"Since the family's property was directly in the growth path, and business was hurting, it seemed inevitable that...their acreage would be sold off to a housing developer" - Andrew Ross, "Bird on Fire"

This artwork by Matthew Moore is a great demonstration that smart growth is good for farmers.

A lot of people don’t realize bikes played a big role in how normal people got around cities in the early 1900s.

Then we made it impossible and unsafe to get anywhere with them in most cities.

Have you seen this one before? A short history of traffic engineering via @copenhagenizers.bsky.social. Manufactured #CarDependency takes a lot of forms, including how easy or hard we make it to get from A to B using any other ways of getting around.

A direct result of the wrong priorities.

Walkable cities in the Midwest winter >>

📍Fort Wayne, IN

#urbanism #photography