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Tristan Cleveland

1 year

You can now read my PhD thesis on how to redesign suburban communities to become healthy, walkable places. A few key insights 1/x

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

2 years

Slovakian sees a video about American suburbs and posts questions to Reddit. The level of bafflement is hilarious and appropriate.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

8 months

One of the craziest findings in urban planning is that you can reach more jobs faster by car in Dutch cities than American cities — *and* walking, cycling, and transit are faster in Dutch cities. Building cities for cars fails even cars. @BrentToderian

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@LUrbaniste

11 months

Imagine using slip lanes for bikes — instead of using them to line up bikes for a straight-on collision.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

1 year

Cool. Same number of units, but the cottages are way better for families, better for social connection, better for hiding parking, better for fitting in suburbs. A development in Rhode Island.

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@LUrbaniste

11 months

It's funny to think of all the planning meetings that went into creating bike lane in Waterloo.

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

You can learn a lot from how people set up benches when they're not drilled to the ground.

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

Became a dad last night at 11:45pm. Currently in a rocking chair with him at the IWK looking out over the ocean. Wonderful.

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@LUrbaniste

3 years

My sense is that most Halifax residents would gladly shut down for two weeks to avoid shutting down for two months. @StephenMcNeil : please take decisive action.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

1 year

Reading the new book Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia. The first example is a poor start. "This stroad, now a... stroad."

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

2 years

At @HappyCitiesTeam , we're trying to solve this problem.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

5 years

Wonders Grounds, once again completely packed with cheering fans, adding to city life where recently there was nothing but an unkempt field. Right-sized for a small city like ours. No gambling on a budget-killing stadium. Just perfect.

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

Crowd singing Ukranian national anthem in Halifax.

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@LUrbaniste

4 years

My little brother was just fined almost $700 for using the path in the Commons to go to work. That is part of our transportation network, and blocking it does absolutely nothing to fight COVID19. This policy is broken & unjust. @hfxgov @StephenMcNeil @nshealth @LindellSmithHFX

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@LUrbaniste

3 years

When I first visited Champs-Élysées a decade ago, I wondered why people sung about this highway lined with restaurants soaked in traffic noise. Soon they'll have a street worthy of the song.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

3 years

Paris is investing £225m to transform the iconic but car-choked Champs-Élysées boulevard into an “extraordinary garden.” Among other things, 140K on-street parking spaces will be removed. Bold city-building leadership from @Anne_Hidalgo & team. Via @TheB1M

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@LUrbaniste

7 years

"The deep irony is that cities rarely require developers to construct enough affordable housing, but they pass strict laws making sure vehicles can be adequately housed." Ouch. @pomeranian99

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

1 year

@MurphDoggy420 Not really a sacrifice: you get higher quality greenspace that will be many times more used. Grass around apartment buildings usually just ends up dead space.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

5 years

If we really believe in Halifax, we should believe we can achieve great things without making desperate bets on megaprojects. We must invest in our fundamentals, not an oversized sports stadium.

The Star Halifax

@thestarhalifax

5 years

On the new CFL stadium in Halifax: Let’s not be the next city to be fooled into wasting our wealth on a megaproject we don’t need, @LUrbaniste writes. Thoughts?

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

1 year

Nova Scotia is having a record immigration year with 10,000+ new permanent residents. NS wants 25,000 per year. If Halifax's zoning rules to not change quickly, urgently, to allow more homes, this potential boon to our economy will only be a crisis.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

2 years

I had to do a double take. Yes, that's a Halifax street as a top story in The Economist. We're finally world class at something: a housing crisis.

How long can the global housing boom last?

Three fundamental forces mean it could endure for some time yet

www.economist.com

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

This is what half of Citadel Hill should look like. It would be more accurate to our heritage (Kentucky Blue Grass is not from NS), would support bees and biodiversity, and would offer more for the eye.

