Bike highways, more BRT, more walkable commercial and residential development nodes. We think about places like Highland Bridge and the Heights as giant development opportunities, but the highway corridor takes the cake, truly. It's central, it's in many ways already beautiful. But it's a car sewer.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Bike highways, more BRT, more walkable commercial and residential development nodes. We think about places like Highland Bridge and the Heights as giant development opportunities, but the highway corridor takes the cake, truly. It's central, it's in many ways already beautiful. But it's a car sewer.
The war on public transit and walkable cities has been raging for nearly a century.
The entire system is built around forcing people to pay others for the right to exist and thrive.
The entire system is built around forcing people to pay others for the right to exist and thrive.
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The war on public transit and walkable cities has been raging for nearly a century.
The entire system is built around forcing people to pay others for the right to exist and thrive.
The entire system is built around forcing people to pay others for the right to exist and thrive.
#WIPWednesday for Working with the Wrong Tags Ch 12, in which Mary comes for a visit.
archiveofourown.org/works/69868706
archiveofourown.org/works/69868706
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#WIPWednesday for Working with the Wrong Tags Ch 12, in which Mary comes for a visit.
archiveofourown.org/works/69868706
archiveofourown.org/works/69868706
North of University: The Midway’s Accidental Success Story: https://streets.mn/2025/11/12/north-of-university-midways-accidental-success-story/
North of University represents everything the south side is not — adaptive, tight-knit, walkable — despite being Midway's less organized, less polished...
North of University represents everything the south side is not — adaptive, tight-knit, walkable — despite being Midway's less organized, less polished...
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
North of University: The Midway’s Accidental Success Story: https://streets.mn/2025/11/12/north-of-university-midways-accidental-success-story/
North of University represents everything the south side is not — adaptive, tight-knit, walkable — despite being Midway's less organized, less polished...
North of University represents everything the south side is not — adaptive, tight-knit, walkable — despite being Midway's less organized, less polished...
... and so much more of it has become clean, walkable and/or cycleable and quiet thanks to the elimination of the only thing that (in recent times) ever made any part of London a no go area: diesel engines.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
... and so much more of it has become clean, walkable and/or cycleable and quiet thanks to the elimination of the only thing that (in recent times) ever made any part of London a no go area: diesel engines.
After politics on Transport
High Cost of Free Parking by Shoop, Walkable City by Speck, Human Transit by Walker — a trilogy of good advice
Triumph of the City by Glaeser, New Geography of Jobs by Moretti, & Color of Law by Rothstein — describing forces impacting cities
High Cost of Free Parking by Shoop, Walkable City by Speck, Human Transit by Walker — a trilogy of good advice
Triumph of the City by Glaeser, New Geography of Jobs by Moretti, & Color of Law by Rothstein — describing forces impacting cities
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
After politics on Transport
High Cost of Free Parking by Shoop, Walkable City by Speck, Human Transit by Walker — a trilogy of good advice
Triumph of the City by Glaeser, New Geography of Jobs by Moretti, & Color of Law by Rothstein — describing forces impacting cities
High Cost of Free Parking by Shoop, Walkable City by Speck, Human Transit by Walker — a trilogy of good advice
Triumph of the City by Glaeser, New Geography of Jobs by Moretti, & Color of Law by Rothstein — describing forces impacting cities
Probably just some bullshit but I'm going to post it anyway.
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Probably just some bullshit but I'm going to post it anyway.
Springfield seems like a supremely walkable city.
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Springfield seems like a supremely walkable city.
We don't have to design walkable cities around the desires of motorists.
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
We don't have to design walkable cities around the desires of motorists.
Any time anyone says that the concept of walkable cities is just having stuff you need within walking distance of your house, you can tell them to fuck off. It's much better than that: it's making walking pleasant and preferable, making it the default, reducing vehicular traffic in our cities.
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Any time anyone says that the concept of walkable cities is just having stuff you need within walking distance of your house, you can tell them to fuck off. It's much better than that: it's making walking pleasant and preferable, making it the default, reducing vehicular traffic in our cities.
Everyone loves walkable urbanism
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Everyone loves walkable urbanism
Never did much architecture though. I’m sure there are a billion good tools I don’t know about.
You can also use level editing software if you want something walkable for brainstorming. Roblox and Unity both have extremely easy to use editors and tools (along with dense asset libraries)
You can also use level editing software if you want something walkable for brainstorming. Roblox and Unity both have extremely easy to use editors and tools (along with dense asset libraries)
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Never did much architecture though. I’m sure there are a billion good tools I don’t know about.
