Michal Rieback
@micrie.bsky.social
Urban planner, designer and just a passionate urbanist
This is how my worst nightmares look like
July 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is how my worst nightmares look like
I live right next to it. It's a nice start, but a long way to go till we could call the area TOD. Needs denser street network and connectivity, diverse housing (not just high rises), way less parking... Right now it's a compounded destination, not a part of a city (the surrounding is even worse).
June 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I live right next to it. It's a nice start, but a long way to go till we could call the area TOD. Needs denser street network and connectivity, diverse housing (not just high rises), way less parking... Right now it's a compounded destination, not a part of a city (the surrounding is even worse).
Yep. The problem with season 2 is that the storyline of the game was horrible (no spoilers, but the season is not getting better). They didn't have a lot to work with and even that they did worse. Ok, the killing Joel scene was a shocker, now what? You killed the only one here that I care about!
May 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Yep. The problem with season 2 is that the storyline of the game was horrible (no spoilers, but the season is not getting better). They didn't have a lot to work with and even that they did worse. Ok, the killing Joel scene was a shocker, now what? You killed the only one here that I care about!
Burnaby: Human scale.
There's new development, but it's mainly highrises compounds. No other option for housing, street network not dense enough and car depended, not enough bike infrastructure and not a lot of quality public space for people in the neighborhood level.
There's new development, but it's mainly highrises compounds. No other option for housing, street network not dense enough and car depended, not enough bike infrastructure and not a lot of quality public space for people in the neighborhood level.
May 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Burnaby: Human scale.
There's new development, but it's mainly highrises compounds. No other option for housing, street network not dense enough and car depended, not enough bike infrastructure and not a lot of quality public space for people in the neighborhood level.
There's new development, but it's mainly highrises compounds. No other option for housing, street network not dense enough and car depended, not enough bike infrastructure and not a lot of quality public space for people in the neighborhood level.
Done and forwarded :)
May 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Done and forwarded :)
I was out of characters: just wanted to say that I really love your videos😊
May 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I was out of characters: just wanted to say that I really love your videos😊
From around 8 minutes (Sullivan). Maybe contradicts is a better word, in this part the blame is on Jacobs for helping the no-density crowd, but Death and Life is all about density, and you say it in other parts in the video. What I'm saying is that there are mix-messages about what the book is about
May 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
From around 8 minutes (Sullivan). Maybe contradicts is a better word, in this part the blame is on Jacobs for helping the no-density crowd, but Death and Life is all about density, and you say it in other parts in the video. What I'm saying is that there are mix-messages about what the book is about
Like you side, no one's perfect, including Jacobs, but I think that the video is leaning too much to that stuff, and a bit misrepresenting her advocacy in The Death and Life...
May 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Like you side, no one's perfect, including Jacobs, but I think that the video is leaning too much to that stuff, and a bit misrepresenting her advocacy in The Death and Life...
I don't know this street, but let me guess: an arterial road inside a city that has nothing to do with the definition of street, where cars can go as fast as they can and pedestrians are not welcomed to say the least?
April 29, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I don't know this street, but let me guess: an arterial road inside a city that has nothing to do with the definition of street, where cars can go as fast as they can and pedestrians are not welcomed to say the least?
No need to argue. It's bad road design that allows for drivers to go too fast and kill pedestrians
April 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
No need to argue. It's bad road design that allows for drivers to go too fast and kill pedestrians
Not enough 🤦🏻♀️ in the world!
They see a successful project in almost every aspect and say "oh, let's do the exact opposite, this will work!"
And to be proud about eliminating road diets... God forbid we'll save some lives and make it easier and enjoyable for people to move in the city. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
They see a successful project in almost every aspect and say "oh, let's do the exact opposite, this will work!"
And to be proud about eliminating road diets... God forbid we'll save some lives and make it easier and enjoyable for people to move in the city. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
April 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Not enough 🤦🏻♀️ in the world!
They see a successful project in almost every aspect and say "oh, let's do the exact opposite, this will work!"
And to be proud about eliminating road diets... God forbid we'll save some lives and make it easier and enjoyable for people to move in the city. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
They see a successful project in almost every aspect and say "oh, let's do the exact opposite, this will work!"
And to be proud about eliminating road diets... God forbid we'll save some lives and make it easier and enjoyable for people to move in the city. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Good to know that there are still some people in Toronto that make professional desicions, not just cynical politics
April 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Good to know that there are still some people in Toronto that make professional desicions, not just cynical politics
Another solution that works in other countries is an agreement between Canada and other countries that have that pool of skilled people: a constructor goes to the Canadian gov, asks for x workers, the Canadian gov goes to the other county that gives the workers that signed up.
April 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Another solution that works in other countries is an agreement between Canada and other countries that have that pool of skilled people: a constructor goes to the Canadian gov, asks for x workers, the Canadian gov goes to the other county that gives the workers that signed up.
A great prof. of mine introduced me to the term place vs non-place like this: in a place you see and experience things that you can tell about later and create memories, a non place has nothing distinctive that you want or can tell about later. Places are lively and non-places are grey and dull.
April 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A great prof. of mine introduced me to the term place vs non-place like this: in a place you see and experience things that you can tell about later and create memories, a non place has nothing distinctive that you want or can tell about later. Places are lively and non-places are grey and dull.