Rewilding, or letting native plants run their course, can be a boon for urban environments

Rewilding, or letting native plants run their course in yards and open spaces, can be a boon for urban environments and species, like birds, bees and butterflies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

2 years

Government website style guide. Are 99% of people going to your website to book a vaccine appointment? Then put it in a text link 15 paragraphs down the page.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

6 months

There is documented bias among business owners that they tend to overestimate how much of their business comes from people driving, even in central urban areas. Makes it harder to improve streets in a way that would benefit those businesses.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

6 months

@lljunca This is amazing. The City of Barcelona eliminated 3 lanes of vehicle traffic & converted the street into a 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid. Businesses sued. They eventually won. But then the businesses said they like it.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

5 years

It takes half-a-second to know you're in a truly wonderful place where you would love to spend time. So why don't we build more places like this? Clearly it's an option, so why build worse? This question, more than any other, drives me. @createstreets

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

8 months

Dutch cities achieve this by having fast roads between slow-speed, high-density streets, which maximizes the benefits of speed and proximity in separate places — just as @StrongTowns recommends. The key is to avoid stroads, which just slow things down for everyone.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

4 years

Walking is 24-hour, ultra-fast, ultra-reliable, always-available rapid transportation for any destination near home. We must never forget that the best transportation technology we have is proximity. @StrongTowns @thehappycity @CityLab

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

1 year

They approved my thesis with no revisions 🎇

Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

1 year

Just finished my PhD defence (& waiting on their deliberation). Wow! That's hard work! Glad I got through it!

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

Why name a road once when you can give it 8 separate names?

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

9 months

@izurietavarea @Cobylefko Funny the other replies aren't pointing out that the suburbs are the consequence of central planning, not market forces. The highways and mortgages were heavily subsidized and single family houses were meticulously created and protected through top-down zoning.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

8 months

These prisons we call roads really are taking us nowhere.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

4 years

Someone wasn't happy with this sidewalk closure and decided to send a message to city hall. Photos sent to me anonymously.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

1 year

Toderian is part of the globalist conspiracy to give us more freedom and choices.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

1 year

It’s REALLY important for everyone to understand the truth that designing your city for cars fails for everyone, including drivers. Designing a city with CHOICES in how to get around works better for everyone, including drivers. Think we could we get to 1 million views of this?

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

2 years

It's us humans that build our streets, and we can choose to design streets where humans want to be. But to get there, we need to teach design like a skill, not an abstract theory, I argue in my new piece.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

2 years

And this is one of the most concise paragraphs I've ever read on the fundamental logic of urban transportation. @humantransit

Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

2 years

This is the most important paragraph about microtransit I have ever read. From @humantransit

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

7 months

The new Mi'kmaq healing centre - which provides housing for Mi'kmaq people - has given me wonderful neighbours in its first year. One person gave us baby shoes. If anyone proposes the same kind of thing in your community, say yes.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

10 months

Last night a dream came true. A suburban development was approved that I helped design with @HoussamElokda @HappyCitiesTeam . It's transit-oriented with local commerce and a mix of housing units, with safe narrow streets, and social parks & front porches.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

Looks like my new neighbours will be a first nations emergency shelter. I will be speaking in favour. No one should have to spend a night on the street -- especially not the people who first named this chunk of land we put a city on.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

4 years

Elon Musk's new $52 million dollar tunnel will let people get from one side of this Las Vegas convention centre to the other, saving a 15 minute walk. I wonder how much it would've cost to make it a nice walk?

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

4 years

Cycling this bike lane on a sunny day makes me so proud of our city. No compromises, no screw-ups. Finally, they just did it right. Someone cares about my safety and well-being.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

5 years

Investing in transit connections downtown does not show favouritism for the downtown. It benefits everyone, from anywhere in the city, who have to travel to or through the core. Wonderful clarity from @humantransit

Core vs. Edge Debates in Public Transit — Human Transit

In just about every North American regional transit debate I’ve ever been involved in, someone has said: “Why is all this money being spent on transit downtown! Downtown already has lots of...

humantransit.org

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

. @IainTRankin There are 400 homeless people in Halifax, at a time when vacancies are lower than ever. It's not 4,000 people, not 40,000. This is a solveable problem. Will you fund the solution or, better, devolve power and funding to Halifax so we can solve this locally?

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@LUrbaniste

9 months

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” ― Kurt Vonnegut @StrongTowns @clmarohn

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

(Excuse the funny dangling modifier. People drilled to the ground are too discracted to teach you about benches).

