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Cicero posted:Minneapolis also broadly upzoned residential land recently didn't they? Yep, in 2019 the city council voted to allow, at a minimum, triplexes city-wide: https://www.kare11.com/article/news...1e-6e180d84d329
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Probably already posted somewhere in this thread, but here's some Youtube channels I've been enjoying on Urban Planning Not Just Bikes: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes Armchair Urbanist https://www.youtube.com/@alanthefisher City Nerd https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd
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Jaxyon posted:Probably already posted somewhere in this thread, but here's some Youtube channels I've been enjoying on Urban Planning Added these to the OP
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Jaxyon posted:Probably already posted somewhere in this thread, but here's some Youtube channels I've been enjoying on Urban Planning Can I also recommend this fellow? https://www.youtube.com/@the_aesthetic_city He strays more into architecture than urban planning (in particular, really railing against modernist architecture) but most of his videos actually tie back into urban planning as well (at least tangentially) because creating an agreeable space to live in goes hand it hand with actually having attractive buildings. See this video in particular, which explicitly discusses the redevelopment of a Paris suburb where aesthetic improvements went hand in hand with creating a walkable, liveable city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfonhlM6I7w
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I really like Strongtowns: https://www.youtube.com/@strongtowns Their older stuff has good content, but is really dry and kind of hard to watch; they recently hired a dude to make their YouTube videos for them, and they have gotten way better. Also, the best NotJustBikes video is one of the ones he did with StrongTowns (which I am absolutely certain has been posted in here before): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
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Ham Equity posted:I really like Strongtowns: I've posted that exact video, just not in this thread. Strongtowns is also good.
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Ham Equity posted:I really like Strongtowns: Pretty much all of the interesting NotJustBikes videos are remakes of Strong Towns videos, in some cases down to copying sections word for word. Strong Towns' own videos are interesting and worth watching, but they definitely seem to vacillate between massively oversimplifying development/city financing and just outright making poo poo up in order to create examples for their arguments. Baronash fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Apr 26, 2023 |
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Baronash posted:Pretty much all of the interesting NotJustBikes videos are remakes of Strong Towns videos, in some cases down to copying sections word for word. The NJB guy is waaaaaaayyyy better at presentation than the StrongTown people were. Like I said, their content was great, but their videos sucked. And I would disagree, the most enraging/my favorite NJB video is this one: https://youtu.be/56b5cI2qtYQ With pretty much all of these videos, I'm always cognizant that Amsterdam is being presented through rose-colored glasses, but this is some loving Never-Never Land poo poo. I have helped so many friends move, the idea that this is a thing anywhere on earth, and somehow we as a species haven't decided to copy it literally everywhere is mind-bendingly frustrating. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Apr 26, 2023 |
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I posted this in the curse images thread a few days back but I kind of got more upset about it since then. There's some feel-good backstory there about the owner of that McMansion refusing to sell this part of the land to greedy developers (but they probably owned the area around it too) but just looking at it:  https://goo.gl/maps/oABdWAo8eM2CA4Bg9 You've got terrible sprawl and a giant house with an enormous grass lawn and 200 meter long driveway. The small houses are stand-alone but most don't even have a backyard worth mentioning. Half of the ground floor is the garage:  Why aren't they row houses? Not to mention apartment buildings. You could fit 6 buildings like the one I'm in, which have 4 floor x 3 apartments x 4 entrances, so space for 288 families in the space of just the lawn:  There are underground garages, ground floor has backyards, top floors have large roof access, everyone else has terraces. And there's still enough space between the building for a common area for children to play or to walk your dog or something. My area is frankly quieter than the more suburban type place where my parents live, as someone isn't constantly using a pressure washer or vacuuming their car in the driveway etc. Frankly that's probably my biggest gripe with that sort of place, you end up with dense residential areas with nothing to do there, and I think City Beautiful actually did good job of highlighting how the Soviet city district planning worked here, which, despite all the other issues, I think was a good idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGVBv7svKLo&t=411s I actually lived in a place like this:  There's a tram stop on the left edge, two kindergartens, a school, a pond, a football field, several playgrounds, gyms, a few shops and cafes. The main problem was that everyone was poor as gently caress but the actual planning was very cool imo.
