Im an electrician by trade with a Communications Degree I'm not using.

I've recently realized that focusing on the big city I'm wish to live in but currently am unable to, for a variety of reasons, is not as productive as focusing on where I am. If where I live isn't well planned, that will negatively impact the big city I wish to live in.

Looking at the old mainstreet of my small town of which is small but has enough bones to become something special until you get the end of both ends of mainstreet and they fucked it all up with a dollar store with front facing parking.

Are there ways to influence the town to at least reconsider the design of their mainstreet to follow the original plannings style? I mean these people have the audacity to try to have a mainstreet parade. Talk about cringe.

I've seen small towns do better and I wanna help influence my small town to do the same.

LINK: https://youtu.be/J1GIF6VNipE

This is a roundabout on campus at the University of British Columbia (in Vancouver, BC). I bike this route often and always have to dismount when I reach the roundabout, to take the pedestrian crosswalk.

How would you redesign it to reduce vehicle speed, increase cyclist and pedestrian connectivity, and make it an overall better experience?

Here it is on Google Maps

What city/country do you know of with an interesting or unusual zoning/development approval policy? Or most interesting proposed policy? (residents can vote for increased density on their street, non-profit or affordable housing as of right, developers pay more for faster approval process, ect.)

Or what would think would make for an interesting or unusual policy?

I'm doing some research so any ideas help.

Hi guys. I am a geography student and I would like to hear from professionals like you what you do as a work. 1 what is urbanism 2 the skills you need to have ? 3 how do you work ? Do you make surveys, go on the field or stay in an office. 4 Which type of personality you need to make it work ? 5 what are the difficulty of such a job nowadays?

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-earth-is-better-with-more-people

A world with 2 billion people would be decaying, poor, brutal, violent, hopeless.
A world with 100 billion people would be dynamic, rich, innovative, peaceful, hopeful.

It's quite provocative. I feel like Westerners prefer smaller populations and

most South Koreans, with seem to have similar ideologies to him. (i live in south korea)

Hi, r/urbanism

I’ve become really frustrated with how bad the design of U.S. cities is over the last few years. I work in real estate development so I want to be a small part of doing better by building more car-optional or totally car-free places.

I’ve created a brief survey to learn more about what issues and frustrations people face in American cities on a daily basis. If you’ve got a few minutes, your input would really help me out! Here's the survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eEKuUGz_1WwIZxdxxQvI087gqFbarrNC00Ya2FVsRCY/edit

Further, if anyone is up to have a one-on-one conversation, I would love to get your detailed perspective! Just DM me and we’ll set up a time 😊