A dispatch from the golden era of planning memes.
A Facebook group called New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens (NUMTOTs) helped planning go mainstream in 2018, but as many know, the website Planning Peeps has been creating and sharing planning-themed memes for years now.
With the contemporary wave of interest in planning memes in full effect, Planning Peeps had plenty of data to tabulate in putting together its list of 10 most popular planning memes from 2018.
Click through for the close-to-home laughs.
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