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Dev tools · October 20, 2022

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Transform Your City

Hey HN, As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets. It's "change.org for urban transformation". It started with a Twitter account posting Dall-E-ified versions of streets [1] which picked up steam in the press [2]. And now, we're live with our own site! Happy to answers questions, and other folks from the project might chime in as well. [0]…

Transform Your City launched on October 20, 2022 with 77 votes, #608 of 3,153 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

In plain words

Transform Your City is a platform designed to advocate for urban pedestrian, cycling, and car-free street initiatives. Modeled after change.org, it enables communities to propose and support local transportation transformation projects. The project grew from a Twitter account featuring AI-generated visualizations of reimagined streets and now operates as a dedicated website for organizing urban change campaigns.

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Hey HN, As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets. It's "change.org for urban transformation". It started…

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