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Cities for choice in housing, neighborhood, transpo; abundant access, opportunity & upward mobility. Formerly WalkableDFW Prof of Sustainable Development @SMU; Board of Directors Dallas Area Rapid Transit; Founder: THE.City & the American Dream
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When your friend wins an insanely prestigious honor but is just too humble to let you know. www.wfaa.com/article/news...

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I can't take it anymore. Three days straight of this lime scooter doing its little jingle every 30 seconds outside my home. I am going to go insane if I don't move this thing elsewhere.

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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

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"We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. It's more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given." —Ian Lockwood.

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If lime scooters don't stop doing their little chime all night long do we have permission to deposit them in the bottom of the river?

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Just a stunning verification of everything that's so wrong about AI

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It's always useful to distinguish the difference from extractive capitalism from creative capitalism.

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Are you a planning/design/architecture firm that uses AI? Do you also tout your green bonafides? How do you square that circle?

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Does it involve highway removal? Because the black neighborhood and economy recovered after the massacre only to be buried permanently by a highway.

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Wheeler District in OKC, aside from being one big cul de sac looks like it landed on the moon.

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Greater downtown area job growth 2002-2022 (3-mile radius). Only Nashville experienced some minor central area decline (1-mile radius) of the leading job growers %-wise.

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Highways don’t belong in cities. Cities belong in cities.

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No clue if RATP and metro were involved but this is really effective marketing. Also, amazing what happens when you don't starve public transit of resources nor the land uses to make it function for even the daughter of a billionaire.

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Sure you might think Dallas having over 1200 Planned Development Districts in the zoning code (essentially customized and negotiated spot zoning) is weird. What if I told you one of those districts has something like 140 sub-districts?

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Hot take I developed sitting in highway traffic yesterday: If a highway needs to be more than two (2) lanes in each direction, it is in the wrong location causing it to continually fail and the overall system has been overbuilt causing longer and more car trips.

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Not only have we overbuilt freeways and under invested in all other infrastructure and choice in trip mode, we have built highways where they are dysfunctional in all aspects including their one and only purpose, transportation.

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it's also pro rural, encouraging more growth towards inward agglomeration and prevent pavement from spilling into the Red River.

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Re: parking reform. It quite literally is not overly urbanistic. If anything it is step 1 in stripping away mandated suburbanization of the city, which as we have seen, guts the tax base and puts undo pressure on all of our property taxes.

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"Stop displacement by making room for everyone" is excellent messaging.

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There was just an ad during the Stars game for a car lease for $919/month. Good grief. That was nearly my first mortgage payment.

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ODOT: we will gladly give you some overwrought useless expenditures today for hundreds of acres of demolition and lost tax base in perpetuity tomorrow.

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THREAD: A Win for Housing in Texas! SB 2835 — Single-Stairway Bill — is headed to the governor’s desk! Working with Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social, we passed SB 2835 to clear out outdated codes and unlock more housing opportunities for small-scale, multi-family developments across Texas. (1/5)

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Nobody will confuse Duff man with a complex nor independent thinker, but to make change we will have to break through the consensus conservative ideology that anything but the private automobile, the most subsidized and least liberating form of transportation, is socialist.

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That primary negative ROI investment? The $11+ trillion in overbuilding highways and putting them in the wrong and most expensive/destructive locations which undermine tax base of cities, take private wealth, and force people into costly car-dependence...with a side of barely useable transit.

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A point Ive been making since joining the board: the problems transit agencies and public schools are left to deal with because societal services have been starved of investment for decades and these public agencies who have also been starved of resources have to deal with the downstream effects...

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Great piece by @lamster questioning the overarching priorities of the convention center project which seem incredible muddled if not in competition with each other. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

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Or have a plausible public purpose

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