w simple questions can help you reimagine cities
What would happen if public transport was free?
What if congestion pricing was digitally applied to pay for it?
Imagine if public toilets could be safe, beautiful, well-maintained, and maintained consistently.
What if there was a tax on empty storefronts? This tax would be payable after three months.
Soon after the invention and use of the automobile, society made many choices about how cities should function. These decisions led to the creation of suburbs, parking lots, and a standard definition for what a city should look like. Robert Moses and others advocated for a certain type of urban environment.
It is amazing how inexpensively and quickly this could change.
Groundhog’s Dayish is doing the same thing year after year since the dawning of the expressway without ever seeing the pattern.
It is helpful to be able to see it, and to then talk about it.
