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13 Jan, 13 tweets, 6 min read
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.”
~E.F. Schumacher

A developing collection 🧵...

(pics from 'A short history of innovation' by @efesce) Image
(2) of developing 🧵

Fiat 500 (Cinquecento) Image
(3) of developing 🧵

@BMW 5 series Image
(4) of developing 🧵

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Volkswagen Golf (MK1 vs MK6) Image
(6) of developing 🧵

@RangeRover 50 years Image
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@Porsche 911 50 years ImageImage
(8) of developing 🧵

Volkswagen Beetle ImageImage
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@Ford pickup trucks Image
(10) of developing 🧵

@Jaguar XJ 50 years Image
(11) of developing 🧵

@Toyota pick-up 40 years (via @RVSmith15) Image
(12) of developing 🧵

@MercedesBenz SL(S) 70 years
(cc: @Daimler/@MobilityDaimler) Image
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21 Dec 20
MINI LECTURE: Urban structure and mobility behavior

[1/12]
If you have ever heard people saying: ‘cycling cannot work here! Our city is much bigger than Amsterdam!!1!’

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[2/12]
The City of Amsterdam is a central part of a much larger daily urban system.

The Amsterdam Metropolitan Region (@MRAsamenwerking ) spans 2.580 km2 and houses 2.5 million people.
This includes @Schiphol, @Lelystad, @almere, @ZandvoortaanZee.
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A whopping 47% of ALL TRIPS from/to/within the region are made by foot 🚶 or by bicycle 🚲.

(according to mobility diary research. Source: samenbouwenaanbereikbaarheid.nl/application/fi…)
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23 Oct 20
MINI LECTURE [1/16]

How do we frame systemic traffic violence: As glitches in the machine or as unacceptable human tragedies?

Based on the Open Access paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
(pic via @EdwardLamb)
[2/16]

Traffic violence represents the largest threat to life and limb that most people in contemporary, car-based society experience on a daily basis in public space.

(statistics of @WHO)
[3/16]

With this magnitude of violence and relatively limited attention it receives, we seem to have collectively accepted it as a tolerable price for our car-based society.

(cartoon by @Avidor)
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14 Oct 20
[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]

If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…

Pictures by:
@schmangee
@andyjayhawk
@hurtado_alvardo
and....@Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)
[2/11]

…that offers you relative protection, but can easily be lethal for everybody around you…

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...at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour (or: 8 meters each second)…

(source: @NACTO)
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2 Oct 20
MINI LECTURE: Street appropriation [1/13]

Cars have taken over our public space. That APPROPRIATION happens in stealth. Government responses to it seem a-political and technocratic. This hides a 1-directional process that should be highly politicised.

Case: BLOKKENWEG (Ede 🇳🇱)
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The BLOKKENWEG parallels the train tracks between Utrecht (to the west) and Arnhem (to the east).

It links directly to an important railway crossing for traveling between Ede-South and Ede center. The street and tracks are separated by public allotments since the 1980s.
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Built in the 1920s, it was part of a small garden-city district for workers of the ENKA factory. The houses, meant for white-collar workers, were relatively large. Originally, the street was a gravel road with a dedicated walking path.

Cars where almost non-existent.
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7 Sep 20
Adapting streets to a "six-foot-city" is certainly a question of geometry & space, but also how to govern that space, how to develop capacity to deliver #humanscale networks.
3 principles explored in our latest commentary bit.ly/3h6bkWZ
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Principle 1 for #humanscale streets: leverage #accessibility to meaningful destinations. Entire street networks that offer a range of mobility options need to be realized. bit.ly/3h6bkWZ Image
Principle 2 for #humanscale streets: Empower #local policy networks to nurture public and political support for improved accessibility at the human scale. #citizenscience #datadriven #CommunityEngagement
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29 Aug 20
[1] Iedere schooldag vinden er in NL gemiddeld 17 verkeersongevallen plaats rondom scholen waar politie aan te pas komt.

We kunnen dat verkeersgeweld aanpakken. Maar @VeiligVerkeer hangt liever elk jaar wat spandoekjes op: "De scholen zijn weer begonnen"
nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/08…
[2] We zijn gewend geraakt om systematisch verkeersgeweld te zien als onvermijdelijk gevolg van onze mobiliteit.

Dan is het logisch om mensen te leren er mee om te gaan, i.p.v. het op te lossen. Maar wat als we dat geweld op straat niet voor lief nemen?
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[3] Sinds de opkomst van de auto is daar strijd over geleverd: is het nieuwe geweld moreel onacceptabel of een nare statistische bijkomstigheid.

Het morele standpunt werd echter 𝘬𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘵. En zo werd het debat gedepolitiseerd.

Lees: decorrespondent.nl/11543/we-leren…
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