#Cities

My takeaways from yesterday: 1. Denied massive resurgence, worse than April.2. Minimized steep rise in 6/8 of our largest metro areas3. Presented no roadmap, no epidemiologic models4. Offered no plan
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experienced organizers need to be stepping up right now to lead these actions. too many organizational novices are planning actions with no idea of what it takes to manage a
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๐‹๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ ๐‡๐‡ ๐Œ๐š๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐ฃ๐š ๐’๐ข๐ซ ๐‘๐š๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฃ ๐’๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก ๐‰๐ฎ ๐ƒ๐ž๐จ ๐๐š๐ก๐š๐๐ฎ๐ซ, ๐Œ๐š๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐ฃ๐š ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐ž๐ฐ
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For the first time in human history, more than half the world's population lives in urban areas, a number that is only projected to grow. With #urbanization comes an increase
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This week, I asked folks to name an idea in urbanism that they wish got more attention. One caught my eye more than any other: induced demand. Itโ€™s got perhaps
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Grab your and join me on this cloudy Saturday morning for a presentation of NIMBYism in the time of COVID-19: A Livable California Live-Thread! We've spent the first 10
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Earlier today I shared this screenshot, but I will re-post the entire thread, because it's an unbelievable, insane story which reads like #globaldev satire (1/n) Last summer charliecallinan and I
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1) As a young New Yorker, when I became part of the work force, driving trucks for delivery, labor, , cleaning crew, bussing tables, security at bars and restaurants and
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I love that my guy @BoSnerdley posted this. Hope you and your family are well. A few thoughts...1) The number of cases are highest where people live on top of
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Electric micro mobility offers holds huge promise. Allow me a short thread with some observations.https://twitter.com/chrisnelder/status/1263654099498627072 The first is that we should not be so surprised. The car has become the
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Undeniably a provocateur & advocate for public spaces, Jane Jacobs wrote her landmark book The Death and Life of Great American Cities amid the civil rights , disability rights &
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Weโ€™re going to post a longish thread about #Manchester based on this photo mosaic aerial shot from 1953. The next aerial image has labels of locations that will be in
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#AncientCitiesOfIndia This is a thread which has links of all my threads on Ancient and Holy cities of India.UjjainPrayagVaranasi (Kashi)PushkarDwarakaAyodhyaRameshwaramMahabalipuram(More to be added) UJJAIN - Ancient and historical city th
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In the U.S., when white people have engaged in riots, the goal has been the mass murder of black people, not just property damage: NYC (1863), Brownsville (1906), East St.
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Very good analysis from @IrvingSwisher on why Mnuchin's move here violates the CARES Act and could be corrected by the Biden Administration promptly. /1https://twitter.com/IrvingSwisher/status/1331326425706733576 It's an effort by M
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'The most resilient metro region in California may be the San Francisco Bay Area, where six counties issued the nationโ€™s first stay-at-home orders to a large population on March 16.'https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-california-has-avoided-a-co
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