I love it when a good plaza comes together.

At long last, after decades, Seattle has taken the smallest of steps, banning tourist vehicles from Pike Place Market "during the daytime." Just cosmically ludicrous that it's taken this long & been so controversial.

@jbeans.bsky.social keeps taking away people's parking and making folks love their neighborhoods again. Make it permanent. blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/21/h...

American Planning Association Illinois Chapter (APA-IL) just came out in favor of statewide ADUs this morning www.ilapa.org/aws/APAIL/pt... 🎉💯🥰

NEW STORY // Walkability Isn’t Just Good Urban Planning: It’s a Public Health Intervention www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/14/w...

“In Seoul, the restored waterway has been a triumph. It doesn’t just provide a peaceful refuge from the city’s busy streets, it serves as a cultural corridor with year-round festivals and performances, while helping cool the surrounding neighbourhoods, fighting air pollution…”

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. And the change wasn’t magic, or even hard. This is very recent, and it just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too if it wanted to. Great pic via @JBPssx

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want walkable streets.

"Building on William Whyte's observational work..." Nice to see credit given to a guy who deserves more of it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you think everyone's in a hurry, you're on to something. Using computer vision, researchers compared pedestrian behavior in NYC, Philly, and Boston in 1980 & 2010. Over 30 years, avg walking speed rose 15% while "time spent lingering" in public spaces fell 50%. www.nber.org/papers/w33185

As an introvert, designing public spaces, I feel seen. But not too seen. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/s...