#Planners

Gil Meslin

g_meslin

1. Last Friday was the 7th of May.That was the one-year anniversary of Sidewalk Labs confirming, in a post from CEO Dan Doctoroff, that they would no longer be pursuing

Hunter (wants Tw*tter 2 ban Nazis) Oatman-Stanford

hunterrible

Riding to/thru GG Park this weekend, a question kept nagging at me: Why does San Francisco have so many huge holes in its bike “network”? It’s still nagging at me.

Senior Boobies

SeniorBoobies

Ok. Put your logic cap on and keep an open mind. It's so important these days to give the benefit of the doubt. Also, trust and verify.So let's talk about

Dake Kang 姜大翼

dakekang

The Beijing that could have been, if Mao wasn’t so enamored of Moscow on his visit circa 1950https://twitter.com/jmchatwin/status/1293568994755129345 1/ Fun fact: I wrote a thesis paper on this topic.Beijing's city

sahra

sahrasulaiman

What I'd appreciate hearing from said urban planners/advocates is how and where they have incorporated these realities and concerns into their work around safe/open/slow streets and planning, more generally. Because

Shamsudeen

onenonlyshams

[Thread ] On why you could build wonderful cities by simply doing the opposite of what is/has been done. 1.) House construction has gone out of the hands of the

Alasdair Rae

undertheraedar

A short city population/datanerdfest coming up in this thread, beginning with a little panoramic tour of the Tokyo metro area - city as far as the eye can see(I made

Dave Ederer 🦔

DaveEderer

Vision Zero and Safe Systems are public health policy. John Snow's map of cholera cases in London is one of the 1st examples of modern epidemiology.Civil engineers ended that outbreak,

Michael Merrick

michael_merrick

1/n The start of a new year will see a lot of teachers joining Catholic education, possibly for the first time, and one of the things that often worries people

Shannon Keating

skeatings

Because anti-trans bigots claim that trans people must be kept out of women's spaces for "safety" reasons, I'd like to share some insights from a story I wrote a few

Alexander Lanoszka

ALanoszka

Good thread, but for me the interesting question is not whether arms races lead to war (too many problems with reverse causation), but how they shape state's choices over armaments

James Baker Supports DC Statehood

jspencebaker

Friends, family, and surrounding municipalities, we had the Kansas City, Missouri City Plan Commission meeting yesterday. Here's what went down. Docket link below for reference. #kcmo https://www.dropbox.com/s/5t520gbj8e7gz4y/April%2020

Willem Middelkoop

wmiddelkoop

In 2014 I wrote The Big Reset. The most important part: Chapter 6 - The Big Reset A Sunday thread - inspired by the IMF - calling for a 'New

Zack Rosen

zack

So, I am a week into my self-education on safe street design. This is my current understanding (this is nuts!): Cars are #1 killer of kids in the US. As

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

Wow, this story about Cambridge moving lectures online for next year really blew up, didn’t it? A thread on what it means and what it doesn’t.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52732814 Disclaimer 1: I teach

Brandon O’Brien, virtually @ CoNZealand

therisingtithes

I wanna say a thing that I said yesterday in a Zoom barcon with other, much smarter folks like @SarahPinsker & @BenCKinney: we need to do a better job of