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IT’S HERE!!!
Today is the day: The 10th Anniversary of Walkable City has arrived!
With an introduction by and 100 new pages of update by me.
Get yours while they last!
us.macmillan.com/books/97812508
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City planner, walkability advocate, writer, husband, father. Latest book: Walkable City Rules: amzn.to/2C1mprn
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I'm afraid that if nothing is done here, the gig is up. How can young people feel that there is any honesty or virtue in government?
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This is corruption. Plain and simple. And each day that passes, the Supreme Court is looking less like a bench and more like an auction house.
Thomas should resign immediately and Roberts should see to it that he does. twitter.com/washingtonpost…
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This is no longer just one scandal, or a simple partisan dispute. This is an earthquake for the Article 3 branch of government. Silence will not work. A full explanation, and a fulsome reform, is the only way forward.
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My friends and I regularly buy each other lunch. How is that so different from private school tuition?
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I mean, can anyone else say they have a friendship like the one Clarence Thomas has with Harlan Crow? A friend you met when he gave you a ride on his private jet, who's also your mom's landlord but doesn't charge her rent and pays for a family member's tuition?
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EXCLUSIVE: Seattle has adopted a new policy that makes a prohibition on right turns on red the default whenever traffic signals are added or modified anywhere in the city.
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I'm getting ready to hop on my e-cargo bike to run errands, but I also plan to do some learning as I pedal from A to B.
I'll have in my headphones narrating Walkable City Rules via my Audible subscription. 🎧📖
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Happy Jane Jacobs' Birthday!
I had the pleasure of making a pilgrimage to her childhood home in Scranton, where I am doing a downtown plan.
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May 4 is the anniversary of two important events, both on the East Coast of the US, eighty years apart, that have helped shape modern planning and urbanism for the better around the world. @JeffSpeckFAICP @stevemouzon @VictorDover @mallorybaches
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Is this getting worse? It seems like it’s getting worse.
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NEW:
Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition.
The price tag could have exceeded $150,000.
propublica.org/article/claren
w/ @js_kaplan @Amierjeski
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NEW: In what legal experts say could be the most brazen and egregious campaign finance violation in memory, and possible wire fraud, Herschel Walker solicited & received $535,200 from a donor—to his private company. Me
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A two lane, one-way street has no place in a pedestrian, bike, and transit-served neighborhood. It’s a deadly design that exists to prioritize flow of traffic over human life. Enough!
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Jordan Neely was a New Yorker.
He was a person.
When he began to suffer from mental illness the city’s social safety net failed him, as it had failed countless others.
When he exhibited signs of his mental illness in public he was murdered on the F train.
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Oh captain, my captain 🫡
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Next week, I’m submitting a bill to the U.S. House that eliminates parking minimums across the country in transit rich zones. We are in a housing crisis and eliminating parking requirements lowers costs to build. It’s good housing, climate & transit policy. Stay tuned.
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I don't get it. Screenwriters have been on strike for days now, but Succession keeps getting better. What gives?
JK. Support your local writer!
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This was a fun convo. Please listen!
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//Listen to a #podcast with CEO/Founder
@AmyBantham and @JeffSpeckFAICP
on Walkable Cities #Walking #Safety #BikeRollToSchoolDay #WalkingWednesday movetolivemore.com/podcast/walkab
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ANNOUNCING THIS YEAR'S CONTEST:
is giving away 1 free spot at my 2-day course, The Walkable City, June 15-16, a $1700 value. How to enter: retweet this message with the best reason why you should win. Winner announced May 18.
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Great news.
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It looks like Carmel voted to stay the Brainard course. Sue Finkham wins the Republican mayor's race. She was one of two Brainardite candidates running.
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THREAD: Here is a list of all the 22 women who have credibly accused Trump of rape and sexual misconduct. Please Retweet.
1. Jill Harth says she was groped and kissed in a bedroom at Mar-A-Lago.
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Montreal installed 40 outdoor coworking spaces in neighborhoods across the City complete with free WiFi and charging. A great way to activate the streetscape while providing new community third spaces and drawing daytime activity back into commercial districts.
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And you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’
If it’s Bike Month, even if it’s the Met Gala, it’s by bike.
