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Basic Rules

To start the game, each player draws ten White Cards.

The person who most recently complained about their job begins as the Plan-ning Director and plays a Black Card. The Planning Director reads the question or fill-in-the-blank phrase on the Black Card out loud.

Everyone else (Money Grubbing Consultants or Overly Concerned Citizens . . . seriously?! You are players, you don’t get a label) answers the question or fills in the blank by passing a White Card, face down, to the Planning Director. Or two cards if there are two blanks – in order, with first to be read on top.

The Planning Director shuffles all of the answers and shares each card combina-tion with the group. For full effect, the Planning Director should usually re-read the Black Card out loud before presenting each answer.

The Planning Director then picks the funniest/naughtiest/wrongest play, and whoever submitted it gets one Zoning Approval (A.K.A. a point).

After the round, a new player becomes the Planning Director and everyone draws back up to ten White Cards.

Winning . . . not really possible, have you looked at our built environment lately?

Don’t be embarrassed to use the Cardsplanations and have fun!

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Cards Against Urbanity

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“go back to Ohio” Famous last words “hey ya’ll watch this!”

“those people”

$4 toast bars $500 strollers Superfluous graduate degree

12 year process for the 10 year plan

24/7 5 kids and a goat

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A desire named streetcar

Adult-onset A.D.D. A pocket Duany

Curbside domestic dispute

A stressball shaped like Richard Florida

A roll in the hay

Activating the f*ck out of some streets

Adopted, white parents Wearing last season’s kickball league shirt

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Wearing last season’s kickball league shirt

Affordable housing made completely from pallets

Agenda 21 Barbie

Air Jeff Speck walking shoes

All nude rooftop deck Pink on pink fixed gear

All-powerful bike lobby Alternative fuel from kale chips

Amateur theatre

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An Ayn Rand Theme Park An even shorter bus Architectural Mullet

Arm-chair quarterbacking

Subway grate aroma therapy

Artisanal meth labs

Art opportunity Arterial highways As seen on Kickstarter

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Asian boys on bicycles Back alley waffle shoppe Smart ass city planner

Bar cars on subways & light rail

Benefits of sea level rise Best practices

Big box churches Bike lanes Bikelash

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Bitchy tech girlz A Better Block Blue-haired amateur historian

Brad Pitt pretending to be an architect

Breast feeding in public Broken. Escalators.

Bros Brownfields Brunch

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Built environment Bureaucratic infighting Burning Man-themed parklet

Card game gone terribly wrong

Carmageddon CarToGo

Cat cafes Cell towers disguised as trees

Charter schools

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Chef-inspired pre-made grab n’ go dinners

Chik-Fil-A Chinatown bus

Churches becoming condos

Citizens Lobbying for Urban Chicken Keeping, or just CLUCK

Civics 101

Classical undertones Clusterfuck Cold pour coffee

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Collaboration Collisions Common Core

Commuting flip-flops 311, the complaint hotline

Complete Streets

Congress for the New Urbanism

Consultants who hate cities

Coordination tongue

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Corbu line of Google Glass

Compromised bad idea Condemned FEMA trailers

Surge pricing Crumbling infrastructure Cul-de-sac

Compulsive curb cuts Dangling from a subway strap

Decorator warehouse club

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Decriminalization Demolition by neglect Design by committee

Pretending to care about Detroit

DINKs District energy

Doggie day care Donald Shoup’s unpaid parking tickets

Donald Trump

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Drive-thru pharmacy Commuting 100 miles to a green building

Driving to the gym

Dudes who work in finance

Duff Beer Dumpster full of citizen preference surveys

Dunkin’ A dyslexic traffic engineer

Eating duck confit while dissing gentrification

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Eco Corridor Volatile organic emissions

Empty bikeshare stations

Entrepreneurial culture Erogenous zoning Low headways

Neighborhood fabric Manually facilitated Fake boulevard

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Farmer’s market Fat kids complaining about Farm to School lunches

