In the NYT, Allison Arieff ponders what to do with the vast swaths of vacant suburbia the housing bubble has left us with. Try to turn them into apartments? De-construct them and reuse the materials? Attempt to convert whole streets into proper, mixed-use areas?
Tag Archives: urban planning
Experiments with eliminating traffic signs.
The Wilson Quarterly has a very enjoyable article about traffic engineer Hans Monderman, a Dutchman. He’s an advocate for expanding the idea of a woonerf to include much of the road network, eliminating most signage. “Do you really think that no one would perceive there is a bridge over there?” he might ask, about a …
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Elimination of the Automobile from Towns
I enjoyed Jim Bacon’s article about building small, car-free villages. It’s a radical notion, but there’s a lot to like about it.