I’ve been to this spot in Delft so many times over the years & it continues to inspire. The area around the first woonerf tells a story of people pushing back for slower & safer streets, but it also tells a story of the beauty that comes when you open up places for people. Quiet, calm, and lovely

As I was getting passed by a mom with a kid on the back of an ebike, I looked down & saw a Black Flag sticker. This was not an alternative future I could foresee in 1984 listening to the Repo Man soundtrack.

If you need some inspiration and positivity, check out @streetfilms.bsky.social blog on Montréal. So much is possible when streets are rethought as places for people www.streetfilms.org/featured/202...

Montreal Makes People Feel Welcome With Safe Streets, Happy Places & Green Spaces — Streetfilms

My standing piece of advice for those who live in North America who pine to see the best-practice streets of dozens of places in Europe or want to educate colleague/friends what’s possible: just go to...

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Definitely my favorite parking lot to relaxing square conversion. Life is calm and beautiful in Delft

The area around Utrecht Centraal is an inspiration. World’s largest bike parking ✅ Busiest cycle route in NL ✅ New green streets ✅ Highway to canal conversion ✅ Thanks to @bicycledutch.bsky.social for showing our Texas State students what’s possible

Are there perfect streets in the world? This one in the Jordaan in Amsterdam is on my list

Rambla del Poblenou in Barcelona is like a template of a great neighborhood business street: green, lively, lovely

Thoughts on a pretty night Uptown: New Orleans streetcar is the oldest continuously operating line in the world. It’s like a naturally occurring TOD with the smell of jasmine in bloom

Fun to appear on Texas State University podcast Enlighten Me to talk about transportation in Texas and the potential for a more resilient future. My segment starts at 24:45. txstenlightenme.transistor.fm/episodes/dee...

Enlighten Me | Deep in the Heart of Texas: Investigating Teacher Turnover

We delve into the pressing issue of teacher turnover in Texas. Hear from educators and researchers on the front lines as they explore potential solutions to this critical challenge facing education...

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Brass band, pedestrian street, magical spring day Honk Festival in Mueller neighborhood Austin Texas

Inspiration from Montréal: amazing interview about combing a water square, green space, cul de sac, traffic calming, & continuous sidewalks all together into a great place for people. Love this! See @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social video at: youtu.be/8lpXH7ajjUw?...

Cul-de-Sacs, But Smarter: How Montreal is Rethinking Residential Streets

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

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I was excited to join an all-star cast to celebrate @activetowns.bsky.social 5th Anniversary on YouTube & John’s birthday. Great conversation about how to make cities safer, healthier, and happier m.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFD...

LIVESTREAM: A Celebration of John's 60th Birthday and Five Years on YouTube with Friends and Fans

YouTube video by Active Towns

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3 facts about US transport: ped fatalities up 75% since 2010, highway lane miles up 42%, but congestion rose 144%. This is a blueprint of a failed transport. Great piece by @bethosborne.bsky.social lays out the existential problems with the system. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/27/1...

250 Meters of Happiness. That’s how Delhi based NGO HumanQind describes their school street that was co-created with school kids. Really blown away. Great model. Thanks to Car Free Cities Alliance for hosting. More info at www.humanqind.org

Cissy Strut coming out of the speakers. Baby asleep in the bike trailer. Great first weekend of Mardi Gras

Fun to be included in the roundup of most watched videos from 2024 from @activetowns.bsky.social . We toured Houten with Kylie van Dam to learn what makes a greenway-focused town work. Inspiring tour

Active Towns@activetowns.bsky.social · 2y ago

JUST RELEASED: A few moments ago, I sent out my latest Active Towns e-newsletter post. In it, I provide an annual review of the most watched new Active Towns content for 2024 and share my new strategy for providing more frequent (quasi-weekly) content updates for 2025. mailchi.mp/d3199ae87213...

I’m pretty sure the “revolutionary” “street rooms” in San Francisco are just nice pedestrian streets. I’m open to a name update if we can start integrating these into US cities nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

San Francisco's newest neighborhood offers a glimpse of life without cars

Three new "street rooms" make for an unusually people-centric streetscape design in San Francisco's Mission Rock neighborhood.

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Nice triple embedded in Hyde Park in Austin. Legalizing doubles and triples seems like a good place to start land use reform

No better person than Robert Caro to join in for the end of this master class on power, democracy, infrastructure, & what makes great cities. So much to reflect on 99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-...

The Power Broker #12: Robert Caro - 99% Invisible

This is the twelfth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. We’ve waited until the evening to see how splen...

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Love this trail-oriented development on a chilly day in New Orleans. Bioswale on one side & French Truck cortado on the other.

I had never heard of streetology before. Cool term. I guess this makes me a streetologist

Utrecht showing how to move from grey to green. I remember this area as kind of a lost space but now being transformed into a green place. Great before & afters from @bicycledutch.bsky.social

BicycleDutch@bicycledutch.bsky.social · 2y ago

Utrecht’s “Gardens of Moreelse”: Transforming Grey to Green From a grey car-dominated thoroughfare to a green, cyclist-friendly oasis: Moreelse Park in Utrecht shows how rethinking urban design transforms city life. New post with video.

Interesting survey for physical activity professionals

Dr Tepi McLaughlin@healthtepi.bsky.social · 2y ago

❓ What are your thoughts on this? Pls consider completing our rapid survey! 🚲 🚶‍♂️ ⚽️ 🌳 🏘️ 🔗 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/sps/rapid-... Investigator team: Joey Murphy Jo Salmon, Grant Ennis, Andrea Ramirez Varela & Jim Sallis

I usually post images of good infrastructure to inspire change. Sometimes it’s useful to look around & identify the problem. School zone at lethal speed in developing area right outside Austin shows how not to design a safe school zone

Our applications are open to study sustainable transport in London & Amsterdam next summer. Open to both Texas State Univ. students & others. Lots of great streets to explore if you might be interested

New Orleans has some really good examples of green infrastructure woven into transport projects. Lafitte Greenway and Camp Street

Great overview of the evolution of superblock planning in Barcelona. I can’t stop thinking about the potential of superillas as green neighborhood islands m.youtube.com/watch?v=NSba...

BARCELONA: Jordi Honey-Rosés discusses super blocks, bike buses, and school streets

YouTube video by Active Towns

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Trail-Oriented Development along the Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans. Beautiful community connections

Simple, effective way to add safe pedestrian “sidewalks” quickly and inexpensively: Texas State campus

Teaching urbanism in Texas can be a challenge: “When the town center you grew up in comprises a DairyQueen & a WhataBurger along a 6 lane road, it’s hard to imagine anything different” Really enjoyed having this conversation with Mobycon. mobycon.com/updates/adap...