alejandro

midwestern urbanist 🧃

[alejandro @alejandrofduque]

4 reasons why homelessness keeps going up : NPR https://t.co/iNCYtWGyGu

[alejandro @alejandrofduque]

@eyakoheh praying on ur downfall, professionally

[alejandro @alejandrofduque]

@eyakoheh i need u to stop thinking brother

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: She was 17, working as a barista, and living in her car.

Days before HS graduation, Starbucks fired Katie for union organizing. Her plans for a new apartment & college were put on hold.

Now, Starbucks may have to pay her tens of thousands of dollars.

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

🚅 High-speed railway construction per country, 1976-2019

[alejandro @alejandrofduque]

💛

[dro 🇲🇽 @FutbolFax]

A single tear just dropped and smiling from ear to ear. https://t.co/lkAErDGuPr

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Keenan Anderson—a 31-year-old high school teacher & father—stopped LA police for help after an accident. They instead cuffed him, pinned him, & tased him repeatedly as he begged them to stop.

Keenan died of cardiac arrest from excessive tasing.

His crime—asking police for help.

[alejandro @alejandrofduque]

USA take notes ✍🏼

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

Mapping the distance to the nearest train station 🚉 for

🇩🇪Germany
🇫🇷France
🇮🇹Italy

Great maps by @milos_agathon 👇👇

[A Certain Random Guy @certainrandom]

just saw this monstrosity on tumblr and I am horrified

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗕𝗢𝗟. 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗕. 𝗕𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗔.

[alejandro @alejandrofduque]

@eyakoheh just read it, it was mid fr

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Remember, when the fresh snow flies in your city, it reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets for cars making them faster & more dangerous, and how much space we could reclaim for people & public life. We call them #sneckdowns. HT @fietsprofessor

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Reintroducing myself in this new Twitter era: my name is Hayden and my profile here is to make sure our cities never repeat the mistakes of the past. This was Denver from 1940 to 1970 (look at clock tower). Cities are for people, not cars!

[alejandro @alejandrofduque]

VARDRID

[crazy ass moments in american politics @ampol_moment]

GOP candidate for Senate Herschel Walker says he’s a cop and flashes a fake badge during the first debate. (2022)

[21st Century City @urbanthoughts11]

Selling this as freedom to people in cities was one of the most impressive publicity stunts of the 20th century

[Angie Maxwell @angiemaxwell.bsky.social @AngieMaxwell1]

So all of this to say:

There is trauma in the running.
There is trauma in the running.
There is trauma in the running.

And we have to do more. (21/21)