Ana Schmeit
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@SchmeitAna
MSc. Architect & City Designer l Exploring cities morphology, governance & experience l Walkability, retail & waterfronts l Design Review Board Member
This is actually how my local coffee shop is!
Even in the arguably most car dependent metro in the country, there’s a clear demand for walkable spaces and dense urbanism. Stop making it legal to only build car dependent sprawl and then use that reality to say no one demands anything else.
Induced demand applies to trails too. When you make walking and biking safe, interesting and delightful, lots and lots of people want to do it. We should be widening trails. Because human centered transportation leads to healthier, happier, cleaner, better cities.
Make it convenient for lots of people to ride bikes, and lots of people will ride bikes.
Kids these days have shockingly little autonomy in terms of moving around their street or neighborhood slowboring.com/p/why-kids-don…
“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” — Union of Concerned Scientists. Their profit, your cost. Pleased to support @UCSUSA in sharing/boosting their important new article below, with our newest Urban Truth Collective poster. #UrbanTruth
NEW: The highway lobby spend MILLIONS buying car dependency to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth They’ve “been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.” Via the Union of Concerned Scientists @UCSUSA blog.ucs.org/kshen/the-high…
Alicia has no evidence for her core claims and also doesn’t understand the claims of others. There absolutely is demand for family friendly housing in cities, something I have argued repeatedly and publicly many times.
🚨 HISTORY THREAD: In 1911, engineer Virgil Bogue delivered a 268-page plan for Seattle. A civic center at 4th and Blanchard covering 14 city blocks. It consisted of a Campanile tower, a domed courthouse, a federal building, a library, and an art museum. In addition to a 120-foot boulevard running north to a railroad terminal on Lake Union. Voters killed it. That land is now Amazon's headquarters. This is page 55 of the original report, and what it would have looked like:
