Kenya's Road Design Manual clearly indicates that footbridges don't belong on urban streets:
"Footbridges should be avoided except when crossing limited-access Class A highways since they are inconvenient, inaccessible, and unsafe."
Big news for nerds: The Department of City Planning updated their city planning children's book (original was put out by the LaGuardia administration in 1937)
They are giving them away at upcoming Summer Streets events across the boroughs.
Sarah runs Conviction more like a startup than an investment firm.
She’s more in the operational weeds than typical investors, but has also been very early to many of this generations (so far) defining companies.
Maybe the simplest point is: she’s at the top of LP’s wishlist, and her competitors respect the hell out of her.
Our profile of her and her firm:
🗺️ Nairobi has a new zoning policy. We've made it easier to explore.
Plotwise now maps Nairobi County's 2026 Development Control Policy, making it easy to see a location's zone or sub-zone, permitted land use, maximum building levels, ground coverage, plot ratio, minimum plot size, determinants, and any special corridor controls.
The same information is also available when researching individual parcels, so you can see the planning controls that apply to a specific property.
Explore the new Zones layer on https://t.co/jlufF1RLL2
With a fresh $700M in funding @Neko (776) is doubling down on even more cutting-edge health tech and coming to the USA! I visited Stockholm to see a glimpse of our healthcare future
"Jack showed up in my life like a John Hughes character - this brilliant, funny writer from a world completely different than mine who I didn't want to stop talking to about work and the different versions of the American Dream.
Young Money is essential reading for anyone trying to better understand the phrase 'Work hard, play hard' through the lens of a curious young man from Georgia who ended up in the New York scene."
- @Emily_Sundberg
Young Money is on sale at a book store near you on August 4th, pre-order your copy here: https://t.co/uGYGS1dYVp
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.@pmarca's advice to college students: "Gain AI superpowers. I think it's actually very straightforward."
"You have the enormous stroke of luck that you have arrived at the moment in which there is this new capability for augmenting human ability on a thousand fronts at the same time, that's just dropped into our laps, and it's going to get much better from here."
"You are gonna have the opportunity to have this be something that is absolutely key to your skill set and key to everything that you can accomplish as a professional or as a creative for the next 50 years."
"I would just lean in incredibly hard on that. Walk into every job interview with, 'Here's my portfolio, resume, whatever. Here is how I use this technology. Here are the capabilities that I'm bringing to the table.'"
@eriktorenberg@MTSlive
EXCLUSIVE | Mayor Mamdani is hiring a tech crew for City Hall to help his affordability agenda. The teams will "design, build, and launch digital solutions on accelerated timelines.” This includes DCWP's "Click to Cancel" button. https://t.co/EHEiJn5WXc