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LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO
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They did it, they made a city 100% parking, we didn’t think it possible
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Kuala Lumpur is so funny cause they will have such great coverage of their city with the metro that would make you look at a map and go “oh this is probably a really great urbanist city!” And then the streets are built like this
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Honestly I think something that gets ignored too much when Japanese transit is discussed is just how much kyotos transit just sucks. You mean to tell me a city of 1.4 million with 87 million yearly visitors in one of japans largest metro has this for coverage?
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A lot of online urbanists like to compare American cities to some of the highest class European ones like Amsterdam when it comes to urbanism, but most American cities it would take a very long time to strive for that well beyond our lifetime so I propose a new standard, sapporo!
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 120: The Netherlands
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 78: Indonesia
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Big W in middle eastern transit this year I wanna share: Baghdad has been approved to be reviving an elevated rail system throughout the city! Construction started this year and should be done by 2027, with 4 lines connecting 7 million people by rail
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 150: Singapore
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There is no reason that every american city shouldn't have a grassy streetcar like that of New Orleans. Its a staple and a point of pride in their image and representation, and everywhere else should be able to have that too.
A casual reminder that this country used to have streetcars that ran on grass through leafy green streets, and we just got rid of it. (Fort Collins)
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Mexico City babyyyyy
why can’t there be a city like this in north america. i wanna live in a city like this but they’re all in asia.
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 9: Australia
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 129: Pakistan
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Pro tip: if you tweet the word “Melbourne” and post the tram you get one billion likes and they make you the ceo of the city
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Espeically Africa, I just posted about how Rwanda already pedestrianized its core out with plans for BRT and rail, but it’s not just them. Kenya is currently building a whole ass national rail system from the ground up and Nairobi is getting an entire new transit oriented CBD!
the world if you're an urbanist
(we need to talk about EVERYWHERE)
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Seeing his home irl is so sad not because his home is bad but because it’s in a very depressing decaying city so the whole street is sad
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Something thats been bugging me:your telling me the Capitols of the two congos,with a combined population of 18.7 million people and only a river away from one another, *dont* have any rail connection between the two?It would be such an easy and great thing what are yall doing1/3
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Riyadh, the capitol of Saudi Arabia, will be completing an entire rapid transit system of 6 lines they started *completly* from scratch with 85 stations with all electric trains and an extravagant station in the finanical district later this year. America, take notes.
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@Benjamin4915
@Sophieistrans
Eachothers? Families were separated for decades they were trying to find eachother
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New York also has a bean apparently now there is officially no reason to visit Chicago
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"America can't be saved"
Houston:
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Was exploring random transit systems and who was gonna tell me Melbourne has such a dope system? The transit stop density is WILD, it has its own loop thing which I only knew of Chicago having, and DANG some of these lines really go out there. Very cool👍
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Milwaukee seems like a cooler city then Chicago and Cincinnati
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Alright FINE Melbourne too
Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 9: Australia
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Not to even mention that the Kinkaku-Ji Temple, Ritsumeikan University campus, Kyoto Seika University, and the Shimogamo Shrine, all major tourist attractions, seem to have no coverage??
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And like *sure* Kyoto has buses that go to these places but can you imagine these moving *87 million tourists a year* on top of the local population? Those things have to be constantly crowded.
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 118: Namibia
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Not to say they have none good they do just the contrast for most the city is pretty funny
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Hell Washington DC with almost 800,000 less people has more ridership
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 160: Sweden
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Wow mfs from Melbourne CANNOT be happy damn
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So no one was gonna tell me India is getting a fucking Shinkansen??
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This is Cuba,42,426 square miles in size,Cuba does not care about this and chooses to fund a passanger rail system to connect all its citizens despite limited budget.This is Tennessee,roughly the same size with 4x the GDP but says its too big and rail too costly. Be like Cuba
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 130: Panama
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A single family home becomes a new, dense, mixed use apartment complex in Tuscaloosa Alabama!
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 60: France
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 125: North Korea
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I’d say Savannah Georgia is really pretty:p
american cities are insanely ugly, every single one of them
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I feel like an issue I see in urbanist communities is people kinda associate a place being visibly poor with bad planning. Like take what you can see in Delhi, these are narrow streets with mixed use shops encouraging walking but because of chipped paint…1/2
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 113: Mongolia
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Just discovered Google earths times capsule feature thing and it’s geuinely wild how many Chinese cities just did not exist in the 80s to early 90s
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This is Thailand,Thailand is a southeast Asian country with about a 495 billion dollar gdp,Thailand is planning to build a national HSR network connecting most its major population hubs. This is Arizona, a us state with a 510 billion dollar GDP but no HSR plans. Be like Thailand
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 95: Lebanon
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Reminder that Jacksonville used to be a very important railroad stop on the Flagler line that made it a popular location for the wealthy of the northeast to base businesses in and buy mansions out of. Now it’s just a shell of it former self
No city even comes close to touching Jacksonville Florida. Living here is the reason I got radicalized into urbanism.
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I feel like Tokyo and Hong Kong greatly overshadow conversation about Asian urbanism,actually.And Tokyo has plenty flaws people always fail to address, such as big ass uncomfortable to cross roads cutting through the natural streetscape, not to mention how the bike lines just end
Urbanists talk a lot about Amsterdam, and Copenhagen and Paris, and FAR FAR too little about Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
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A few American cities with great riverfronts! (Savannah, Georgia)
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Okay too much Europe posts so behold the hello kitty Shinkansen that runs between Osaka and Fukuoka in Japan
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 128: Oman
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I was looking at cities in Indiana and Evansville oddly has a fire Main Street? Road is wavy so cars are forced to move slow, wide sidewalks that look enjoyable to be on, and a mixed use dense downtown lining it. Would live here honestly, shocking for the state it’s in.
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But for most places, a three Line Metro and some densification projects aren't particularly hard. So instead of putting your goal post all the way at the highest in the world, go for a more modest and comparable City in the short term, shoot for sapporo!
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 140: Rwanda
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 146: Saudi Arabia
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However they do have upsides of course, much of their downtown and even out into the suburbs are all dense with many mid-rise buildings, they have a subway system with three lines, they have high speed train connections to the rest of Japan, and in much the city everything you...
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Need is within about a 15 minute walk. Also while the city does lack bicycle infrastructure, it is still very bikable as they have wide sidewalks and buildings aren't too far from each other. Mixed use development is also permitted.
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Sapporo is a pretty great City but more importantly it's comparable to American counterparts. Their roads are wider than much of the rest of japan's and they have a higher car ownership. They also have particularly large amounts of rural Countryside in city limits.
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@adamm_apple
Absolutely, like they have the framework but the city itself is still oddly car centric
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@OeilDeBrume
Unfortunately, Netherland has such good planning it’s actually a challenge to get a shitty angle🤣
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It’s 2023 and the Dutch still can’t figure out how to make dense, walkable suburbs not resemblent of the 1960s, meanwhile New York City has some world class amazing suburbs clearly built for everyone you don’t need a car for; when will Amsterdam finally step up their game?
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Also, I know this is standard with Japanese cities(not meaning good, just standard) but the subway doesn’t even run past midnight so if you wanna go out or have a later night job your just kinda fucked 🤷♀️
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India has just announced a new project for it railways that will
>allocate 82 billion dollars to rail over the next decade
>build 31000 miles of tracks
>make the majority of it high speed
By the way did I mention they project 80 billion yearly train rides per year by 2030? 1/2
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Reviewing bus designs of communist cities a 🧵
@NotJustEurope
A very interesting thread! Though some things I'd like to add:
- Pyongyang has 12 trolleybus lines as well
- Sinuiju and Wonsan have trolleybuses, and Chongjin have trams. Wonsan's getting a beach tram too
- Pyongyang also has a bikeshare scheme called Ryomyong (Dawn)
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 119: Nepal
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@alanthefisher
@WFLA
If they frame the driver as the victim then people don’t become aware of the problems with selfishness among car drivers🫠
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Enter Cambridge Massachusetts
>Transit line running the length of the city
>Walkable Core that prioritizes pedestrians
>large grid of smart mixed residential planning
>college town amenities due to Harvard university
Why isn’t this the standard for American planning?
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My metamask wallet has been hacked I need crypto nft iptv I need a sugar daddy
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 165: Thailand
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I have been informed this is only a very tiny portion of the city sorry Pakistani twitter😂
Anyways personally I think an underrated Asian city is Karachi.Has a pretty solid BRT system covering much of the main city,some pretty and walkable streets(tho the car arterials make American traffic look like a fuckin joke) and a hell of a dense grid(with nice scatttered parks)
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Lima posting too cause theyre really good and have better transit
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For anyone who might not know, Sapporo is a city in Japan located on the northernmost of the Big Four islands,hokkaido.Sapporo has a population of about 1.9 million people which can make it comparable to other American cities already, having about 300,000 more people then Phoenix
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 107: Marshall Islands
Posting good example example of urbanism from every country day 106: Malta
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@BmanOnHere
@GodzillaM18
@JoeMcCarthyStan
Litteraly as it sounds. The Japanese goverment recived books from Europe saying Jews control the world and went “wow those guys are powerful we should be on there good side” and even tried moving some Jewish families to japan
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I swear the more I look at Africa the more it becomes the most underrated place for urbanist discussion, like look of this out of Tunis! 1/2
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Posting good example of urbanism from every country day 79: Iran
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This bad boy can take a magnitude 9.0 earthquake without breaking a sweat, and is also just really pretty. We stan the Torre Reforma
Apparently, everyone has a favorite building.
Spill it, peeps.
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This is litteraly capitalism actually. Here’s some shots of this exactly in capitalist nations(Johannesburg, South Africa pictured here)
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Genuinely wild that downtown Accra in the 2020s is a literal parking lot
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@iloveportwine
It has coverage but it litteraly can’t support the sheer number of people needing transit in Kyoto. It’s like if every street in Manhattan had a bus but the subway didn’t go there. Yeah there’s a bus but there’s *so many people*. Also they’re not even the big bendy ones
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@bipbipletucha
I think it’s fine to call the biggest station union station. It’s a quick way to identify the main rail hub of the city most people will get. When in doubt, the big station with all the lines running to it called “union station” is good to navigate too
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No fucking *shot* people believe they have good worker protection laws? This is the country that litteraly has a legal term for litteraly dying for being overworked, as many Japanese people take *80 hours overtime* a month unpaid. Yeah no lets not even entertain the *thought*
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Meanwhile elsewhere in the Midwest where you’ve got actual affordable housing based around local transit, along with tons of upgrades to biking infrastructure in the last few years. Also your closer to things to do, better politics, and not living in an essential etnostate:p
Hey guys urbanism for the rich is so cool! Ignore the fact this city has zero transit, or affordable housing. What an absolute joke.
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Post African urbanism to scare a racist urbanist(sorry for watermarks)
@comatusnm
TRUE. People start getting mad uncomfy all of a sudden when you start praising non white countries. I got a dm saying that I was making someone uncomfy by praising African nations with sizeable black and Arab populations once lol.
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Honolulu, a city on a small island with severe space restraints as such, has *no* reason to have urban golf courses. Just imagine how much better the land could be used filled in with housing
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“North America is unsalvageable” Ykw your so right, just look at Panama City after all. All these wide stroads lined with single use non dense buildings and no people out just really shows no one would wanna live here, litteraly hell 😔
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