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The most dreaded words to hear on any trip: #RailReplacementBus 😂
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Mike McCaffrey 
HyL☮️🚲🇨🇦A note for @Bikeology
Re: First impression takeaways from my course at the Urban Cycling Institute in Amsterdam
https://substack.com/profile/389636107-bikeology-guild-of-canada/note/c-249521603
Bikeology Guild of Canada (@bikeologyca)
I just came back from a course in Amsterdam, focused on advocating for safer streets in the context of people not believing research. It was offered by the Urban Cycling Institute, and put together by Mark Ames of Strategic Cities, and Dr. Meredith Glaser, UCI’s CEO and professor at the University of Ghent. I've learned so much and really enjoyed Amsterdam as a learning laboratory. I highly recommend the course! One of my favourite takeaways was about a neighbourhood that the city was encouraging to go car free. Residents and city admin were very skeptical about giving up car parking. So skeptical the city spent €35M to drain the nearby canal, build an underground parking structure below it, and reconnect the canal. So people in those car-free blocks of the city received a secure underground parking area dedicated specifically to those residents, with the spaces allocated factored on the parking that was being lost from the street surface. Now, a few years later, the neighbourhood is lovely: quiet, with garden planters on the street outside people's homes, bird houses in mature trees, a community vermiculture composter and trencadis mosaics on street furniture; children walk, play and ride their bikes safely; there are shops and cafés nearby. The dedicated underground car parkade has *excess capacity* because so many people have given up at least one (or all) of their cars. At the same time, the cost of the parkade's construction has been repaid in the revenue from people paying for underground parking, and the excess space has been permitted to local venues, so that they don't need surface parking either. The city effectively monetized that public space that was being given away for free when there was car parking on the street, and gave residents a more pleasant, safer, place to live and play. Oh, and residents' property values have gone way up relative to streets that still have car parking on them. [Heather Young-Leslie, President, http://Bikeology.ca]
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Mark CarriganDelivery robots as evocative objects
I came across these delivery robots on Sunday morning, clustered in the corner of a park. One had been covered in graffiti, two had their flags snapped and a third one was covered in some strange green slime. It looked like Saturday night had been tough.
I find it hard not to anthropomorphise these robots. I heard the way they crossed the road described as ‘scrabbling’ yesterday and it’s the perfect adjective for how they appear to look left and right, before accelerating out into the traffic. People interact with them, talk about them, respond to them. In many ways the vandalism is the flip side of the anthromorphism. They are evocative objects in Sherry Turkle’s sense of provoking responses in the humans who encounter them. You might find them cute, you might have the impulse to cover them in graffiti, you might want to help them cross the road, you might want to block their path to see if they do.
The key thing is that they are evoking a response from you. If their design enables them to do that reliably then they are likely to be normalised, even if the economic model might not currently work in its current form. The real significance of them is how they become evocative features of the urban landscape and what that means for the political economy of the city.
It occurs to me that if we are projecting into these robots, which we clearly are because they obviously do not feel anything, it raises the question of what we are projecting. My hypothesis is that when I saw them on my run this morning, feeling sad about the vandalism and exhibiting a spatial sense of having retreated into a corner of the park, I was doing something with my own insufficiently acknowledged guilt about the gig economy. I’ve stopped using delivery platforms but I still end up taking Ubers regularly, even if I’m slowly tipping the balance to black caps.
When I feel vaguely sympathetic for these robots (while recognising how absurd that reaction is) am I expressing in an alienated form my own desire to demonstrate solidarity with gig workers, which is being subordinated to my own convenience in a way that provokes guilt in me?
I wanted to add that I think vandalism against delivery robots can be a political act. There are clear examples of this in vandalism against robo-taxis for example. I’m just not sure this particular vandalism can plausibly be read in those terms, though perhaps I’m wrong.
#anthropmorphism #deliveryRobots #evocativeObjects #gigEconomy #gigWorkers #labour #projection #robots #SherryTurkle #urbanism
Urbanism NowLive Near Friends is hiring a chief of staff to build the operational engine for their service, which helps friend groups and families design and build custom compounds of 2-6 private homes on single lots in California, leveraging new housing laws.
#urbanism #urbanplanning #cohousing #cahousing #communityliving
Live Near Friends is hiring a Chief of Staff. Two-thirds of people say they want to live near friends and family. Almost none of them do. We're changing that. New California housing laws now let… | Phil Levin | 112 comments
Live Near Friends is hiring a Chief of Staff. Two-thirds of people say they want to live near friends and family. Almost none of them do. We're changing that. New California housing laws now let you build 2–6 private homes on a single lot — no rezoning required. We're helping friend groups and families design and build custom compounds from scratch. We just launched this offering and demand is outpacing our ability to deliver. We need a Chief of Staff to build the operational engine: customer pipeline, partner coordination, systems, workflows — everything that turns a bespoke service into a repeatable one. You'll work directly with me, be customer-facing on the biggest financial decision of people's lives, and help scale something truly unique in the market. This is a rare 0→1 seat at the intersection of real estate development and a cultural shift in how people want to live. Bay Area preferred. West Coast OK. Details + application below. | 112 comments on LinkedIn
AJ SadauskasThe "Eat Street" precinct along Church Street Parramatta at night.
#night #nightlife #walk #walking #city #cities #urbanism #street #streets #Parramatta #NSW #Australia
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dalloVenice is sinking. We analyzed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-venice-city.html
#ecology #archeology #urbanism #Italy #climateChange #climateCrisis #climateCrisis #climate
Venice is sinking. We analyzed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it
Venice has coexisted with the sea throughout its 1,500-year history, perhaps better than any other city on Earth. Yet over the past century it has flooded increasingly often, as the sea rises and the city itself sinks under its own weight.