Grant Hamilton

We build our parking lots for Black Friday, but not our sidewalks for Halloween

The new President of Brazil is my kinda guy #ninefingers

Brandon today

"in Conservative Alberta it’s always Festivus, & the airing of grievances is always close at hand. Every time an argument is made on behalf of Canada, it has to begin with an almost ritualistic recitation of the various ways in which Canada has harmed & injured Albertans." shorturl.ly/ol2z3

Just learned I share a birthday with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social — and we are both celebrating milestone birthdays (but he is younger and cooler than me). Happy birthday, Mr. Mayor!

can i get a wheel of the house cheese for the table

Good article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on widespread acceptance - including by the police - of antisocial driving. Lovely to see a link to our recent motonormativity paper in here too www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm just SOOOOOO excited to have Chromatic Architecture reviewed by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in the @theobserveruk.bsky.social today 💥❤️ I do hope that the book will in some small way help bring more sensuous and delightful qualities back into our urban environments.

there's endless logistical, pragmatic, economic and moral reasons to support provisions of public transit, but at the end of the day, for me, a government that cares about its communities is one that's figured out how to offer you a ride when you need one, on terms that make the offer flattering

This is so incredibly addictive anyhumanever.com

Oh.

Personally attacked.

“At some point all people are dependent on accessible infrastructure: as toddlers, when suffering from a temporary injury, when pushing a stroller or carrying heavy loads, or as older people. We are particularly mobile in middle age—a time when our actions influence the mobility of others.”

A reminder to all those flooding my timeline with helmet talk ... road.cc/content/news...

Absolute coward behavior to include the middle initials in this post

In Montréal, what started as an emergency pandemic response has evolved into the continent’s most ambitious car-free scheme. Across 9.3 kilometres of 11 commercial arteries in seven boroughs, entire corridors have been handed back to pedestrians, helping some 2,100 businesses thrive in the process.🧵

If I never get off my bike, I’ll live forever?

America has Reacher and Canada has The Littlest Hobo, and that’s all you need to know about the two countries. #maybetomorrow

Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why was no one…even considering the question of human-powered vehicles until the 1400s? Why weren’t there bicycle mechanics in the 1300s, when there were clockmakers, or at least by the 1500s, when we had watches?” [blog.rootsofprogress.org]

not to be confused with quesadilla

ahem @gramiq.bsky.social

RT if you looked at this image over the top of your glasses

The most dangerous activity most people do every day is drive but almost no DOT, city planner, or politician builds a city with that in mind.

I’ve never seen an election ad that’s a music video before — but it’s a banger!

Going to start telling people this is a chest freezer, because the freezer is at chest height

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

Cincinnati has developed a Climate Migration Readiness Plan to absorb as many as 525,000 newcomers by 2050. It calls for building much denser housing, expanding public transit and decreasing the city’s reliance on fossil fuels.

The mistakes we make now are not allowing cities to be cities, bogging down every decision with expensive long winded process and delay, limiting where it can happen, and still succumbing to the notion that it has to help suburbs

Public joy is not simply an individual feeling. It is civic, cultural, and spatial infrastructure.Let’s unpack how it operates as civic infrastructure: ~ Indicates whether people feel safe, a sense of belonging, and freedom of expression in public space; 🧵…

I went down a rabbit hole on traffic calming. Firstly, it seems to work well, and the effect sizes are large. yyahn.com/wiki/Traffic...

kIDs tHEsE daYS

"It turns out that having an enormous, flat parking lot is one of the worst design decisions one can make for any public space."

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

Me incredulously going through the liquor cabinet and realizing we're low on gin, vodka, whiskey, and tequila.

i text’d my wife that i was having a bad day and to cheer me up she sent me a picture of our cheese drawer in the fridge

This wonderful country of ours is worth fighting for. And the best is yet to come — if we put in the work required. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/30/o...

(texting the lads to get a beer) pausa de hidratación?

All I want to Canada Day is a 90-minute mix of JUST the smouldering saxophone from Charlotte Cardin’s “The Way We Touch”

Some people just see the road differently

Great piece from Ilana Altman, CEO of @thebentway.bsky.social and makes a case for why a national built environment policy (called an architecture policy in other parts of the world) is needed; is @mark-carney.bsky.social listening? www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... 1/

I was born the same year :) And, I’ve climbed the steps of the CN Tower, took me 21 minutes and 17 seconds. I was working in a gym at the time and had been semi-training but woke up late and had to jog to the base of the tower before the cut-off time. I’ll never forget how dreary it is inside.

I love this thread for (coining?) a phrase in its conclusion: “political intolerance for mediocre” Too much of our public investment focuses on price, not value. Cheap stuff sucks (the life out of a place). A little public pride, please? We deserve nice things.