@brenttoderian
Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
As I put it a few years ago in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250,000 electric vehicles. The main answer MUST be FEWER cars driven LESS."
Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet.
Read this thread.
Make people dependent enough, and then.....MAKE IT SHITTY!
Got 1000 photos of your deceased mother? So sad. We'll make you pay to keep them!
God this is good. Thanks for expressing how I feel!!
#makeitshitty
Grappig filmpje van de Noorse overheid hoe je er ingeluisd wordt de techreuzen: eerst krijg je een dienst gratis, maar als je er eenmaal inzit, dan is de leus: “Make it shitty”.
In het Nederlands zou je het “Verprutsificatie” kunnen noemen (Eng: “Ensh*ttification”).
De Noren gaan het tij keren.
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Savage but true.
“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high taxpayer cost. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.”
Housing the unhoused saves money. Via @fastcompany.com
This post is absolutely essential reading.
What was present in many national governments – lies, denial of science, and hatred for humanists – is now coming to our cities. We must say no!
Let's read it and share it widely.
Now more than ever, our cities must uphold the values of humanist urbanism.
The whole "war on cars" whining is really the perfect example of, "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
Absolutely the best thing doing the rounds just now. And the best critique of late capitalism you will ever see.
Problem is, if you like that kind of logic, a lot of countries could say the same thing about the United States.
Absolutely fascinating information about better city development.
Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.
Planned obsolescence goes all the back to the end of the Great Depression, was coined in a 1940s(?) paper as a way to stimulate the American economy
5 blocks of Granville Street in downtown Vancouver will be closed to almost all traffic for the duration of the FIFA Men's World Cup June 11 to July 12th.
“…live music, expanded patios, art installations and family-friendly activities…”
Remember, it’s not just what you remove. It’s what you add.
Problem is, if you like that kind of logic, a lot of countries could say the same thing about the United States.
Before and after in #Paris, surface gas station in front of a residential building, converted into green space.
Imagine if your city did urban transformations like this. The 18th arrondissement of Paris, before and after, 2020 to 2024. Think about how that neighbourhood would feel after this change. How YOUR neighbourhood would feel.
It can happen. Just takes vision & leadership.
HT @emmanuelspv.bsky.social
Watch this.
If you hear a politician claim there really IS a “war on cars” in your city hall (and we don’t mean in an ironic way, like @thewaroncars.bsky.social does it), you have full and enthusiastic permission to steal @brenttoderian.bsky.social’s reply below. #UrbanTruth
Gas prices are skyrocketing thanks to Trump’s illegal war. And that’s just the financial cost.
Gorgeous. #OhCanada
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”
Lucifer has a point
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
Do YOU have an idea for a compelling message that could change people’s minds about some element of better, smarter city-making for people?
If you’d like to share it with us, and we use it, we’ll credit you in the post (not on our graphic, but in the post…like we did below).
Thanks!
#UtbanTruth
Oh, I laughed too hard. This is too real.
NEW: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”
The brand-new @urbantruth.bsky.social has a blunt op-ed in @usa.streetsblog.org written by Canadians @brenttoderian.bsky.social & @tomflood.bsky.social, & American in Paris @grantennis.bsky.social.
Australia’s 21st Ambassador to the U.S. had this covered.
#auspol
youtu.be/U4RUNl8niYo