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@LUrbaniste

5 years

While cities around the world shut down whole streets to throw parties, Halifax is forced to corral citizens like cattle. One more reason to just let residents have a drink in public space, like Montreal and Europe @StephenMcNeil @GaryBurrill @TimHoustonNS

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

This is the most important paragraph about microtransit I have ever read. From @humantransit

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@LUrbaniste

4 years

This is perhaps the intersection in Halifax most in need of a traffic diet. It is terrifying to cross. Each lane is too wide, and there are too many of them. It's a barrier for pedestrians between two sides of the downtown.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

5 years

The CFL Stadium proposal is a greedy demand for government gifts for private interests. It puts all risk on government, none on those who will profit. It depends on us ignoring that grants, tax breaks, & tax hikes are all the same thing: public costs.

CFL stadium group looking for up to $130 million in provincial tax money, $30 million from Halifax

Schooner Sports and Entertainment’s proposal for a CFL stadium in Shannon Park in Dartmouth lays out a plan for a $100-million stadium with up to 24,000 seats, and how taxes would pay for it.

www.thestar.com

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

Just got fully certified as a professional planner — after years of procrastinating on the exam, haha. Feels great to write those letters by my name. Thank you @RadUrbanist for your support on this!

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

6 years

I am sick of Halifax website's broken links. @hfxgov needs to cough up the money and create redirects to every last one of its legacy pages. It's unreasonable that none of the reports the city has produced for decades are easily accessible to the public.

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@LUrbaniste

1 year

@michalsvoboda_ Why worse on social connection? Apartments are notorious for social isolation, especially if there is only one entrance. Common greenspace shared by a small number of units creates opportunities for daily encounters in an inviting space, especially if front doors are aimed at it.

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@LUrbaniste

6 years

Halifax gets its first taste of a proper wide sidewalk downtown.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

2 years

@Jana_121212 @drdagly This is a misconception. They choose not to build on farmland where USA or Canada would build over it. They just use land more efficiently.

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@LUrbaniste

5 years

Woh: MIT has trained AI to recognize the safety of over a million Google Streetview images and mapped street safety for whole cities. (Score out of 10) @HoussamElokda This could support change in engineering & design best practice. @raskarmit @cesifoti

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

"It's precisely because 98% of the North American built environment is so blah that the 2% of places that are really well-designed environments quickly get bid up by the rich." This, to me, is the #1 problem cities face today. @DanielStrTowns

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@LUrbaniste

1 year

😂 Us urban planners cannot block you into dystopian 15 minute districts. But we'd love to offer you the freedom to do most of what you need without *needing* to go further, for most needs. The goal is *more freedom,* not less.

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@LUrbaniste

5 years

Sometimes I just worry... what if we didn't give this car enough room? Photo source:

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

4 years

When we commute by car to work daily, we shorten the lives of people who live on our route. New evidence adds that we help give them multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s. We don't hear enough about this injustice.

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@LUrbaniste

1 year

@Will_J_C Exactly, we need to give the market more freedom to offer more options like this. Apparently the cottages might be cheaper due to lack of elevators, sprinklers, commercial standards, etc, according to another commenter.

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@LUrbaniste

5 years

The job of professionals must be to make explicit the value trade-offs for politicians, and then to let the politicians decide which to prioritize. When engineers deny that any value judgements are involved, they usurp the politicians' role. @StrongTowns

Four Ways Traffic Engineers Thwart Public Will

Public officials trying to make their city’s street more humane are often thwarted by the professional engineers giving them advice. If that’s your city, it’s time to make a change.

www.strongtowns.org

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

6 years

The @SpringGardenRd @hfxgov stopper is HUGE. Effectively doubles the width of the sidewalk. Awesome.

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@LUrbaniste

3 years

Many of these changes are relatively inexpensive, but they improve a street x1000. For the price of a Stadium, you could do this for a whole city.

Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

It is so very nice to be in a city that values and invests in a high quality public realm, and one that encourages people to be out in the streets and parks. Sit, sleep, play; stay a while.

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@LUrbaniste

1 year

70 years of bad planning.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

2 years

All day I watch pedestrians cross the unmarked side of this intersection, and each time, the @hfxgov engineer who made this decision sends a loud, clear message of disrespect: "I don't care about your life."

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

Long-term goal: bring this level of street life back to Barrington.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

. @IainTRankin made the right, painful choice in calling for another lockdown. My thoughts go to all the workers with precarious jobs who once again have to ask whether they will get their next paycheque. Let's help them in any way we can.

