The Cities Thread

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle

 

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/649-u-is-for-urbanism/
In which the 99% Invisible podcast makes the assertion that the introduction of Sesame Street in the 1970s led to a whole generation of kids who wanted to live in dense walkable diverse cities. I'd never thought about it but I think that was true for me at least.

 

No wonder the right wants to defund PBS.

 

It was Kermit that made me want to have gay frog sex, not the hormones in the water.

 

Frogs also change sex which is another reason the right wing was against PBS.

 

Not to mention that nasty interspecies affair...



SCOTUS will repeal Froggerfell vs Hogges eventually.

 

Mr. Toad has that overseas charm, although of course, he does go to Hell.

 

Surprisingly a fun ride at Disney, CA.

Don't do Pinocchio though.

 

Everyone knows that was Beaker and Bunson Honeydew. Kermit was into little piggies like Trump.

 

Piggy was a beard!

 

When I worked near downtown Detroit 12 years ago there wasn't much going on for it. Rocket Mortgage had just moved down there not too long ago then, the city had just declared bankruptcy.

Now? New buildings, an Apple store (only other Midwest city to have one in the city proper), and much more.