Reading up on urban-planning
4 deep · digging since nov 19, 25
- Opinion | You Can Walk to the World Cup in New Jersey. But Should You?
A writer and photographer walk from New York City to MetLife Stadium for the World Cup to test whether fans can bypass expensive transit, finding a fragmented, car-centric route that is technically possible but unsafe and uninviting.
- Meet the ‘Hyper A.D.U.’
A Jersey City project preserved a historic house by building three townhouses behind it, showing how YIMBY and NIMBY factions can compromise on housing density.
- Art of Roads in Games
Roads in city-building games require complex procedural geometry techniques like clothoid curves to create realistic, curved paths rather than simple straight lines.
- Robotaxis and Suburbia – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Robotaxis and same-hour delivery will shrink the convenience gap between suburbs and cities, potentially ending the urbanist revival and challenging Uber's long-term model.