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#Urbanism+DailyWord Pocket Park A small, public green space, created within urban areas on often irregular or underutilized land to provide nearby residents with accessible nature, seating, and a community gathering spot.
Pocket park - Wikipedia
A pocket park (also known as a parkette, mini-park, vest-pocket park or vesty park) is a small park accessible to the general public. While the locations, elements, and uses of pocket parks vary consi...
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#Urbanism+DailyWord Stroad A pejorative portmanteau of street and road: an expensive, dangerous, and ugly design that tries to be both a high-speed commuter road and destination street with businesses, failing at both while being equally frustrating for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.
Stroad - Wikipedia
A stroad is a thoroughfare that combines the features of streets and roads.[1][2][3][4] Common in the United States and Canada, stroads are wide arterials (roads for through traffic) that also provide...
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#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
By Not Just Bikes
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#Urbanism+DailyWord Missing Middle The gap in housing options between single-family homes and large apartment blocks (e.g., duplexes, row houses, or small courtyard apartments), essential for gentle density and affordability.
Missing middle housing - Wikipedia
Missing middle housing refers to a lack of medium-density housing in the North American context. The term describes an urban planning phenomenon in Canada, the United States, Australia and more recen...
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#Urbanism+DailyWord Desire Path The unofficial, worn-down trail created by feet that ignores the intended, often longer, paved route; it's the public "voting with their feet" to show planners the most logical path.
Desire path - Wikipedia
A desire path, also known as desire line in transportation planning and many other names,[a] is an unplanned small trail formed by erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The path usually represent...
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#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
#Urbanism+DailyWord Road Diet Reconfiguring a four-lane road to three lanes (one travel lane each way and a center turn lane) to make space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian islands.
#Urbanism+DailyWord Transportation Poverty The financial hardship experienced by low-income households when the combined cost of owning and operating a vehicle (or paying for transit) and the resulting lack of mobility consumes an excessive portion of their income.
Transport Poverty: What Is It, And How Can We Address It?
NZ researchers found that cutting the cost of public transit can enhance in affordability and accessibility, specifically for people on lower incomes
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#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
By Not Just Bikes
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#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
#Urbanism+DailyWord 15-Minute City An urban planning concept where most daily necessities and activities, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure, can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point in the city.
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time — Jeff Speck
#Urbanism+DailyWord Frontover An incident where a slow-moving vehicle (often a large SUV or truck with a significant front blind zone) drives forward and strikes a person, typically a small child, who is invisible to the driver over the ever-increasing hood heights.
Frontover Facts - Kids and Car Safety
Information provided by Kids and Car Safety related to frontovers data, education, safety tips, studies, technology, and more.
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#Urbanism+DailyQuote "In consulting, it's often said, when working on scope, schedule and budget with a client: Good, fast, and cheap: pick two. I think about good weather, good urbanism, and reasonably housing prices the same way—it's very hard, maybe impossible, to get al... — Ray Delahanty
The Venn Diagram of Sunny Weather, Urbanism, and Affordability
By Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
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#Urbanism+DailyWord Snekdown A pejorative portmanteau for a "snowy neckdown", coined by @naparstek.bsky.social -- the natural, temporary curb extension formed by unplowed snow, revealing pavement areas unused by drivers that can be reclaimed for safer street design.
Sneckdown - Wikipedia
A sneckdown (or snowy neckdown) is a temporary curb extension caused by snowfall, where snow has built up in the road but not been flattened by traffic, effectively reshaping the curb. Sneckdowns show...
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#Urbanism+DailyWord Induced Demand The counterintuitive phenomenon where increasing the supply of a resource (like widening a road) doesn't solve congestion; it simply attracts more usage until the new capacity is also completely full.
Induced demand - Wikipedia
In economics, induced demand – related to latent demand and generated demand[1] – is the phenomenon whereby an increase in supply results in a decline in price and an increase in consumption. In other...
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#Urbanism+DailyWord Form-Based Code A land development regulation that shapes the physical form of buildings and public space to create a specific, desired urban character—prioritizing how a building looks and relates to the street over what the building's use is.
Form-based code - Wikipedia
A Form-Based Code (FBC) is a means of regulating land development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-Based Codes foster predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical ...
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#Urbanism+DailyWord Car Bloat The trend where every new car model inexplicably gets bigger, heavier, and taller, resulting in a suburban 'arms race' of oversized SUVs that barely fit in a parking spot. Also known as autobesity.
Autobesity - Wikipedia
Autobesity, also known as car bloat and truck bloat, is the trend, beginning in about the 1990s,[4] of cars increasing in average size and weight.[5][6] The average weight of cars sold in Europe incre...
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#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Streets and their sidewalks, the main public spaces of a city, are its most vital organs" — Jane Jacobs
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time — Jeff Speck
#Urbanism+DailyWord Form-Based Code A land development regulation that shapes the physical form of buildings and public space to create a specific, desired urban character—prioritizing how a building looks and relates to the street over what the building's use is.
Form-based code - Wikipedia
A Form-Based Code (FBC) is a means of regulating land development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-Based Codes foster predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical ...
en.wikipedia.org
#Urbanism+DailyWord Road Diet Reconfiguring a four-lane road to three lanes (one travel lane each way and a center turn lane) to make space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian islands.
