I adore Montreal. 🚲 🚲 🚲

My boring take: just have your city draft a bunch of pre-approved designs that developers can build with minimal bureaucratic hurdle.

Medical studies continue to report that infrastructure designed around the car directly contributes to anxiety & depression.

This is what I dream about living in one day.

We need to build brownstones again. Masonry. Soundproof. Alley loaded. 1600sf, 3BR+Office/2.5BA

If you do walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, you don’t need to asphalt everything over for cars

Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist Becky Hartung Lindsay Loves Cities count me in

Yesssssss

“Kids don’t go outside anymore!” Outside:

Jane Jacobs talked about the sidewalk ballet, but I like this dance even better.

Courtyard blocks are California’s missing middle for the climate era: dense enough to meet housing goals, green enough to meet environmental requirements, and humane enough to build public support. Also, courtyard typology draws on California’s Mediterranean and Mission

Hear me out What if we built it here Instead of middle of nowhere California 2 hours from San Francisco

Please can we go back to building beautiful homes.

There is more square footage of parking per car than there is living space per person in the USA. Read that again.

Mind blowing. With Waymo and robotaxis already here, it’s insane we’re still enforcing parking minimums. We’re pouring billions into infrastructure that’ll be obsolete in under a decade.

When we combine residential-over-retail, human-scale streets, and bistro lighting we create a community where we all want to be! #bikeablecity #bistrolights #walkablecitiy

A network of shared streets can enable the efficient movement of people and goods in a dense urban environment.

Actually building the apartment building: $35 million Impact fees on the apartment building: $8.5 million I am just a simple country planner, but it seems to me that imposing heavy taxes on the construction of new housing in the middle of an acute housing shortage is a bad idea.

Impact fees as 15% of the total project budget for new housing in Palo Alto is insane. Housing is a community benefit. Until we approach it with that mindset we’ll never solve our housing issues.

What a loss. Melanie was one of the rare people who absolutely changed the shape of our city, giving us back our river, and so much more. She was powerful, vital and full of life-force up until the very end. Melanie Winter, who fought for embracing nature along the Los