Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Design Streets for Safety, not Lawlessness

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · 11d

Car-brained Americans, gaze upon Mexico City’s protected bike lane infrastructure and weep open.substack.com/pub/jeremyl/...

Speed Bumps and Bollards Beat Poorly Enforced Traffic Rules in Mexico City

open.substack.com/pub/jeremyl/...

3

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · 24d

San Francisco sunsets look best from a BART car

4

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · 28d

Newest Substack covers what it took to pass SB 79, a bill to allow 5-7 story buildings within a half mile of major transit stations, out of California’s legislature

Now just needs the Governor’s signature to become law!

jeremyl.substack.com/p/the-ecstas...

3 24

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Sep 10

Restore Smoke-Filled-Backroom Politics to Local Governments

Unelected interests fill the power vacuum when local elected officials cannot talk

Finding Urbanism in Strange Places: Reviewing Pro-Housing Parts of Three Non-Housing Books

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Sep 9

Buildings a broad pro-housing movement requires finding supporters from all kinds of backgrounds

So I wrote an article about unusual reasons to support urbanism: pro-natalism, feminism, anti-imperialism

jeremyl.substack.com/p/finding-ur...

I see zoning like the sixth sense kid sees dead people. So can you!

The Future of Sustainability

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Jul 3

Last Monday, Governor Newsom made history with common sense reforms to CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act

jeremyl.substack.com/p/the-future...

Saving CA's Environment from its Environmental Laws

How I Became A Radical DIMBY (Daycares In My BackYard)

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Jul 2

I never thought I’d hear people complain about “the sound of children playing,” but alas such comments are common in the Bay Area’s absurd permitting process for childcare

jeremyl.substack.com/p/how-i-beca...

NIMBYs treat children like pollution. Solutions championed by the housing movement could help young kids access the care they deserve.

Do Democrats Really Care About Immigrants?

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Jun 22

Co-written with the excellent @acmelendrez.bsky.social! The Democratic Party can only change when party influencers leverage their platforms, and I’m grateful to know a leader like Alex who consistently does so with a smile, a hug, and a selfie for everyone

1 1 3

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Jun 22

If you’re a Democrat who believes America should support immigrants and stop ICE raids, consider also believing Democratic cities and states should make housing easier to build so new residents can afford living there

jeremyl.substack.com/p/do-democra...

Their housing policies often make it hard to tell

Do Democrats Really Care About Immigrants?

1 2 8

Reposted by Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings

Alex Melendrez @acmelendrez.bsky.social · Jun 20

The Democratic Party needs to realize that our values on LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access, refugees & most recently, support of undocumented communities, need to take into account accessibility to those rights, via affordability to protective communities. #YIMBY
jeremyl.substack.com/p/do-democra...

Their housing policies often make it hard to tell

The Democratic Civil War is Here

2 6 20

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Jun 11

Too busy daring Trump to arrest him 😔

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Jun 6

Step away from the abstractions of The Discourse online and learn how abundance politics is actually remaking coalitions in the Democratic Party

jeremyl.substack.com/p/the-democr...

Process vs outcomes, not progressives vs moderates. Observations from the trenches of a local Democratic Party activist.

2

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · May 28

How many CEQA lawsuits would have happened in response to the major infrastructure projects in the Green New Deal?

NIMBYTales: Nextdoor Cesspool

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · May 26

I love Nextdoor! Only place I’ve ever been called a Nazi and a Communist in the same interaction
open.substack.com/pub/jeremyl/...

2

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · May 26

I love Nextdoor! Only place I’ve ever been called a Nazi and a Communist in the same interaction
open.substack.com/pub/jeremyl/...

Profiting off of my haters

The Bill Breaking California's Housing Organizations

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · May 22

California’s housing movement is at war with itself. I did a medium dive into why jeremyl.substack.com/p/the-bill-b...

A Housing Movement Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

NIMBYTales: Nextdoor Cesspool

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · May 14

@nimbypatrol.bsky.social @bestofnextdoor.bsky.social this one’s for you jeremyl.substack.com/p/nimbytales...

Profiting off of my haters

Undemocratic Democracy: End California's Initiative Process

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · May 8

Did you know Prop 13 took multiple decades and more than a dozen failed attempts to pass?

CA’s broken voter initiative process means special interest groups only need to succeed once to create near-immutable constitutional changes jeremyl.substack.com/p/direct-dem...

This article contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm

NIMBYTales: Dear Schmucks

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Apr 9

Sharing some of the hate mail I’ve received for supporting housing 😇 jeremyl.substack.com/p/nimbytales...

Profiting off of my haters

My favorite recent housing articles, smuttier than ever

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Apr 2

Amidst everything going on in the world, it’s still crazy to me how little we talk about how wrong Euclid v. Ambler. America might be a much more free, affordable place if it were decided differently

jeremyl.substack.com/p/zoning-con...

Zoning controls your life, but it has dark origins

Jeremy Levine, PhD in city council meetings @thejeremylevine.bsky.social · Mar 26

Check out my favorite urbanist content from the last month, smuttier than ever
open.substack.com/pub/jeremyl/...

Hot Urbanist Thots 2