Wrapping up a remarkable @nacto.bsky.social Designing Cities conference with the prolific @christofspieler.bsky.social @islandpress.bsky.social
Last day to get to @islandpress.bsky.social booth at APA. A big thank you to our amazing authors who stopped by: Don Elliott, John Zeanah, Oscar Perry Abello, and Danielle Arigoni. @oscarthinks.bsky.social @daniellearigoni.bsky.social @islandpress.bsky.social #NPC26
Some of our amazing @islandpress.bsky.social authors are coming to our booth (#308) at APA. Danielle Arigoni (pictured). Sun: 10:00 John Zeanah, 11:00 Oscar Perry Abello; Mon: 10:00 Don Elliott #NPC26 @daniellearigoni.bsky.social @oscarthinks.bsky.social
#IslandPress has long championed urban planning literature, publishing foundational books across transportation, street design, & more. Publisher @hboyer.bsky.social & senior editor Stacy Eisenstark discuss the future of publishing for planners—& of @islandpress.bsky.social, newly an imprint of PUP.
Island Press@islandpress.bsky.social · 6mo agoPublishing for Planners: A New Era for Island Press www.planetizen.com/features/136...
NYC may have created the design template for the U.S. highway system, but it's now a part of a national movement to reimagine them and reduce our exclusive reliance on cars. New from Ali Sant, author of From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
New York City’s Worst Highways Can Lead Somewhere Better
The expressways that Robert Moses carved into the city helped inspire the entire American highway system. Now they can be models for community-led reform.
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Inspiring interview of @modacitylife.com in the NYTimes. By the way, you can get Melissa's two earlier e-books half off from @islandpress.bsky.social right now (islandpress.org).
Tara Goddard@drtaragoddard.com · 8mo agoOh my gosh, so cool to see Melissa Bruntlett of @modacitylife.com profiled in this NYT piece!! Well-deserved, Melissa! Hope to cycle in the NL with you again some day. 😊 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Our 50% off print sale is over BUT... If you are still looking to get these books (or any other Island Press titles) be sure to take advantage of our $6.99 ebook sale happening NOW! islandpress.org
Corey Burger@burgundavia.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew book day is a good day. Three new books from @wesmars.bsky.social @humantransit.bsky.social @holz-bau.bsky.social courtesy of @islandpress.bsky.social sale
You can get Walkable City Rules by @jeffspeck.bsky.social HALF PRICE, just in time for the holidays (check it out in the NBM holiday gift guide nbm.org/2025-holiday...) and other amazing @islandpress.bsky.social books HALF PRICE until midnight on November 17. Use HALF at checkout. islandpress.org
2025 Holiday Gift Guide | National Building Museum
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To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
Check out our awesome new book by @malgeo.bsky.social front and center at Barnes and Noble in Brooklyn @islandpress.bsky.social
On the 🚌 opening up my newest book by @nondriver.bsky.social I love to see how they connect climate and transportation. "we know that if we don't act to reduce emissions now, the disruption our children will have to survive will be even worse."
Read about @malgeo.bsky.social Matthew Algeo's "delightful" new book, "New York's Secret Subway" in the WSJ www.wsj.com/arts-culture... @islandpress.bsky.social
‘New York’s Secret Subway’ Review: Tunnel Visions
An inventor in 19th-century New York had been dreaming about a subterranean railway for decades. He’d have to break a few rules to build it.
wsj.com
Strange, I was told congestion pricing would turn Manhattan into a ghost town
'Call it a comeback': Manhattan foot traffic finally tops pre-pandemic times
Visits to office buildings in the city’s commercial districts were up 1.3% last month compared to July 2019, data shows.
gothamist.com
There is still time to read the great selections on the summer reading list from @sightline.org including Arbitrary Lines by @mnolangray.bsky.social and Bet the Farm by Beth Hoffman @islandpress.bsky.social @emilyturner2000.bsky.social
Surdna hosted a wonderful book event for THE BANKS WE DESERVE by @oscarthinks.bsky.social. Learn more about the book @islandpress.bsky.social @donchen.bsky.social
Great @davidzipper.bsky.social interview with Erick Guerra on Overbuilt. To read more, get the book from @islandpress.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Can Americans Just Stop Building New Highways?
A new book argues that the expansion of the US roadway network has exacted social and environmental costs that far outweigh the benefits.
bloomberg.com
"...the data backs up the vibes. The less time you spend in a car, the more likely it is you backed Zohran Mamdani."
NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along An Odd Line: Car Ownership - Jalopnik
Car ownership and transit ridership serve as a shorthand for someone's entire living situation — and, apparently, their politics.
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Hey, @nacto.bsky.social Designing Cities attendees, you can get your hands on a free copy of ARRESTED MOBILITY by Charles Brown, closing plenary speaker, if you can get to this Little Free Library first. It is wishing 1/2 mile of the conference. @islandpress.bsky.social
Want to join me for this Transportation Alternatives event?
People have the power to take our democracy back. This right here helps to prove that after Musk quite literally tried to buy votes yet again to manipulate our government.
