Designing Urban Places that Don't Suck (a sense of place)

Not Just Bikes
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Not Just Bikes explains what gives an urban place a sense of place and why so many car-oriented places feel lifeless. The video contrasts street layouts and public spaces that work for people with ones built around cars.

HN people point to the channel as a view of what less car-dependent, better-designed places could look like.

“Watch some videos by the Not Just Bikes channel on youtube [1] to see what the world could look like instead.”
Urban design & public space
#urbandesign#senseofplace#walkablecities#notjustbikes#streetdesign

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@Mawr2023 · in “Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics”
No mode of transportation is truly inherently better since they all have unique strong and weak points, but... Cars as the main method of transportation are obviously not good. They're too inefficient, no matter how you look at them. Manufacturing, infrastructure requirements, footprint per person, energy use, impact on human health and the environment. Cars suck. People use whatever's most convenient and that's realistically going to be whatever the government has invested in the most. The more car dependent a society, the more degenerate it is. This is hard to understand due to how car-infested most of the world is. Watch some videos by the Not Just Bikes channel on youtube [1] to see what the world could look like instead. Here's some poignant examples (direct links): [2][3][4][5]. And here's an obscure video that exemplifies what's wrong with car culture: link This is what a brainwashed society thinks like. [1]: link [2]: link [3]: ▶ this video [4]: link [5]: link
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@tinycombinator2023 · in “Designing Urban Places that Don't Suck [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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