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not sure if you're serious but, free transport and specifically decommoditzing transportation is a great step towards leveling the playing field for poorer people. the reason why we don't have free transportation in America is because of politics, partly motivated by auto industry and partly motivated by socioeconomic/race factors.
a lot of countries around the world offer free or partially free public transportation - e.g. anyone over 60 in taiwan can ride the bus for free.
if you're interested in how cities and transportation got to where we are today, look up Jane Jacobs and her book, or watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwf5h3MIdRs.
Yep. Way more than you ever wanted to know about why free parking is bad here: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
Brief overview of book here: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/business/economy/15view.html
I'd highly recommend the High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup (RIP) on this subject. Great, pioneering book about how we fail to deal with the huge externalities of personal automobiles.
This had been on my list of books to read for a while:
https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
"Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking – namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking."
Lots of Vancouverites need to understand the true cost of the government giving away so much land without user fees. I suggest reading the seminal tome The High Cost of Free Parking
>free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking – namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking. Such measures, according to the Yale-trained economist and UCLA planning professor, will make parking easier and driving less necessary. Join the swelling ranks of Shoupistas by picking up this book today. You'll never look at a parking spot the same way again.
Heres a good book on general city planning: https://www.amazon.ca/Works-Anatomy-City-Kate-Ascher/dp/0143112708/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1602205578&sr=8-2
It'll give you a good overview to start thinking about all the moving pieces that have to be considered. It's a great coffee table book.
Most parking lots are sized for the 4th busiest day of the year. Which means 360 days of the year it's just a massive expanse of asphalt doing nothing except making people who didn't drive there walk farther.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
Thanks for the video; I'll have to watch it later.
I noticed the Globe article this morning. Jeff Speck ("Mr. Walkability", and a Brookline resident- https://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp/0865477728) apparently designed or helped design the project
You should read Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. You very cogently touched on a lot of the social issues that arise out of traditional suburban development. For me this book was like a religious experience, putting words and names to things I have long felt but never described.
Christopher Alexander et al. approve.
There's a chapter in there about this sort of thing, little hideouts for kids.
Jeff Speck has some good introductory writing on the topic. Check out Step 5 of Part II under the heading "Keep it complicated"
That PDF is kinda janky, so here's an Amazon link if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp/0865477728/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=walkable+city&qid=1563914434&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Excerpt: > Welcome to the world of risk homeostasis, a very real place that exists well outside the blinkered gaze of the traffic engineering profession. Risk homeostasis describes how people automatically adjust their behavior to maintain a comfortable level of risk. It explains why poisoning deaths went up after childproof caps were introduced—people stopped hiding their medicines—and why the deadliest intersections in America are typically the ones you can navigate with one finger on the steering wheel and a cellphone at your ear. [9]
Eliminate single family zoning. Build more housing. Lots more housing. Build it on small lots. Lend money to motivated residents to improve their dwellings, or build new dwellings, or start businesses to provide services to new residents.
Don't build parking.
If you remove the causes of artificial scarcity, prevent cataclysmic change from superblock developments constructed by one or two highly capitalized out-of-town developers, and allow access to capital for residents the neighborhoods will improve on their own with much more demographic growth than demographic replacement.
California YIMBY is great. They have a researcher on their team Nolan Grey who wrote a book called <em>Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It</em>. It explores zoning and the consequences of it, and how it has really contributed to a ton of problems around housing.
I work in industry, so I do not spend a lot of time/energy working on publications. Much of my time is spent developing training for staff, internal policy memos, or stuff for our organization to put out to partner services/the county/etc. I have a small project that I submitted to a competition that I can share if you'd like to DM me for it - but its focused more on policies around reprimand/punishment within homeless shelters. Though tbh I prefer it this way because I find academia and the constant push for publications to be exhausting.
Literally this. It was all farm fields back then, and Southdale was a new concept, an indoor shopping mall, the first in the nation. The idea is that they would draw people from the "cities" (minneapolis and st. paul proper) out to the new shopping center. To get there, they drove. Easy parking was achived with massive parking lots surrounding the mall. Heck, there was even a Red Owl Grocery store in the mall when it first opened. To the south was nothing but more farmland. Then they built the Metropolitan Stadium around the same time, have a look at photos of it when it was built, again, a stadium surrounded by farm fields. Today it's the Mall Of America. This all happened in the boom years right after WWII when the GI Bill paid for education and home loans, so it was a building bonanza. Most families could afford a car, so driving was fun and a new experience for many families. That's why you would build a huge mall with parking all around it.