Faux stone

Favored quarter Fixed hazardous objects Forever home

Free-range organic non-genetically modified everything

Front-loaded Gastro-instestinal distress

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Professional gentrifier Google Buses Greenwashing

Grocery delivery van Hand-crafted pre-war cocktails

Helicopter parenting

Historic preservation of 1960s Ranch Burgers

HOA rules! Drone delivery

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Homeless people Hot hipsters Lexus Lanes

Hot mess Granny flat Induced demand

Infrastructure networks Innovation anything Inside baseball

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iPeople It’s a “done deal” Jane Jacobs

Jaywalking I’d rather have bollards Jetpacks

Justifiable homicide Kanye’s skool of arkitecture

Knope of the Week

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Know it all interns from GSD

Annie’s Organic White Cheddar Mac n’ Cheese

Landscape urbanism bullshit generator

Macklemore Deep boring Lifestyle centers

Looting by Light Rail Little people dressed like traffic cones

Live, work, play

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Locavores Low expectations Low hanging fruit

Man cave Mashpee Hoarding incandescent light bulbs

Master-planned hell-hole

Meaningless developer concessions

Drive-through weed window

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Micro-lofts Middle aged men in lycra (MAMILs)

Millennials

Mind the gap Minecraft Metropolis Mission Burritos

Mommy-Baby happy hours

Monstrous carbuncles Mothers Against Bioswales

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Mr. Monorail Multi-modal martinis Multiplex

Naked Hide and Seek Community character New new economy

NIMBYs Not another cupcake shop

Nubs

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Ocean of asphalt School boundary changes

Online shopping sales taxes

Hamsterdam Streetcorner environments

Our growing family

Underpass Tactical, disruptive, AND lean

Parking nastygrams

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Bulb-out Road rage Peak beard

Self-righteous pedestrians

Cobra heads Pedicabs

Penthouse Demand pricing Vancouverism

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Personal Rapid Transit Personal Rapid Transit Photobomber

Pied-a-terre Pin the Tail on the Kotkin Pink mustaches

The Planning Director’s questionable motives

Pods Ponzi scheme

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Pooper scooper Pop-up Power users

Privileged college students

Pissed off prostitutes Prozac brownies

Just mimes Public participation Public private partnership

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Quagmire Rail-trails Rain garden, full of trash

Random beardo Rats with wings Redneck High Line

Referring to taxes as the “sharing economy”

Rent-a-PoPo Breeders

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Retention Return on brain damage Rezoning shitstorm

Fantasy ridership Robert Moses’ bulldozer Robo-Parking

Roundabout S&M clowns Scenic viewshed

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School choice Facetime Semi-creative class

Setbacks Shipping containers Sidewalks covered in vomit

Riprap Silver bullets Single-tracking

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Video chat Slug line Smart Growth

Snap-in muntins Snout house Soccer MILFs

Self storage unit Something out of The Truman Show

Sprawl

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Stadium deal Four over one Runoff inlet device

Streetcar to nowhere Strip mall Style Wars

Hobo Corner Suburban Dream Subway map nail art

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Super-sized Sustain-inability SUV envy

Splash parks and spray grounds

Swishy track suits Segregated bike lanes

Tactical urbanism Taking a piss when the rear bus door opens

TEDtalks

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Fucking lawyers Testimony full of “scare quotes”

Texas donut

That fine line between “Big Data” and made-up numbers

An Uber/Lyft with a happy ending

That’s so T4!

That app you hide from your friends

The mayor’s secret Snapchat account

Micro-brewery bubble

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The banana stand Knowledge economy Listserv from Hell

The one percent Poor door “The rent’s too damn high!”

