Tag: urban planning

This is a two-panel reaction meme responding to the common generational question 'Why don't kids go outside anymore?'. The top panel shows three people sitting in church pews pointing guns at a man in the foreground, each labelled with commonly cited reasons for kids staying indoors: 'People getting mad at kids', 'Parents worried of kidnappings', and 'Sport and activities cost going up'. The bottom panel shifts perspective to show the foreground man is pointing a gun back at the three people, labelled 'Car-centric urban planning', framing this as the most significant and often overlooked barrier preventing children from spending time outside. The meme uses dark humor to critique societal and infrastructure issues that limit children's ability to play outdoors.

Meme Explaining Why Kids Don't Go Outside Anymore

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This is a 12-panel (4 rows, 3 columns) progressive comic that satirizes inefficient urban planning practices. The first panel shows an empty grass plot at a street corner with a single paved diagonal sidewalk. In the next panels, an informal dirt 'desire line' (the path people actually walk instead of using the pre-built sidewalk) appears across the grass. Planners repeatedly add obstacles to try to force people to use the official sidewalk: first a bench, then a trash can, then a long hedge, which they cut and rearrange multiple times to block the informal path. In the final panel, the city finally rebuilds the paved sidewalk to exactly match the original desire line that people walked from the start, rendering all the previous obstacle installation work completely useless. The joke critiques how many urban planning projects waste resources trying to force public behavior, instead of designing infrastructure around how people actually use public space.

Urban Planners Accommodate Desire Lines Progression Meme

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A two-panel comparison meme advocating for sustainable solar panel placement. The top panel shows a vast solar farm covering dry, brown farmland with the text 'Don't waste farmland.' The bottom panel displays solar panels installed as canopies over a parking lot, with the text 'Use parking lots.' The meme suggests redirecting solar panel installations from farmland to parking lots to preserve agricultural land while still promoting renewable energy.

Solar Panels: Use Parking Lots Instead of Wasting Farmland

A two-panel comparison meme a…