Build a Better Burb

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[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

It's no longer city versus suburb. It's walkable versus car-oriented. https://t.co/L308zoPUPQ

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“Seniors have the most to gain from pedestrian & cycling improvements — yet they often feel threatened by changes that provide alternatives to driving.” Include seniors in active transportation planning. Via ⁦@NewUrbanism⁩ & ⁦@cnupublicsquare⁩: https://t.co/bmCUBY2vMr

[Congress for the New Urbanism @NewUrbanism]

"While New Urbanists have increased the supply of walkable, mixed-use places with access to transit, the supply falls far short of meeting the demand for such places. This has forged an affordability problem, and, in turn, and equity problem." https://t.co/tUib1dJM47

[Congress for the New Urbanism @NewUrbanism]

How can we retrofit our suburbs to be more equitable and livable?

Leslie Creane of Congress for the New Urbanism spoke with @williamson_arch and @justupthepike at #CNU27 in Louisville. Listen to their conversation via our podcast: https://t.co/0eM7FtSkaC

[Congress for the New Urbanism @NewUrbanism]

Even in the vast American drivable urban landscape, families can figure out how to do without a car—walking and biking to meet every personal need.

Here’s how it’s done and you can do it, too. https://t.co/8pR8mneZde

[Jeremy Jordan @JeremyTownBoard]

As someone who cares about the amount of toxins being carried into our streams from impervious surfaces I love this idea to create more green space!
Asphalt, Be Gone! How Depave Is Replacing Parking Lots with Parks https://t.co/DnBryTb0IO via @BetterBurb

[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

This article on @cityofcarmelin #CNUCharterAwards winning boulevard project made @CNUPublicSquare's top 10 most popular articles for 2019! #suburbanretrofit #walkability #mixeduse #placemaking https://t.co/NK9Oo3RKKj

[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

@LevinsonHistory We will be working on it. Wonder if friends @ad_mastro @MattRobare @strongtowns would like to chime in as well. Would be great to develop some lesson plans.

[Matt Staub @staubio]

Man, there's no escaping this culture problem.

Just got chased down and cut off by the driver who was stuck behind me while I yielded to a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk. Driver laid on horn the entire time I waited, which was my legal obligation.

Streets are out of control.

[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

@clmarohn's new book looks at the "great suburban #infrastructure infrastructure Ponzi scheme" https://t.co/0Q4nHhqsXu #cities #suburbs #betterburb @StrongTowns

[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

With @williamson_arch and @justupthepike! #betterburbs

[Smart Growth Online @smartgrowthorg]

Have you registered for this Friday's webinar yet? "Suburbs for Everyone: How to Rethink, Redesign, and Redevelop the 'Burbs to Be More Affordable and Livable" 9/27 at 1 p.m. EDT https://t.co/VqSfvIOJBw

[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

Are the #suburbs ready for smart technologies? Join a free @IslandPress webinar on how suburbs can “future-proof” themselves. 1.5 #AICP CM credits available for live attendance. Register now! https://t.co/frAkzDpuh5

[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

Are the #suburbs ready for smart technologies? Join a free @IslandPress webinar on how suburbs can “future-proof” themselves. 1.5 #AICP CM credits available for live attendance. Register now! https://t.co/frAkzDpuh5

[Chris Leinberger @ChrisLeinberger]

I agree with this thread...we need more land zoned for walkable urban stuff then is actually built upon it to be a competitive, that is modest priced, market.

[Saskia Sassen @SaskiaSassen]

Women-books on urbanism
https://t.co/ECJ4sB9Nf4

[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

@SethLargo @ad_mastro .@ad_mastro says it best on a longer passage from his article that concludes "A real economy is dense local and regional networks of people and families engaged in mutual support."

[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

@SethLargo @ad_mastro We humbly submit that the very form of our suburbs tell the story. Fueled by the military industrial complex (aka interstate highway construction for military and emergency "needs"), our economic models reward infinite expansion/production instead of self-replenishing economies.

[Addison Del Mastro @ad_mastro]

Thoughts on starting down the path of homeownership and family in a country that is in decline. What if there's already been a collapse, and this affluent corner of America outside Washington, DC is just lucky to have missed it? https://t.co/6Jr8kEJSVE

[Emily Badger @emilymbadger]

“The roads hold such a special position in our brain that we use logic around them that we would never use around everything else.”

How congestion pricing challenges that deeply American logic: https://t.co/qS8tXx7T86

[Build a Better Burb @BetterBurb]

well, that's one way to go.

[Ethan Kent @ebkent]

We're proud to announce a new program for #TacticalSuburbanism! After successfully bringing #TacticalUrbanism & #LighterQuickerCheaper to #Urbanism, @StreetPlans & @PPS_Placemaking are now bringing these ideas to Suburbanism: https://t.co/mCcAIOnF1a #Placemaking #NewUrbanism