PhD student @UCLA studying urban planning. Primarily interested in community development, including the documentation of the relationship between urban planning practices and deaf spaces/communities. My goal is to create links between the two.
Someone should correlate this with travel distance to school over the same period. Kids are physically farther apart, an ugly consequence of super-suburbanization.
Places can be rebuilt more beautifully than before. That's what Poschiavo did after a devastating 1987 flood and now it's won the Swiss Wakker Prize 2025.
Rebuilding beautifully allowed it to become a tourist destination and new buildings also follow traditional principles.
Reminder that submissions to Critical Planning Journal Vol. 28: Margins and Junctures are due October 31, 2024. Graduate student submissions are especially welcome!
For more information and submission instructions visit our website: https://t.co/UHwLzuKEAx.
Critical Planning Journal is pleased to announce our call for submissions to Volume 28: Margins and Junctures. Submissions are due October 31, 2024.
For more information and submission instructions visit our website: https://t.co/UHwLzuKEAx.
@StrongTowns Same intersection today feels like a ghost town, and they’re building new apartment buildings in the middle of farmlands in west Henrietta while their shopping malls and plazas are dying or dead. :(
North American cities often go from skyscrapers to sprawl because we’ve made middle housing styles like fourplexes and mixed-use multiplexes illegal. If we want to build livable, human-scale places again, we have to start by legalizing them with zoning and parking reforms.
Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s, via @fietsprofessor.
The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
@rebeccajtiffany a lot to unpack with this, but I recently came to appreciate @KeeangaYamahtta perspectives on this topic and have her book on my reading list.. Impt. to understand how private property (&how this asset is both controlled and profited from) perpetuate problems