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mobby_6kl posted:I posted this in the curse images thread a few days back but I kind of got more upset about it since then. There's some feel-good backstory there about the owner of that McMansion refusing to sell this part of the land to greedy developers (but they probably owned the area around it too) but just looking at it: That looks like basically, an old farm house plot that was upgraded, the family sold off the land AROUND that bit with the actual house to other farmers who eventually sold to developers. You can tell the developers 100% hoped to get that plot based on the road network
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AtomikKrab posted:That looks like basically, an old farm house plot that was upgraded, the family sold off the land AROUND that bit with the actual house to other farmers who eventually sold to developers. You can tell the developers 100% hoped to get that plot based on the road network I am in the Northeast United States and I see a property like that and say, at least can you let the natural fauna grow again? I hate when wooded lots get taken down for single family homes.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I am in the Northeast United States and I see a property like that and say, at least can you let the natural fauna grow again? I hate when wooded lots get taken down for single family homes. Right, My mother briefly after her retirement had a property pretty much like this one, except the original farmhouse was still there and it had trees up, but all around it was farms (And commerical Chicken barns) that had originally been part of the property but that had been divided up and sold over the years.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I am in the Northeast United States and I see a property like that and say, at least can you let the natural fauna grow again? I hate when wooded lots get taken down for single family homes. Even more than the wasteful use of space, the complete lack of trees is shocking to me. Why the hell would you want to flaunt your wealth with a large garden around your property and then have the most basic dull garden possible, that also in purely practical terms doesn’t provide even the tiniest amount of shade or wind blocking or privacy.
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Yeah complete miss on having big old trees lining your driveway
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was it difficult living in a gravitational vortex did you hang out with mc escher
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https://goo.gl/maps/oABdWAo8eM2CA4Bg9 Greg12 posted:"it turns out that the old man in Up was the villain"
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Greg12 posted:was it difficult living in a gravitational vortex I should probably watch that movie
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https://twitter.com/ajlamesa/status/1660006734172127233 this will be the end of "planning as a process" inshallah
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuRpYaPLuA City Beautiful asking the right questions.
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Greg12 posted:https://twitter.com/ajlamesa/status/1660006734172127233 Somehow it's not in the thread but someone shared a budget breakdown for this thing and the consulting team spent like $500k traveling around the world to learn how bus shelter design impacts gender inclusion and diversity. And then suggested that fuckin thing.
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Elendil004 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuRpYaPLuA City Beautiful has the right idea I would add: -Developers must include do mixed income developments even in a cookie cutter neighborhood -No more back lawns, allow for natural vegetation to thrive and contribute to a different looking neighborhood. -Tighter loan enforcement as black families are still getting charged more than white families on loans.
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I would get rid of front lawns before back ones. Reduce setbacks so that houses are on the street. In the back you can have a fenced lawn/garden like an English rowhouse.
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The Sombrita thing is beyond loving parody and perfect microcosm of everything wrong with urban planning in the US right now. The most instructive part of it is that actual city planning officials are defending it! They don't think that they did anything wrong! I hope they get poo poo for it forever and that the careers of everyone involved are negatively impacted. It's way past time that there start being consequences for this poo poo.
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Speaking of city planning the city of LA has no plan. There never has been one, literally. Many cities have a master planning document, LA does not have that.
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Jaxyon posted:Speaking of city planning the city of LA has no plan. https://planning.lacity.org/plans-policies/general-plan-overview I don't know if the plan is any good but they have a master plan.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I would get rid of front lawns before back ones. Reduce setbacks so that houses are on the street. In the back you can have a fenced lawn/garden like an English rowhouse. My thought is that backlawns would restore habitat if connected together.
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Recently, my city of Minneapolis has been discussing having the city clear residents' sidewalks instead of the property owner. Does anyone know of any (larger) cities where this program works more efficiently/thorough than having residents clear them? I know Montreal does this, but when I look it up it seems like the average time to clear is 4 days, which seems like a terribly long time for trudging through snow on residential sidewalks. I'm kind of skeptical about the implementation of it, especially since I'm sure this would have a lot of people start to ignore any snow buildup on sidewalks when it's not enough snowfall for the city to come through and clear it. Kalit fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jun 9, 2023 |
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Urban planning as it related to public spaces like parks is interesting to me, and locally we had a reminder of the consequences of, to put it generously, poorly thought out planning. Duke University, Durham Parks and Rec Didn’t Inform Public About Lead in Durham Parks quote:Soil at three Durham parks—Walltown, East End, and East Durham—and presumably a fourth, Lyon Park, contain levels of lead as much as six times the EPA hazard threshold for play areas, a Duke University study found. But the university and the Durham Parks and Recreation Department sat on the findings for months, sharing them in late May only after a Walltown resident stumbled upon the research paper online. quote:From the early 1900s to 1940, they were home to city-owned incinerators, which burned lead-containing material. They are in historically Black neighborhoods and in former redlined areas where environmental racism and health disparities persist. It's wild to me that concern about leaded gasoline, lead paint, and lead pipes started coming into the forefront in the 70s, but it took 50 more years and some rando's master's thesis to prompt the city to look into it. Are planners generally proactive about considering historical sources of contamination, or does it only come up when a specific site or parcel is being looked at for redevelopment?
