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It’s Knozone Action Day #6 of 2025 in Indianapolis. Leave the car at home today, and avoid fueling up or doing yard work today!
IndyGo is a great way to get around as an alternative, and you can plan your trip with @transit.app, MyStop, or Google Maps.
IndyGo is a great way to get around as an alternative, and you can plan your trip with @transit.app, MyStop, or Google Maps.
September 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It’s Knozone Action Day #6 of 2025 in Indianapolis. Leave the car at home today, and avoid fueling up or doing yard work today!
IndyGo is a great way to get around as an alternative, and you can plan your trip with @transit.app, MyStop, or Google Maps.
IndyGo is a great way to get around as an alternative, and you can plan your trip with @transit.app, MyStop, or Google Maps.
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“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.”
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community
Adults who live in walkable neighborhoods are more likely to socialize and have a stronger sense of community, report researchers at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human...
today.ucsd.edu
September 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.”
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Repeat, Repeat, Repeat
Still think families with kids don’t want to live downtown? They will, if you actually plan for them.
Downtown Vancouver’s 3rd elementary school is opening this fall in Coal Harbour. 3 storeys, 340 capacity (should’ve been more), homes/daycare above.
7300+ kids (0-14) in downtown peninsula (2021).
Downtown Vancouver’s 3rd elementary school is opening this fall in Coal Harbour. 3 storeys, 340 capacity (should’ve been more), homes/daycare above.
7300+ kids (0-14) in downtown peninsula (2021).
August 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Repeat, Repeat, Repeat
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“Downtown is a neighborhood. It’s many other things too, but it has to be a GREAT neighborhood. That’s the ‘contract’ we make with people who choose to live there. They’re trading [the big backyard, etc] for ubiquitous and accessible amenities — it’s a bad trade if you don’t provide those things.”
Q&A with Consulting City Planner Brent Toderian - Sactown Magazine
Consulting city planner Brent Toderian discusses bringing more housing to downtown Sacramento and other ways to make it a more desirable neighborhood.
www.sactownmag.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“Downtown is a neighborhood. It’s many other things too, but it has to be a GREAT neighborhood. That’s the ‘contract’ we make with people who choose to live there. They’re trading [the big backyard, etc] for ubiquitous and accessible amenities — it’s a bad trade if you don’t provide those things.”
The Valley Neighborhood is extremely proud and thankful to support the work being done by this amazing group of people. It turns out that doing the right thing is, well, the RIGHT Thing TO DO! We should all take solace in that fact.
Thanks to everyone who attended our Greenlawn Cemetery excavation + Henry Street Bridge project public information meeting. I am excited to see where the research takes us in the next few years. In case you missed the meeting, the presentation slides are here: wridinfrastructure.com/june-2024-up...
July 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The Valley Neighborhood is extremely proud and thankful to support the work being done by this amazing group of people. It turns out that doing the right thing is, well, the RIGHT Thing TO DO! We should all take solace in that fact.
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Last week we hit a new benchmark on the Henry Street Bridge Project excavation - reaching over 1,000 graveshafts identified. Not even 50% through our excavation. On our tiny, 1.5 acre parcel of a larger 25 acre cemetery.
July 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Last week we hit a new benchmark on the Henry Street Bridge Project excavation - reaching over 1,000 graveshafts identified. Not even 50% through our excavation. On our tiny, 1.5 acre parcel of a larger 25 acre cemetery.
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Another reminder that “15-Minute Cities” isn’t a new idea. It’s skilled packaging of an idea that’s been around for a LONG time.
It’s been called “city of short distances.” I used to call it “The Power of Nearness.” MANY names.
More things close by. Less car dependency. More CHOICE.
Common sense.
It’s been called “city of short distances.” I used to call it “The Power of Nearness.” MANY names.
More things close by. Less car dependency. More CHOICE.
Common sense.
July 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Another reminder that “15-Minute Cities” isn’t a new idea. It’s skilled packaging of an idea that’s been around for a LONG time.
It’s been called “city of short distances.” I used to call it “The Power of Nearness.” MANY names.
More things close by. Less car dependency. More CHOICE.
Common sense.
It’s been called “city of short distances.” I used to call it “The Power of Nearness.” MANY names.
More things close by. Less car dependency. More CHOICE.
Common sense.
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Also happening today- Routes 2 & 38 now leave from the same bay and are now on staggered departures, meaning less confusion for riders and more frequent service on College Avenue between 10th and 38th!
June 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Also happening today- Routes 2 & 38 now leave from the same bay and are now on staggered departures, meaning less confusion for riders and more frequent service on College Avenue between 10th and 38th!
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I mean, we only figured this out 70 years ago...
It’s still a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history.
Please share it as much as you can.
Please share it as much as you can.
April 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I mean, we only figured this out 70 years ago...
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Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
March 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
Just saying over and over and over again until light bulbs go off in every head in America
Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
March 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just saying over and over and over again until light bulbs go off in every head in America
It matters a lot
As of Friday, the city's Henry Street Bridge project had identified *362* grave shafts on our small, 1.5 acre strip.
View our Updates page for more excavation details: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
This place matters.
View our Updates page for more excavation details: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
This place matters.
March 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It matters a lot
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“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.”
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community
Adults who live in walkable neighborhoods are more likely to socialize and have a stronger sense of community, report researchers at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human...
today.ucsd.edu
March 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.”
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Check out this article from IndyStar:
Indianapolis program killed by federal government sought diversity ... among trees
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
Indianapolis program killed by federal government sought diversity ... among trees
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
Indianapolis program killed by federal government sought diversity ... among trees
A planting program including the words 'biodiversity' and tree 'equity' may have prompted grant revocation, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful leader fears
www.indystar.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Check out this article from IndyStar:
Indianapolis program killed by federal government sought diversity ... among trees
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
Indianapolis program killed by federal government sought diversity ... among trees
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
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Henry St Bridge proj update: 320 grave shafts discovered by 2/21 on our 1.5 acre.
Black & white, rich & poor, young & old - these individuals buried here lived part or all of their lives in this City and deserve respect, to be memorialized, & when we can, reconnected to their names and identities.
Black & white, rich & poor, young & old - these individuals buried here lived part or all of their lives in this City and deserve respect, to be memorialized, & when we can, reconnected to their names and identities.
February 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Henry St Bridge proj update: 320 grave shafts discovered by 2/21 on our 1.5 acre.
Black & white, rich & poor, young & old - these individuals buried here lived part or all of their lives in this City and deserve respect, to be memorialized, & when we can, reconnected to their names and identities.
Black & white, rich & poor, young & old - these individuals buried here lived part or all of their lives in this City and deserve respect, to be memorialized, & when we can, reconnected to their names and identities.
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folk's we've got a logo sign
February 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
folk's we've got a logo sign
In the one and only Valley Neighborhood
January 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In the one and only Valley Neighborhood
the one and only
January 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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When we see streets as primarily space to move cars, we miss out on the wonderful places that streets can be. And our cities are much less successful for it. Rotenturmstraße’s before-&-after transformation in #Vienna via @birgithebein.bsky.social HT @liorsteinberg.bsky.social #StreetsForPeople
January 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
When we see streets as primarily space to move cars, we miss out on the wonderful places that streets can be. And our cities are much less successful for it. Rotenturmstraße’s before-&-after transformation in #Vienna via @birgithebein.bsky.social HT @liorsteinberg.bsky.social #StreetsForPeople