You can also use level editing software if you want something walkable for brainstorming. Roblox and Unity both have extremely easy to use editors and tools (along with dense asset libraries)
You can also use level editing software if you want something walkable for brainstorming. Roblox and Unity both have extremely easy to use editors and tools (along with dense asset libraries)
wow you programmed an AI that ensures universal healthcare and walkable cities?
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
wow you programmed an AI that ensures universal healthcare and walkable cities?
Anyway, let's see who's "sick" when they read the blogpost at "walkable princeton dot com" tomorrow! It's a good one!
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Anyway, let's see who's "sick" when they read the blogpost at "walkable princeton dot com" tomorrow! It's a good one!
After 6 months, I’m still not used to suburb life and how eerily quiet it gets at night.
Sometimes I miss the sirens and cars driving by as white noise.
Jk but I DO miss living walkable distance from everything.
Sometimes I miss the sirens and cars driving by as white noise.
Jk but I DO miss living walkable distance from everything.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
After 6 months, I’m still not used to suburb life and how eerily quiet it gets at night.
Sometimes I miss the sirens and cars driving by as white noise.
Jk but I DO miss living walkable distance from everything.
Sometimes I miss the sirens and cars driving by as white noise.
Jk but I DO miss living walkable distance from everything.
Ok, but "people love their walkable seasonal street festival so much that they think they can't imagine them ever not having been a thing, and so they believe they're an ancient tradition" is A Good Thing, Actually.
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Ok, but "people love their walkable seasonal street festival so much that they think they can't imagine them ever not having been a thing, and so they believe they're an ancient tradition" is A Good Thing, Actually.
I’m in a walkable neighborhood; sheltering in place
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I’m in a walkable neighborhood; sheltering in place
Living in a walkable neighborhood for a long time is so cool. I love going out and just running into random acquaintances all over the place.
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Living in a walkable neighborhood for a long time is so cool. I love going out and just running into random acquaintances all over the place.
Someone once described the Pokemon world as "Walkable cities? Try walkable continents" and I feel that. Oh to live in the Pokemon world
Name your fav fictional setting.
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Someone once described the Pokemon world as "Walkable cities? Try walkable continents" and I feel that. Oh to live in the Pokemon world
These are clearly planned - mid-20th century for the commuters and thereabouts or after for the customers. It makes me wonder what the "walkable downtown" proponents are really considering. Drive-to, walk-around? Or a very limited area for the businesses to serve?
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
These are clearly planned - mid-20th century for the commuters and thereabouts or after for the customers. It makes me wonder what the "walkable downtown" proponents are really considering. Drive-to, walk-around? Or a very limited area for the businesses to serve?
brookline.news/verizon-stor... a walkable neighborhood is great but not if the shops aren't worth walking around. I don't really know how to improve this sort of thing.
Verizon store set to take over prominent Coolidge Corner space - Brookline.News
The new Verizon store is slated to open in early December.
brookline.news
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
brookline.news/verizon-stor... a walkable neighborhood is great but not if the shops aren't worth walking around. I don't really know how to improve this sort of thing.
living in a former streetcar suburb is fun because everything is cute and walkable except you want to ride public transit and then it's "go ride a bus downtown and then back out"
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
living in a former streetcar suburb is fun because everything is cute and walkable except you want to ride public transit and then it's "go ride a bus downtown and then back out"
Moved into an affordable apartment in a walkable neighborhood and all I can think of in this moment of triumph is @dieworkwear.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Moved into an affordable apartment in a walkable neighborhood and all I can think of in this moment of triumph is @dieworkwear.bsky.social
Stars Hollow honestly seems like a pretty walkable place with everything you need, but given it's Connecticut, the property taxes are probably ridiculous.
Name your fav fictional setting.
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Stars Hollow honestly seems like a pretty walkable place with everything you need, but given it's Connecticut, the property taxes are probably ridiculous.
They look like my first house (built in the 1951. We bought it in 1981 for 130k. It is now worth about 750k - because it is i the close-in DC suburbs, walkable to Metro, near numerous federal buildings.
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
They look like my first house (built in the 1951. We bought it in 1981 for 130k. It is now worth about 750k - because it is i the close-in DC suburbs, walkable to Metro, near numerous federal buildings.