Biblioteca Memetica

A collection of memes, curated by CJ Trowbridge.

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The red circle highlights a passage that defines the car as an "unprogrammed brute" capable of destroying souls. For someone who cannot see it, this "meme" serves as a visual metaphor for the built environment, sugges...

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This urbanism meme satirizes a radical "no-zoning" economic theory that suggests cities should function without government restrictions on land use. The text asks what would happen if zoning were eliminated and revenu...

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This meme reimagines Michelangelo's painting *The Creation of Adam* to illustrate the heated political and economic debates surrounding urban planning. In this biblical scene, various factions—such as "Nimby" groups,...

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This urbanism meme plays on the definition of "hostile architecture," which refers to designs intended to discourage specific behaviors or make the environment uncomfortable. The architects created these planters spec...

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This urban meme satirizes the pressure to succeed in public spaces. It begins with a classic city aspiration to own a car and ends with the awkward, overly posed situation of a person standing stiffly in a crowded bus...

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This meme illustrates a chaotic urban environment by depicting a street-level conflict between a wild animal and a human. A dog labeled "NUMTOT" (a slang term often referring to a noisy, aggressive person or dog in ce...

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This urban meme highlights a humorous take on how a business has effectively "land-grabbed" an entire public parking lot. The image shows tables and chairs set up on asphalt, clearly occupying what should be empty par...

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This meme plays on the urbanist idea that Amsterdam is a small, bike-centric city, making the claim that it is a massive metropolis ironic. The text "Our city can't change, we are not...Amsterdam!" suggests the speake...

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From the perspective of this urban domestic category, the image depicts a scene set in a tiled kitchen with a black mat placed on the floor. The text overlay reads "*slaps tummy*" and the humorous caption "it fit many...

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This urbanism meme plays on the assumption that larger populations automatically mean worse viral outcomes. It contrasts the smaller, higher-density city of Fargo with the much larger Winnipeg, highlighting that despi...

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