Brent Oltz Longley

Writer and urban strategist. Cities are for people, not cars; housing is a human right, not a commodity.

[Brent Oltz Longley @_brenterik]

@Cobylefko I think these are great! I appreciate you sharing them, Coby - thanks.

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

This is an oil pipeline

[Brent Oltz Longley @_brenterik]

I wrote about Los Angeles: city that shaped my intellect, broken city, city of possibility. Endlessly beautiful, LA also vexed and frustrates to no end - and so is the most American place of them all.

https://t.co/PV9JQ1A3vy

[Brent Oltz Longley @_brenterik]

Because we're obsessed with celebrity this piece is mostly about @PeteButtigieg the man. But @BethOsborneT4A offers a crucially important substantive critique: "What the administration has been focused on has been mostly funding, not policy."
https://t.co/MG2BVQKPNY

[Brent Oltz Longley @_brenterik]

He parked in front of a driveway. Then he parked on the sidewalk. Then he drove down the sidewalk. He lives (but also maybe doesn't?) an 8-minute walk from the subway. He thinks he should be mayor. The man doesn't have a clue, and we're in big trouble. https://t.co/Kwsw3YWS5M

[StreetsPAC (bsky.app/profile/streetspac.org) @StreetsPAC]

Police precincts don't need more off-street parking. Officers need to use mass transit like the rest of us.

[Brent Oltz Longley @_brenterik]

I practically grew up in a public library, whose physical objects shaped my deeply curious brain. This choice by @nypl seems counter to its mission. https://t.co/Fn7NDfVWsJ via @curbed

[Transportation Alternatives @TransAlt]

And they just eliminated parking minimums.

We have some catching up to do in New York.

[Streetsblog USA @StreetsblogUSA]

A regional transportation authority in Idaho is taking the almost unprecedented step of promising to build protected bike lanes whenever they resurface arterials — and some advocates think *state* DOTs across the country should follow its lead.

https://t.co/RHaNoED3PG

[Brent Oltz Longley @_brenterik]

@natgale_ I'm taking notes for our visit!

[Brent Oltz Longley @_brenterik]

We must define normalcy as including investigating potential abuse of power and illegal actions by elected leaders. We must define fixing problems as including punishment for an elected leader found guilty of those abuses and crimes. That's the only way to rebuild public trust.

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

This was always a question- would a president-elect who wants a return to normalcy seek broad investigations of his predecessor >

[Jen Fulwiler @jenfulwiler]

This library ad is a triumph

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

New Zealand is becoming a world leader in urban policy. They just banned most mandatory parking minimums in urban areas, and banned height limits under 6 stories near rapid transit. https://t.co/jGAbfvMEMH h/t @StuartBDonovan

[Brent Oltz Longley @_brenterik]

@M_Sahli_Wells Great to see your leadership on this - it just makes me wonder if I left the city too soon! Keep up the good work.

[Brent Oltz Longley @_brenterik]

Visiting a great street feels a lot like coming home.

[Toole Design @tooledesign]

Rebalancing Acts. An animated video suggesting an equitable approach to street design in the context of COVID-19, and helping imagine the possibilities available to us down the road.

[Luke Klipp 🏳️‍🌈 @lukehklipp]

As I've noted in my @AbundantHousing Housing 101, today's single-family homeowners are the recipients of our nation's greatest affordable housing program, directed toward White households for generations and enabling the accumulation of enormous White wealth and power. (11/12)

[Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief]

@yfreemark I think we learn the same thing repeatedly, in policy field after field, which is that if you set up ostensibly neutral spaces, they become dominated by the in-group.

You need to deliberately create a channel to get feedback from out-groups to ensure that they are heard.

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

I was in the woods for most of last week’s “ban cars” dust-up on here, but two observations and a very long THREAD:

1)Path dependence is a hell of a thing.
2)“Urbanism’s” listening problem is real and has consequences. 1/

[Syed Ali @SyedAAli]

.@fmanjoo + @VishaanNYCA get that that our love affair with cars is deeply ingrained culture. They get that this is about the future, and so there must be a clear vision for people to imagine. Four lessons: https://t.co/t7CFU0xuji

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

This place was a veritable strawman factory this week so just to make it clear (since nuance is often lost in flame wars):

The second part of “ban cars” is “... & take a hard look at the $2 trillion we spend on cars every year as a source of reparations”