Derrick Behm

Urban planner. DC ➡️LA. Queer Deaf. PhD @ UCLA.

[Derrick Behm @DerrickBehm]

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.

[Aaron Lubeck @aaron_lubeck]

We are doing it wrong.

[JB @Vandelay_Ind__]

Ubering home from JFK after 9 days in Europe

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

“People dramatically underestimate the risks of driving and overestimate the risks of crime.”

👀

[createstreets @createstreets]

Seven storeys. Nobody minds

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

Someone should correlate this with travel distance to school over the same period. Kids are physically farther apart, an ugly consequence of super-suburbanization.

[Robert Kwolek @RobertKwolek]

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.

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

Happy New Year.

The picture on the left is the free market.

The picture on the right is billions of dollars of government incentives and regulations.

[Derrick Behm @DerrickBehm]

@YIMBYLAND Curious what was there before these were built?

[Critical Planning Journal @CritPlanning]

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 @CritPlanning]

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.

[Critical Planning Journal @CritPlanning]

Volume 27: “Open” is now published and accessible via our eScholarship page: https://t.co/t4AZSW3Xoz

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#criticalplanning #critplan #urbanplanning #urban #cities #urbanism #urbanist #ucla #luskin @uclaurbnplnning @UCLALuskin

[Derrick Behm @DerrickBehm]

What’s a good academic article that talks about deaf people resisting being “fixed” or other hearing/ableist norms? #deafed

[Derrick Behm @DerrickBehm]

@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. :(

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

“Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.”

- Lewis Mumford

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

A lot of people have a REALLY strange definition of “freedom.” #CarDependency

[Strong Towns @StrongTowns]

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.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

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.

[PhD_Genie @PhD_Genie]

My research introduces an innovative approach to an old problem

https://t.co/A2suq8xfCz

[Derrick Behm @DerrickBehm]

@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

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Looks dumb, right?

This is how we design cities.

HT @urbanthoughts11
#CarDependency