Tuesday Tweets
This week’s wrap-up features ways to fix sprawl, the importance of creativity, and bicycle safety.
Suburbs, Sprawl, and Streets:
* Part five in an interesting series of “Building Suburbs That Last” (also check out the previous instalments)
* Making the distinction between suburbs and sprawl, then looking at Sprawl Repair
* A look at how we got streets with little or no sidewalk and faster traffic from a “Recovering Engineer“
Culture, Creativity, and Competition:
* An interesting piece about civic tourism from Planetizen
* Why creativity matters to the city, part of the Creative Cities project
* Using friendly competition to increase creativity in cities
Walking, Wheeling, and Winter:
* Streets are places – not just transportation methods
* A great way to combine art and construction to reinforce streets as places
* Vancouver’s Businesses for Bikes gaining support
* Some numbers behind improving bicycle safety
** photo by Laura Pfeifer
