Ryan Pierce
@ryanpierce.bsky.social
Committed to helping data-driven, innovative, collaborative and bold city leaders with Bloomberg Philanthropies. A new New Yorker with Midwest tendencies. Tweets mine.
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Fascinating new article that shows that "urban highways are associated with decreased social connectivity," especially over short distances.
Gives strong evidence for the importance of the Reconnecting Communities program, designed to connect neighborhoods divided by highways.
Gives strong evidence for the importance of the Reconnecting Communities program, designed to connect neighborhoods divided by highways.
🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122
Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122
Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.
March 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Fascinating new article that shows that "urban highways are associated with decreased social connectivity," especially over short distances.
Gives strong evidence for the importance of the Reconnecting Communities program, designed to connect neighborhoods divided by highways.
Gives strong evidence for the importance of the Reconnecting Communities program, designed to connect neighborhoods divided by highways.
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If you think Amsterdam managed to avoid being overrun by cars, you’re wrong.
They too surrendered their streets to cars for many decades.
But the people fought back, and forced leaders to see their mistake.
There's nothing magical about #Amsterdam.
They just saw their mistake, and changed it.
They too surrendered their streets to cars for many decades.
But the people fought back, and forced leaders to see their mistake.
There's nothing magical about #Amsterdam.
They just saw their mistake, and changed it.
February 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
If you think Amsterdam managed to avoid being overrun by cars, you’re wrong.
They too surrendered their streets to cars for many decades.
But the people fought back, and forced leaders to see their mistake.
There's nothing magical about #Amsterdam.
They just saw their mistake, and changed it.
They too surrendered their streets to cars for many decades.
But the people fought back, and forced leaders to see their mistake.
There's nothing magical about #Amsterdam.
They just saw their mistake, and changed it.
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The lack of clear and bold leadership from climate philanthropy in this moment is devastating. Besides Bloomberg Philanthropies, have seen little to nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/c...
Under Trump, Billionaire Climate Champions Have Gone Quiet
Since the inauguration, billionaires who funded climate action over the last decade have avoided criticizing Trump’s climate policies.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The lack of clear and bold leadership from climate philanthropy in this moment is devastating. Besides Bloomberg Philanthropies, have seen little to nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/c...
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Edinburgh, Scotland, shows that when you stack apartments, join them wall-to-wall, and build them right up to the property line to form courtyard blocks ...
December 9, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Edinburgh, Scotland, shows that when you stack apartments, join them wall-to-wall, and build them right up to the property line to form courtyard blocks ...
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Did you know that a “kissing canopy” is when trees above a street or sidewalk grow to touch overhead, creating a cool, shaded place? Despite it being colder and darker these days, let’s remember the beauty and value that #StreetTrees add to our cities, IF we design for them. #KissingCanopies
November 29, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Did you know that a “kissing canopy” is when trees above a street or sidewalk grow to touch overhead, creating a cool, shaded place? Despite it being colder and darker these days, let’s remember the beauty and value that #StreetTrees add to our cities, IF we design for them. #KissingCanopies
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READ THIS: How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
In the 1960s, Dutch cities saw cars as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to turn #Amsterdam into the cycling nirvana of today. www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/...
In the 1960s, Dutch cities saw cars as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to turn #Amsterdam into the cycling nirvana of today. www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/...
How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
In the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly in thrall to motorists, with the car seen as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to t...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:39 AM
READ THIS: How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
In the 1960s, Dutch cities saw cars as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to turn #Amsterdam into the cycling nirvana of today. www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/...
In the 1960s, Dutch cities saw cars as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to turn #Amsterdam into the cycling nirvana of today. www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/...