All of the changes to our streets we've seen during the pandemic are just returning many of our city streets back to what they were originally intended for... Space for people, space for community & space for commerce. 📍Mulberry St., NYC 🗓️1901-2018-2020 📷anamar

Tim Urban Just saw this. Not a chart or a diagram but still fascinating x.com/SamRamani2/sta…

Map of the Ancient Roman World from their perspective, 43 AD. Interesting to see how important that made the Mediterranean historically. Source: buff.ly/2SMWbUw

In Paris the temporary café terraces set up in city streets during the pandemic could be here to stay! Paris is creating a legal route for the 9.8K cafes, bars & restaurants that set up short-term terraces to return every summer, or even become permanent. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Baruch College 25th Street pedestrian plaza is finally open! Come by and enjoy this new and permanent open space.

I’ve done it - I’ve found the most insane outdoor dining setup. It’s at Bison and Bourbon, a kosher steakhouse in Gowanus. Two trailer-mounted flameless diesel heaters running flex ducts - suspended with cables for pedestrian clearance - into an enormous uninsulated patio. Wow.

If you have a struggle with delegation, you have a struggle with trust.

“Busy is a decision” –Debbie Millman

Parents have to choose their battles. 8 fights worth picking with your kids:

7. Dealing with trauma is a privilege Life has always been hard. But when you're busy surviving, you don't have time to worry about that. Even if it's holding you back. A lot of what I witnessed was likely people just trying to survive the best way they knew how to.

When Cars Kill newyorker.com/news/our-local…

“Getting cheated occasionally is a small price to pay for trusting the best in everyone, because when you trust the best in others, they will treat you the best.”

Waterfall Swing

Suburban sprawl can only exist because it lets the wider society pay for its cost.

Sort of stunned by how much this tweet has taken off. I'm getting replies with calls to pedestrianize main strips in places like Ireland, Trinidad & Tobago, and Germany. If New York leads like this, people take notice.

When NYC installed speed cameras on roads around schools, speeding on those roads dropped 80-90%. nyc.gov/html/dot/downl…

Must watch: A Montana Republican talks far better than most 'housing is a human right' NIMBYs about how housing is an essential human need and the profound inequality of how the US currently allocates housing.

It’s counterintuitive unless you are a bike rider or physicist (I’m both) If we come to a full stop, it takes us longer to clear the intersection, increasing our risk of being run over from the side. Also extremely exhausting

Making family dinners non-negotiable has one of the highest ROIs of anything you'll do as a dad