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Our periodic reminder that single family homes & apartment buildings can peacefully & beautifully co-exist in neighborhoods. They aren’t mutually exclusive. Pictured here: Painted Ladies — perhaps the most famous single family homes — right next to a beautiful apartment building

Every single city in North America needs to be working on transforming these 3 things in their zoning. Right now. - abolish zoning that only allows single detached housing - remove parking minimums or replace with smart incentives - create parking maximums Every. Single. City.

Free Parking Is Killing Cities bloomberg.com/news/features/…

My kind of road diet: Two lanes of dining room, a buffer, and a bike lane.

This feels right. Let’s build inclusive cities 🙏🏾

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via The Discourse study. This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

Unlike Charleston, Savannah didn’t offload authority and responsibility for most city streets to the state DOT. A line was held against the asphalt industrial complex and beautiful, pervious, lower maintenance, traffic-calming brick streets were preserved.

Pedal around places with great infrastructure for long enough, and you’ll often witness the most remarkable little things. Fully-grown adults momentarily losing themselves in the childlike emotion that made them fall in love with cycling in the first place: the simple joy of it.

From the separated cycle path to the (free) secure parking to the station platform to the railway carriage in less than four minutes. Over 650,000 Dutch people use the bike-train combination each day for good reason. The right choice is carefully designed to be the easy choice.

Acting as an elegant gateway to the small town of Oirschot is a beautiful wooden walking and cycling bridge: the Stönner-Meijwaardbrug. The gentle incline provides easy accessibility for carriages, mobility scooters and wheelchairs; while the steps offer pedestrians a shortcut.

One of the most intriguing, and misused, street design & place-making ideas in the world is the Dutch #Woonerf, or living street. When I studied woonerfs while working in Groningen, I learned the key is design that essentially makes it impossible to drive faster than people walk.

“Building more roads to prevent congestion is like a fat man loosening his belt to prevent obesity” — L. Mumford. The black hole of highway investment:

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: " If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, [...] in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices."

This is a cycle path. It’s magnificent. Away from traffic. More please NYC DOT

"The city is not the problem; the city is the solution." —the late Jaime Lerner, Mayor of Curitiba. [Photo: trams in Finland]

The Dutch bike-train combination offers a more attractive—and sustainable—alternative to driving: 21% of bike-train trips replace car trips. 66% of bike-train users have car access but prefer not to use it. With facilities such as Utrecht Centraal Station, it’s easy to see why.

You might have seen this already, but it’s worth appreciating again. Very clever. #ClimateCrisis

Every mayor, council, chief planner, chief transportation official, etc who wants to PROVE they understand the role that cities & city halls play in mitigating the #ClimateCrisis should show their robust & fully funded plan to rapidly build a safe & complete bike network. #COP26

"10 years ago today, people said we were crazy to pedestrianize Broadway 🇺🇸. Today, it would be crazy to bring the 🚗 cars back." ~ Janette Sadik-Khan