Top 5 Recent Stories (November 18-November 22)
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1. “Carmageddon” Does a No-Show in Seattle. Again.
by Joe Cortright | November 18, 2019
Not for the first time, the Car-pocalypse failed to materialize around Seattle’s new SR-99 tunnel. This is further proof we’ve been underestimating commuters’ ability to adjust to transportation changes. Have we also been overestimating how much they value these multibillion-dollar megaprojects in the first place?
2. Would ending zoning result in a Strong Town?
by Charles Marohn | November 18, 2019
If you’re nostalgic for the past, give it up. We’re not going back. We must start with what has been given us and figure out what to do with it.
3. Visualizing Place vs. Non-Place
by Daniel Herriges | November 19, 2019
When you’re moving about in the world, it’s really hard to appreciate just how much land is devoted to accommodating high-speed car travel—or just how much life we could cram into the same piece of land if we didn’t have to.
by Scott Ogilvie | November 19, 2018
The way we design our cities, the metrics we track, and even our language — they all betray how we’ve come to prioritize cars over human bodies. What’s lost when our transportation paradigm doesn’t account for the diverse ways people still use our streets?
5. Minneapolis just ended single-family zoning.
by Strong Towns | November 14, 2019
Do the new guidelines go too far, not far enough, or are they just right (for now)?
Top photo via Steve Mouzon.