So I’m assessing the audience interest here — for any of you who wish to share, what are THREE SUBJECTS large or small within the larger conversation about better cities and city-building that you would like folks like me to share more about? Explain your answers. Use hashtag #3CitySubjects.
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2. Sound & noise (woefully neglected in urbanism)
3. Greening cities/green infrastructure
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1. Housing affordability: whose fault is it?
2. Planning for growth: examples of good strategies so we can bring in more people from both inside and outside the country
3. Preventing capture by global capital and gentrification.
I was thinking of smth like
1. Ownership / Rents / AirBnBs - do we have a SOTA scenario here? Why regulation is typically so bad?
2. How to jump-start a good city from scratch
3. How to prevent mega-corporations buying flats bulk
1. Tiny house communities - why so many planning restrictions?
2. Intergenerational housing for youth & elderly. Is the European model possible in N.A.?
3. Green spaces, dog parks, and communal gardens. How to maximize their creation & use.
Bike lanes, how to get them to be physically protected in a street environment that’s already built.
Parking minimums, data and studies showing they are costing cities money.
Public 3rd places, how to make them successful and where to place them.
2. How to foster support for banning curbside parking to facilitate better bike infra and child friendly neighborhoods.
3. Future of energy supply for dense cities from distributed generation.
1. coordinating public transportation (i.e., multi-modal hubs, like the ones common in Japan where I live)
2. zoning reform and simplification
3. encouraging locally-owned businesses
2. More info about how rural areas/small towns can adapt.
3. Go deeper into why EVs won’t save the climate.
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https://youtu.be/nQ9nbIgbUc0?si=wdrzsniqMtqZ3jKN
2: How to get and tell positive financial impact locally by better city design
3: How to involve local businesses in reducing car brain
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2. How to mobilize local support for evidence-based infrastructure to break disinfo campaigns?
3. How to influence municipal politics as everyday citizens?
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Housing affordability. Offer various options for housing with affordability being the main factor.
Transportation less importance on cars more on people moving.
Neighborhoods that have infrastructure in walking distance
Transportation: how to get people around in rapidly densifying cities.
Education: How to build community by reversing enrollment in (diverse) public schools that people mostly walk/bike to. #3CitySubjects
2. Affordable housing (and why the various levels of government can't get their act together with it)
3. Car dependency (especially here in Autowa, which deeply resents the first two).
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How will the changing immigration rules around international students change our housing inventory?
How can Colleges / University towns better prepare when the turn around happens again?
How can each level of government support purpose-built affordable rental units?
3) Enacting laws to stop our elected leaders from giving grants to nonprofits run by friends AND contracts to friends & family members. Our tax dollars are being used to enrich the wealthy -while we fight amongst ourselves & blame the opposition for not getting things done.
2) Decreasing the requirements for citizen initiative petitions to make it onto the ballot so that engaged citizens can help to enact positive meaningful change (& without funding from corporations/PACS) within their communities.
1) Increasing multi-modal transportation options BUT with honest consideration for transitioning the working class. Free, efficient & SAFE public transportation.
1. Affordability: what happened to co-ops? Are there alternatives to strata corps? What choices are there for an aging population?
2. Density: what is needed to help people tolerate living in increasingly dense situations?
3. Can wild spaces be preserved for kids and families?
So, any content about financial tools for sustainable urban development would be very welcomed!
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2. Top priority action for local governments to advance better streets (what would you do first?)
3. See 1 and 2 😀
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Transit and housing for everyone
Accesible Spaces for everyone
1. Why are public transport fares so high?
2. Why do authorities insist on punishing fare evaders rather than reducing fares for everyone?
3. How do you create "walkable cities" for extreme heat or cold weather, or very hilly terrain?
4. Why are some cities perennnially dirty?
Traffic evaporation - reallocation of road space
Congestion charges
Proximity - 30 min cities, 15 min neighborhoods
1. Affordable housing
2. Walkability
3. Bikeability
✅ YIMBY / NIMBY
✅ Innovating bylaw