Archive - zoning regimes very different than ours

A Pattern of Repair: The "Traffic Bean"

A description of *deeply* improved norm for mobility network junctions

Mar 5 •

June 2024

Interlude: Window Tint

A critique of a trend, and a request

Jun 13, 2024 •

"Traffic Congestion" as Solvable, Part 4: Junction Repair: Decrease Dangerous Complexity by Increasing Safe Complexity

Redefining some functions, getting better outcomes

Jun 4, 2024 •

May 2024

Traffic Congestion as Solvable, Part 3: Intro to Path Shaping

Cars take space, at rest and when moving, and intersections take space, and can be used by more or less people at once, especially when some thought is…

May 30, 2024 •

November 2023

'Traffic Congestion' As Solvable, Part 2

Turning to Junctions, scraping back layers of pseudo-science.

Nov 20, 2023 •

'Traffic Congestion' As Solvable, Part 1

In which I outline a framework for evaluating traffic congestion as nothing more than a mismanaged resource that ought to be managed rightfully

Nov 18, 2023 •

America's Biggest Export: Supremacy Via Cars and Roads (Episode 7)

To the degree that a country has been affected by the USA, it has imported supremacist norms around cars and places for cars, in endlessly self-harming…

Nov 11, 2023 •

October 2023

Interlude: A Pattern of Repair (Episode 6)

Poynton, UK is the only example one needs to get started

Oct 6, 2023 •

August 2023

Noise, Overt Aggression and Intimidation in Vehicle Design and Vehicle Operator Behavior as Ethnic Cleansing (Episode 5)

In which we discuss 'imposing and angry people exploiting a power dynamic' and those who are complicit

Aug 31, 2023 •

Arterials as Walls as Ethnic Cleansing (Episode 4)

When words obfuscate reality

Aug 16, 2023 •

July 2023

35' Height Restrictions as Ethnic Cleansing (Ep 3)

In which we use magic strings to track intellectual threads across time

Jul 27, 2023 •

June 2023

Setbacks as Ethnic Cleansing (Ep 2)

'setbacks' are an arbitrary prohibition on using land in a way that makes sense. It causes endless harm in the ecosystem.

Jun 13, 2023 •

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