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Hammond Downtown Master Plan has enabled the Northwest Indiana city to kick start its downtown revival. Speck & Associates and Stantec’s Urban Places won a Merit Award in the CNU 2023 Charter Awards.
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Excited to share our award-winning, under-construction, downtown master plan for #Hammond, #Indiana.
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A great weekend in Boston for a screening of #thestreetprojectdoc . joined us for the Q &A. Consider hosting a screening in your town. Thestreetproject.com
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7 years ago, #Uber insisted that it would reduce traffic. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber and Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic, and now admit they increase congestion.
So much for “making cities better…”
wsj.com/articles/the-r
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A ticket allowing you to use every bus, subway and tram in Germany will now cost €49 a month.
That means you can use ALL public transit across Germany (except inter city trains) for €588 a year!!!
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ウォーカブルな街とても魅力的です。
2012年Jeff Speck 著の「Walkable City」はとても有名です。
彼は本著の中で
1. Useful Walk(便利性)
2. Safe Walk (安全性)
3. Confortable Walk (快適性)
4. Interesting Walk(ワクワク性)
の4要素が街には必要だと主張しています。
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歩くことは創造性につながる。
Walking leads to creativity.
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33 entries so far. Contest runs until May 18. Go for it!
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ANNOUNCING THIS YEAR'S CONTEST:
@HarvardGSDExEd is giving away 1 free spot at my 2-day course, The Walkable City, June 15-16, a $1700 value. And you get a diploma from Harvard! How to enter: retweet this message with the best reason why you should win. execed.gsd.harvard.edu/walkable-city
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THREAD: Recently I was asked to participate in a TV segment about the recent manufactured controversy about “15-Minutes Cities” policies (aka cities that are less car-dependent with more things we need close by). See thread below if you’re not up to speed on whats been happening.
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"There's always going to be debate in city planning. Always. But there's good faith debate, based on disagreements, and then there's deliberate lies and misinformation." Print article of my @abcnews interview on the truth and lies about “15-Minute Cities.”
abc.net.au/news/2023-02-2
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A cool opportunity to win a free spot in a two-day course at Harvard this summer with a great urban planning teacher -->
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ANNOUNCING THIS YEAR'S CONTEST:
@HarvardGSDExEd is giving away 1 free spot at my 2-day course, The Walkable City, June 15-16, a $1700 value. And you get a diploma from Harvard!
How to enter: retweet this message with the best reason why you should win.
execed.gsd.harvard.edu/walkable-city
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Crooks from top to bottom.
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Wow. A whistleblower alleges that Jane Roberts—wife of Chief Justice John Roberts—was paid more than $10 million in recruiting fees from top law firms that had business in front of the Court.
Below is one page of the report showing her earnings. More: businessinsider.com/jane-roberts-c
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OK that’s pretty cool.
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Amazing new public libraries + housing developments planned for Chicago! twitter.com/BlockClubCHI/s…
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Honestly, the hair, the attitude, the self-aggrandizement, the irresponsibility . . . There is no fiction writer capable of creating a character so absurdly despicable.
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Q: "A lot of [voters] are still upset about what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. To what extent can you provide assurances that something like that never happens again?"
Trump: "It wasn't my fault. A lot of people thought the election was rigged and stolen."
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It's only April, but Culver City, CA makes a strong case for "Worst Transportation Decision of 2023."
latimes.com/california/new
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ANNOUNCING THIS YEAR'S CONTEST:
is giving away 1 free spot at my 2-day course, The Walkable City, June 15-16, a $1700 value. And you get a diploma from Harvard! How to enter: retweet this message with the best reason why you should win.
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In the United States, 39% of people who commute by bike are from the lowest 25% of income earners.
(From "The Street Project," the new documentary that we'll be screening at on May 22 as part of the Houston Bike Summit.)
RSVP: secure.everyaction.com/9UYhCWaTU0GTq8
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ANNOUNCING THIS YEAR'S CONTEST:
is giving away 1 free spot at my 2-day course, The Walkable City, June 15-16, a $1700 value. And you get a diploma from Harvard!
How to enter: retweet this message with the best reason why you should win.
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