“The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, Paris was ‘the most influential city in the world’ says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: ‘The bike beat the car.’”
"Painted bike lanes and sharrows may cost less and face less political pushback, but we now have evidence at a massive scale that protected bike lanes are really what can move the needle on ridership."
New York has a massive opportunity to coordinate building new public facilities like libraries with thousands of housing units. New Utrecht is just the start…
Protected bike lanes increase Citi Bike ridership in New York City, but painted bike lanes and sharrows do not show a statistically significant causal effect on ridership after accounting for confound...
America is short an estimated 5 million homes, and you can see that shortage right here in Charlottesville.www.29news.com
Yonah Freemark
“Four in 10 young Americans agree that housing costs are snowballing into a national emergency. No other issue — except for inflation — ranked as an urgent crisis for broad shares of 18-to-29-year-olds.”
“New residents bring new ideas, businesses, taxes, and more, but if a region hasn’t planned to accommodate them, newcomers will have to bid up prices to find a home, driving some existing residents out and locking out other would-be residents from the area.” @sightline.org
I’ve transitioned to a new role with @mta.maryland.gov as the Deputy Director of Planning for the @redlinemaryland.bsky.social!
2026 marks 10 years since I pivoted from music to transit. To anyone on a non-traditional path: Keep persisting. Make yourself undeniable. Time to get to work!
@burhanazeem.bsky.social helped pass new zoning laws allowing four-story multifamily buildings, with a percentage set aside for low- and moderate-income housing. Cambridge expects to build more than 3,500 new units over the next 15 years, 10 times the number expected under the old zoning laws.
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In a rule change announced Wednesday — and published Thursday without public comment — U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy eliminated disparate impact liability, a key tenet of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, from the U.S. DOT’s regulations.
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New Yorkers need affordable homes. New Yorkers need great public libraries.
So we're building both.
Today, we took the next step toward creating a brand-new library and more than 200 affordable homes at the New Utrecht Library site in Brooklyn. Because public land should serve the public.
To learn how to grow a city by sprawling outward, Americans can generally look to the South. But to learn how to grow in and up, they should instead look to the Northwest.
Title VI prohibits transportation agencies that receive federal funding from implementing programs or activities that unintentionally and disproportionately impact people who are protected by the nati...
Many problems in our cities have emerged because of poorly thought-out or outdated zoning. Better zoning can help solve these problems & help us make cities/neighborhoods delight the eye & soul & aid in human flourishing. This requires asking who & what are cities for?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Jerome Alexander Horne
Jerome Alexander Horne
In her new book, Sara C. Bronin leans on her joint expertise in architecture and law to argue that many of the problems in our cities today have emerged due to poorly thought-out or outdated zoning.
