Friday Funny

Is Yogi the Bear in the market for a commercial property?

July 15, 2016 - Houston Chronicle

You remember the one showing the amount of space occupied by 60 people on a bike, 60 people on a bus, and 60 people in cars? It's also helpful for making a convenient point about Uber and self-driving cars.

July 1, 2016 - Twitter

Ok, some are going to catch the train, too. You just never know when it's your lucky day.

June 24, 2016 - Gothamist

The Onion is back to satirizing the built environment, this time with a kind of philosophy of despair.

June 17, 2016 - The Onion

Or maybe it's the bike that's also a bus?

May 20, 2016 - Mashable

Samantha Bee has seen the misogynistic conduct of NBA fans in Seattle after the City Council decided not approve a plan to build a new NBA arena in the city's SoDo neighborhood.

May 20, 2016 - Crosscut

Vox imagines a world in which cows stage a military coup.

May 13, 2016 - Vox

If you've been waiting for a nice crossover of the Star Wars universe and the planning and urban design universe, here it is.

April 15, 2016 - Gizmodo

A pair of very different stories offers insight into the urban lives of animals.

April 8, 2016 - Blue Dot Magazine

Reading The Onion's latest satire of the built environment is a bit like the experience it describes: watching as a crane moves a large object on a construction site, otherwise known as being easily distracted by harmless fun.

March 25, 2016 - The Onion

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver tackles the corruption and mismanagement of special districts, which are well known to professional planners, but perhaps not to the rest of the general public.

March 11, 2016 - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The most famous voice in narration, Morgan Freeman, visited Jimmy Kimmel Live and put his vocal talents to good use.

March 4, 2016 - Jimmy Kimmel Live

A humorous campaign ad targets Donald Trump on the issue of eminent domain.

February 19, 2016 - The Washington Post

An online video game has the perfect remedy for anyone who hates modernism—and Le Corbusier more specifically.

February 12, 2016 - The Architect's Newspaper

Cartoonists have been satirizing the issue of gentrification for almost a century. Witness the evolution of gentrification political cartoons in an article by The Guardian.

January 22, 2016 - The Guardian Cities

The week has been marked by a steady stream of news about new research and ideas coming from the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. There to poke fun at it all was parody Twitter account @FakeTRB.

January 15, 2016 - Twitter

Take local television, add maps. What could go wrong?

January 1, 2016 - The Washington Post

Not recommended reading for those currently operating a motor vehicle.

December 11, 2015 - Medium

The more project proposals change, the more the opposition stays the same—right?

November 27, 2015 - Austin On Your Feet

Nielsen Scarborough released new market data this week that revealed the cities with the highest percentage of single women who live along with at least one cat.

November 20, 2015 - The Seattle Times