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@LUrbaniste

5 years

The Wanderers are a gift to Halifax. Their location brings life to the downtown, and amazingly, they made it happen with no public money. More generally, their approach demonstrates lessons for how cities should build all kinds of infrastructure: make many small bets.

The Star Halifax

@thestarhalifax

5 years

The new downtown facility for the soccer team shows that small investments to test out projects pay off in the long run, Tristan Cleveland writes.

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

Thank you @hfxgov @WayeMason and whoever made this happen. The path I took my pregnant wife, and now my baby, to the IWK is now marked. Thank you. No comment on this guy's parking choices.

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@LUrbaniste

1 year

How do you make a public space inviting? ✅ Point knives at it. ✅ Flat everything.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

9 months

In the Strong Towns book, Chuck Marohn says maintenance is central to creating great communities. One reason to build efficient, compact towns is to be able to maintain them properly. Somehow this was both obvious and revelatory to me.

Strong Towns: The Book

Your Guide to Building a Strong Town

www.strongtowns.org

Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

9 months

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” ― Kurt Vonnegut @StrongTowns @clmarohn

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@LUrbaniste

11 months

@CarRelianceBC 😂 Right? I guess to keep out cars or slow down bikes before the sidewalk, but come on guys. What if I had my baby in a trailer and I had to navigate that?

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@LUrbaniste

4 years

I would absolutely agree with fining people hanging out in groups. I do not agree at all with fining a person walking alone. Until Nova Scotia escalates to shelter-in-place, the ban on using parks is misguided. Ban groups, not exercise. @StephenMcNeil

'We've had it:' Nova Scotia premier shames 'reckless few' for disobeying COVID-19 rules | CBC News

The Halifax Regional Police issued its first ticket under the Nova Scotia Emergency Management Act, the same day Premier Stephen McNeil announced anyone ignoring public health rules would be ticket...

www.cbc.ca

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@LUrbaniste

1 year

I'm concerned what I'm teaching my son about urban planning with this mat. Look at the unused space around that hospital! And... parking on a round about?

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

Just got my dad's website back up after a technical issue and it was a nice reminder how spectacular his work is.

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@LUrbaniste

1 year

Don't let the NIMBYs win. Fill out the survey (bottom of page) in support of redeveloping the parking lots around the West End Mall (across the street from the HFX Shopping Centre). We need housing, not parking lots!

Case 23472 - West End Mall Future Growth Node

Last updated September 15, 2023 Project status The municipality is engaging with landowners to receive the required technical studies to advance the process. The "What We Heard Report" for Phase 1 of...

www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca

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@LUrbaniste

1 year

Baby boomers opposing the construction of 5,560 homes on what is today parking lots. They could buy downtown cheap when they were young, but the young must have nowhere to live.

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@LUrbaniste

7 months

I wonder how much money Halifax transit loses due to not having card payments yet? There are many, many times when I would have taken transit in recent years, but didn't, because it was too inconvenient to get exact change.

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@LUrbaniste

7 months

Talking on zoom does not light up the brain like real social interaction, something that will surprise none of us. For happiness, we need to design cities that bring people together in reality. @charlesincities

Zoom Conversations vs In-Person: Brain Activity Tells a Different Tale - Neuroscience News

The research suggests online faces, with present technology, don't engage our social neural circuits as effectively.

neurosciencenews.com

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@LUrbaniste

1 year

Just finished my PhD defence (& waiting on their deliberation). Wow! That's hard work! Glad I got through it!

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@LUrbaniste

7 years

I love @hfxpublib . Ran into library yesterday with 5 minutes to print grant application before FedEx truck would leave. Librarian was on that helping me like a super hero. Thank you.

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@LUrbaniste

4 years

There is so much evidence in movies and pop culture that main streets is what people want, and so little action on it.

Brent Bellamy

@brent_bellamy

4 years

When Hallmark Christmas movies are filmed in Winnipeg, they always transform the great urban quality of the Exchange District into pretend human scale shopping streets. Yet instead of working to make that attractive condition a reality, we build the opposite.

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1 year

Baby boomers opposing the construction of 5,560 homes on what is today parking lots. They could buy downtown cheap when they were young, but the young must have nowhere to live.

Kevin Wilson

@WilsonKM2

1 year

An older woman has a bullhorn and is decrying the process. "The vast majority of the people here are opposed!!!" *people clap* She asked those opposed to raise their hands, ~60% did.

