This may change everything. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Hope returns alongside a new @ladotofficial.bsky.social plan. Read about it here: ladotlivablestreets.org/projects/wes...

If you’ve ever walked around Bunker Hill, you may have noticed a series of pedestrian sky bridges. Come along with @marinamasako.bsky.social as she takes @metrolosangeles.bsky.social to explore DTLA’s unfinished pedway system and the controversial history behind it. #metropartner

15 ways to calm streets from the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide.

"A FIFA spokesperson, when asked to justify the prices, told The Athletic that 'parking prices are determined based on local market conditions'..." Good answer. I wish reporters would ask cities to justify below-cost prices that lead to overcrowded curbs & drivers circling in search of free parking

Chas' Stainless Steel, Mark Thompson's Airplane Parts, About 1,000 Pounds of Stainless Steel Wire by Nancy Rubins 2001-02

Wedgewood-Houston is getting the Olympics apnews.com/article/2028...

According to Long Beach officers checking @metrolosangeles.bsky.social cards at La Cienega: 1) there are no plans for them to issued card readers. 2) Current policy prioritizes commuter speed over fare compliance.

In honor of the City finally releasing the Corridor maps, this sketch illustrates why living on an arterial is not the same as being close to transit.

Sir @adamconover.net ruining cars.

Joy. From the Reframe Road Safety campaign (Fall ‘23) developed with NOYS calling out those who design, approve & implement inequitable transportation systems that disproportionately affect youth + BIPOC communities.

"#Markham council has approved a sweeping strategy that will reshape how parking is planned, supplied and managed, including a move toward paid parking in the most urban and transit-oriented districts.

Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians. Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!

Sometimes I see pictures like this as the reason we have zoning, but it happens in places with zoning as well( LA).

Great to see @CD5LosAngeles Yaroslavsky and @mayor.lacity.gov Bass coming out in favor of the Sepulveda line, and enabling a car-free commute of 18 minutes.

Excellent primer from the @volts.wtf podcast on how modernizing the grid unleashes more capacity, cheaper energy, and less @ladwp.com -style permissions.

An excellent introduction to sidewalks in Los Angeles from the @thelapod

Here I am in Portland, OR in 2005 visiting what was believed to be the 1st USA signalized bike crossing! We'll pick it up after crossing the floating bike bridge (on pontoons!) and I meet Elizabeth for the 1st time who takes us thru the intersection! @jonathanmaus.bsky.social @pbotinfo.bsky.social

Fun to see my @metrolosangeles.bsky.social stop full and hopping. Also looks like new bike storage! 👀

From @theeconomistnews.bsky.social : Parental Care by generation.

Top 4 from @collectorlegend.bsky.social legacy weekly: Beans (Terminus @beexcellent80s.bsky.social list) UR Delver Beans (Draco) Mardu Energy (Mana Tithe) # @fireshoes.bsky.social

Hey @volts.wtf do you have a citation/ know where I could find where Seattle in a planning document referenced multi-family along arterials as a noise bufferd to the benefit of single family homes? this is the closest I've been able to find: www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

Hello to new followers (no idea quite how you're finding me, but... hello!). This is the kind of thing I do. And my best work, every week, is in my newsletter, which you can subscribe to here: diagramclub.substack.com Anyway, thank you for following.

The @collectorlegend.bsky.social top 4: - Boros Energy - Red Painter - Elrdazi - UB Midrange We also had 3 newbies :) # @fireshoes.bsky.social

let's gooo @Hamnet! @smbigbluebus.bsky.social

"I am a zoning abolitionist." - @jeffspeck.bsky.social www.planetizen.com/features/135...

These are the 18 stations approved in 1983 from DTLA up Wilshire and over to West Hollywood.

Los Angeles is a city surrounded by Los Angeles. Graphic from a 1982 SCRTD report by Susan Jones O'Carroll and Gary s. Spivack.

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

Do you think we can have a quieter LA in 10 years?

The new 5-over-1s around the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social La Cienega station look gorgeous. Let's get those certificates of occupancy though ASAP.

Richard Nixon's influence falters within property line. The @Nixonlibrary is expanding without their desired visitor cafe. Instead, per City of Yorba Linda, they'll be installing 13 additional underground parking stalls. 🍋

Seattle city planners hired a consultant to analyze feasibility of downtown housing typologies & given the sky high fees to build, hard costs & parking costs, every model was rated “infeasible” Highrise Res: $605k/unit Mixed use: $710k/unit Mass timber: $605k/unit Office to Res: $640k/unit

Bar chart -> mapped density: Los Angeles. From Duncan Smith's World Population Density: luminocity3d.org

Bar chart -> mapped density: Nashville. From Duncan Smith's World Population Density: luminocity3d.org

When discussing reforms like multiplex zoning, demand estimates rarely enter the discussion (except as a force to be countered). @lausterna.bsky.social and I think that’s unfortunate and we run some simple estimates what it would look like to zone for the demand to live in an area.

My personal favorite urbanist board games are: -Barcelona (7.7) spatial puzzel that allows for building up, caring about adjacency and the creation of the "Eixample" -Let's Make a Bus Route (7.3) pick up and drop off business men without creating traffic -Teraforming Mars (8.3) tracks of habitablity

Outstanding Right to Cooling issues: 1) Prisons are not covered. 2) While the HCD report recommended 82 degrees this bill defers "safe temperatures" to agencies in order to allow for regional flexibility and to align with the science.

California's AB 628 establishes stoves and refrigerators as basic necessities, (not luxuries) and must be provided by the landlord including within rented out single-family homes. Committee Discussion here (10m) calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/259...

CA SB 655 - Est. Right to Cool through the establishment of max. indoor temperature. In the Sept 2025 heat wave alone there were more than 400 heat deaths. This will be one of the greatest boons to public health. Committee id discussion here (21m) calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/259...

I'm loving these @transit.app APA quarterly reports that combine multiple transit agencies by county and mode. Once again, LA is the North American light rail power house with 142,400 average daily riders (up 3.5% YTD) www.apta.com/wp-content/u...

the APTA does collect this data (quarterly) See for example the Q2 2025 report (you’ll have to do the crunching yourself though) www.apta.com/wp-content/u...

combined census tracts of Hillside, Wedgewood-Houston, Chestnut Hill and Napier can reach "dense suburban"—the same density tier as downtown Nashville—in the next decade per the chart @jerewoo.bsky.social shared if development trends continue. our pop/sq mi is weird due to, er, community assets

people used to call me crazy for suggesting we ride across the jefferson bridge but who’s crazy now

An absolutely masterful explanation of the odyssey that lead Toronto from being a transit leader to a city opening rail lines slower than buses, hard comparisons against asian cities that build subways for the same prices, and a possible path forward (also puns): substack.com/inbox/post/1...

These were my top films and plays in Particular Order. #filmsky

In many advanced nations that have better fire safety records than the United States and Canada, construction costs per square foot do NOT increase as density increases. If US planners want to make housing more affordable, they should fix our mediocre building codes.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

UCLA parking news. The price of parking is one the largest ways to affect mode of travel split (the largest? car ownership). #Shoupista