“I think at first people were really excited that they had a place to talk about living in cities,” says Orenstein, also 21. The enthusiastic response to the group – and the Generation Y-led “yimby” movement for high-density housing it dovetails with – suggests there may be something fundamentally millennial about urbanism. “Memes are the first major form of media that people my age have created, and kind of own.” “We pride ourselves on being interested in these issues, and making lowbrow jokes about complex urban planning processes,” says Marty, adding that it is, perhaps counterintuitively, a perfect union of medium and message. The combination of the two results in memes such as one that says: “bicyclists can do whatever the fuck they want. ![]() ![]() ![]() The founding joke of Numtots was that these ideas and issues are almost ludicrously niche while memes are, in essence, relatable, expressing something so instantly recognisable you’d feel moved to tag a friend. Photograph: Michael Rigtrup/New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens
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