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COVID-19 Legacy: It’s Time to De-Car The Delivery Sector

The Team at Designed Community · April 17, 2022 ·

Most of our home deliveries can be performed without a single driver taking to the road — or even carrying a package to your door.COVID-19 may be our best chance to get rid of the dangerous delivery truck once and for all — but safe streets advocates want to be sure that we don’t replace…

Filed Under: Urban Design

Don’t Let U.S. Driving Levels Rebound After COVID-19

The Team at Designed Community · March 22, 2022 ·

It’s happening in China — but it’s not inevitable here.As the COVID-19 outbreak ebbs overseas, cars are returning to the road en masse — and if America wants to avoid a similar surge in violent and toxic motor-vehicle travel, we should start preparing now, advocates say.China, one of the first countries to lift its lockdowns, is…

Filed Under: Urban Design

It’s time to put an end to bikeway “band-aids”

The Team at Designed Community · March 8, 2022 ·

We are finally moving in the right direction for bicycle urbanism in the United States. At last, more and more cities are realizing that what has been best practice in street design for years elsewhere, is the logical thing to do in this country as well. Separated lanes used to be seemingly out of reach…

Filed Under: Urban Design

On Placemaking: An Anthropologist’s Perspective

The Team at Designed Community · February 6, 2022 ·

Placemaking. It’s been called everything from a buzzword to a movement. It even comes in varieties like “creative.” And, depending on who you ask, it’s two words and not one. But what is it? And furthermore, what makes it such a hot topic?Defining placemaking has been one of its biggest issues from day one. Taken…

Filed Under: Urban Design

An Open Letter to Google re: Livable Cities

The Team at Designed Community · February 6, 2022 ·

This was originally published on my Medium page here. This year would be Jane Jacob’s 100th birthday, and what better to celebrate the memory of this incredible woman than walking along the very streets she helped fight to protect in New York City. This champion of everyday social life in public space and her de facto…

Filed Under: Urban Design

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