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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 10/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Pocket Park A small, public green space, created within urban areas on often irregular or underutilized land to provide nearby residents with accessible nature, seating, and a community gathering spot.
en.wikipedia.org
Pocket park - Wikipedia
A pocket park (also known as a parkette, mini-park, vest-pocket park or vesty park) is a small park accessible to the general public. While the locations, elements, and uses of pocket parks vary consi...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 10/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Photo by Beth Johnston @ 5280.com/salida-author-ben-goldfarb…
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Like many Americans, he judged the automobile a disruptive and fearsome technology. By the 1920s cars had claimed tens of thousands of human lives, frayed social contracts, and demoted pedestrians to second-class citizens.”

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet — Ben Goldfarb
Ben Goldfarb standing with their hands in pockets looking at the camera, on a highway with hills in background
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 09/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Stroad A pejorative portmanteau of street and road: an expensive, dangerous, and ugly design that tries to be both a high-speed commuter road and destination street with businesses, failing at both while being equally frustrating for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.
en.wikipedia.org
Stroad - Wikipedia
A stroad is a thoroughfare that combines the features of streets and roads.[1][2][3][4] Common in the United States and Canada, stroads are wide arterials (roads for through traffic) that also provide...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 09/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes
youtube.com
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
By Not Just Bikes
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 08/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Missing Middle The gap in housing options between single-family homes and large apartment blocks (e.g., duplexes, row houses, or small courtyard apartments), essential for gentle density and affordability.
en.wikipedia.org
Missing middle housing - Wikipedia
Missing middle housing refers to a lack of medium-density housing in the North American context. The term describes an urban planning phenomenon in Canada, the United States, Australia and more recen...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 08/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: The Growth Ponzi Scheme
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Our problem was not, and is not, a lack of growth. Our problem is 60 years of unproductive growth -- growth that has buried us in financial liabilities. The American pattern of development does not create real wealth. It creates the illusion of wealth.” — Charles Marohn
Photo of Charles Marohn, with his hands up, while giving a talk at an event.
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 07/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Desire Path The unofficial, worn-down trail created by feet that ignores the intended, often longer, paved route; it's the public "voting with their feet" to show planners the most logical path.
en.wikipedia.org
Desire path - Wikipedia
A desire path, also known as desire line in transportation planning and many other names,[a] is an unplanned small trail formed by erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The path usually represent...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 07/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Photo of Jane Jacobs, black shirt, glasses, black and white photo.
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 06/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Road Diet Reconfiguring a four-lane road to three lanes (one travel lane each way and a center turn lane) to make space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian islands.
Two cross-section diagrams show street layouts: the top illustrates on-street parking with variable-width parking lanes on each side, 5–6 ft. wide bike lanes adjacent to both curbs, and travel lanes in the center; the bottom shows parking prohibited with 5–6 ft. wide bike lanes on both sides next to the curb and travel lanes in the center. Both diagrams indicate a normal solid white line separating the bike lane from the travel lanes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 06/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: The Growth Ponzi Scheme
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Our problem was not, and is not, a lack of growth. Our problem is 60 years of unproductive growth -- growth that has buried us in financial liabilities. The American pattern of development does not create real wealth. It creates the illusion of wealth.” — Charles Marohn
Photo of Charles Marohn, with his hands up, while giving a talk at an event.
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 05/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Transportation Poverty The financial hardship experienced by low-income households when the combined cost of owning and operating a vehicle (or paying for transit) and the resulting lack of mobility consumes an excessive portion of their income.
forbes.com
Transport Poverty: What Is It, And How Can We Address It?
NZ researchers found that cutting the cost of public transit can enhance in affordability and accessibility, specifically for people on lower incomes
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 05/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes
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Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
By Not Just Bikes
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 04/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Photo of Jane Jacobs, black shirt, glasses, black and white photo.
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 03/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord 15-Minute City An urban planning concept where most daily necessities and activities, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure, can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point in the city.
Viewpoint, Lisbon, Miradouro da graça image. Photo by nathsegato
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 03/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time — Jeff Speck
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 02/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Frontover An incident where a slow-moving vehicle (often a large SUV or truck with a significant front blind zone) drives forward and strikes a person, typically a small child, who is invisible to the driver over the ever-increasing hood heights.
kidsandcars.org
Frontover Facts - Kids and Car Safety
Information provided by Kids and Car Safety related to frontovers data, education, safety tips, studies, technology, and more.
