brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Absolutely horrible story that reminds me of this article, The Criminalization of Walking. It has a section on "The War on Child Pedestrians"
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For Flow, I wrote this essay about the camera looks in Abbott Elementary and other comedies, and camera looks more generally going back to film comedian comedies and musicals. I connect these looks to the sitcom laugh track. www.flowjournal.org/2025/04/came...

Transportation costs are a huge problem! Housing costs in regions like New York City are, definitely, very high. But transportation costs are much lower! That's what makes it possible for NYC region to have lower overall housing + transportation costs than the Dallas region. htaindex.cnt.org/map/

Portland's citywide upzoning has been working — more and more of the development in previously single-family areas is now missing middle housing. The city's recent report also shows many other great impacts of Portland's top-notch upzonings — more charts below www.portland.gov/bps/planning...

MTA suggesting that you'd need to go through NEPA to shut down congestion pricing is lol, dare I say it, L M A O

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🚨urban economics research siren🚨

This new paper analyses the effects of upzoning in Auckland by first specifying and second estimating an urban economic model.

The results imply upzoning led to:
- a 24% increase in floorspace; and
- a 15 to 27% fall in house prices.

Paper here: t.co/VhlUfIgsTD

A recent study shows that removing Milwaukee's 794 freeway and replacing it with housing could generate $17M in property taxes yearly, add 3,000 homes, and contribute $2M in sales tax. OR we could rebuild the freeway for $300M...

(Rethink 794, Photos by Xu Zhang)

Check out this blue sky. 🩵💙