NEW WORK: How does property structure climate change vulnerability and adaptation? What transformative possibilities exist to enable flexibility, collective action, and equitable adaptation? @brookings.edu @lindashi.bsky.social www.brookings.edu/articles/ret...

A blockade that causes a national power grid to collapse would be a crime against humanity. www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

This is almost the exact amount of money that has been spent trying to build California's high speed rail system since voters approved the project in 2008.

Kidical Mass ride into spring at Waterside Workshops with Mayor Adena Ishii (@mayoradenaishii.bsky.social) this Saturday, March 14!

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

Super interesting piece on Portland, OR's shift to allowing small homes on wheels! A great option on many levels: costs, speed, permitting, flexibility. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Lafayette Park, where a large mountain lion was tranquilized yesterday, is deep in the urban fabric of San Francisco. Amazing. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Remembering Clare Cooper Marcus. Her radical ideas: housing should be designed 'as if people mattered' and designers should care about the experience of living in and using the environments they create. ced.berkeley.edu/news/in-memo...

Excited to be in conversation with the amazing Kazi Khalid Ashraf next week during his talk at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social about his recent book, "The Great Padma". chowdhurycenter.berkeley.edu

‘You look at this and think: it’s going to be impossible’ European football leaders are increasingly concerned about Donald Trump’s wish to annex Greenland, and they have held initial discussions about how the sport could respond. Could there really be a boycott of the World Cup?

Dutch petition asking government to boycott the Trump FIFA World Cup in the US, later this year. actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...

Very excited for this gathering starting today and always delighted to be back in New Orleans.

BREAKING: Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead and a jam band icon, dies at 78.

Property regimes and climate adaptation. Check out this new article by @lindashi.bsky.social @zacharylamb.bsky.social that very suggests alternatives to guide planners' actions to challenge status quo ideas about the privatization and parcelization of land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting analysis from Brian Potter about factory-built housing in Sweden (h/t @zacharylamb.bsky.social). Manufactured housing in the U.S. offers significant cost-savings but Sweden's factories produce housing that is similar in cost to site-built: www.construction-physics.com/p/should-us-...

This OPEN ACCESS article with @lindashi.bsky.social & Rob Olshansky explores how dominant property practices inhibit climate adaptation. Governing Land on a Dynamic Earth: How Property Shapes Planning for Equitable Climate Adaptation www-tandfonline-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/doi/full/10....

This JPL article with Luna Khirfan is a couple of years old, but we just resolved an issue & it's now OPEN ACCESS. journals-sagepub-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/doi/10.1177/...

Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.

This is the conclusion that I hope we will draw from the Zillow drama... that we need a gold-standard national data source for property-level risk to climate hazards that is transparent, accessible, and legally defensible. Private companies can help build it but the public needs to own it.

Just learning of Sara Terry's death. Such a loss. We only met a couple of times, but I was so impressed and inspired by how she brought humanity, joy, and creativity to her work, even as she dealt with really dark and difficult subjects. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a....

NEW (open access) PAPER IN JAPA: Can Mobile Home Parks Be Good Urbanism? Spoiler: YES! By many measures of 'good urbanism,' mobile home parks are as good or better than neighboring residential areas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tell me again how it's bad that Bowdoin taught Mamdani to see 'historical events from the perspective of marginalized and oppressed groups'? Seems a good foundation for leading a global city. Also the core message of most religious/ethical traditions. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Do you live near Berkeley High or Washington Elementary, or do you have children enrolled there? Come join us at a workshop tomorrow to help make walking and biking to, from, and around the schools safer. 📅Oct. 29 5:30-6:30pm 📌Washington Elementary Community Message:

This was a fun conversation about our ongoing research on tensions between street safety and fire/EMS operations... and how to overcome them. StreetSmart 11: Exploring Fire Department Tensions in the “War for Street Space” - cal.streetsblog.org/2025/10/22/s...

Great story from @kqednews.kqed.org on evictions and other threats facing residents in a San Rafael mobile home park since it sold to a corporate owner known for such tactics. www.kqed.org/news/1205801...

“At some point it becomes embarrassing, in a craven way, to make a deal for yourself and abandon those institutions that are standing up for academic freedom...” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating. Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape. Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

Just go.

Applications are due next Sunday October 5th for the @cplusc.bsky.social Housing Policy Manager role, spread the word!

The US DOT is on an all-out campaign to defund city-designed projects that prioritize pedestrians and bikers. To explain why it was cancelling a San Diego project, the US DOT complained that it “appears to reduce lane capacity and [has] a road diet that is hostile to motor vehicles."

Owners of older, wood-framed homes in Berkeley can apply online to qualify for grants to strengthen their homes’ resiliency to major earthquakes. Apply by October 1 to enter the Earthquake Brace + Bolt program lottery. 🏡💪 Learn more: berkeleyca.gov/commu... 1/4

A driver struck three people during the morning commute in Berkeley on Tuesday, sending all three to the hospital, authorities say. He then abandoned his car near Emerson Elementary and tried to carjack someone, according to police.

Thanks to JAPA and Dr. Renia Ehrenfeucht for the thoughtful review of 'The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis'. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The review is open access for the next few weeks.

My kids' school wants everyone to fill out this application. "Is your child enrolled in Berkely Unified School District?" Options: "Forks" or "No".... Ummm "Forks" I guess.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

It was great to share this new research on street safety and fire/EMS response on this week's CPBS webinar. Thanks to @streetsblogsf.bsky.social for getting the word out! Study: Fire Departments and Street Safety - sf.streetsblog.org/2025/08/20/s...

Seminal paper published by Althoff et al. in Nature last week. "...moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OP-ED: Berkeley has released a draft of its long-awaited Bike Plan update. In some ways, Walk Bike Berkeley argues, the plan is a step backward, making it harder to deliver local bicycle improvements. But it's not too late to weigh in.

Give your input to the City of Berkeley to increase bicyclist safety! Attend the virtual workshop on 8/19, 5:30 - 6:30 PM. Register in advance for the Zoom meeting for chance to win a $25 gift card! tinyurl.com/5xhdht8u You can also email your comments to [email protected] by 9/26.

Thank you @mayoradenaishii.bsky.social and @berkeleyca.gov for taking this on and promoting it. It means a huge amount to me.

*JOB ALERT* Urban design / planning scholars: The Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP) at UC Berkeley is hiring a tenure-track faculty position in “Design and Urban Transformation.” aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05040

“Positioned for a subdivision into multiple single-family residential parcels, one large single-family property" Not good. Rezone. Retain ownership. Lease to a developer for med/high density housing. Berkeley’s vacant Oxford Elementary site is for sale for $3M www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/06/b...

UC Berkeley Job Announcement: SafeTREC _ Traffic Safety Data Analyst See jobs.berkeley.edu(link is external), job #79736. Access the full job description for the Traffic Safety Data Analyst (6256U), #79736(link is external)

Excited to have an article on housing, finance, and climate change in this special issue. It was a fun and wide-ranging conversation with @ianguelovski.bsky.social @lindashi.bsky.social, @savannahcox.bsky.social, and others.

Very happy that this article on housing, finance, & climate change is up & available open access: utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Using the existing historic preservation tools to protect mobile home parks is an interesting & provocative idea, but - as this piece recognizes - would be overly rigid and wouldn't ultimately serve residents well in most contexts. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

No doubt "more data" could be useful, but the headlines here make clear that - in TX (and all over the US!) - THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS NOT A LACK OF DATA. It is a lack of political will and policy tools to make and enforce smart land use and building rules.