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Anyone in the orbit of town planning, equity, “built environment,” new urbanism:

Working on a story for Mountain Lake PBS here in Plattsburgh on a rezoning project. We need visuals that we can reuse with permission (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0): “illegal” neighborhoods, land-use value 3-D graphs, etc. 🚶‍♀️🌇
June 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Another episode of The Yellow Light Sound, the podcast for The Yellow Light. It breaks down individual change and structural change, and clears up what urbanists want. (Hint: it’s not to go door to door and guilt you into riding a bike in 50-mph traffic.) ♿🛣️

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Me against the World
We all want to change the world, but social change doesn’t come from converting every person, one by one. The current crop of new urbanists and champions of active mobility don’t aim to bully each lis...
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June 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A new article dropped, all about fire safety and the single-staircase problem that holds back housing construction and worsens the quality of life in exchange for . . . nothing? ♿🛣️
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Stairway to Hell
Don’t get burned by incorrect mandates. Be cool about fire safety.
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May 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Launching the website, TheYellowLight.org!

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Counterintuitive insights on the built environment
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May 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Launching the website, TheYellowLight.org!

The Yellow Light hosts analyses with counterintuitive insights about our built environment. Subscribe (free) for weekly emails of new essays and podcast episodes.

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The Yellow Light
Counterintuitive insights on the built environment
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May 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM