#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Pocket Park A small, public green space, created within urban areas on often irregular or underutilized land to provide nearby residents with accessible nature, seating, and a community gathering spot.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Photo by Beth Johnston @ https://5280.com/salida-author-ben-goldfarbs-new-book-explores-the-intersection-of-roads-and-wildlife/

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Stroad A pejorative portmanteau of street and road: an expensive, dangerous, and ugly design that tries to be both a high-speed commuter road and destination street with businesses, failing at both while being equally frustrating for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Missing Middle The gap in housing options between single-family homes and large apartment blocks (e.g., duplexes, row houses, or small courtyard apartments), essential for gentle density and affordability.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: The Growth Ponzi Scheme

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Desire Path The unofficial, worn-down trail created by feet that ignores the intended, often longer, paved route; it's the public "voting with their feet" to show planners the most logical path.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Road Diet Reconfiguring a four-lane road to three lanes (one travel lane each way and a center turn lane) to make space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian islands.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: The Growth Ponzi Scheme

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Transportation Poverty The financial hardship experienced by low-income households when the combined cost of owning and operating a vehicle (or paying for transit) and the resulting lack of mobility consumes an excessive portion of their income.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord 15-Minute City An urban planning concept where most daily necessities and activities, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure, can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point in the city.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time — Jeff Speck

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Frontover An incident where a slow-moving vehicle (often a large SUV or truck with a significant front blind zone) drives forward and strikes a person, typically a small child, who is invisible to the driver over the ever-increasing hood heights.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "In consulting, it's often said, when working on scope, schedule and budget with a client: Good, fast, and cheap: pick two. I think about good weather, good urbanism, and reasonably housing prices the same way—it's very hard, maybe impossible, to get al... — Ray Delahanty

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Snekdown A pejorative portmanteau for a "snowy neckdown", coined by @naparstek.bsky.social -- the natural, temporary curb extension formed by unplowed snow, revealing pavement areas unused by drivers that can be reclaimed for safer street design.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Induced Demand The counterintuitive phenomenon where increasing the supply of a resource (like widening a road) doesn't solve congestion; it simply attracts more usage until the new capacity is also completely full.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Photo by Beth Johnston @ https://5280.com/salida-author-ben-goldfarbs-new-book-explores-the-intersection-of-roads-and-wildlife/

#Urbanism+DailyQuote @annaleen.bsky.social

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Form-Based Code A land development regulation that shapes the physical form of buildings and public space to create a specific, desired urban character—prioritizing how a building looks and relates to the street over what the building's use is.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote @henrygrabar.bsky.social Image from: https://urbandesignforum.org/fellow-spotlight-henry-grabar/

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Car Bloat The trend where every new car model inexplicably gets bigger, heavier, and taller, resulting in a suburban 'arms race' of oversized SUVs that barely fit in a parking spot. Also known as autobesity.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Streets and their sidewalks, the main public spaces of a city, are its most vital organs" — Jane Jacobs

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time — Jeff Speck

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Form-Based Code A land development regulation that shapes the physical form of buildings and public space to create a specific, desired urban character—prioritizing how a building looks and relates to the street over what the building's use is.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Road Diet Reconfiguring a four-lane road to three lanes (one travel lane each way and a center turn lane) to make space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian islands.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Pocket Park A small, public green space, created within urban areas on often irregular or underutilized land to provide nearby residents with accessible nature, seating, and a community gathering spot.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord 15-Minute City An urban planning concept where most daily necessities and activities, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure, can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point in the city.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Streets and their sidewalks, the main public spaces of a city, are its most vital organs" — Jane Jacobs

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Snekdown A pejorative portmanteau for a "snowy neckdown", coined by @naparstek.bsky.social -- the natural, temporary curb extension formed by unplowed snow, revealing pavement areas unused by drivers that can be reclaimed for safer street design.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "In consulting, it's often said, when working on scope, schedule and budget with a client: Good, fast, and cheap: pick two. I think about good weather, good urbanism, and reasonably housing prices the same way—it's very hard, maybe impossible, to get al... — Ray Delahanty

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Emotional Support Truck A humorous term used to critique and poke fun at excessive car culture and motorists' deep, sometimes intense, personal connection to their large vehicles as a primary source of comfort, well-being, or emotional support.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time — Jeff Speck

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Transportation Insecurity The condition in which a person is regularly unable to move from place to place in a safe, timely, or affordable manner due to a lack of resources, severely limiting access to jobs, health care, food, and social support.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: The Growth Ponzi Scheme

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Tactical Urbanism A low-cost, citizen-led intervention (often temporary and sometimes unlawful) implemented as a direct response to government inaction, intended to quickly improve public spaces and pressure for permanent change. Also known as guerrilla urbanism.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Transportation Poverty The financial hardship experienced by low-income households when the combined cost of owning and operating a vehicle (or paying for transit) and the resulting lack of mobility consumes an excessive portion of their income.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" — Jason Slaughter, Not Just Bikes

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Desire Path The unofficial, worn-down trail created by feet that ignores the intended, often longer, paved route; it's the public "voting with their feet" to show planners the most logical path.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote "Streets and their sidewalks, the main public spaces of a city, are its most vital organs" — Jane Jacobs

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Car Bloat The trend where every new car model inexplicably gets bigger, heavier, and taller, resulting in a suburban 'arms race' of oversized SUVs that barely fit in a parking spot. Also known as autobesity.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15331-suburbia-is-where-the-developer-bulldozes-out-the-trees-then