Cities Decoded

Giving you the resources you need to participate in the conversations shaping the city you love.

[Cities Decoded @CitiesDecoded]

Excited to announce I'll be the new host for the Bottom Up Revolution from @StrongTowns. Really excited to learn from our guests. Want to nominate someone for us to interview? Use the form in show notes https://t.co/zFVIja8Bx3

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history.

Please share it as much as you can.

[NYC DOT @NYC_DOT]

New Yorkers should feel safe everywhere. That’s why we’re launching an emergency hotline for walkers stranded in unwalkable cities, trudging to brunch on the shoulder of a highway because Google maps told them it was technically possible.

Help is coming. 1-800 number pending.

[Parking Reform Network @Parking_Reform]

How do businesses survive here without free parking? 😉

[Jack @JackInacker]

This is so rad- someone living next to a bus stop in Philly programmed an old clock to let folks know when the next bus is coming.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

Electric bus mandates are causing transit service cuts, which are bad for the climate.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Policy decisions like this are anti-family and anti-children.

Imagine a 20 something watching this... does this look like a life they want to live? Hell no!

Want more young people to have babies? Present them with a better vision for the future than whatever the hell this one is.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*."

[Cities Decoded @CitiesDecoded]

While writing this, I seriously considered if speedometers in cars should be limited to 90mph? https://t.co/jSFUa42bxZ

[Cities Decoded @CitiesDecoded]

Had lots of fun talking with Erin! https://t.co/CBuj0Xhjhb

[Cities Decoded @CitiesDecoded]

I've sometimes joked that de-paving residential streets would immediately improve safety and kill speeding

[Natalia Barbour @natalia_barbour]

This is what some people keep fighting against.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Where Americans will travel across the world to experience vs. where they live and will never allow to change:

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

When we used to manufacture things, people cycled to work.

Now people drive 4x4s to sit in an office for eight hours.

The idea that we need 41 million motors on our roads in order to qualify as an industrial society is - quite obviously - absurd.

[Eddie Redcliffe @fictillius]

An excellent time-lapse of the crowds from two concerts at Olympic Park being taken home by train.

North Americans obsessed with stadium parking please take note

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of...communities." ― Jane Jacobs

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

You can't go wrong.

[Qagggy! @Qagggy]

Eliminating cars—and all of their tedious requirements—lets you build places at a more human scale.

[@civicgrit.bsky.social @civic_grit]

Sometimes on Google Maps little numbers show up in the middle of empty lots, as if there's a building there.

Those numbers are the addresses of buildings demolished long ago, but the lots still legally exist complete with their old outline.

Ghost numbers.

[Dr. T. Panova @DrTPanova]

“What could possibly be causing the epidemic of loneliness? 🤔” ask people living in environments like this one and then conclude, “You know what, it must be the phones.”

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

Public safety is essential for everything progressives care about. People with resources or options will not stay in a place where they are or fear becoming victims of crime. If we want walkability, transit, flourishing cities or a high trust society, we need to deal with crime.