micrie.bsky.social
Urban planner, designer and just a passionate urbanist
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I live right next to it. It's a nice start, but a long way to go till we could call the area TOD. Needs denser street network and connectivity, diverse housing (not just high rises), way less parking... Right now it's a compounded destination, not a part of a city (the surrounding is even worse).
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Yep. The problem with season 2 is that the storyline of the game was horrible (no spoilers, but the season is not getting better). They didn't have a lot to work with and even that they did worse. Ok, the killing Joel scene was a shocker, now what? You killed the only one here that I care about!
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Burnaby: Human scale.
There's new development, but it's mainly highrises compounds. No other option for housing, street network not dense enough and car depended, not enough bike infrastructure and not a lot of quality public space for people in the neighborhood level.
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Done and forwarded :)
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I was out of characters: just wanted to say that I really love your videos๐
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From around 8 minutes (Sullivan). Maybe contradicts is a better word, in this part the blame is on Jacobs for helping the no-density crowd, but Death and Life is all about density, and you say it in other parts in the video. What I'm saying is that there are mix-messages about what the book is about
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Like you side, no one's perfect, including Jacobs, but I think that the video is leaning too much to that stuff, and a bit misrepresenting her advocacy in The Death and Life...
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I don't know this street, but let me guess: an arterial road inside a city that has nothing to do with the definition of street, where cars can go as fast as they can and pedestrians are not welcomed to say the least?
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No need to argue. It's bad road design that allows for drivers to go too fast and kill pedestrians
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Not enough ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ in the world!
They see a successful project in almost every aspect and say "oh, let's do the exact opposite, this will work!"
And to be proud about eliminating road diets... God forbid we'll save some lives and make it easier and enjoyable for people to move in the city. ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Good to know that there are still some people in Toronto that make professional desicions, not just cynical politics
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Another solution that works in other countries is an agreement between Canada and other countries that have that pool of skilled people: a constructor goes to the Canadian gov, asks for x workers, the Canadian gov goes to the other county that gives the workers that signed up.
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A great prof. of mine introduced me to the term place vs non-place like this: in a place you see and experience things that you can tell about later and create memories, a non place has nothing distinctive that you want or can tell about later. Places are lively and non-places are grey and dull.
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My guess is because running a red light hurt mostly people who drive (and pedestrians) and the danger is more direct, whereas driving on the bus lane is hurting people on the bus and you can't "see" what's the harm if you don't take the bus yourself.
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With a small tweak: "I want affordable housing in places that people actually want to live". You can have all the parking you want in the middle of nowhere with an affordable house because no one wants to live there
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What does everything that needs to take a few months takes a few years here???
And why the public is last in the city's priorities??
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How does the Singapore model works? 80% living in social housing and own a different house?
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And take the rejuvenating experience of being stuck 3 hours a day alone in traffic? Where's the fun in that?!
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What do you want? People living right next to places they want go to and have access to great public transport? That's preposterous
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I agree that it could've been implemented better, but even with how it was the report shows an increase in people walking, using the street and shop/pay in the businesses, especially during the weekday. And despite this success the coucil decided to practically kill it. ACB is useless indeed
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SUVs and the car-depended urban environment that incentivizes people to buy and use those SUVs over walking, cycle and taking public transport
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I'll even argue that we need to have FAR minimums
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Definitely. Speed kills everyone, we have to design our street people-base, which each all of us.
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One of the things the article misses: Buchanan says that in Vancouver pedestrians are the group that gets hit the most. That's because other cities have way less pedestrians! The fact that Coquitlam for example has less crushes is not because they are safer, it's because no one walks there
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I totally agree with Carlos, in order to be good at our job it has to be more than a job, it has to be a passion and obsession, it's a way of life!
I always say that being an urban planner is like taking the red pill in the Metrix, you can neven unsee all the changes you want to do in the city.
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You're not alone!
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So many questions:
What's teenagers curfew and why is it a thing?
Why does he thinks that a teenagers on the street has anything to do with the violence?
And most important: How about taking measures to actually stop the violence so the streets are safe for everyone, teens included??
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Great article! Very important point about the relationship between transportation and housing/urban planning
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They can drive over them, it will stop some but not all.
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100% look at Japan for instance, the car over there fit the city and people, not the other way around. We've become addicted to "bigger and stronger" and mistakenly associate it with "better"
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This type of car should be illegal
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It's an individual case, you don't need to force yourself to anything. Cities are for a variety of people and should give a variety of opportunities. But if you don't like cities, enjoy your forest ๐
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Great cities allow many levels of connections and give you the opportunity to choose how connected you want to be (thank you Jane Jacobs๐), so I assume that the freedom to choose to be alone is better for the mental health.
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Saturday, today is Saturday๐
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NYC. A lot of cities are starting to step up like Seattle, Boston, St. Louis and Vancouver, but they are still miles away (and nowhere in North America is like Europe)
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And star war (4,5 & 6)!