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Jul 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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I’ve long considered Montreal & Vancouver to be “mirror image” top design cities, as they are good at different things (& thus could REALLY learn from each other)! For example, Vancouver could learn A LOT from Montreal about public realm design/investment & street transformation.
How are Vancouver & Montreal good at different city-building things? I think with urban design, Vancouver has been better at negotiating good design from developers (a city BY design), & Montreal is better at public sector design (a city OF design).

Read: planetizen.com/node/23462
Just stop & think about this — what if YOUR city transformed a key main street (like Montreal has with #MontRoyal, actually one of TEN such street transformations this summer) into a 2.5km long pedestrian promenade & living room with 2700 seats? Thanks for the tip @JeanBeaudoin_!
Montreal does urban parks REALLY well, & people clearly LOVE the new Place Fleurs-de-Macadam right on pedestrianized Avenue Mont-Royal. A packed “water square” with interactive water & on-site rain management, “cloudy” art feature & great seating all on a former gas station site.
One of Canada’s more intriguing waterfront transformations, the ongoing evolution of Montreal’s Old Port lands into an urban residential neighbourhood by Canada Lands Company, fuelled by a $50 million infrastructure investment. I have compliments & critiques — what do YOU think?

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Nov 8, 2023
When it comes to achieving better cities for people, a BIG challenge is how little space we have for public life, given the space we’ve surrendered to cars. Barcelona’s “superblocks” show what we can fit if we took some space back. Video by @modacitylife
My favourite kind of “traffic!” A school “bike bus” planned each Friday in Barcelona a few years back, grew from an initial 5 kids when it started. Safety in numbers — do you think you could do this in your city? Via @lljunca.

See you soon, Barcelona.
@lljunca Central Barcelona is a bit of a duality. Some big streets feel like the car is still king. Many others are pedestrianized or have recently been redesigned to put people first. It feels like smart progress, but the city seems to still be debating what it wants to be.

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Oct 13, 2023
WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, watch this excellent video by @notjustbikes with @UrbanThree & @StrongTowns. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. 



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HUGE ISSUE: Cities/regions all over North America & beyond have a HUGE growth financing problem. On the one hand, raising devt charges/“impact fees” for new home-building in a housing crisis seems INSANE as interest rates & construction costs continue to murder project viability.
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ON THE OTHER HAND, many cities/regions are in a nasty catch-22 since those same construction costs & borrowing conditions have BRUTALIZED the budgets of critical growth-related infrastructure projects, & in many cases housing growth literally can’t proceed without such projects. Image
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Apr 24, 2023
Your semi-regular reminder. #reality Image
Suburban Sprawl costs 38% more public money upfront & 10% more ongoing public cost than compact infill growth, with only 1/10th the created tax revenue, according to the report discussed in this @CityLab article.

#Sprawl is REALLY expensive for everyone.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“If you want a conversation about avoiding future municipal tax increases, that’s the only way you can do it…Suburban sprawl is an incredible drain on municipal finances, & thank goodness you’ve got the inner-city and infill development to subsidize it.”
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Feb 11, 2023
You know who DOESN’T get to decide if the concept of 15-Minute Cities, which supports MORE CHOICE & LESS CAR DEPENDENCY, is good public policy?

The same alt-right conspiracy theorists & cynical opportunists who brought us truck occupations in neighbourhoods, Jan. 5th, & Brexit.
Unhinged conspiracy theorists are attacking the idea of more walkable communities & less car dependency. I for one have no intention of letting them reframe effective public policy with the equivalent of “chips in vaccines.” You shouldn’t either. Via @VICE vice.com/en/article/m7g…
If you REALLY want to understand more about the “15-Minute City” concept — what it is, what it isn’t — then check out this older thread. It’s not a new idea. What’s new is that Paris branded it better than anyone else had, so now it’s become a strategic target among extremists.
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Nov 15, 2022
One of my most interesting recent projects was working with @NSWDPE to create an innovative new way to do regional plans. The first of 2 I helped with, the Central Coast Regional Plan 2041, was recently approved with a LOT of new approaches for Australia! planning.nsw.gov.au/Plans-for-your…
For the 1st time, we applied the “15-minute city” concept to 7 different regional contexts, & prioritized real-life follow-thru including OPTIMUM (not minimum) density targets; mandated neighbourhood mixed-use; and strategies for multi-modal transportation for EACH of 7 contexts.
It’s easy to SAY we want “15 minute neighbourhoods” with everything we need close by, but it’s a LOT more challenging to make it real across a diverse region! In the new Central Coast & Hunter Regional Plans by @NSWDPE, we determined what it would REALLY take to make it HAPPEN!
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Nov 13, 2022
“The Hummer EV tips the scales at just over 9k lbs—that’s some 4k more than the H3 & equivalent to around 3 Toyota Corollas…But at least the Hummer EV is electric, so it will help fight #climatechange, right? Well, don’t count on it.” Via @FastCompany fastcompany.com/90790197/yes-t…
Never forget, an electric version of an awful vehicle is still an awful vehicle.
IMPORTANT! “How many more electric cars could we build...if we just reallocated all the stuff going into that 3,000lb Hummer EV battery toward more reasonably sized cars, let alone e-cargo bikes?" —@DavidZipper.

It isn’t just Hummer EV’s that are TOO BIG! businessinsider.com/gmc-hummer-ev-…
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