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Forget glossy - fuzzy is the next big thing! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UqUwVPikChs/SebDLPegtvI/AAAAAAAAI0...

at least until after all the designers who remember from a decade ago it have retired or died

I did not, thank you; fixed :)

> Soundproofing US houses and apartments seem notoriously poorly insulated when it comes to sound. As you say, its a small extra cost, and it can allow for more people in an area (…

I think the trick to that is to get rid of sprawl. You have a lot of people thinly spread out but still emitting light pollution. Move people in closer to city/town/village centers…

Even something easy like articulated fire trucks would be an improvement: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a2g94xSRqSo/T7RXxkqARAI/AAAAAAAAJ1... Maybe a bit narrower/shorter though. You s…

> The benefit of faster speeds isn't driver convenience, it's that you get cars off the road quicker for a given travel distance. Yes but that isn't actually what happens because t…

> "What should a city optimize for?" For people. What's the point of even building something for human habitation if making it a good place for people isn't put first?

I think you have this internal representation of what "going to the store" means which is based on the North American suburban lifestyle of doing everything by car. This is not the…

I think that depends on what your trip from home to the store is. Is it a pleasant 10 minute trip on down a country road or in an exciting, bustling city, or is it a 10 minute trip…

I gotta agree with thescriptkiddie, C:S is an imperfect model of how traffic behaves. > Self-driving cars (or just ubiquitous turn-by-turn navigation) could change this equation by…

See another of my posts about road vs street definitions. Note that a lot of suburban wide streets are built that way to meet fire codes written to accommodate overly-large trucks.…

Strongtowns I think was my first introduction to it. Here's a good recent article on it http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/5/22/engineers-shoul... Note his definitions are a l…

See my bit elsewhere in this thread about Japan - small slow streets need less or even no use segregation. Part of the equation is that small streets discourage fast driving, but a…

For sure. As I understand it a lot of the build-out in Tokyo into what were more rural areas was done by the railroad lines - build a km or two, add a station and more developed la…

Cars are also super space-wasters. They do nothing but sit for 80-90% of the time (which is one reason why car sharing is making more sense to people). In a lot of cities, especial…

More or less. Some aspects of Western urban planning are rather big on things like Complete Streets, where you have segregated bike lanes added between sidewalks and street. These …

Those are pretty recent designs, but I like them for the most part. I agree, as long as you are not hampering human movement, keep car traffic slow and safe for said human movement…

It's important to make a semantic distinction between 'streets' and 'roads'. A typical one is: Streets are things which are where humand can play, people bike and walk, go to store…

Look to how Tokyo does things. A few takeaways: - mixed use zoning: reduce requirement for long trips by mixing many compatible types of commercial with residential, and remove sin…

It's really bad - the underlying pattern of change is tearing down a bunch of buildings an running big highways through the cities.

Recording fidelity was much better by 1985 - sound was much richer, production values better, video was almost exclusively in color, and of course there was a lot more of it all, a…

A niggle on the term "transgendered" (via http://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender ), specifically the final point: Problematic: "transgendered" Preferred: transgender The adject…

Got to big maze and... "Connection Lost"

Ah, the old "lie of omission" gambit.