Alabama Urbanists Coalition

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[Better Birmingham @Better_Bham]

"...With mixed use medium...Someone can come in and build the building and the top floors are condos or lofts or apartments...and the first floor allows someone to put their donut shop down there because they only need a certain amount of square footage." - Aaron Ragsdale

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

The mode that should be free and covered entirely at public expense is walking which is foundational to human health and development. That’s accessible, wide, tree lined sidewalks well maintained at public expense. All other modes, 🚲🚉🚎🚙 should be priced a their true costs.

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @Car_Free_USA]

Little things matter.

[Alabama Urbanists Coalition @AlUrbanists]

BDOT upped their game with this new protected bike lane along Rugby Ave! Reach out to your city councilor to let them know you love it!

[Alabama Urbanists Coalition @AlUrbanists]

Vehicles can be weapons...

[carol robinson @RobinsonCarol]

Update; Birmingham father run over by vehicle, killed in front of kids at family party during domestic dispute; woman jailed - https://t.co/Cq0LzA6DkK https://t.co/PfmA4kqD5M

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Thanks to decongestion pricing:

“Totally anecdotally,” Michaelson continues, “doctors are reporting that their patients are not late for appointments. I spoke to someone who has to deliver merchandise who was saying, ‘It saves so much time.’

[Alabama Urbanists Coalition @AlUrbanists]

Some rare sense about the housing crisis - more housing = more affordable housing

https://t.co/ghzH23aeR6

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

No city can achieve its climate targets without prioritising walking, cycling and public transport.

It is that easy:🚶>🚲>🚊>🚗

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Car storage takes up a ton of space. Cities are constrained. It's a geometry problem. If a person drives themselves to a city center and parks, they should expect to pay.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"Research shows people in the US think traffic deaths are inevitable, but they aren't."

Land use policy and transportation engineering are contributing to a public health crisis.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Birmingham AL has a very underrated pre-war housing stock and pretty walkable neighborhoods.

You can thank it's pre-war industrialization for giving it an urban fabric that looks much more like a northern city than a southern one.

[Alabama Urbanists Coalition @AlUrbanists]

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. Birmingham has good bones to make a great city, all it needs is a bit of love!

Help make an impact in your community so we can make our cities better for us all :) Ask us for a link if you’d like to be up to date on what we’re doing

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Birmingham AL has a very underrated pre-war housing stock and pretty walkable neighborhoods.

You can thank it's pre-war industrialization for giving it an urban fabric that looks much more like a northern city than a southern one.

[Aaron Lubeck @aaron_lubeck]

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.

[Burhan Azeem, Cambridge Vice Mayor @realBurhanAzeem]

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.

We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style

Here’s the details 🧵

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

An industrial storage yard turns into 228 homes in Birmingham, Alabama. (2020➡️2022)

[Main Street Alabama @MainStreetAl]

Is your community ready to revitalize its downtown or neighborhood commercial district? If so, becoming a Network member can help you get organized and build capacity. Click to read more. https://t.co/9RsYp5GT8P

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Do it.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

it’s awesome how every single anti-congestion pricing argument is completely crumbling when faced with real-world data.

this is why congestion pricing always gets more popular after it’s implemented: it simply works