#walkable city

[run-into-the-future]

Providence RI 2024

[weatherwax-bees]

My city's normally very walkable, driving kinda sucks here. I'm currently in one of the car-centric neighborhoods, but they've somehow managed to make even this area suck for cars; everything is closed for construction.

Normally I'd say skill issue just don't drive but I kinda think you gotta around here to just like do groceries. So I do feel bad for the poor drivers lol.

Speeding past traffic in my special pedestrian pathway >:D

[thunderflush5000]

Walkable city this

Public transport that

Clearly the solution replacing all roads with trampolines

[carolkeiter]

Lyon Variety | Nature, History, Arts & Culture | February 2026

A walkable city, with two rivers the Saône and the Rhône flowing through the center, with an enormous bicycle infrastructure and several long wide avenues for pedestrians only. link to photos and videos Lyon February

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[rjalker]

"hah you think walkable cities won't be accessible!!!"

Well I mean, if you mean accessible cities, then why, pray tell, are you not saying that? Because "walkable" is catchier?

Like. If you're going to insist on twist the word "walkable" until you pretend it's a synonym for "accessible for everyone", then you don't really get to complain when people say that walkable cities aren't accessible. Because you're just blatantly not using words right.

If you mean you want to build accessible cities, say that. Why do you think "walkable" is more catchy and positive than "Accessible"? Is it because you've got an ableism problem you need to work on?

If you see disabled people talking about the need for truly accessible cities, and your immediate response is to be snarky and sarcastic and act like they're stupid for not understanding that when you say "walkable" you of course mean "accessible even for people who can't walk"...you're just being ableist.

If you mean you want accessible cities, say that. Instead of pretending that "walkable" is a synonym for accessible. If you only campaign for walkable cities you don't get to pretend you're shocked when those cities leave out disabled people.

You can, in fact, just say what you mean.

If you can't even change out a single word to explicitly make accessability for everyone the goal, how can you pretend you're going to fight the bigger fights?

[kristinnicolefehrman]

Skillman Library

I was so happy to learn that the Skillman Library received funding to make the necessary renovations in order to reopen! It closed in 2020 during the pandemic.

This week the DDA approved a $3 million grant for improvements after seeking the funding this past fall. The branch could reopen later this year or in early 2026 📚

[phoenixyfriend]

Look what just arrived!

All purchased through Bookshop.org, which... apparently lets any random person do affiliate links? So here, I made one, with all the books I've been buying: Nixy's Recs

(Bookshop.org is an online bookstore that ensures profits are all directed to small, local bookstores instead of behemoths like Amazon or B&N. You can choose a store in your area to shop 'from,' or just allow the profits to go into the a more general fund that gets distributed evenly to all bookshops in the system. This post by @ebookporn and @batmansymbol does a great job explaining how it works.)

Strong Towns and Walkable City are both books I found through the Strong Towns YouTube Channel. I haven't read these yet (they only just arrived yesterday), but if they're at all like the videos, then I have high hopes.

And here are the specific books (again, affiliate links, which I've never done before but here goes):

The Keystone Jacket and Dress Cutter: An 1895 Guide to Women's Tailoring by Chas Hecklinger (Author), Kristina Seleshanko (Preface by)

Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck (Author), Janette Sadik-Khan (Introduction by)

City Planning: A Very Short Introduction by Carl Abbott (Author)

Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn (Author)

[hreog]

ok, the vet office has sent a 2nd notification. i am now going out in 65km/hour winds to pick up doggo's flea and tick meds. Lucky for her, they're chicken flavored chewies so she thinks they're snacks.