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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.