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1/ I've always been persuaded that most policymakers have little understanding of the spatial implications of their policies. That because policymaking is mostly dominated by discursive and econometric logics.An example?

1/ What's in common between the two major urban interventions pictured below, a NA urban freeway and an Italian boulevard? Nothing apparentlyWell, not really. Both interventions originated from the same

1/ I keep asking myself why, despite a lot of talking about electric mobility, there aren't more new trolleybus lines around. But there are a few.The recently opened Rimini's BRT,

I had a couple of exchanges here about a planned development in Jersey CityOne thing that helps understand my criticism is to put it in the light of the centrality

1/ Yesterday I had an interesting exchange with @threestationsq, born out of me subtwitting @ebwhamilton on California's prop 207.Together with the pictures below, it says a lot about how culturally

1/One thing that always strikes me when I travel around the US and Canada is the differences in road infrastructure design compared to Europe: the way topography or urban insertion

1/ The visitors of Rome remark that, for a 3.5m metro region, the subway network of the Eternal City is severely underdeveloped: 2 (and a half) lines 60 km 73

1/ On today's episode of "Planning as Evolved Past the Need for Zoning... But not Past the Need for Public Action":The "BIMBY-BUILD IN MY BACKYARD" experience in France, a tool

1/ To celebrate the opening of the Ceneri tunnel, the little sister of the Gotthard base tunnel, here is a thread about the Epic Old pioneering and the Brand New

I want to argue in favor of road engineers that too often get treated as psychopath or inherently evil human being by many advocates, arguing that the way street space

1/ This is a difficult thread I've longtime planned to do. I confess that, unlike many in here, I still have some sympathies for the "preservationist" or "heritage" argument in

A depressing reflection of why bottom-up or nudge or micro-level action or whatever the "small is beautiful" ideology proposes is not enough, if we don't want our collective mobility behavior