:   wwell, I think it refers to windows… But it sounds… not that.

“Hey baby, why don’t you come back to my fully-glazed mixed-use condo building to enjoy a little fenestration?”

  :   tthe property of being strung across multiple jurisdictions in the interest, apparently, of making things really, really complicated and getting way too many egotistical councillors in one room just to see if it’s possible for human heads to actually explode

“I’ve got my riot shield and my blood bucket — I’m all set for the intermunicipal planning commission meeting, mom!”

  :   FFuck if I know.

“Hey… how ‘bout them… foodscapes?”

  :   aan architect who spends more time being interviewed for documentaries and going on speaking tours than working (slowly losing touch with their field and related fields)

(tone is flattering when spoken by an architect, sarcastic and condescending when spoken by a planner)

“Oh yeah, sure, I.M. Pei really understands urbanism. [eye-roll] God damn starchitects.”

  :   aa park so small that, despite foregoing amenity space, it invokes feelings of jealousy from the bloated parks of yesteryear

“Forget recreation! We live in the age of Angry Birds, lattes, and parklets! Soccer? Pff, try Draw Something.”

  :   a(adj.): of or relating to urban cycling a la some European city where they have bikes and funny accents

alt (n.): a state of mind, dude

alt (v.): to retrofit lifeless cities with a fabulous two-wheeled makeover

“Copenhagenize the world, and have a copenhagenist day.”

to quote Jan Gehl, “peeble make de seetee. Und peeble on bysiggles make a cupenhaygenist seetee.”

  :   ssomething or someone within the urban transportation scene that swings both ways (or any number of ways… simultaneously)

“Omg omg omg… Would you look at that multimodal corridor?! You think it’s into bike stuff? Should I ask, or just go for it? Scandalous!”

  :   aa word used (particularly among eccentric professors) to indicate outrage at the lifestyle ambiguity between rural and urban environments (or at the lack of others’ understanding thereof)

“If two people drive the same car, eat the same food, listen to the same music, and watch the same reality TV shows, but one lives inside the city and the other lives outside, WHAT IS RURAL AND URBAN ANYMORE?! IT’S ALL RURBAN!”

  :   aa word used to describe a specific site or area within a city, or a certain initiative of development, as having once been interesting to industrialists, then boring to industrialists, then interesting to planners

alt (n.), often as “brownfield site”: a parcel or site within a city that would be totally great as like a loft or something, or like an art studio, don’t you think?

“How do we incentivize developers to get into brownfield development in the CBD, when all they want to do is (shockingly) respond to consumer demand and build more sprawling suburbs?”

  :   aa quick and cheap way to make your city appear cycle-friendly, while not truly giving a shit about cycling

alt: an easy tool for faking cycling infrastructure and appeasing those pesky interest groups and/or meeting infrastructure budgets

“These new sharrows running the entire length of 1st Avenue will allow us to claim every km of the roadway as having legitimate ‘cycling infrastructure’ … Bahahaha!”