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Twitter home to DesignShed, the year-round engine behind Montclair Design Week, Awesome Montclair, Mapping Montclair, Pecha Kucha Montclair and Project PIVOT.

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We got the wine and we got the time! @SegByDesign @NJBikeWalk

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@petegenovese Ruthies in Montclair, because when you zoom out and look at the full ecosystem of how they make their pizza, you see a better future in organic sustainable agriculture in NJ. From the wheatberry to the veggies, they grow and process so much of what goes into their pizza.

[designshed @DesignShedOrg]

Yay to less parking, but yay to more public spaces, K? More density without more spaces to be social and congregate isn't good either. Just want to make sure we don't lose the plot here!

[Burhan Azeem, Cambridge Vice Mayor @realBurhanAzeem]

Today Cambridge has become the first city in Massachusetts to remove parking minimums for all use cases, everywhere - almost unanimously to boot too!

This is a huge victory for housing affordability in our city! 🧵

[designshed @DesignShedOrg]

@briandonohue There's usually a number of considerations that the town planner needs to present in a report before it can be deemed an area in need of redevelopment. Community opposition, if there is any, can go a long way, too.

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How many #nj municipalities are run like this? Show of hands! @NJBikeWalk @njchamber @NJDeptofHealth @bikelaneuprise @BikeWalkMontc @NWKBikeExchange

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Community boards empower the communities most affected by development. It's time to deploy new tools and new equations to evaluate what "benefits" a development brings. #njplanning

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

Last week a Queens community board not only voted against a proposed auto dealership, it also rejected *any* new development focused on cars:

“Community Board 2 opposes the development of any auto-related industry along the Northern Boulevard corridor.”
https://t.co/Blt4dPzCqT

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Storytelling is the first and most vital act of design. Without understanding someone's story, there can be no equitable outcomes. Submit your pitches!

[DENSE Magazine @dense_magazine]

With every story - YOUR stories - we're repositioning #NJ at the forefront of visionary change. Tomorrow's the deadline to submit your 150-word #pitch. Head to our website to submit!

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Is this our future?

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Not all that different in concept to #linearcity by Graves and @petereisenman, right @dense_magazine?

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

BREAKING: This is currently being blasted out there by the Saudi news agency on behalf of the Saudi Crown Prince MBS. “The LINE,” a proposed vertical & radically linear “ideal city of the future” proposing “Zero Gravity Urbanism…”

I have notes.

#TheLINE

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#NewJersey #WritingCommunity #designers #callforpitches

[DENSE Magazine @dense_magazine]

Call for Submission is Open!

Submit your 150-word pitches for Issue 2 by August 14, 11:59pm EST.

Full details, FAQs and tips to submit your best pitch are online. https://t.co/6zh4bJ9305

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@GovMurphy, please squeeze in a meeting with @Shut_downAmazon
https://t.co/13gi0NKbWJ

[DENSE Magazine @dense_magazine]

All Issue 2 needs is you.

Announcing our first ever CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

OPENS Monday, July 18
CLOSES Sunday, August 14

[DENSE Magazine @dense_magazine]

Three questions that couldn't be more interconnected if we tried.

Subscribe to #boothplease for this week's edition called "Where Are All the Black Car Designers?"

[designshed @DesignShedOrg]

It's more than just how the pie is cut up. It's how #interconnections are forged to make way for NEW programs that promote long term resilience. A holistic worldview for city govts can learn from.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife

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@briandonohue This resort and Sandy Hook's Fort Hancock base can be for New Jersey what Governor's Island is for NYC. We want to invite the design community to help @GovMurphy and @GatewayNPS reinvigorate and reimagine it with a design competition. Can we talk?

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@theferocity You're killing it @lolaflashphoto!

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@Photoshop it's strange to say now, but we think we liked you better when it took 10k hours to master you.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Holy shit.

To “prove” he isn’t racist — Ohio U.S. Senate candidate @JoshMandelOhio put a photo of himself standing with black soldiers in his latest campaign ad.

Problem is he forgot to Photoshop the hands that clearly show he put his face on the body of a black soldier

[ICE T @FINALLEVEL]

I was robbed at a gas station in NJ last night. After my hands stopped trembling..I managed to call the cops and they were quick to respond and calmed me down..... My money is gone.. the police asked me if I knew who did it..I said yes.. it was pump number 9…

[designshed @DesignShedOrg]

Talk about a vision. Let's go #newjersey!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

BIG NEWS: Milan has approved a £200 million plan to create a new 750km network of bike paths linking 80% of the city to bike paths, & connect the city to surrounding areas. The goal is to achieve a 20% modal shift to biking by 2035.

Strategy & leadership.
https://t.co/0SnwO3oDqA

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Catastrophes bring on overreaching mantras that usually fail those most affected. How will "Build back better" work when vocational training has all but disappeared from our K-12 curricula?