The joy of randomly seeing my urbanism images being used
This is the kind of thing that brings me life-sustaining joy.
On Twitter, an ultra conservative author at Forbes links to her awful article warning the U.S. to not adopt good urban designs from Europe that de-center cars and benefit pedestrians/cyclists. Diana Furchtgott-Roth served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. DOT under Trump.
The first commenter on the tweet writes a wonderful smack down of the article, and uses an image I made years ago for this Tumblr blog to illustrate it. I don’t know this person; they live in California apparently. But they’ve brought me happiness by using my stuff to shame a Trump-administration conservative who apparently loves car-oriented cities.Â
That image, BTW, shows the exact same section of Atlanta before and after the freeways were built, and the neighborhoods that were destroyed. (I-75/85 and I-20 interchange.)
Sometimes people request permission to use my stuff for various non-profit purposes like class projects or blog posts or slide shows and the answer is always yes (attribution is appreciated). Please share.