Ray Delahanty ( @nerd4cities ) recently visited Sydney. Here's what YouTube's favourite urban planner thinks of Sydney's trains, metro, light rail, ferries, Newtown, Surry Hills, Parramatta, bush turkeys, Manly, Katoomba, Carriageworks, and much more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfWFciekZwo #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #Sydney
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Urbanism Now #18 is out! Fresh insights this week:
Seoul's Linear Parks, OpenStreetMap Games, and Velomobile Commons
#urbanism #osm #urbanplanning #cycling
https://urbanismnow.substack.com/p/19-seouls-linear-parks-openstreetmap?triedRedirect=true
"Nowadays I don’t know what story to tell about Flushing."
Jefferson Mao for Urban Omnibus: https://urbanomnibus.net/2025/05/neither-here-nor-there/
Urban Omnibus · Neither Here Nor There - Urban OmnibusGlobally connected and stubbornly self-contained, Flushing, Queens, has never conformed to conventional planning wisdom. In the post-pandemic realm of digital dissociation and global isolation, is it more unmoored than ever?
Archdaily : Contemporary Garden City / L’atelier DEV architecture https://www.archdaily.com/1030567/contemporary-garden-city-latelier-dev-architecture #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign #PublicSpace #MasterPlan #Urbanism
ArchDaily · Contemporary Garden City / L’atelier DEV architectureCompleted in 2024 in Bruxelles, Belgium. Images by Serge Brison. The Bon Air A neighborhood in Anderlecht is a rare gem among Brussels garden cities. Unlike most others, which have been absorbed into the city's...
Nairobi’s floods show the cost of sidelining matatus and boda bodas from infrastructure decisions.
via @TheStarKenya @ITF_Forum @OECD
The StarPoor planning, non-inclusivity blamed for flooding cities among them NairobiKenya’s capital was adversely mentioned at the transport summit in Germany
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Next was "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower" by Davarian Baldwin. Baldwin has compiled an impressive sociological dive into the interaction between universities and cities, demonstrating the issues with their non-profit status with regards to supporting their communities. I only wish it were paired with a rigorous economic analysis
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7520681/s/an-intriguing-sociological-review-with-a-heap-of-nimby-ism#anchor-7520681 (3/4) #academia #UrbanPlanning
bookwyrm.socialCritique de bwaber pour « In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower » - BookWyrmSocial Reading and Reviewing
#StrongTowns member Seth Zeren put out a good list of reasons why commercial space for lease stays vacant for a long time. Unfortunately he ended his article before going into possible solutions, hopefully it won't be a long wait for that follow up. Until then, anyone have their own ideas for solutions?
Strong TownsWhat’s With the Vacant Storefronts? 8 Reasons for Empty Commercial SpacesHere are eight reasons a storefront might sit vacant, applying to both professionally new built and legacy storefronts.
Today in The Medium Newsletter, @carlyrosegillis shares an interview with #UrbanPlanning researcher Dr. Arianna Salazar-Miranda about how public behavior on sidewalks is changing.
Other featured articles look at effective #LanguageLearning strategies, reducing a family’s #CarbonFootprint, and a ranking of #MissionImpossible films.
https://medium.com/blog/how-better-sidewalks-make-better-communities-b94ca12f3e53
The Medium Blog · How better sidewalks make better communities - The Medium Blog
This xkcd comic looks like it was written by @notjustbikes
xkcdUrban Planning Opinion Progression
Archdaily : Trévoux 84 Housing Units / Tectoniques https://www.archdaily.com/1030343/trevoux-84-housing-units-tectoniques #ResidentialArchitecture #UrbanPlanning #MasterPlan #Apartments #Urbanism #Housing
ArchDaily · Trévoux 84 Housing Units / TectoniquesCompleted in 2024 in Trévoux, France. Images by Maxime Verret. The project is part of the Orfèvres eco-district, developed by SERL as part of a development concession for the town of Trévoux on the banks of the...
Urbanism Now #18 is out!
Designing Cities for Families: Alexandra Lange explores how urban spaces truly impact parents & kids.
