Absolute tour de force of a blog by Ed West on how cars uglify cities, make us fat, make us unhappy, destroy civic life, prevent childhood play and why we need road pricing (the title explains pretty much explains it): edwest.substack.com/p/road-pricing…

The UK looks to most observers like it is stuck in the mud… …what if the conventional wisdom is wrong and the UK is in the early innings of a new Economic Revolution, based on the Knowledge Town model? linkedin.com/posts/dominice…

Great news built on strong collaboration … future is full of possibility for the NE 🤝>>>North East finally agrees £4.2bn devolution deal to create new mayor chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

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“Knowledge Towns”, published by Johns Hopkins is coming out in March 21, 2023 by ⁦Dominic | Northstar VC⁩ Dominic Endicott and David Staley linkedin.com/posts/dominice…

Rocket ship in Social Impact ⁦OnHand⁩ linkedin.com/posts/activity…

Doing Well by Doing Good linkedin.com/posts/activity…

College towns as talent hubs | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Very Light Rail is so easy to install that local road crews can do it, and this is important: “Our own council road team laid them too—which is great and supports our aim of ensuring CVLR creates and safeguards jobs in our city.” cities-today.com/coventry-puts-…

Our smart city is getting even smarter! Our new, safe and friendly Wi-Fi network is here. So, when you’re out and about in #Sunderland and at the coast in #Roker, you can save your data and scroll, like, download and enjoy with ease. More information at orlo.uk/LXUV8

A few people (actually quite a lot) have asked me what I think of recent announcements on “the war on motorists.” Here is my reply which I suspect will annoy people on both sides … createstreets.com/street-fight-w…

¡Viva! Streets Denver is a community event series that makes 3.5 miles of streets in downtown Denver car-free on 4 Sundays over the summer. Time and time again we see experiments like these succeed—we just need to make them permanent!

It's time for trams

With the topic of town building rightly back on the agenda the Phoenix development may help to show us how it's done

Trams are good for drivers as well as places....

In US cities, ~2/3 of crash deaths occur on streets owned by the state – not local gov. Outdated, deadly state roads are preventing cities from building the safe, comfortable, and transit-friendly streets residents want. My deep dive, in Vox vox.com/future-perfect…

This is very very good modern #GentleDensity which rhymes with the past & looks to the future …

The youthening of rural America H/T Jim Russell We will see a reversal of the aging of rural America. It will become youthful as young people bail out of the expensive houses and long commutes of mega cities to build companies, lives, families and communities. Land in most of

Another old part of London is to be spanking new again. 11 years after the exhibition centre was demolished, 160 years after railways arrived, >900 years since the de Vere family first built their eponymous manor house, Earl’s Court is being remade from the cleared earth. But..