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I actually did soil sampling for a city park once. The city wanted to switch places between a dog park and a playground, and parents were concerned that the soil was contaminated from years of dog feces. I was instructed not to sample in areas that were likely to be contaminated. Not as bad as lead, but man.
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LA actually got some folks planning on converting office space into apartments https://la.urbanize.city/post/residential-conversion-planned-33-story-office-tower-1055-7th-street
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Jaxyon posted:LA actually got some folks planning on converting office space into apartments Let's see if it gets through the reactionary NIMBY gauntlet.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Hmm, wonder how that's gonna go for them. My superficial understanding is that a design intended for an office space is ill-suited to adaptation for a residential layout, but any new homes are better than none. I've always heard that, which is why I posted. It might be that the LA market is so expensive that the financials make sense. Per the article, there's already a bunch of adaptive re-use happening in LA, and more here than anywhere else. https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/11/15/la-leads-nation-in-apartment-conversions/ quote:Let's see if it gets through the reactionary NIMBY gauntlet. Doubt it will have issues Jaxyon fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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Cugel the Clever posted:Hmm, wonder how that's gonna go for them. My superficial understanding is that a design intended for an office space is ill-suited to adaptation for a residential layout, but any new homes are better than none. If there is enough money to be made it will be adapted, it just will cost them more.
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They convert factories and other industrial spaces into residential all the time, I'm sure it'll be possible to convert offices just fine with sufficient (financial) motivation. It always seemed weird how the downtown in American cities become completely empty which is kind of a waste of real estate, hopefully this will help with more mixed-use areas.
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mobby_6kl posted:They convert factories and other industrial spaces into residential all the time, I'm sure it'll be possible to convert offices just fine with sufficient (financial) motivation. It always seemed weird how the downtown in American cities become completely empty which is kind of a waste of real estate, hopefully this will help with more mixed-use areas. Unfortunately there's a reason you rarely see residential conversion of industrial or commercial buildings built after the widespread adoption of electricity. The reason is that before widespread adoption of electricity, factory machinery had to be organised around a driveshaft or belt system powered by a single steam engine or water wheel. All of these spaces also have to be lit by big windows because there was no other economical light source. This results in a multi-storey building plan with relatively shallow floor plans, which lends itself well to loft conversions. Industrial architecture didn't immediately adapt to electricity but once industrial planners realised you could easily wire power to many (relatively) small machines instead of one big one, you start seeing the vast, windowless, single-floor production facilities we know today. Similarly, offices and administrative buildings used to have much shallower floor plans, because how else would you have enough light to work? That changed with the widespread adoption of electric lighting, which ushered in the vast office halls we know and dread. The specialisation afforded by electric power is the reason why most non-residential buildings built after 1950s are mostly incompatible with residential uses, at least without heavy demolition or allowing for windowless cubicle apartments.
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Yeah but apparently office to residential conversion has become common in like Ohio I think? fake edit: https://fox8.com/news/cleveland-among-national-leaders-in-converting-office-space-into-residential-communities/
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Unfortunately there's a reason you rarely see residential conversion of industrial or commercial buildings built after the widespread adoption of electricity. You can probably do it, but as you said there are portions of the building that may not be acceptable as living spaces. Some of them could be converted to common areas, or you could have a core of commercial/office space in the center of a ring of residential floorspace. Though that creates its own issues as you would likely need to separate the elevators or street access to each. There's also the problem of the per-foot valuation of residential properties being far lower than commercial making existing mortgages that might be in place for a property untenable. This may work itself out as commercial/office properties just generally getting devalued if they continue to have significant high vacancy rates.
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