Uber Shuttles? Uber's "Route Share" is launching fixed-route shuttles (think buses!) in major US cities.
SF's "Stoop Coffee": How a simple sidewalk gathering blossomed into a vibrant neighborhood community.
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…the (self-declared 
) #winner of the first-stage of the #arxellence3 Two-Stage ‘International Transdisciplinary Architectural Ideas Competition’ is the project “infrastructural”
7.6: Abundance, Inclusion, Resilience: The One Million Neighbours Project with Sam Nabi
This episode, Ariel speaks to Sam Nabi about One Million Neighbours, a project bringing together the voices of local non-profits that envisions the future of Waterloo Region once the population has reached one million. Sam discusses the impetus for the project, providing a voice for the voiceless, the issue with grant applications, funding the future, being proactive instead of reactive to harsh policies, and much more. What might an abundant, inclusive, resilient (Ariel says: solarpunk) city look like on the human level? Who lives there, what do they value, and what are their daily lives like? And what does it look like to take action now at the regional/municipal level to ensure that utopian vision?
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Episode #SeasonSeven #podcast #interview #OneMillionNeighbours @samnabi @dtkmelissa #VisionOneMillion #HoldTheLineWR #Nonprofits #neighbours #Waterloo #RegionOfWaterloo #Kitchener #KW #UrbanPlanning #transit #PublicSpaces
Today is Victoria Day in Canada, a national holiday, so I briefly considered waiting to post this until Tuesday but screw colonial measures of time; #notmyqueen lol
Nothing to sneeze at: one of Melbourne’s most-loathed trees wins a second act https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/17/nothing-to-sneeze-at-one-of-melbournes-most-loathed-trees-wins-a-second-act #Australianlifestyle #Treesandforests #Australianews #Urbanplanning #Lifeandstyle #Artanddesign #Environment #Melbourne #Interiors #Allergies #Design
The Guardian · Nothing to sneeze at: one of Melbourne’s most-loathed trees wins a second act
Ford’s car-friendly cuts will boost gridlock, drain transit funds, experts warn
#Ontario #Canada #DougFord #PublicTransit #ClimateCrisis #GasTax #Highway407 #TransitFunding #UrbanPlanning #Environment #Gridlock #EquityInTransit #CarCulture #Automotive
https://the-14.com/fords-car-friendly-cuts-will-boost-gridlock-drain-transit-funds-experts-warn/
The-14 Pictures · Ford’s car-friendly cuts will boost gridlock, drain transit funds, experts warn | The-14Doug Ford’s car-friendly cuts may worsen gridlock, hike emissions and drain public transit funding, experts say, shifting costs to taxpayers and harming equity.
El Loco Diamante. Claro que sí. Muchas gracias, Jesús.
The curse of creeping deterioration.
Imagine if your candidate for mayor came up with the plan of turning a green, cool, climate-resilient city centre with good air quality into a gigantic, hot, stinking car park within a very short space of time. Promising to significantly raise the number of traffic fatalities and environmental death rates among the old and the poor and worsen the living conditions for all inhabitants.
Today I had coffee with someone visiting the Netherlands, and she commented on how green Amsterdam is compared to most North American cities, and how nice it was.
Of course, this isn't just some magic enchantment Because Europe; it's a policy choice and a cultural choice. The trees, the flowers, the canals, they're all intentionally created and actively maintained by the local government to keep them safe, pleasant, and clean. You need a culture that's willing to say "it's important to keep the environment pleasant even if that's not the most efficient thing on paper, and it's important to maintain things even if it costs money." (The Dutch are notorious complainers about spending money – but I've never known one to skimp on maintaining their house and garden.)
Before I left the US, I lived in a place that had clearly been quite a pleasant little city a hundred years ago, but had fallen into depressing disrepair and had less public transportation and accessibility than it did in Victorian times. That's the whole US, really. Because not maintaining things is free, which is "efficient." Not investing in the environment and the community's future is free, which is "efficient."
Dog in pleasant, green urban environment attached 
