Urbanism
10 Threads
My 4 day Nashik trip - A peek into urbanism and interconnectivity in Maharashtra A thread..
Here's why metro rails in India in most cities fail, or otherwise severely underperform their potential to alleviate traffic. They are isolated networks built for car users. Not a...
The United States' response to the events of 9/11 have configured the automobile as a new site for the conduct of warfare. A ๐งตon SUV imperialism from the book Cities Under Siege: T...
If you havenโt tweeted a picture of cars in Pike Place Market, an office chair on the sidewalk, or a friendโs shoe, can you really call yourself a Seattle urbanist?
Disneyland is pretty close to peak urbanism. No cars, narrow streets, high density, beautiful buildings, and a bunch of people walking. https://t.co/kcn7AYcpgN
One trick I learned from Tokyo that helps for understanding any city: when you come across a charming small biz in a sea of generic chains, ask them about their relationship with t...
The reason people don't care about about "walkable cities" and the urbanism push in general is because basically every public space in America ends up becoming the territory of men...
Some of my favorite poasters are @wrathofgnon and @JackChambersGB promote traditional urbanism. I agree with their concerns about what's ugly and bad in modern "cities" but today I...
The secret is that it's private/gated/has no homeless people/doesn't have to tolerate criminals. Almost all failures of urbanism could be solved by rounding up habitual troublemak...
It is time for a thread on traditional urbanism, or town planning 13th century style. I will dispel some myths of modern dis-urbanism. https://t.co/wUbkEuGy9a
