#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

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Road Diet A transportation planning technique that reallocates street space by reducing the number or width of vehicle travel lanes to improve safety, reduce speed, and create dedicated room for facilities like bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian refuge islands.

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: The Growth Ponzi Scheme

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Complete Streets A transportation policy and design approach that requires streets to be planned, designed, operated, and maintained to enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders of all ages and abilities.

#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 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 "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 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 "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: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time — Jeff Speck

#Urbanism+DailyQuote From: The Growth Ponzi Scheme

#Urbanism+DailyWord#Urbanism+DailyWord Road Diet A transportation planning technique that reallocates street space by reducing the number or width of vehicle travel lanes to improve safety, reduce speed, and create dedicated room for facilities like bike lanes, wider sidewalks, or pedestrian refuge islands.

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

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

#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 "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 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 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+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.