#Cities

Five important things about road charging, as floated in the Times today and which I've talked about for years: https://twitter.com/sianberry/status/1317841677000781824?s=201. We do need action to reduce traffic miles, which must
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This thread explains how Trump scored higher in votes and in vote share in San Fran and Santa Clara than in 2016 AND how Biden still ended up with larger
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Though not mentioned in the Gospel, Church Scholars agree there are seven deadly sins: gluttony sloth, lust, greed, envy, wrath and pride. Which one is gonna kill your city? Thread
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@JoeBiden is so impaired that most people wouldn't entrust him with the care of the family pup. He stammers lies and the equivalent of t-shirt slogans, whipped up for him
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Why Konza City became a failure from the start. An insight#CitiesForPeople#MisplacedPriorities 1. Optimum Size.Cities with 50,000 people have a big market to sustain 61 different kinds of retail shopsCities with
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Speed kills. A person hit by a car at 35mph is *five times* as likely to die as someone hit by a car at 20mph.(Mass matters too. As larger SUVs
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I track dangerous US orgs for work. You don’t need me to explain that extremist threats have blossomed. The possibility of civil conflict here is real. It’s on the horizon.
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Insights into a draft @ECA_OFFICIAL report on African urbanization: Cities as gateways for Africa’s regional economic integration https://www.uneca.org/egm-state-urbanization-africa "AfCFTA is expected to increase trade between Afric
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#EPWConversations: We are live with @vabhis, and we invite you to send your questions about public transportation in India in this thread. He will be tweeting through EPW's account for
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On top of the work on Project Tool Belt in 2020, we also administered a Safe Parking program here in Fullerton. Safe, Overnight parking programs that link folks living in
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Do you have any plan or have you given any kind of thought whatsoever to improving the economic conditions and infrastructure Upstate?70 years ago, Upstate was home to three of
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| All my life, we've been transferring to different cities (which I love) and I've grown up with different phases of my life in almost 7-8 cities. So when someone
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Groups like us are always banging on about making cities "more walkable".But what does that even mean? A thread Luckily, the nerds, as usual, are to the rescue!Specifically --
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This substack post expressing mild skepticism about COVID-caused decline in superstar cities was excellent, but! I think Noah draws on economics in a couple of places where it's ossified into
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Interesting epidemiology news: a lot of folks predicted the Black Lives Matter protests would cause COVID spikes, and that doesn't seem to be the case.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/black-lives-matter-protests-coronav
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1. Pittsburgh's Moonshot ... The Center for Urban Innovation, Urban Tech. Bring the 100 best and brightest in the world to Pittsburgh with their research financed. That would position Pittsburgh
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