Mark Sheppard

Urban designer | Principal of kinetica | Author of Essentials of Urban Design

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

'A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.'
—@EnriquePenalosa

(📸: sir Paul McCartney)

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Did you know that when the canopies of trees grow enough to touch over a street or sidewalk, that’s often nick-named a “kissing canopy?” It creates a beautiful, comfortable & cool street condition, but it ONLY happens when the right decisions are made. #StreetsAreBetterWithTrees

[Demonland @demonland]

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[Demonland @demonland]

Christiano el Toro 🐂🏆🔴🔵😈

🔊⬆️ | Sound Up

#GoDees #FiredUp #GiveEmHell

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

Woah!

[Greater Auckland @GreaterAKL]

Huge news today, government with bipartisan support are banning single house zones in all major NZ cities. Councils must change plans to allow minimum of 3 storeys – previous change also got rid of any parking minimums with minimum zoning of 6 storeys near rapid transit stations

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

“… there needs to be a lot more high-density housing in neighbourhoods that think they don’t need it …” https://t.co/bNR78kWFLC

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

Looking forward to chairing this event next month! We have a great line up of speakers and COVID has made it a very pertinent topic! https://t.co/SmyiS5UOWZ

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

Woohoo!

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

@DavidLockAssoc Well done DLA team!

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

It’s time to acknowledge that the expansive rollout of the NRZ has failed. https://t.co/1F1h0XIx2X

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

Properly disruptive transportation innovation is coming, not from technological advances, but from changes in human behaviour towards less travel.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“The pandemic has altered how we work, how we communicate, how we shop. Amidst so much change, why should we be stuck on the same road when it comes to how we get around?”

The Pandemic Gives Us a Chance to Change How We Get Around. Via @Wired #COVID19 https://t.co/PCzriDSzxk

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

Kunstler identifies a cost of commuting being “the sacrifice of a sense of place: the idea that people and things exist in some sort of continuity, that we belong to the world physically and chronologically, and that we know where we are.” Is this what we’ve just rediscovered?

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

@DavidLockAssoc @Planning_Awards Congrats!

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

Since population growth through immigration has historically driven growth, and Australia will now be even more inviting to would-be immigrants, why don’t we increase the intake and just put quarantine measures in place? There will be lots of empty hotels. https://t.co/XoenWMkU8b

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

Check out my latest article: Kinetic Urbanism—Responding to the need for and fear of change https://t.co/cLdwAQ7HFZ via @LinkedIn

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

@AklDesignChamp @BarackObama I’m enjoying Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser and Order without Design by Alain Bertaud - both great on the way cities actually work - essential reading for urban designers!

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

I'm talking at #VPELA tonight on Kinetic Urbanism. Check out my latest article: 2 reasons why we need Kinetic Urbanism https://t.co/lXFGB1oYx4 via @LinkedIn

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

Thanks David Lee from ⁦@K2LDArchitects⁩ for showing ⁦@dlaaust⁩ around the stunning The Springfield development. Proud to have played a small role in shaping the building.

[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.

[Mark Sheppard @Shep_DLA]

So employees want to work in great, transit-accessible places. Who would have thought?! Hopefully the streets and spaces will be genuinely public, otherwise it‘s likely to be sterile.

[colleenpeterson @colleenpeterson]

https://t.co/eDDoBE1i13
Google confirms that town planning is essential with a mixed use framework on the cards for its future headquarters in San Jose