Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City

For all the attention urbanism has gotten in recent years, urbanism as a field of study has often languished. In my latest essay, I seek to define urbanism, explore what makes it different, and correct misconceptions about what it's not. thefoxandthecity.com/articles/urb...

New job idea: I want to be a city counselor. No, not a councilor, that sounds awful, but someone who sits down with a city and helps it talk through its problems.

Free video idea: "Gritty Goes To Japan," in which Gritty travels to various Japanese cities and places and meets their mascots. Feels like something the old Vice would've done...

You know, I want to see Prince Fielder interview Elizabeth Holmes

Elevators need to be maximally sized so that urban farmers can fit prize-winning pumpkins in while still allowing room to fit a stretcher.

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Theoretical peak efficiency vs the social pressure of "people wanna walk" I know which side I'm on #escalatorsareforwalkingtoo

This came up last night in conversation. "But who will enforce it?" "Send the MTA EAGLE teams to Ukraine!"

Residential buildings in NYC With the largest interior yards. The Dakota is in 25th place.

Albertan poutine:

Hope to see you there!

Do you like crayoning transit lines? Use the new annotation feature on Transit Explorer to try out route ideas; you can label them and see their lengths, then export maps. In the US, you can also compare against local data, like population & jobs density! www.thetransportpolitic.com/transitexplo...

This is amazing and I absolutely adore it. I will get a lot of use out of this.

To say this should have never happened is an understatement. Proof-of-payment is a well-tested system used to speed travel in cities across both the country and the globe. That the MTA let the known problems with its methods fester for so long says so much. It is incredibly disheartening.

The planned Interborough Express will bring better transit access and faster travel times to Brooklyn and Queens. In order for IBX’s smaller, light metro style vehicles to keep up with demand, it needs to be automated.

Amtrak along the Hudson at the Bear Mountain Bridge.

Perfect train for my long-time theme song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IMk...

Sorry I was late I caught the wrong trolley on the way here

Great point by Marco: restrictive zoning, etc regulations that work directly at cross purposes. Diverse facades, avoiding long horizontal lines or blank walls, etc are good things—but mandated facade articulation is hell of sledgehammer to get there. Especially when there's a plethora of options.

I feel really guilty about this, but São Paulo, I wasn't familiar with your game.

Really sad to see the NYCLU jump on the data center hate bandwagon. I'm not here to defend data centers per se, but not only is the simplification and misinformation about them huge (and this seems to lean into it)—this really isn't the NYCLU/ACLU's wheelhouse, especially right now, you know?

“I’d say automated trains are the future, but I’d actually argue automated trains are very much the present,” said [ETA executive director Blair] Lorenzo. Read the report: www.etany.org/reports/ibx-...

The tail number of this play area on YUL makes me 🥰 I see the nerdiness and I salute it.

I'm sad this isn't the actual headline. Well done, @davecolon.bsky.social!

"Teamwork makes the... "...err, ugh... "...(quietly) dream work." -Woman helping people get bags down from the overhead bins on my flight

The IBX is coming, and it should be automated. ETA’s newest report, released today, covers the benefits of automated light metro (ALM) technology in detail, and why now is the time for the MTA to incorporate automation into the project’s design. Read the report now: www.etany.org/reports/ibx-...

“Building codes are developed in a process that resembles medieval scholasticism more than contemporary empirical science” is the key to understanding the whole thing bsky.app/profile/moin...

🎵Come on and slam, And welcome to the tram🎶