Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

New for the Nebulized: urbanism as a political movement — even (and especially) in Vegas nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

If we’re doing gerrymandering discourse today, might I suggest www.nerd4cities.com/gerrymanderi...

This is the final boss @nerd4cities.bsky.social must face

I didn't realize there was a sharp downturn in Youtube influencer ad and sponsorship revenue. May be an underrated contribution to both the "why are economic vibes are terrible" conversation and the "why did Gen Z turn on Trump" conversation youtu.be/vCMfltmszHY?...

No choice but to reskeet this

Maybe Texans should vote to end Ken Paxton's plans instead

I had so much fun making this one it should be illegal

Amtrak Cascades is breaking records in Oregon! We’re excited to report @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov carried 13,533 riders between PDX>EUG last month, an all-time record for any Sept. since the service began. Overall ridership is up 24% in 2026 YOY.

New on Nebula: presented without comment nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Philly video work in progress, thanks for the shirt @5thsqadvocacy.org

New on the newsletter: restaurant industry research is more fun than it has any right being www.nerd4cities.com/the-car-as-d...

I GOT TO VOTE FOR TRAINS! Fuck yeah Front Range Passenger Rail!

Worked with City of Vancouver on several projects in the last 12 years or so. Amazing staff who are always out just a bit ahead of a council that itself just keeps trending more and more progressive. (I’m here at the same conference too!) Will have to come up and do a video at some point

they did the thing

Someone should start studying the use of AI-generated images for NIMBY causes. It’s honestly fascinating. It also shows most of these folks are clueless- the guy in the green shirt has three arms, for example

We loved hosting @nerd4cities.bsky.social in Austin! Check out this great CityNerd video on Austin that came out of that trip:

The recycling and trash holes lead to the same bin

New on Nebula: Field notes from a city that, refreshingly, takes its housing supply crisis seriously. Also, I like grackles nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

Cruise line video was removed by YouTube over truly the dumbest copyright strike. Obviously fighting it, it’ll be back up in a few weeks like nothing happened. This is not an ad for Nebula, but it is still available on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/linds...

Tropicana field ass stadium

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

@nerd4cities.bsky.social does amazing stuff and I love this episode’s highlighting of all the progress in the PNW as well as the call out early in episode that NONE OF IT IS AI. Increasingly uk unsubscribing and sharing less, or not at all, lazy content creators hastening our planet demise.

This one’s coming up in a couple days — still spots available (it’s a pretty big venue!), but not many. To this day I’ve made more content in Vegas than any other city, and I can’t wait to talk about all of it

Puget Sound transit priorities: 1. U-pick blueberry farms 2. Car dealerships 3. Suburban tech campuses 4. Golf courses … 42. Ballard

This event was too fun, let’s do it again soon Philly

If you're an urbanist and you're not at the @5thsqadvocacy.org event with @nerd4cities.bsky.social @blvdsubway.bsky.social @mayorjoi.bsky.social and so many others you're missing out. Gives me hope that so many people are here

New: a bit of career advice for people who are ready to move on from city building games and…actually build cities www.nerd4cities.com/ask-a-city-n...

preach

One of my favorite YouTubers, @nerd4cities.bsky.social talks about SoundTransit's Link Light Rail youtu.be/q9EIMuz98bw?...

So good

New for the Nebulized: it was fun doing a dry run of this one live in Seattle last week — probably helped me dial in the themes and the storyline a bit too. Also, stop telling me to go to the transit-oriented blueberry farm, it’s never happening nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

I didn’t even include my hyperloop video in this (maybe I should’ve). Also, Adam Something’s videos on this topic are the gold standard

This really was a special evening, and Ryan really carried it. Seattle,I really hope you appreciate what you have