Shawn Hull
@shawnhull.bsky.social
Pedestrian - in every sense of the word.
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A French lemonade from 1651
August 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A French lemonade from 1651
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.”
- Lewis Mumford
- Lewis Mumford
March 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.”
- Lewis Mumford
- Lewis Mumford
Interesting approach.
Op-ed: Federal dollars are disappearing, but community wealth building doesn’t need to fade with them. Here’s a roadmap for city leaders to get started.
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
It’s Still Possible To Build Community Wealth in an Era of Executive (Dis)Order
Op-ed: Federal dollars are disappearing, but community wealth building doesn’t need to fade with them. Here’s a roadmap for city leaders to get started.
nextcity.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Interesting approach.
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Sometimes get your dog a puppy it ends up being the best thing you could do
May 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Sometimes get your dog a puppy it ends up being the best thing you could do
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It’s actually pretty simple — great streets make great cities. If you want great streets, make them great #peopleplaces, not just places to move through. #citiesforpeople
May 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
It’s actually pretty simple — great streets make great cities. If you want great streets, make them great #peopleplaces, not just places to move through. #citiesforpeople
Same Canadian lady. Same.
Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.
April 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Same Canadian lady. Same.
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
April 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
Seem like good words to live by.
April 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Seem like good words to live by.
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Haven’t even read the piece but this simple point is 100% right. And not simply as branding. America has a robust civic democratic tradition, rich w libertarian (and not in the modern weird sense) symbols and touchstones, anti-autocratic totems. It’s the touchstone of the country’s civic mythology.
Been doing a lot of reading and thinking lately and based on everything I've looked at this logic is where I'm at with things. The movement back towards sanity should be wrapped in the flag. 🇺🇸
www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...
www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...
Roadmap to American Reconstruction
A roadmap for retaking power and laying the foundations for American Reconstruction.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Haven’t even read the piece but this simple point is 100% right. And not simply as branding. America has a robust civic democratic tradition, rich w libertarian (and not in the modern weird sense) symbols and touchstones, anti-autocratic totems. It’s the touchstone of the country’s civic mythology.
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March 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Well formulated.
February 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Well formulated.
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Elements of a stroad retrofit:
🛣️ Remove car lanes
🚗 Consolidate driveways
🌳 Add trees
🚲 Add protected bike lanes
🏢 Redevelop to the property line
🛣️ Remove car lanes
🚗 Consolidate driveways
🌳 Add trees
🚲 Add protected bike lanes
🏢 Redevelop to the property line
February 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Elements of a stroad retrofit:
🛣️ Remove car lanes
🚗 Consolidate driveways
🌳 Add trees
🚲 Add protected bike lanes
🏢 Redevelop to the property line
🛣️ Remove car lanes
🚗 Consolidate driveways
🌳 Add trees
🚲 Add protected bike lanes
🏢 Redevelop to the property line
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This infrastructure creates prosperity.
The average car costs $12,544 annually—fuel, insurance, maintenance, depreciation, financing, and parking—most of which leaves the community.
For every 15,000 vehicles a city reduces its rate of ownership, $127 million remains in the local economy each year.
The average car costs $12,544 annually—fuel, insurance, maintenance, depreciation, financing, and parking—most of which leaves the community.
For every 15,000 vehicles a city reduces its rate of ownership, $127 million remains in the local economy each year.
February 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This infrastructure creates prosperity.
The average car costs $12,544 annually—fuel, insurance, maintenance, depreciation, financing, and parking—most of which leaves the community.
For every 15,000 vehicles a city reduces its rate of ownership, $127 million remains in the local economy each year.
The average car costs $12,544 annually—fuel, insurance, maintenance, depreciation, financing, and parking—most of which leaves the community.
For every 15,000 vehicles a city reduces its rate of ownership, $127 million remains in the local economy each year.
Interesting thread on the qualitative aspects of quantitative data.
I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.
In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
February 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Interesting thread on the qualitative aspects of quantitative data.
Timothy Snyder explains the inexplicable: why Musk-Trump are throwing away the post-war security arrangements that benefit the US and our allies.
Current American foreign policy is about draining power from the US and its allies, thereby creating atmospherics in which Donald Trump feels good and Elon Musk converts lost state capacity into personal profit. The weakness, in other words, is the point.
snyder.substack.com/p/affirmativ...
snyder.substack.com/p/affirmativ...
Affirmative Action for Dictators
American Foreign Policy seen from Munich
snyder.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Timothy Snyder explains the inexplicable: why Musk-Trump are throwing away the post-war security arrangements that benefit the US and our allies.
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“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding “The Unbreakabke Law Of Congestion” aka #InducedDemand. Via @wired.com
What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ...
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding “The Unbreakabke Law Of Congestion” aka #InducedDemand. Via @wired.com
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In between the planning and the realization of a complete community vision is a stage of testing ideas in the real world. Tactical urbanism gets planning off of paper and out of a big room and it is one of the most exciting trends in urban design and transportation today. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...
January 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In between the planning and the realization of a complete community vision is a stage of testing ideas in the real world. Tactical urbanism gets planning off of paper and out of a big room and it is one of the most exciting trends in urban design and transportation today. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...
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Maybe you see my #PlowSidewalksToo hashtag and think, "Yeah, sure, sounds great but it would require a massive tax increase and expansion of the public payroll and no one is going to willingly sign on for that. Real shame, though."
So: a thread. 🧵
#urbanism
So: a thread. 🧵
#urbanism
December 9, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Maybe you see my #PlowSidewalksToo hashtag and think, "Yeah, sure, sounds great but it would require a massive tax increase and expansion of the public payroll and no one is going to willingly sign on for that. Real shame, though."
So: a thread. 🧵
#urbanism
So: a thread. 🧵
#urbanism
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25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: Pedestrian sheds are a foundational idea of designing cohesive communities, but the challenge is the gap between what planners know and developers are building. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...
January 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism: Pedestrian sheds are a foundational idea of designing cohesive communities, but the challenge is the gap between what planners know and developers are building. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...
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Justin Timberlake, welcome to The War on Cars.
The Portland group that organizes chaperoned bike rides so kids can get to school in “bike buses” welcomed a special guest Sunday: Justin Timberlake.
Justin Timberlake joins Portland Bike Bus as special guest
The pop star joined about 100 people on bikes for a Sunday ride to Alameda Elementary School in Northeast Portland.
www.oregonlive.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Justin Timberlake, welcome to The War on Cars.
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Plan the city you want, not the one you think is inevitable. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/01/02/a...
Anyone Can Redesign a Street. Here's How. — Streetsblog USA
Got an internet connection? You can redesign a street — no transportation engineering degree needed.
usa.streetsblog.org
January 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Plan the city you want, not the one you think is inevitable. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/01/02/a...
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Have you seen this one before? A short history of traffic engineering via @copenhagenizers.bsky.social. Manufactured #CarDependency takes a lot of forms, including how easy or hard we make it to get from A to B using any other ways of getting around.
A direct result of the wrong priorities.
A direct result of the wrong priorities.
December 23, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Have you seen this one before? A short history of traffic engineering via @copenhagenizers.bsky.social. Manufactured #CarDependency takes a lot of forms, including how easy or hard we make it to get from A to B using any other ways of getting around.
A direct result of the wrong priorities.
A direct result of the wrong priorities.