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 02/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "In consulting, it's often said, when working on scope, schedule and budget with a client: Good, fast, and cheap: pick two. I think about good weather, good urbanism, and reasonably housing prices the same way—it's very hard, maybe impossible, to get al... — Ray Delahanty
youtube.com
The Venn Diagram of Sunny Weather, Urbanism, and Affordability
By Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 01/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Snekdown A pejorative portmanteau for a "snowy neckdown", coined by @naparstek.bsky.social -- the natural, temporary curb extension formed by unplowed snow, revealing pavement areas unused by drivers that can be reclaimed for safer street design.
en.wikipedia.org
Sneckdown - Wikipedia
A sneckdown (or snowy neckdown) is a temporary curb extension caused by snowfall, where snow has built up in the road but not been flattened by traffic, effectively reshaping the curb. Sneckdowns show...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 01/11/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-subu…
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.” — Bill Vaughn
Photo of Bill Vaughn wearing glasses posing for the photo. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 31/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Induced Demand The counterintuitive phenomenon where increasing the supply of a resource (like widening a road) doesn't solve congestion; it simply attracts more usage until the new capacity is also completely full.
en.wikipedia.org
Induced demand - Wikipedia
In economics, induced demand – related to latent demand and generated demand[1] – is the phenomenon whereby an increase in supply results in a decline in price and an increase in consumption. In other...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 31/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Photo by Beth Johnston @ 5280.com/salida-author-ben-goldfarb…
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Like many Americans, he judged the automobile a disruptive and fearsome technology. By the 1920s cars had claimed tens of thousands of human lives, frayed social contracts, and demoted pedestrians to second-class citizens.”

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet — Ben Goldfarb
Ben Goldfarb standing with their hands in pockets looking at the camera, on a highway with hills in background
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 30/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote @annaleen.bsky.social
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “As long as we tell our urban ancestors' stories, no city is ever lost. They live on, in our imaginations and on our public lands, as a promise that no matter how terrible things get, humans always try again.”

From: Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age — Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz standing against a blank wall, button down shirt, tie, short hair, glasses, head off to the side a bit
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 29/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Form-Based Code A land development regulation that shapes the physical form of buildings and public space to create a specific, desired urban character—prioritizing how a building looks and relates to the street over what the building's use is.
en.wikipedia.org
Form-based code - Wikipedia
A Form-Based Code (FBC) is a means of regulating land development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-Based Codes foster predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical ...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 29/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote @henrygrabar.bsky.social Image from: urbandesignforum.org/fellow-spotlig…
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “By square footage, there is more housing for each car in the United States than there is housing for each person.” — Henry Grabar
Henry Grabar, professiona headshot looking at the camera with books in the background
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 28/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Car Bloat The trend where every new car model inexplicably gets bigger, heavier, and taller, resulting in a suburban 'arms race' of oversized SUVs that barely fit in a parking spot. Also known as autobesity.
en.wikipedia.org
Autobesity - Wikipedia
Autobesity, also known as car bloat and truck bloat, is the trend, beginning in about the 1990s,[4] of cars increasing in average size and weight.[5][6] The average weight of cars sold in Europe incre...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 28/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Streets and their sidewalks, the main public spaces of a city, are its most vital organs" — Jane Jacobs
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 27/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time — Jeff Speck
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 26/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Form-Based Code A land development regulation that shapes the physical form of buildings and public space to create a specific, desired urban character—prioritizing how a building looks and relates to the street over what the building's use is.
en.wikipedia.org
Form-based code - Wikipedia
A Form-Based Code (FBC) is a means of regulating land development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-Based Codes foster predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical ...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 26/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-subu…
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.” — Bill Vaughn
Photo of Bill Vaughn wearing glasses posing for the photo. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 25/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Road Diet Reconfiguring a four-lane road to three lanes (one travel lane each way and a center turn lane) to make space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian islands.
Two cross-section diagrams show street layouts: the top illustrates on-street parking with variable-width parking lanes on each side, 5–6 ft. wide bike lanes adjacent to both curbs, and travel lanes in the center; the bottom shows parking prohibited with 5–6 ft. wide bike lanes on both sides next to the curb and travel lanes in the center. Both diagrams indicate a normal solid white line separating the bike lane from the travel lanes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 25/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Photo of Jane Jacobs, black shirt, glasses, black and white photo.
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 24/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes
youtube.com
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
By Not Just Bikes
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 23/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Pocket Park A small, public green space, created within urban areas on often irregular or underutilized land to provide nearby residents with accessible nature, seating, and a community gathering spot.
en.wikipedia.org
Pocket park - Wikipedia
A pocket park (also known as a parkette, mini-park, vest-pocket park or vesty park) is a small park accessible to the general public. While the locations, elements, and uses of pocket parks vary consi...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 23/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Photo of Jane Jacobs, black shirt, glasses, black and white photo.
