You know what a fire hydrant looks like. You pass by them every day, and they’re all painted to be a highly visible red. Or is it yellow? Wait, maybe they have other colours on them too?
(more…)Tag: Urban planning
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This picture illustrates the danger of poorly-designed streets, which the Swedish government set out to improve in the 1990s. It was originally created by Swedish artist Karl Jilg, who was commissioned by the Swedish Road Administration to explain new Vision Zero initiatives.
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Jens von Bergmann has run the numbers on land use in various municipalities in Metro Vancouver. The City of Vancouver in particular has lot of land tied up in streets and detached housing.
Use CoV land single-family detached houses and duplexes 34.0% roads and right-of-way 28.1% recreation, open space, and natural areas 15.2% commercial 3.9% low-rise apartments (residential or mixed-use) 4.1% high-rise apartments (residential or mixed-use) 1.9% Because the City of Vancouver has so little area left undeveloped, any proposals for new housing, schools, parks, stores, and so forth will displace some existing use of the land.
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This Atlantic interview with SimCity designer Stone Librande has stuck with me.
(more…)We were originally just going to model real cities, but we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that [SimCity] was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.
Stone Librande