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Next Tuesday, March 4 at 12pm ET, On the Park Bench webinar: “Wildfire Recovery and Planning.” Panelists Neal Payton, Barry Long, Kate Blystone, and Martin Dreiling will discuss recovery from the LA fire disasters and urban planning related to wildfires. Register @ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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A bill will soon be introduced at the Colorado legislature that would allow Japanese mini vehicles on most of the state’s roads. Known as Kei-jidōsha or light vehicles in Japan, these are growing in popularity in the U.S. But many states have banned them in recent years.

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If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

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Trading the Big Idea for One Building President of the National Civic Art Society, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that promotes the classical and humanistic tradition in public art and architecture, Justin Shubow is an architectural enigma to me. Obviously partisan,…

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Among planners, Bill Fulton is probably best known as the author of the Guide to California Planning. But to #Shoupistas, his greatest accomplishment is the work he did as mayor of #Ventura to create and defend one of America’s first parking benefit districts. It’s been a model for so many.

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That’s how you respond to a wannabe dictator. #resist

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We're at levels of delusion never before seen.

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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In my opinion, more than 75% of every urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture program today should focus on “SPRAWL REPAIR”. The work is endless. And virtually nobody is teaching it.

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Professor Shoup’s classic work, “The High Cost of Free Parking”, can be found…via a free searchable manuscript online.” Recommended by #Shoupistas everywhere! 😎 www.dropbox.com/s/npqk6adti2...

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Our Engine 2/ Medic 2 were first-in to this one with Captain Bernie Molloy's crew. They did an excellent job with a shit-ton of fire showing.

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San Diego traffic isn’t that bad. www.axios.com/local/san-di...

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After #SanDiego removed minimum parking mandates for homes near transit, “its density bonus program produced much more housing…more market-rate housing, more affordable housing in 100%-affordable buildings, and more affordable housing in mixed-income projects.” cal.streetsblog.org/2021/05/19/p...

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The Los Angeles Traffic Ordinance of 1925 went into effect 100 years ago today. According to the L.A. Record, the first person arrested as a jaywalker was Charles Thompson, who was crossing Broadway between Seventh and Eighth streets, in downtown L.A., at 12:35 am.

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I finished reading @holz-bau.bsky.social's Building for People a couple of weeks ago. It provides a high-level overview of European development processes for eco-districts, and contrasts that with what happens in the US & Canada.

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Talking Headways Podcast: From Intern to CEO - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/t... via @usa.streetsblog.org and @theoverheadwire.bsky.social

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Trends in Suburban Retrofit: Seaside Prize recognizes Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson! This On the Park Bench conversation with CNU’s Public Square is a nice highlight of the impact of their work! youtu.be/xKvQOWUwFlU #OnTheParkBench #CNU @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social

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What I think about how to build cities and beyond: youtu.be/Hrg0Imhy1nE

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i agree w/ @aarieff.bsky.social prefabrication is a good idea. the problem? prefabrication in the US has been too focused on modularity when panelization is where it's at: flexibility, performance, better design options - plus you aren't shipping air www.dwell.com/article/why-...

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Yesterday, I showed how a lack of construction labor has driven increased construction costs since 2015. The new anti-immigration stance by the Federal Government will make this worse. A full third of construction workers are immigrants. Cutting immigration will make home building more expensive.

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there are 60% more cars in seattle today v. 30 years ago. there is no plan to dramatically drive down VMTs or the number of cars. and transportation is by far our largest carbon footprint. zero climate leadership.

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just confirmed my first book event in seattle - i'll be talking at elliott bay books the evening of march 4th details soon.

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Care about how we get around cities better? Care about how cities succeed? In case you missed it, this is my starter pack full of smart people & orgs working hard on BETTER TRANSPORTATION! I’ve been adding to it, so check out who’s new. And sharing it would be much appreciated! #UrbanistShoutOut

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Firefighters from Mexico just arrived at LAX. They'll be joining 14,000+ personnel already battling the #PalisadesFire. California is immensely grateful to our neighbors' support in the fight against the wildfires in Los Angeles.

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Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

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Social Isolation and Sitting to Work are Connected Our post-industrial online lifestyle is killing us...

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Agreed. Oh well, I’m stuck with hundreds of cassettes and CDs too.

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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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The Robber Barrons are not even trying to hide it now. The New Gilded Age is here.

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And just like that, San Diego has officially failed to meet its Vision Zero goal of ending all traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2025. How we got here: www.kpbs.org/news/quality...

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US tax credit for a new Cybertruck: $7,500 US tax credit for a new e-bike: $0

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I started before this by being born and living in San Diego, California. #FortunateSon

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This graphic is extremely useful in measuring and quantifying policy and regulatory success.

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Today in @theatlantic.com, I make the case for the case for cautious (and necessary) optimism about Los Angeles. Everything great about LA—weather, mountains, beaches, jobs—isn't going away, and everything that sucks about LA—housing costs and traffic—is fixable. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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I’m working on updates the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals connected to January 6th. I’ve spent more than 3-years and devoted hundreds of hours to this project, and there’s still more work to be done. Details on how to support this project below👇🏼

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Several people have asked me if I can check if their property is covered by the AB-1893 upzoning, so here's what I'll do: Subscribe at the $15 level and I'll do a specific parcel look-up for you, for up to 3 parcels patreon.com/JoeCohen?utm...

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I've already had a Twitter follower subscribe at the $300/month level to get access to the list... And they immediately found out that their house was upzoned to allow for 18 units! 🥳 (note: results highly atypical)

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As of yesterday, ~25,000 parcels in Los Angeles have now been upzoned, thanks to a state law nobody was paying attention to Should I compile a spreadsheet of them and make it available to future Patreon subscribers?

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Excellent illustration of a process I see all the time. h/t @chesaysthings on the hellsite.

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“A reform effort to end the 2nd-staircase requirement has shown a light on the need to improve the building code adoption process more broadly…policymakers are asking tough questions about whether their building codes based on the ICC model are compatible with their housing affordability objectives”

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this is actually why downtown seattle isn't recovering. half of downtown is an on ramp. the other half is massively wide ROWs with one eay streets where people have zero priority. this is a policy choice. we can choose to prioritize downtown recovery, or cars. can't prioritize both

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If you think bike lanes are a stupid waste of space, buy my book so NACTO's Urban Bikeway Design Guide won't creep up to #1. 😏 @nacto.bsky.social

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"Public investment" vs "Wasteful Subsidy." The only problem with this clever Singer cartoon is that some people might actually not get that it’s sarcastically illustrating the perception problem, NOT telling the truth. Just in case it actually needs to be said, the truth is the opposite.

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