Web and app developer. Coffee, beer, and running, in any order.
I’m whatever type of urbanist that wants a coffee shop within a pleasant walk from my house. Change the zoning, density, whatever needs to be done for that to be possible.
More than half a century of urban planning prioritizing sprawl has gotten us to where we are now: choked by endless freeways, benumbed by carbon-copy strip malls, secluded in catchpenny houses with no sense of human scale.
Kate Wagner critiques the USian commitment to “endless consumption” through the lens of the prolific McMansion.
How do you light a fire under Montanans? Tell them that “Montana is exactly where Los Angeles was 100 years ago and we need to avoid that future.”
Wow, very impressive, Montana.
Mindblowing: this tower in Chicago has a water reservoir at the top that helps dampen the forces from wind.
Imagine how much better traffic would be if only good drivers were licensed to drive.
Imagine how much more pleasant it would be drive with only good drivers on the road.
Of course, that would require great car-alternative transportation infrastructure.