Mark Morris

Landscape architect, urban designer, tactical urbanist, adjunct prof. University of Utah, co-founder of @workhiveslc, Salt Lake City, Utah

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

a downtown parking garage costs $50,000+ per space to build. we make housing developers eat this cost, then wonder why the apartments are expensive, then demand more parking so the apartments get more expensive. someone who is good at the economy please help

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

every dead downtown has the same autopsy: tore out the streetcar, widened the roads, required the parking, watched the storefronts die, blamed amazon

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

they didn't run out of money. they didn't run out of people. they demolished it for the cars and then the cars got everything

[Schmidt @AndrewSchmidtFC]

I’ve always bought the *theory* that not building housing would steadily drain a city of young people…

But somehow I didn’t expect it to be illustrated so clearly.

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

have you noticed that the neighborhoods with the least parking per capita are the most popular places to live, and have the highest real estate values?
and that places with high per capita parking are unpopular and have low real estate values?

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

Concept for a redevelopment of a Bloomington parking lot

[Mike Christensen, MCMP, CNU-A, AICP @MRC_SLC]

Here's how Millcreek put together its new downtown https://t.co/3UlbTpNlVE via @buildingslc and @Jacob_Scholl

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

“We are extremely pro-housing! It’s just that this particular project doesn’t fit the character of the neighborhood.”

Me:

[John Blatchford @JohnJBlatchford]

Our best buildings use the fewest materials.

[The Mind Scourge @TheMindScourge]

As a general rule, American cities have the same energy level as European cities 1/10th their population

If anything, this undersells the difference

[Mark Morris @vodaplan]

@LUrbaniste @LUrbaniste When they said Quality of Life they didn’t say High Quality!

[Mason Home Builder @bankertobuilder]

This is the ideal downtown

[Jay Pitter @Jay_Pitter]

Public joy happens when we deprioritize the flow of traffic and prioritize the flow of bodies:

walking
rolling
cycling
hiking
swimming
running
vogueing
strutting
strolling
skateboarding
twerking
frolicking

[Jenni @hashjenni]

They were scared of Mamdani winning because now every city in every state across the whole country wants a Mamdani of their very own.

[Qagggy! @Qagggy]

“Without car traffic, how is anyone going to find my business?”

[Carrie Coon @carriecoon]

@Kewl_CanUNot Literally just now.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"The bike lane is empty."

[Outlook_Tower @Matt439miller]

"The housing market keeps producing what is easiest to finance and regulate: large single-family homes" - Strong Towns

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

There are courtyard urbanists doing the Lord’s work on Instagram

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

NYC and every city across the US needs urban bio swales as well. These work in concert with your sewage system by diverting a portion of rainwater into the ground, recharging the aquifer, absorbing carbon, supporting pollinators, and making the city beautiful. More please