Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Brent Toderian
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Learn to recognize propa/oganda
I’m going to make this as clear as I can—this World Cup Granville Street transformation HAS to lead to at least seasonal if not permanent pedestrianization. NOT JUST REMOVING VEHICLES. Joyous, magnetic place-making! Enough timidness. We’re the smartest city that’s still being dumb about ped-streets.
I’m going to make this as clear as I can—this World Cup Granville Street transformation HAS to lead to at least seasonal if not permanent pedestrianization. NOT JUST REMOVING VEHICLES. Joyous, magnetic place-making! Enough timidness. We’re the smartest city that’s still being dumb about ped-streets.
This thread reminds me that I need to get back to Joyful Militancy (by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery). Joy is a form of protest for marginalized communities!! The world being a dark place is definitely not a reason to suppress joy 👍🏻.
“The City of Vancouver paid out severance to what might be a record number of non-union employees last year, but the municipality is refusing to say how much those payouts cost taxpayers, despite the fact it has released this information in past years.”
There’s no credible reason to withhold this.
But here’s the thing… I’ve stopped buying into that false choice. I’m sure as hell not going to be quiet, but I’ll call out the lies, hypocrisy, corruption, fascism etc with joy & passion rather than anger & fear. It’ll fuel me, not drain me. @urbantruth.bsky.social is an example.
Joy & passion. 3/
Yep, this. Have been leaning in big time to things that bring me joy so I have the energy to stand up to disinformation and distrust. Watching Big Tech poison public discourse right down to the neighbourhood level is a hell of a thing, but we are not free to desist from the task of standing against.
