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Rule 19: Price Parking on its Value Merchants often oppose higher parking fees, even in over-parked commercial areas. What would you offer to change their minds? Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 17: Make Downtown Parking a Public Utility What’s the best way to make downtown parking efficient and actually work well? What mistakes kill good parking systems? Walkable City Rules: www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

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Rule 16: Eliminate On-Site Parking Requirements In Palo Alto, neighbor pressure added costly parking to a 107-unit affordable project near transit, raising costs by 38%. How can cities better balance housing and parking? Drop your guesses. amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 15: Enact “Housing First” Beyond the personal toll, how does homelessness impact the broader community? And what do you believe is the most effective way to address it? Drop your guesses in the comments and find the answer in the book! amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 14: Fight Displacement What is the difference between gentrification and displacement. What do you think are the potential consequences of confusing the two. And what strategies can be taken to reduce displacement. Drop your guesses. www.amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 13: Leverage Housing with Parking Lots What must a good parking lot have and why? Drop your guesses in the comments and find the answer in the book: www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

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Rule 12 Encourage Granny Flats: How can you convince a Nimby to support accessory dwelling units? How would you convince them? Write what you think in the comments down below and learn more about in Walkable City Rules: www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

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Rule 11: Mandate Smart Inclusionary Zoning Which is more effective, mandatory or voluntary inclusionary zoning? And why do you think that is? Drop your thoughts in the comments and find out the answer in Walkable City Rules: www.amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 10: Do the Math How many times more tax revenue per acre does a traditional downtown generate vs. a Walmart Supercenter? And how many more jobs? If your city already had that extra revenue, how should it be spent? Drop your guesses. www.amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 9: Fix Your Codes Look at this NYC zoning map, its dense, diverse, and walkable. What urban design principle helps make this kind of walkability possible? Drop your answers below and see the answer in: www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

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Rule 8 from Walkable City Rules: Push for local parks Why do we have the term “soccer mom”? What does that reveal about how our cities are designed? Drop your guesses in the comments and find the answer in the book: www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

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RULE 7: Push for Local Schools How does the way we plan our communities impact how well kids do in school? Drop your thoughts below. Answer’s in Walkable City Rules: www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

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Rule 6: Invest in Attainable Housing Downtown How can cities actually get developers to build affordable housing downtown, and why is it so tough to make happen? Drop your thoughts in the comments. Walkable City Rules: www.amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 5: Sell Walkability on Community How do car-dependent cities impact social capital, trust, relationships, and our sense of community? Have you seen it firsthand? Share your thoughts & explore more in Walkable City Rules: www.amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 4: Sell Walkability on Equity Which groups are most disproportionately killed in traffic? What do you think the conversation around walkability and equity reveals about the gap between mobility as a right vs. a privilege? Drop your thoughts below. www.amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 3: Sell Walkability on Climate Change Why do you think the environmental movement in the U.S. has historically been anti-city—from Jefferson to the Sierra Club, do you see any traces of that thinking now? Walkable City Rules: www.amazon.com/dp/1610918983

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Rule 2: Sell Walkability on Health How many times more likely are Americans to die in a car crash than people in the UK or Sweden? Take a wild guess. Driven in both? What stood out most? Find the stat and the solution in Walkable City Rules. amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

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101 Walkable City Rules is back! Each day, a new rule + question. Rule 1: Sell Walkability on Wealth Walkable cities generate far more GDP per capita than car-dependent ones. Guess how much more in the comments down below. The answer’s in the book! www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

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Including @nikkiglaser.bsky.social @jeffspeck.bsky.social @freddieoconnell.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social @linamkhan.bsky.social @abigailspanberger.com

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Happy to be on this week's @strongtowns.org podcast with @clmarohn.bsky.social www.strongtowns.org/podcasts

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Boston-NY Acela was $550 round trip, so I am regrettably flying first class (upgraded) for $250. Looks like the wrong economic incentives are in place!

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Ouch

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"That simpler time has been replaced with the realization that paving half a city into a checkerboard of parking lots sucks the soul out of a place and actually makes it harder to live in cities." 📍Denver, CO

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This article is a wonderful summary of why the two-stair rule is so bad for America. www.archpaper.com/2023/03/why-...

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Go Brent!

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Excited about our work in Louisville. x.com/louisvillema...

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Fundido appreciates fine art

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A lot of premature criticism of unfinished Copley Square. . . The grass is coming, folks! More here: www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

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Apple not so sharp today.

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The Texas Senate, in a nearly unanimous vote, passed a single stair reform bill, SB 2835, 29-2. This bill, which now moves onto the House, allows single-staircase buildings up to 6 floors with up to 4 units per floor. 📍 Texas

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Trump has closed the U.S. to all refugees except white South Africans. Haitians fleeing poverty and violence, Venezuelans fleeing starvation and oppression, people from Congo, Bhutan, Nigeria, and other countries who've built lives here -- all must leave. But white South Africans are welcome.

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After 60 years and an amazing legacy of accomplishment, from the Mayors' Institute on City Design to the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, the Design division of the NEA is effectively shutting its doors. Never during my term as Design Director ('03-'07) did I imagine we would sink this low as a nation.

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@mnolangray.bsky.social I emailed you, Nolan. Received?

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Design firm Speck Dempsey discusses steps toward making University of Alabama more walkable, bikeable. @jeffspeck.bsky.social gave a fascinating lecture on urban design and how to make our streets safe. www.wvua23.com/news/design-... via @wvua23.bsky.social 3

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So pleasing. Well done @jeffspeck.bsky.social

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Could this be the year you take my @HarvardGSDExEd course? May 22-23: execed.gsd.harvard.edu/programs/wal...

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Early bird registration for CNU Providence is almost over! @newurbanism www.cnu.org/cnu33

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Gutting the FAA won't cause more collisions if you also kill any reason for commercial air traffic into the United States.

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Question for European transportation policy wonks: What creative transport laws/regs are your favorites? Examples: 🔹 France's weight-based vehicle fees 🔹 Switzerland's ability to confiscate & sell cars owned by super-speeders 🔹 The Dutch law that holds drivers responsible for bike-car crashes

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I’m not sure if Eric is correct here, but I can say with confidence that while “AI-first” may be the future of the design professions, it would cause me to seek a different profession. commonedge.org/authors/eric...

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@harvard.edu gets 10% of its funding from the federal government, which Trump is threatening to cut unless the school abandons its principles. Question, how much funding does the school get from alumni like me who will stop supporting @harvard.edu if it caves?

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Armed and ready. See you on the Common.

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Doing your taxes is so cool right now — Like you’re gonna spend a lot of time filing them and they get delivered into a smoking hole in the ground.

submitted 93 days ago • 39 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

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I, shamefully, have never been aware of Greenland’s flag until now. It is cool as hell.

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