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 22/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord 15-Minute City An urban planning concept where most daily necessities and activities, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure, can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point in the city.
Viewpoint, Lisbon, Miradouro da graça image. Photo by nathsegato
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 22/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Streets and their sidewalks, the main public spaces of a city, are its most vital organs" — Jane Jacobs
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 21/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Snekdown A pejorative portmanteau for a "snowy neckdown", coined by @naparstek.bsky.social -- the natural, temporary curb extension formed by unplowed snow, revealing pavement areas unused by drivers that can be reclaimed for safer street design.
en.wikipedia.org
Sneckdown - Wikipedia
A sneckdown (or snowy neckdown) is a temporary curb extension caused by snowfall, where snow has built up in the road but not been flattened by traffic, effectively reshaping the curb. Sneckdowns show...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 21/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "In consulting, it's often said, when working on scope, schedule and budget with a client: Good, fast, and cheap: pick two. I think about good weather, good urbanism, and reasonably housing prices the same way—it's very hard, maybe impossible, to get al... — Ray Delahanty
youtube.com
The Venn Diagram of Sunny Weather, Urbanism, and Affordability
By Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 20/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Emotional Support Truck A humorous term used to critique and poke fun at excessive car culture and motorists' deep, sometimes intense, personal connection to their large vehicles as a primary source of comfort, well-being, or emotional support.
urbandictionary.com
Urban Dictionary: Emotional Support Vehicle
Emotional Support Vehicle: An large vehicle, usually a pickup truck, with modifications to make it appear larger, taller, and more aggressive, and more...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 20/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time — Jeff Speck
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 19/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Transportation Insecurity The condition in which a person is regularly unable to move from place to place in a safe, timely, or affordable manner due to a lack of resources, severely limiting access to jobs, health care, food, and social support.
usa.streetsblog.org
Talking Headways Podcast: Measuring Transportation Insecurity — Streetsblog USA
This week, Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Alex Murphy, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, talk about their transportation security index.
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 19/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: The Growth Ponzi Scheme
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Our problem was not, and is not, a lack of growth. Our problem is 60 years of unproductive growth -- growth that has buried us in financial liabilities. The American pattern of development does not create real wealth. It creates the illusion of wealth.” — Charles Marohn
Photo of Charles Marohn, with his hands up, while giving a talk at an event.
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 18/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Tactical Urbanism A low-cost, citizen-led intervention (often temporary and sometimes unlawful) implemented as a direct response to government inaction, intended to quickly improve public spaces and pressure for permanent change. Also known as guerrilla urbanism.
en.wikipedia.org
Tactical urbanism - Wikipedia
Tactical urbanism (also referred to as guerrilla urbanism, pop-up urbanism, city repair, D.I.Y. urbanism,[1] planning-by-doing, urban acupuncture, and urban prototyping)[2] is a low-cost, temporary ch...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 18/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-subu…
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.” — Bill Vaughn
Photo of Bill Vaughn wearing glasses posing for the photo. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 17/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Transportation Poverty The financial hardship experienced by low-income households when the combined cost of owning and operating a vehicle (or paying for transit) and the resulting lack of mobility consumes an excessive portion of their income.
forbes.com
Transport Poverty: What Is It, And How Can We Address It?
NZ researchers found that cutting the cost of public transit can enhance in affordability and accessibility, specifically for people on lower incomes
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 17/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes
youtube.com
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
By Not Just Bikes
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 16/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Desire Path The unofficial, worn-down trail created by feet that ignores the intended, often longer, paved route; it's the public "voting with their feet" to show planners the most logical path.
en.wikipedia.org
Desire path - Wikipedia
A desire path, also known as desire line in transportation planning and many other names,[a] is an unplanned small trail formed by erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The path usually represent...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 16/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Streets and their sidewalks, the main public spaces of a city, are its most vital organs" — Jane Jacobs
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 15/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyWord Car Bloat The trend where every new car model inexplicably gets bigger, heavier, and taller, resulting in a suburban 'arms race' of oversized SUVs that barely fit in a parking spot. Also known as autobesity.
en.wikipedia.org
Autobesity - Wikipedia
Autobesity, also known as car bloat and truck bloat, is the trend, beginning in about the 1990s,[4] of cars increasing in average size and weight.[5][6] The average weight of cars sold in Europe incre...
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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 15/10/2025
#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-subu…
#Urbanism+DailyQuote “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.” — Bill Vaughn
Photo of Bill Vaughn wearing glasses posing for the photo. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then
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