A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Urban Truth Collective
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Yes, I want to these things in U.S. cities and towns:
• permanent pedestrian zones
• pedestrian-first design of streets and neighborhoods
• connected+protected networks of bike lanes
• low-traffic networks of slow streets
• better transit
I wish I didn't have to travel to see or use these things.
What if we came back from vacationing in great cities around the world and made the great things about them legal in Canadian cities? #UrbanTruth
3 months ago we launched the website & social media accounts for our new initiative, @urbantruth.bsky.social. The response has been AMAZING, and we thank you all for following us, helping to spread the word about our mission, & boosting our posters/campaigns. We’re just getting started! #UrbanTruth
I wonder if when Spanish people visit here, they marvel at & romanticize the highway interchanges, the 4 lane fast boulevards through our cities, the beg buttons.
What if the things we love about the cities we visit on vacation weren’t illegal in OUR city? #UrbanTruth
“The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”
Useful article. As we look at solutions though, our priority is demanding upstream leadership. #UrbanTruth
“Amsterdam is set to ban climate-damaging advertising [fossil fuel & meat adverts] in public spaces, following a trend spreading across Dutch cities.
France has also enacted legislation outlawing adverts from non-renewable energy companies, & one Italian city has plans to do the same.” #UrbanTruth
Want people to know and understand the #UrbanTruth?
Repetition, repetition, repetition.
READ THIS: “The Highway Lobby has been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.”
And they spend MILLIONS buying car dependency, to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth
Via the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org.
blog.ucs.org/kshen/the-hi...
“Every $1300 New York invested in new bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 added year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents.”
Among many other benefits, bike-lanes are a really smart public health investment. #CityMakingMath
www.reuters.com/article/busi...
Initially proposed in 2020, Amsterdam has officially banned on public advertisements promoting meat and fossil fuel products.
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw.
Shaw’s warning seems more pertinent than ever, as we face growing amounts of misinform...
READ THIS: “The Highway Lobby has been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.”
And they spend MILLIONS buying car dependency, to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth
Via the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org.
blog.ucs.org/kshen/the-hi...
What if the things we love about the cities we visit on vacation weren’t illegal in OUR city? #UrbanTruth
What if the things we love about the cities we visit on vacation weren’t illegal in OUR city? #UrbanTruth
What if the things we love about the cities we visit on vacation weren’t illegal in OUR city? #UrbanTruth