Smell of french fries and urine

The War on Cars The word “vibrant”

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This isn’t Europe Tip to tip optimization Tract homes

Train delays Transectual fashion show Clown cars

Transit-Oriented Development

Trying too hard Turn down for what

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Solar powered water taxi Urban Urban design that actually kills children

Urban pioneers Urban spelunking Urban sprawl deniers

Vandelay Industries Vats of Purell Vespa share

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Vinyl siding Vouchers Wal-Mart super center

Moisture problems Weeping housewives of XYZ

White people flash mob

Re-enactors Yet another study on how Millennials love cities

Yoga in the food court

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Zombie subdivisions Startup coworking innovation joints

Building made of foam

Obviously fake shutters Glenn Beck’s Separatist Libertarian colony

Dragging people into hipness

Ethanol distilled from quinoa

Dead mall reality TV show

Taupe-fields

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Conspicuous consumption

Conspicuous consumption

Urban crop dusting

Cyber stalking Mid-century modern Workforce housing

Sexy firefighter fundraisers

Workforce housing Lead paint, YOLO

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Meter maids on segways Student ghetto Mutual access easements

Survivalist Victory Garden

Doomsday Prepper Finding a dead body while geocaching

Stand your ground Florida Man Biergarten

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Transect neutral Revealing your mockup Spaghetti Junction

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@DOtankDC GreaterPlaces.com

_________, give it a goog!

GreaterPlaces.com@DOtankDC

Suburbanites won’t move to cities because of ______.


_________ makes the trains run on time.


All walkability boils down to is ________.


The Town Council was pissed about ________.


Our city just announced subsidies for __________.


The Capital Improvement Plan includes what?!


_____________: The Economic Development Plan


The Mayor got in trouble for crowdsourcing ______________.

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The City Council recently banned ________________.


The new tech incubator is devoted exclusively to ___________.


_____________, the new public art festival.


The secret to a successful public meeting is ________.


Our IT department is creating an app for __________.


___________ could get more Millenials involved.


A charrette is _____________.


Donald Trump’s latest erection involves ______________.


Let’s turn that greyfield into ______________.

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Oddly, the Google Streetview car was filming ____________.


Did you see that urban planners tattoo of ____________?


There’s nothing worse than ______________.


Little ___________ houses for you and me.


That cab was definitely kicking out ___________.


My neighbors are adding another floor and it’s _______________!


The problem with the cookout was ________________.


The high school is making __________ into a musical!


When we moved to that subdivision, I actually thought that __________ would make life simpler!

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Our realtor thought we’d really like the __________ but need more ________.


___________ is the new golf course.


I wanted to take the train but ___________ made me drive instead.


He’s sweet but he’s always criticizing _______________.


The new urbanist couple named their baby _____________.


They paved paradise and put up a __________.


... and the CNU Charter Award goes to ___________ for _______________.


When I’m a billionaire, I’m gonna build a ______.


Dear Strong Towns, I’m having trouble with ____________.

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Why am I fat?


They now award LEED points for ___________.


I got 99 problems, but ______________ ain’t one.


I saw _____________ on my European vacation.


What’s that smell?


I couldn’t complete that public works project because of __________________.


I learned __________ from Sesame Street.


___________, the next food truck fad.


If I see one more _______________, I’m gonna puke!

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The childrens’ playground could use _______________.


The childrens’ playground could use _______________.


What the hell is _____________?


We built this city. We built this city on __________________.


_______ is just not compatible with _______.


____ will blot out the sun!


Activating the urban core with a vibrant brand of _________.


The new Mayor was elected on promises of __________.


How will we stop gentrification? With ________, of course!

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The commission meeting was sidetracked by discussions of __________.


Modern living requires ___________.


“Damn it, Jim! I’m a designer, not a _________!”


Our climate action plan depends on __________.


Headline: City planner destroys ____________.


_______ will ensure victory in the War on Cars.


_________ should not be permitted because it will interfere with my use and enjoyment of _____.


_________ only exists to create revenue for the government.


Our city’s postcard view is _____________.

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If only we could use drones to monitor ______.


Can you believe they’re trying to ram a __________ through my neighborhood?


_______ is not a sex term.


________ is the ________ of the month.


Fantasy _______ League.


_______porn.tumblr.com


The Sarah Silverman Magnet School for ___________.


I just got season tickets to ___________.

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