wikipedia Autobesity, also known as car bloat and truck bloat, is the trend, beginning in about the 1990s,[4] of cars increasing in average size and weight.[5][6] The average weight of cars sold in Europe incre...

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Car Bloat

The trend where every new car model inexplicably gets bigger, heavier, and taller, resulting in a suburban 'arms race' of oversized SUVs that barely fit in a parking spot. Also known as autobesity.

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"Streets and their sidewalks, the main public spaces of a city, are its most vital organs"
— Jane Jacobs

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From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
— Jeff Speck

Form-based code - Wikipedia A Form-Based Code (FBC) is a means of regulating land development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-Based Codes foster predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical ...

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Form-Based Code

A land development regulation that shapes the physical form of buildings and public space to create a specific, desired urban character—prioritizing how a building looks and relates to the street over what the building's use is.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.” — Bill Vaughn Photo of Bill Vaughn wearing glasses posing for the photo. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then

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From: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then

Two cross-section diagrams show street layouts: the top illustrates on-street parking with variable-width parking lanes on each side, 5–6 ft. wide bike lanes adjacent to both curbs, and travel lanes in the center; the bottom shows parking prohibited with 5–6 ft. wide bike lanes on both sides next to the curb and travel lanes in the center. Both diagrams indicate a normal solid white line separating the bike lane from the travel lanes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet

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Road Diet

Reconfiguring a four-lane road to three lanes (one travel lane each way and a center turn lane) to make space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian islands.