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by zephjc 10y ago
Forget glossy - fuzzy is the next big thing! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UqUwVPikChs/SebDLPegtvI/AAAAAAAAI0...
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by zephjc 10y ago
at least until after all the designers who remember from a decade ago it have retired or died
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by zephjc 10y ago
I did not, thank you; fixed :)
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by zephjc 10y ago
> Soundproofing US houses and apartments seem notoriously poorly insulated when it comes to sound. As you say, its a small extra cost, and it can allow for more people in an area (even having connected townhouses or apartments) without h
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by zephjc 10y ago
I think the trick to that is to get rid of sprawl. You have a lot of people thinly spread out but still emitting light pollution. Move people in closer to city/town/village centers, out of meandering suburbs, you move the light po
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by zephjc 10y ago
Even something easy like articulated fire trucks would be an improvement: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a2g94xSRqSo/T7RXxkqARAI/AAAAAAAAJ1... Maybe a bit narrower/shorter though. You still get the volume but don&
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by zephjc 10y ago
> The benefit of faster speeds isn't driver convenience, it's that you get cars off the road quicker for a given travel distance. Yes but that isn't actually what happens because the use of a street or road isn't by o
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by zephjc 10y ago
> "What should a city optimize for?" For people. What's the point of even building something for human habitation if making it a good place for people isn't put first?
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by zephjc 10y ago
I think you have this internal representation of what "going to the store" means which is based on the North American suburban lifestyle of doing everything by car. This is not the model most of the world uses, especially not in o
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by zephjc 10y ago
I think that depends on what your trip from home to the store is. Is it a pleasant 10 minute trip on down a country road or in an exciting, bustling city, or is it a 10 minute trip along a despotic road with nothing going on and which screa
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by zephjc 10y ago
I gotta agree with thescriptkiddie, C:S is an imperfect model of how traffic behaves. > Self-driving cars (or just ubiquitous turn-by-turn navigation) could change this equation by intelligently routing cars around bottlenecks and avoidi
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by zephjc 10y ago
See another of my posts about road vs street definitions. Note that a lot of suburban wide streets are built that way to meet fire codes written to accommodate overly-large trucks. A suburban town doesn't need giant trucks where smalle
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by zephjc 10y ago
Strongtowns I think was my first introduction to it. Here's a good recent article on it http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/5/22/engineers-shoul... Note his definitions are a little different th
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by zephjc 10y ago
See my bit elsewhere in this thread about Japan - small slow streets need less or even no use segregation. Part of the equation is that small streets discourage fast driving, but also when walking/biking on those small streets becomes
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by zephjc 10y ago
For sure. As I understand it a lot of the build-out in Tokyo into what were more rural areas was done by the railroad lines - build a km or two, add a station and more developed land, repeat.
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by zephjc 10y ago
Cars are also super space-wasters. They do nothing but sit for 80-90% of the time (which is one reason why car sharing is making more sense to people). In a lot of cities, especially newer ones built out since WW2, you will find a large per
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by zephjc 10y ago
More or less. Some aspects of Western urban planning are rather big on things like Complete Streets, where you have segregated bike lanes added between sidewalks and street. These are fine for wider streets as seen in many American cities,
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by zephjc 10y ago
Those are pretty recent designs, but I like them for the most part. I agree, as long as you are not hampering human movement, keep car traffic slow and safe for said human movement, networking with bike paths is fine in my book. In an exist
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by zephjc 10y ago
It's important to make a semantic distinction between 'streets' and 'roads'. A typical one is: Streets are things which are where humand can play, people bike and walk, go to stores, around the places we live and wo
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by zephjc 10y ago
Look to how Tokyo does things. A few takeaways: - mixed use zoning: reduce requirement for long trips by mixing many compatible types of commercial with residential, and remove single housing type developments. Also, allow many smaller apar
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by zephjc 12y ago
It's really bad - the underlying pattern of change is tearing down a bunch of buildings an running big highways through the cities.
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by zephjc 12y ago
Recording fidelity was much better by 1985 - sound was much richer, production values better, video was almost exclusively in color, and of course there was a lot more of it all, and in a much wider variety than in the 1950s, so there is mo
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by zephjc 12y ago
A niggle on the term "transgendered" (via http://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender ), specifically the final point: Problematic: "transgendered" Preferred: transgender The adjective transgender sho
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by zephjc 12y ago
Got to big maze and... "Connection Lost"
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by zephjc 12y ago
Ah, the old "lie of omission" gambit.
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by zephjc 12y ago
According to http://www.tomsguide.com/us/chip-and-pin-credit-cards,review... "U.S. retailers have until Oct. 1, 2015, to install chip-and-PIN compatible card readers at stores. After that date, merchants will be h
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by zephjc 12y ago
I still have an iPhone 4 and don't have Safari crashing issues.
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by zephjc 12y ago
The trick to speed control is to set the speed limit 10-20 mph slower than you expect traffic to actually go, and never or infrequently enforce it until it exceeds +20mph. This is the M.O. for many places already.
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by zephjc 12y ago
I want to clarify that I find self-driving cars an amazing engineering achievement and will almost certainly make roads safer. However, I would almost certainly spend the extra 90 minutes a day in a self-driving car catching up on sleep, a
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by zephjc 12y ago
Are you from the UK? I live in the Suburbs of northern Kentucky, actually right on the cusp of rural and suburban, but there are still a lot of roads but with no or almost no sidewalks and more than enough traffic to be dangerous. Because o

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