me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
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and wish Macron could convince Trump to make an extended visit to inspect the models of Vauban's forts--and then take a few years to visit the fortifications themselves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Plans-Reliefs
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Once_Within_Borders/k-YuDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT7&printsec=frontcover
It is a lovely city. We use the tram to go to the Christmas market.
I’m a pissed off American who fights against this shit and they rigged our fucking election. That is quite apparent. FUCK PUTIN, MUSK, and their pants shitting puppet TRUMP! They can come after me.
Don’t be fair weather fans of the United States is all I’m going to say…
Used car prices will go up as well.
Everybody wins (if you watch @foxnewscorporation.bsky.social).
Don't text and walk.
😫 @support.bsky.team
WHY can't we have an edit option ? Why? 🥺
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They’ll splurge on what makes them look tough tho
How most of the world lives. If builds community, empathy. Lowers stress and promotes walking.
The auto industry wanted no part of that. Ergo, here is the U.S. with busy roads, angry drivers, and huge parking lots. None of that good.
We need to stop pretending cities in the U.S. aren't doing this and ask those that haven't caught up, why they haven't. Former golf course, 4,300 units; Former quarry, 4,800 units.
Riverwalk, being constructed now.
And then the City has a half dozen+ 100% affordable apartment developments they've built or are building in their light rail parking lots, Grantville is one of the first.
highway adjacent
no mitigation of air & noise pollution
massive double loaded corridor bldgs
parks surrounded by streets
parking galore
no car-free streets, no traffic calmed streets
not designed for families
poor economic and social mix of residents
'we've got a train. there's a park! these are effectively the same thing'
the quality of life - the livability... the ability to actually hear nature, to have your kids walk around safely and not interact with cars... it's so poor in the US
#25thHour
It's huge, it's underused, it could be converted to a neighborhood very easily.
But there's a small group of avid golfers that band together to prevent this from happening.
I was just staying 0.6M from zoo station in Berlin and it didn't seem that far but it's a similar walk to the green line for me and it seems annoying because we have missing sidewalks
It's amazing the American Empire has lasted as long as it has.
I think we've stayed at the craps table too long.
Everyone feels entitled to their own cars, parking spaces, etc. which keeps us from pivoting to a healthier, more communal existence.
This is why we fail.
We are a highly fractured and disconnected country, which is exacerbated by our choices regarding urbanization.
THE PROBLEM HERE IN THE U.S. IS THAT WE, AS A SOCIETY DON'T WANT TO INVEST IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WOULD MAKE SUCH PLACES BE REPLICATED. THAT'S WHY MOST PEOPLE NEED, NOT WANT TO OWN A MOTOR VEHICLE.
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Not a Motorhead...
Not really...
All the things we wish we had, others have.
Look around.
“Norway is a leader in renewable energy, with 98% of its electricity generation coming from renewable sources, primarily hydropower.”
But we have cheap jumbo bags of chips! No wonder we’re fat.
(and yet my property taxes were nearly equivalent between TX and WA)
Oh, that gave me an idea. What if we tell them it came from Germany in the 1930s? Then they’d probably be all for it.