Record Stores, Used Bookstores, Cat Cafes, Camera Shops, Computer Stores, A weirdly cheap brunch place that is also a gay(?) karaoke bar, Thrift and Consignment Shops, A doo woop shop, Salons, shops that sell boba tea
These are things you can find on a vibrant commercial corridor in a midsized American city
Do rich weirdos still go to the theatre and the operahouse and the ballet
Folk Music is like if Country music was fun and socialist
They just don’t have elaborate murders on the train anymore, it’s fucking tragic
Anonymous asked:
amtrak nsfw blog?
No
if I am able to go to Dashcon 2 and host a panel, what should the topic be
trolleys and their various forms within American Cities (Philly, Toronto,Boston)
transit infrastructure and why it’s needed
a brief summary of American Rail Infrastructure history and why it matters today
the new potential for the north American Rail network and where it lacks
Local Advocacy and how to get involved
the history of the subway system
what makes a city livable, an open discussion
See ResultsAnonymous asked:
do you support trains rights?
Girl, I am trains
Would this:
“Hi, I’m [Redacted] and I am here to talk about trains and urban design, as you can possibly tell I’m autistic as sin”
be a good introduction?
Gender is a scary mistake, but you know what isn’t a scary mistake and existential threat to all of us?
Trains!!
Resume
Okay so at the start of this month, I posted this image of San Francisco with the caption
“There be devils at work here”
From there the post became a debating point on whether American Urban Design is good or not on the basis of grids and downtowns being bad, the post has over 25,000 notes at the time of posting. I want to address a few things that are bothering me about the notes of that post
First of all are the people complaining about the lack of greenspace which is fair but this is not the whole city, the area shown in the picture is highlighted below over a larger map of San Francisco
As you can see there is a large amount of green space within and around the city, particularly Golden Gate Park which is larger than Central Park by almost 200 acres
Additionally while San Francisco does have issues with urban sprawl, it is also among the densest places in the US as the 24 densest city in the US and 2nd densest city with a population over 100k
And finally that is not a fucking photo of New York