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Motonormativity
The 'Car Brain' bias where society assumes driving is the only normal way to travel, blindly accepting pollution, road deaths, and traffic jams as just the cost of doing business for our 2-ton metal boxes, as if cars were the VIPs of urban life.
Motonormativity
The 'Car Brain' bias where society assumes driving is the only normal way to travel, blindly accepting pollution, road deaths, and traffic jams as just the cost of doing business for our 2-ton metal boxes, as if cars were the VIPs of urban life.
EP 289 CAR BRAIN: Exploring Motonormativity with Prof Ian Walker & Prof Marco te Brömmelstroet
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November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Motonormativity
The 'Car Brain' bias where society assumes driving is the only normal way to travel, blindly accepting pollution, road deaths, and traffic jams as just the cost of doing business for our 2-ton metal boxes, as if cars were the VIPs of urban life.
Motonormativity
The 'Car Brain' bias where society assumes driving is the only normal way to travel, blindly accepting pollution, road deaths, and traffic jams as just the cost of doing business for our 2-ton metal boxes, as if cars were the VIPs of urban life.
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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.
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.
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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November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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.
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.
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
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.
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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November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
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.
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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November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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.
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.
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Frontover
An accident 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.
Frontover
An accident 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.
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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November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Frontover
An accident 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.
Frontover
An accident 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.
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
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.
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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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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.
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.
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
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.
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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November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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.
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.
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
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.
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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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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.
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.
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Redlining
Redlining is the discriminatory practice of denying financial services, like mortgages, to residents of specific, often minority-inhabited, neighborhoods, based on the racist assumption that their presence made the area "hazardous" for investment.
Redlining
Redlining is the discriminatory practice of denying financial services, like mortgages, to residents of specific, often minority-inhabited, neighborhoods, based on the racist assumption that their presence made the area "hazardous" for investment.
Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History | Code Switch | NPR
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November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Redlining
Redlining is the discriminatory practice of denying financial services, like mortgages, to residents of specific, often minority-inhabited, neighborhoods, based on the racist assumption that their presence made the area "hazardous" for investment.
Redlining
Redlining is the discriminatory practice of denying financial services, like mortgages, to residents of specific, often minority-inhabited, neighborhoods, based on the racist assumption that their presence made the area "hazardous" for investment.
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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.
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.
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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November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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.
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.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Complete Streets
A transportation policy and design approach that requires streets to be planned, designed, operated, and maintained to enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders of all ages and abilities.
Complete Streets
A transportation policy and design approach that requires streets to be planned, designed, operated, and maintained to enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders of all ages and abilities.
Complete streets - Wikipedia
Complete streets is a transportation policy and design approach that requires streets to be planned, designed, operated and maintained to enable safe, convenient and comfortable travel and access for ...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Complete Streets
A transportation policy and design approach that requires streets to be planned, designed, operated, and maintained to enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders of all ages and abilities.
Complete Streets
A transportation policy and design approach that requires streets to be planned, designed, operated, and maintained to enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders of all ages and abilities.
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
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.
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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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM