Urbanism
Anything involving urban planning, development, or design
Urbanism
Some countries even found ways of partly replicating the pro-efficiency incentives and selection effects of competitive pressure. Under the French concession system, virtually all urban infrastructure was owned by the municipalities but operated by private companies. Municipalities awarded time-limited concessions to whichever company offered the... See more
Samuel Hughes • How Writing About Nineteenth-Century Cities Changed My Mind
The idea of time-limited monopolistic deals for companies operating on/with/in public infrastructure is interesting. How could this be applied today—with trash, electricity, internet, street cleaning, security forces, package delivery, etc?
Every decision we make passes through one filter: does this elevate or does it merely occupy?
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Rather than trying to predict what people will do, what if we tried to maximize what they could do?
-Jarrett Walker
my italics; To Predict with Confidence, Plan for Freedom
Access is a combined impact of land use planning and transport planning. We can expand your access by moving your wall outward (transport) or by putting more useful stuff inside your current wall (land use). We can use the tool to identify how much of a place’s access problem lies in the transport as opposed to the development pattern.
Jarrett • Article
Access is your ability to go places so that you can do things . Over the last few years, I’ve come to believe that may be the single most important thing we should be measuring about our transport systems — but that we usually don’t.
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Where can you go—shops, schools, events, work, etc—in a certain amount of time (say, 15 minutes); the opportunities within that boundary is access. It can be improved by
Changing land use within the boundary—creating new opportunities
Faster transport, effectively expanding the boundary while keeping the time—15 minutes—the same
Find the most-sold competitor. Beat them.
from Shoe Dog and Phil Knight talking about beating Adidas