Black Yuppie

Urban Planner, books, inspirational quotes and aesthetics...Afro-American. Also, I run 5k, 10k, half marathons occasionally lol.

[better-practices]

"Phoenix has long been known as one of the worst examples of testing american suburban sprawl to its absolute limits. Much of the metro area is insanely car dependent, but the city in the past decade has made some incredible changes to try and change this. With valley metro having created a light rail line all the way back in 2008, the city has expanded upon it and continued to build out more light rail. With one of the biggest extensions just recently opening, it seems Phoenix is working to build a community in its core that is less car dependent and more open to seeing though a multimodal future."

[witchrealms]

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[urbanplanningmemes-blog-blog]

Planning academia : blames middle class for moving to the suburbs, and blames them for gentrifying inner city areas.

Now where do they go?

[roccio2]

[sindireccion]

A City is Not a Tree by Christopher Alexander.

jessems.com

[timmurleyart]

Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. 🇩🇪🏃🏾👟💨🥇🥇🥇🥇

[american-boyboss]

[sylviaodhner]

The Shopping Center Disconnect

[bookscoffeedzen]

Bookshop in Rome 🤗📚

[blackyuppie]

Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities

To survive the work-from-home revolution, cities must let developers convert office buildings into deeply weird apartments.

[theanticool]

Claressa Shields deserves to be in the conversation with all the other great female athletes of the 21st century. Up there with women like Serena Williams, CP3, Sheryl Swoopes, Gabby Douglas, Katie Ledecky, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Kaori Icho, Saori Yoshida, Ryoko Tani, Marta, Abby Wambach, etc. Doesn’t mean I think she should be the consensus #1 but she deserves a mention when people are making their list.

Her resume thus far:

Two time Olympic gold medalist in boxing (the only American ever to have done so)

A two time amateur world champion

A Pan Am champion

A three division world champion as a pro

A two division undisputed champion (won all 4 major belts), the first boxer (man or woman) to ever accomplish this.

Has only lost once in boxing across her professional and amateur career

Shields also has the distinction of being the first woman to main event a Showtime Boxing card

[twixnmix]

Muhammad Ali photographed by Gordon Parks for LIFE magazine, 1970.

[unkutraww-deactivated20230426]

Malcolm & Ali

[mysharona1987]

[theconcealedweapon]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[thelightingcount]

Shit military personnel literally have very little agency with their bodies. DoD was our fucking pimp.

[prof-grace-aspen]

I knew someone in the Navy who got disciplined for getting sun burnt so bad they couldn't work the next day; they were cited for "damaging government property".

[catchymemes]

[robertreich]

This One Thing May Stop Trump From Running For Re-Election

Far-right politicians are dragging America back to the 19th century.

Reproductive rights in Wisconsin are now governed by an abortion law passed in 1849 — and in Arizona, a judge recently reinstated a ban on abortion first adopted in 1864.

Well, if Republicans are so keen to wind back the clock, I suggest reviving a different 19th century provision of the Constitution : Section Three of the 14th Amendment.

It states that, anyone who has taken an oath to protect the Constitution can be barred from holding public office if they “have engaged in insurrection” against the United States.

Sound familiar?

A judge in New Mexico thought so — and recently used it to permanently ban an insurrectionist from ever holding any state or federal office again.

The official — Commissioner Couy Griffin — spent months normalizing violence to keep Trump in office and urged supporters to travel to Washington with him on January 6th.

Griffin also voted twice against certifying New Mexico’s 2022 primary election, fueled by conspiracy theories about the security of voting equipment.

His case proves that it is possible to expel public officials who violate their oaths to the Constitution.

Any lawmakers who engaged in insurrection on January 6th must be held accountable and barred from holding public office now and in the future.

And yes, that includes Donald Trump.