urbanism

https://www.ajc.com/life/health/study-finds-home-indoor-air-quality-isnt-as-good-as-in-office/RXE3A3GQ3NGURCP7KDVXZBXGYY/

Found this podcast of a lefty gringa living in Buenos Aires and learned about this. In this episode they talk about gentrification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_5rhMbpRy8

Kinda wanna know if other people have this experience. I noticed if I'm on my bog-standard boring bike on my commute, people are absolute fucking dicks with overtaking, trying to squeeze in front and such.

If I'm on my singlespeed with a messenger bag, that gets a lot better for some reason and people give me more space.

On the touring bike it's a mixed bag, allthough it seems that both the area becoming more touristy, like rolling hillsides, or I look absolutely out of place, like in city centers, people also get nicer.

I get the feeling that it's down to perception. Commute-bike-7bicycles is an elitist rich twat who can afford to live near work and has no obligations and such. Singlespeed-7Bicycles has a U-Lock in reach and doesn't look afraid to use violence, like all the crazy bike messengers, touring-7bicycles in aforementioned areas is just fulfilling some sort of dream, like we all have.

Is there merit to this? What are other possible explanations?

What's the environmentalist or progressive thinking on designing rural spaces?

I live on a farm and need my car/motorbike to get around.

Rural communities can't be served by trains because the small population doesn't justify the cost.

Are we supposed to have train stations every 30 miles, and park-and-ride everywhere? Should we be riding quad bikes instead of cars? Really my question is: is there a generally-agreed on set of principles for progressive rural design, like there seems to be for cities?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-14/california-homelessness-epidemic-licensed-tent-villages

The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.

Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xv5b/landlords-throw-party-to-celebrate-being-able-to-evict-people-again

It looks like the beginnings of a plan to build out a commuter rail system for Atlanta that integrates with MARTA and uses existing right-of-way.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/587089

This could be a massive boon to the city. Fingers crossed it actually comes to fruition!

Hog country continues to kill poor people as fast as possible.

https://twitter.com/ThebestFigen/status/1700614805764321573?t=a_eEf3eeWBqK2QQejq5aFA&s=19