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Don't miss 2019's best urban planning memes

2019-12-31T14:33:00-05:00

We've covered a sprawling variety of urban planning stories on Archinect this year, but as the new decade is mere hours away from the land of the densification-averse, we'd like to raise our glass and salute the fine people at Planning Peeps for tirelessly brightening our days with the memes even Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses would get a good chuckle out of.

Here is just a small selection of our favorites this year:

Longing for more? Find the complete treasure trove on the Planning Peeps Facebook page.

2018's best urban planning memes you didn't know you needed

2018-12-28T14:24:00-05:00

In dire need of urban planning memes on this last Friday of the year? Have we got a link for you: Planning Peeps has compiled 2018's gems trending among city planners and urbanism disciples.

Check out some of our favorites below and visit Parts 1 and 2 of the full list.

All images via Planning Peeps.

Harvard withdraws acceptance offers from students who created offensive memes

2017-06-06T12:36:00-04:00

Students sent each other memes and other images mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust, and the deaths of children, according to screenshots of the chat obtained by The Crimson. Some of the messages joked that abusing children was sexually arousing, while others had punchlines directed at specific ethnic or racial groups. One called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child “piñata time.”

Ten students who managed to beat out nearly 38,000 others to gain admission to Harvard lost their chance to attend the university after sharing offensive online memes in a private Facebook chat. After discovering the memes, which ironically were traded over a platform designed by a former alumnus over a decade ago, the College withdrew the students' offers of admission, upholding the institution's strong commitment to ethics.

Japanese slam highly unpopular Tokyo Olympic Stadium design with hilarious memes

2015-07-14T19:33:00-04:00

The price tag for 2020 Tokyo Olympic stadium is now a whopping $2.1 billion. That’s more than the stadiums for the past three summer Olympic stadiums combined. That’s pretty silly! So is the stadium’s new Photoshop meme.

With the current estimated cost for Zaha Hadid 's stadium design clocking in at more than $2 billion (that's $700 million more than the initial estimate), a recent poll by Japanese news network NHK found that "81 percent of respondents say they disapprove of the plan to build the stadium without changing its design." Only 13 percent said that they approved.

Here are a few of the cheeky Japanese memes critically expressing their discontent with the pricey design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium:

By Twitter user @nickjil

By Twitter user @AKID_0831

By Twitter user @641236A

By Twitter user @nabe_chan_

By Twitter user @yuki_japantokyo

Head over to Kotaku for more memes.

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