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.

Thanks to the folks at UAR Remixed for putting together this great interview about the book. It was super fun to reflect on the collaboration, research, and writing process!

Fill out before the end of today! Use an online survey to let us know how to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists who use Telegraph Avenue while improving bus speed and reliability. 🚴🚶👩‍🦼🚌 Community message: berkeleyca.gov/commu... Online survey: communityfeedback.op...

Trump & GOP's Big Beautiful Bill will lead to big greenhouse gas increase, according to four separate emissions modeling firms. House & Senate versions lead to 8-12% increase in 2035 greenhouse gases relative to projected Inflation Reduction Act levels. www.scientificamerican.com/article/repu...

JOB ALERT: Deputy Director of Housing, Terner Center for Housing Innovation Great job opening for housing policy folks out there: ternercenter.berkeley.edu/careers/

The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley is searching for a new dean! www.imsearch.com/open-searche...

Universal school streets... Yes!

MA put in a millionaires tax 2 years ago, and the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, and the number of millionaires went UP 40% www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

This is awesome. Since coming to CA 5 years ago, I have LOVED watching these dam removals and land back processes proceed. Such inspiring work! First Time in 100 Years: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

"The problem is that all these environmental institutions assume that the goal is to freeze the bay edge in place. With sea level rise, we’re seeing that we're actually not in charge. The bayshore is going to move inland." - @zacharylamb.bsky.social caclimateequity.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

Protected bike lanes have a near-magical ability to produce cyclists. This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Our fearless representative @replsimon.bsky.social will be hosting a town hall in Berkeley next week! Tuesday, May 27 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Ed Roberts Campus | 3075 Adeline Street Space is limited! RSVP: simon.house.gov/RSVP

here's an analysis of the tax provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill. 1% of benefits go to the bottom fifth, 67% to the top fifth, and 24% to the top one-hundredth itep.org/analysis-of-...

Really good piece on the complexities of public access / private ownership of coastal land in California as climate change reshapes landscapes.

Bike to Wherever Day 2025 is almost here! This Thursday, May 15, there will be “energizer stations” popping up throughout the BART system. Click the thread below to learn more ⬇️

Thanks to @thejaeonline.bsky.social and to Pablo Meninato for the thoughtful review of The Equitably Resilient City. www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl...

⚡️BIG NEWS: Green Social Housing just passed in Chicago! This is a *huge* win that residents and organizers with IL Green New Deal and @grassrootschi.bsky.social have been working towards for years: housing that's permanently affordable, environmentally sustainable, mixed-income AND tenant governed!

Also, we’re hiring!! Accepting applications through tomorrow 🏘️🌈

Are you a graduate student in a climate-related field whose research/work/livelihood has been or may be impacted by Trump admin cuts? The @thebulletin.org has a reporter working on a story about this and would love to hear from you. Email me [email protected] and I can put you in touch.

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

The fact that NWS field offices are not able to operate 24/7 anymore in growing number of locations, & that offices servicing major population centers no longer have supervisory meteorologists in charge, & that radar techs are becoming unavailable, is highly alarming.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker: "Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They must understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have."