This is the city of utrecht. One of the biggest cities of the Netherlands. They started restoring the city center about 15 years ago. The traffic was either put outside or reduced. Biking, trams and buses take care of mass transit. It’s parts of the cu2030 project (stations gebieded) https://cu2030.nl/ if you want to know more. the project has been a great success and is used as a blueprint for other cities in the country.
My city is planning to make a sports area in a patch of vacant land in the middle of town, the plans show that the frickin' parking lots take up about 50% of the whole site! They are also building brand new baseball fields there even when we already have 3 right now that's only 1.63 km away. They haven't started any construction yet so I'm contemplating a Lil sabotaging, maybe plant some bamboo in that area idk.
That is my hometown Utrecht. It used to be a canal but was partially changed into roads in the 50s. Luckily it has now been changed back to a canal again. Was quite a project but it's an amazing improvement.
We laugh, but there are a lot of plans across North America to revert the overuse of car infrastructure. Even Quebec small town, who love saying they're the opposite of Montreal, are desifying and giving up on doubling lanes on roads, adding bike paths and attempting to work with what they have to reduce solo car usage.
I feel like this picture is misleading. The first one was taken a lot further away from those towers and you can see most of the trees were already there. The first picture is also taken in rainy weather which makes everything seem way more dull than it really is. It's hard to tell what has actually changed between these two pictures, if anything at all.
It ain't gonna happen. I don't mean to downplay what a shit gen the Boomers were but let me tell you, there are still boomers in Gen X and Millennials and this bullshit is going to persist unless lessons are learned and people stop touting and financing and voting for toxic politicians and corporations running the show. Is it getting better, maybe, but the assholes are going to continue to land in power and gain popularity because people are dumb and narrow-minded. I already see it in others from my generation and I don't think we're headed for the anti-boomer utopia we're all wishing for, maybe better than their generation but a long way to go still
Why not just make a green space? Whats the point of bulldozing and flooding the land underneath the highway? Did a representative for the mosquitos make this meme?
This is really an aesthetic question, and aesthetically I actually like road infrastructure, it feels cyberpunkish to me. And the problem with cyberpunk being dystopian is about the economic/politic systems, not architecture