If you are interested in urban planning and how it all went wrong in the 60's, and we are now trying to get back to what it was before then, I'd reccomend a book called "Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream" by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, & Jeff Speck. It discusses many of these design "flaws" and how we keep repeating them. One of the worst among the flaws, cul-de-sacs! How I hate them!
I always recommend A Pattern Language.
IANAA, but I think this fits what you are asking for.
Great question for r/urbanplanning because I haven’t look that much into zoning. I can only tell you what I’ve observed, Nolan Gray has a good book on it
Evidence suggests that road design to reduce speeds, like narrower streets with fewer lanes, helps more than punishment - make the roads self-enforcing. But dense urban design with good public transit to get people less dependent on cars is the ultimate solution. Check out Walkable City by Jeff Speck - I'm reading it now and finding it really illuminating.
If you want to learn about it, check out Walkable City by Jeff Speck
Why not both? Get rid of guns; but also make streets safer, make cities more walkable, reduce car dependency with good urban planning. Check out Walkable City by Jeff Speck
The solution is very slow unfortunately, but it lies in walkable cities and reducing car dependency. I highly recommend Walkable City by Jeff Speck
The war shouldn’t be on cars because cars are awesome, the war should be on car dependency as cars can provide freedom when they are just another option. Here’s it put another way:
> This may seem like an odd moment to admit this, but I love cars… I have always owned the best-handling car I could reasonably afford. I especially love high-revving Japanese sports cars… I [have] no reason to break my car out of its garage. Between walking, biking, and our extensive Metro transit system, driving [is] rarely the most convenient choice.
-Jeff Speck, WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time .
>This may seem like an odd moment to admit this, but I love cars… I have always owned the best-handling car I could reasonably afford. I especially love high-revving Japanese sports cars… I [have] no reason to break my car out of its garage. Between walking, biking, and our extensive Metro transit system, driving [is] rarely the most convenient choice.
-Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.
Soupir. Ok. Je te propose de lire. J'ai pas l'impression que c'est l'activité préférée de l'électeur conservateur moyen toutefois, mais essaye: https://www.amazon.ca/Confessions-Recovering-Civil-Engineer-Transportation/dp/1119699290/ref=asc_df_1119699290/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459616255919&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16696851648254931926&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9000386&hvtargid=pla-1187958944116&psc=1
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Ça explique POURQUOI les propositions de Duhaime en lien avec les automobiles sont absolument totalement indiscutablement IMBÉCILES.
On the other hand, I'd love to eliminate on street parking all together. Parking is complicated but there's some smart folks thinking really hard about it.
Here's an absolutely crazy book about it.
https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
Yes. I immediately thought of architecture and the classic A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series).
I suggest you read The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup. Or at least think about the actual costs involved with any real estate investment in and near a large metropolitan city.
Or just pretend that it costs nothing to store your 2 ton metal cages. You can live in a fantasy world if you want.
If anyone wants to understand more about "urban renewal" in NYC during the 60's and 70's, for me it's been best described through the lens of Jane Jacobs, an urbanist, journalist, and author of her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities".
For a quick intro, this 25 minute documentary does a great job setting up the story of the social destruction in NY that resonates throughout the rest of North America.
Well they rebuilt the country around the car in the first place. So your taxes would pay for it. As well as when it first was built taxes paid for the the roads.
You can go and look at maps before cars and now. They were much smaller roads. You can go look at countries with trains and busses and how much closer buildings are.
They do it all the the time remove cars and add things instead like a trolley or bus lanes in Europe , or Asia.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0865477728/?psc=1
Here is a great book if you want to learn.
Honestly it would save you hours of time over your life time if they built cities like this.
People on here are against all cars because they promote unsafe environments for kids and are damaging to the environment.
By this I mean stroads, while convenient for cars are terrible for the local ecosystem and thus our health. For more information about good city planning please go to [strongtowns.org](strongtowns.org) or read Jeff Speck's book WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. There are a few others, but this will get you far enough down the rabbit hole to where you could probably make r/notjustbikes videos.
Well, for starters most people in r/fuckcars aren't actually people who have a passing interest in urban planning and just want to make some communist state.
That said here's a Jeff Speck quote about cars from WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time:
>This may seem like an odd moment to admit this, but I love cars… I have always owned the best-handling car I could reasonably afford. I especially love high-revving Japanese sports cars… I had no reason to break my car out of its garage. Between walking, biking, and our extensive Metro transit system, driving was rarely the most convenient choice.