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@LUrbaniste

5 years

Waiting at one of Halifax's busiest terminals but can't buy a tube of toothpaste or a sandwich because they put it in the wrong damn place. Terminals should never just move buses. They should build cities.

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@LUrbaniste

5 years

If there's a "problem" with pedestrians crossing a road, it's that there's no crosswalk. The solution is not a fence, but a normal, urban street that will slow trucks to safe speeds. @hfxgov @WalknRollHfx

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@LUrbaniste

5 years

This is a major turning point for Halifax: our first protected bike lane on a major street. It won't be effective, however, until it's part of a minimum grid of such safe bike lanes.

hfxgov

@hfxgov

5 years

Construction work on the South Park Street bike lanes has begun. More info:

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@LUrbaniste

3 years

There should be at least some social cost, if not punishment, for doing this to a city's view. (In this case, the view from Point Pleasant). A home among trees can add social value. This excessive hardscaping cuts a gash.

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

Engineers come up with such bullshit to justify saying no to a community when they want a light to cross a busy street. As if drivers can't see a flashing light. As if someone driving somewhere for the first time can't see anything because they're not "used to" it yet.

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@LUrbaniste

5 years

There is absolutely no way a stadium matters more to this city than affordable housing, transit, safe streets, libraries, and all the other things that actually improve people's lives and make our communities better places to live.

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@LUrbaniste

10 months

This is my most radical position: transit terminals should sell transit tickets.

It's More Than Buses

@morethanbuses

10 months

Imagine that. Today you can buy bus tickets at the ferry terminal.

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@LUrbaniste

3 years

"If it doesn’t make you feel desperately, crushingly alone, it’s probably not a piece of prize-winning contemporary architecture." A quote for the ages.

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@LUrbaniste

11 months

I know there is lots of incompetence in the world, but I don't understand how it is possible that the majority of bike racks don't fit bike tires. How did this happen? Did they not test them on bikes? How? Why?

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@LUrbaniste

10 months

An example of the kind of illusion that makes good planning counterintuitive.

21st Century City

@urbanthoughts11

2 years

BIKE LANES ONLY LOOK EMPTY BECAUSE THEY ARE DAMN EFFICIENT This stretch in Copenhagen conveys 8 times as many people on bikes compared to cars - still it's mostly cars we see. vid @anderspreben

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@LUrbaniste

7 years

It is totally unmacceptable to close down an entire intersection for pedestrians. @hfxgov @LindellSmithHFX @WalknRollHfx Wish me luck.

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@LUrbaniste

3 years

Today in the news, @TimHoustonNS invited opposition to talks on Atlantic Loop, kept predecessor's rent policies longer, and declined to criticize Liberals for a housing legal case the gov just lost, saying the precious government tried their hardest. Kind of refreshing.

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@LUrbaniste

2 years

My two-month-old son has started smiling. I don't know what the meaning of life is, but I think this is part of it.

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@LUrbaniste

6 years

My last column folks. Stopping to focus on my PhD. I've loved working with the team at @thestarhalifax and everything I've learned from readers. Thank you for the awesome, thoughtful, challenging responses to my ideas. Halifax is the best. I'm out.

The Star Halifax

@thestarhalifax

6 years

If there's one thing that Haligonians seem to agree on, it's that pedestrians, cyclists and drivers are all incompetent jerks, writes @LUrbaniste . Maybe it's time for cooler heads to prevail?

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

@catie1888 People who do not get vaccinated are a breeding ground for variants that will undermine the vaccines. This is an irresponsible tweet.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

If the whole world read @clmarohn 's fantastic new book, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, we would very quickly build better cities. He conveys everything you need to know about what's wrong with our current transport systems. Excellent. .

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

www.amazon.com

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

3 years

Every now and then I need to laugh at the 5 lanes serving this tiny parking lot. I would love to see the engineering report that said they absolutely needed more lanes than a highway right here.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

6 years

Really glad to be reunited with this concept image of Carmichael Street from the Joint Public Lands Plan. Seeing how fundamentally a street could be transformed helped inspire me to become a planner.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

5 years

Today's climate targets "rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist." -Greta Thunberg She's absolutely right the eyes of history will look unkindly on today's leaders.

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Tristan Cleveland

@LUrbaniste

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My son took his first step today. My wife and I were both thet to see it. Feeling very grateful.

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