#pedestrianisation

[justalittlesolarpunk]

Hey, can you reblog if you are or plan to be carfree, and if you want to or can’t let me know in the comments? Wanna see something (how many of us there are haha)

[robthepensioner]

Princess Road in Cleveleys during work to change it into a pedestrian area, put road gates up at both ends and change the black to a peculiar orange-yellow colour.

[archoptical]

[freewebm]

Pedestrianisation of Soho: Past Challenges, Future Promise

[thedreadvampy]

When I am king it will be illegal to do car mods which do the following:

Make engines louder for no reason

Make the nyooooom sound for no reason

Make your engines constantly backfire like a fucking gun going off on a residential street you absolute fucking horsecunts some of us have reactive PTSD and live with a streetside window your car isn't a fucking fireworks show and btw when I'm king we won't have fireworks show either

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Not to be undemocratic but we need to just stop doing extensive public consultations for public projects in Ireland because I'm really tired of NIMBYism gutting important projects. Sorry I don't care that Margaret from Terenure doesn't want a bus lane or a cycle lane going by her house, she can fucking deal with it.

It feels like getting any good infrastructure work done here is always an uphill battle with retired homeowners who have nothing better to do than bitch about everything. Literally just stop caring what they think. You can't let some hyper-local opposition for stupid reasons kill a project that's going to benefit the city as a whole.

[fitzrovianews]

Mayor to reveal details of Oxford Street pedestrianisation

Map showing extent of the proposed Mayoral Development Area due to be established on 1 January 2026. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will publish plans later this year showing detailed proposals for the first stage of his vision to pedestrianise Oxford Street, after claiming a majority of people are in support of it. In an announcement today, the Mayor also restated his intention to establish a…

[surfs-up-brian]

Speaking of jaywalking once in Florida my dad crossed the freeway to get to a cafe or mcdonalds or something and everyone was mortified that he did so. It was like opposite his hotel and he refused to get a car bc why tf would you do that when its like 50 metres away.

[124daisies]

Levi's Store & Rolling Stones Store, Carnaby Street, London

[beeseverywhen]

I was initially just gonna write in the tags but I got mad lol so here are some more pictures of alexandra road

i’m obsessed with the politics of architecture it’s not even a far stretch to say that one of the biggest hurtles a socialist project in the united states would have to face isn’t even the police state or the bourgeois media it’s the landscape

[archoptical]

[streetview-snapshots]

The Rock, Bury town centre

[architectureandfilmblog]

Siedlung Halen, Atelier 5, 1961

“More than 50 years on, it’s one of the most successful housing estates in existence“

PARKOUR HALENSIEDLUNG (2007), SIEDLUNG HALEN (2010)

These videos offer two perspectives on the iconic Halen development - one looks at history and design detail, while in the other its massing, human scale, and playfulness are demonstrated through parkour.

The 79-home Swiss project was designed by 5 young architects on a forested site overlooking a river, 15 minutes cycle ride from Bern. The land had been intended for their own houses, until costs necessitated a higher density. Communal facilities such as the swimming pool, playground and community hall have shared ownership, and the internal streets are pedestrianised. For additional reading, this feature in Monocle (quoted above) includes short profiles of some of the residents. They reflect the fact that the buildings, arranged on a slope with high walls between gardens, seem to have found a sweet spot between community and privacy. As one resident says:  “You can sunbathe on the top floor balcony as God intended without anyone seeing.”

Perhaps part of Halen's success lies in how well it resolves two areas of tension in our relationship to spaces. Firstly the public/private balance, something like what Le Corbusier referred to as "silence, solitude, but also daily contact with mortals.” And secondly, Prospect Refuge theory, in which we crave immersion within nature, but also shelter from it - a view of the surrounding landscape, but also a feeling of enclosure and protection. 

[scottishcommune]

There have been weekly demonstrations in the city centre of Dundee in solidarity with Palestine, but the police have refused to grant permission for a march until the 18th of November. On Saturday the 28th of October, local socialist Jim Barlow used his speech on the microphone to call for a march anyway, arguing that it is ridiculous to have to ask police permission to go ahead with a march on largely pedestrianised public streets in a supposedly democratic country. The march went ahead, with the police accomodating it after realising that there was nothing they could do to stop it. The following morning, at 8am, Jim was arrested at his home under some old public order law, and his bail conditions prevent him from being in the city centre until a hearing on November the 28th.

As a result of these draconian bail conditions, Jim was unable to attend the protest last Saturday (4th November), but I'm sure he'll be pleased to know that a spontaneous march through the city took place which, once again, the police were unable to stop. The youth climbed atop the imperialist statue of Queen Victoria, draping Palestinian flags over her, while the high street was filled with red and green smoke and chants for a free Palestine.

[wachinyeya]

In a resounding show of support for a greener, more walkable city, Parisians voted to pedestrianize an additional 500 streets across the capital. The March 23 referendum marks another milestone in Paris’s broader campaign to curb car use and improve urban air quality. According to official results, 65.96 percent of voters supported the measure, while 34.04 percent opposed it. Turnout was low, with only 4.06 percent of eligible residents casting a ballot. Nevertheless, the outcome provides a clear mandate for the city’s left-leaning town hall to move forward with its ambitious pedestrianization plans. This latest vote builds on a series of transportation reforms introduced in recent years. In 2023, Parisians approved a ban on shared e-scooters, and the city also introduced a significant hike in parking fees for large SUVs. Sunday’s vote will lead to the removal of 10,000 more parking spaces—on top of the 10,000 already eliminated since 2020.

This article was originally published on April 3, 2025