Des' City Links of the Week 2021-11-19
This week or so's planning, transport, and urban development links of interest
Hi everyone,
Here are a few interesting reads on cities, development, and transport that I’ve come across recently. Like the content? Please share!
Planning/Development
“In city after city, the mass-market, working-class housing of its time has acquired a distinctly bourgeois reputation today. In all cases, the reason lies in economics, not design.”
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/11/3/our-self-imposed-scarcity-of-nice-places
Vancouver and Brampton have ordered compact, electric fire trucks:
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-expects-to-be-first-city-in-canada-with-electric-firetruck
Should planners and governments feel ok about complex efforts to lease minuscule numbers of campground spaces for RV workforce housing?
https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_b086ad36-4403-11ec-b3b8-03b1a5ce409f.html
Overview of the Puget Sound (Seattle)’s regional property tax exemption program for multi-residential development in major activity centres:
https://www.psrc.org/sites/default/files/hip-mfte.pdf
“We support mixed use housing for low income and homeless,” the change.org petition states, “but not by removing much needed parking.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnxmz/who-is-trying-to-save-parking-structure-3-from-becoming-affordable-housing
On national-scale land use reform in New Zealand:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-new-zealands-bold-housing-law-may-be-a-fit-for-canada/
Let’s visit the marketing page for a greenfield subdivision outside of Den Bosch!
https://www.degrootewielenonline.nl/ [NL]
Mobility/Transport
“…Jessica Lamarre, director of safe mobility for the City of Edmonton, presented the results of an equity analysis that compared the neighbourhoods that reported traffic safety issues with those that actually experienced them.”
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/traffic-safety-action-blind-to-crash-prone-edmonton-neighbourhoods-report
San Diego’s Metropolitan Planning Organization is moving towards user pricing for roads instead of transit:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/story/2021-10-26/san-diego-free-public-transit-road-charges-2030
Thoughts on sharrows:
https://medium.com/@peterflax/why-sharrows-are-bullshit-b01fea1fea6f
Québec City’s transit agency operates electric bikeshare from May to November!
https://www.rtcquebec.ca/informations-pratiques/services-complementaires/avelo [FR]
Fortune magazine looks at speeding, vehicle size, and street design:
https://fortune.com/2021/11/04/car-crashes-speeding-deaths-traffic-fatalities/
Let’s visit a rebuilt railway station in the way out suburbs of Utrecht!
https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2021/11/03/a-public-transport-hub-in-the-forest-station-driebergen-zeist/
Nice photo gallery of Soviet metro stations:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/travel/soviet-era-metros.html
[NL] or [FR], right click somewhere and select translate to English. Like what you see? Share. Don’t like? Happy to remove folks from the list or receive other feedback.