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Board: @sngreenways. Opinions my own. Safe, sustainable, equitable, healthy cities. @dongho_chang superfan. (he/him) https://t.co/NpY2fiIrk7
Apr 24 • 56 tweets • 9 min read
You thought Seattle Design Review was dead but it's limping along, adding grit to the gears of housing production. So, join me right here, starting at 5:00p for a pointless meeting that could have been an email. Image Today's meeting is to approve minor changes to the design of 1661 E. Olive Way, a lovely 8-story building in Capitol Hill. Follow along here: web.seattle.gov/dpd/aboutus/ne…
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Dec 6, 2023 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
If you thought Superblocks were the big thing in Barcelona, you were right last year but now you're wrong. Here's my WTF IS HAPPENING IN BARCELONA thread. 🧵 Superblocks still exist and are still being built but the ones that have been breaking the brains of an endless stream of visiting journalists and urban planners are really just pilot projects.
Feb 16, 2023 • 76 tweets • 10 min read
Almost forgot. It's starting...
Feb 13, 2023 • 93 tweets • 42 min read
COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 30 PEDESTRIAN ZONES (that I have visited recently). A THREAD 🧵 People standing around in a...Green straight street. peop...clock tower over a town squ...wet pedestrian street at night #30 KARL JOHANS GATE OSLO. This is a pretty standard central commercial pedestrian zone like you see across Europe. It would be great if this was standard across America too. Car-free street with sign s...Family walking on the street.Cute building.
Jan 12, 2023 • 60 tweets • 31 min read
Countdown of the TOP 20 NEW URBAN DISTRICTS (that I have visited recently). A THREAD 🧵 Eindhoven, NLPortland, OR USAVienna AustriaOslo Norway #20 EUROVEA (BRATISLAVA). This district is Bratislava’s announcement that it is open to inward investment and seeking to be a leading European capital. Unfortunately, it has wide roads, a lot of unremarkable highrise buildings, and some hit-or-miss urban design. wide road with highrisesmore highrises under constr...a sort of amphitheatera nice pathway through a gr...
Aug 29, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Years ago, when I stopped driving my car as the default mode, I did something many Americans find unthinkable: I went fewer places.
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 Is there a cool new restaurant in Bellevue? Don't know, don't care, not a place I'm gonna go for a night out anymore.
Jun 14, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
I’m at a #vc22 conference on a topic close to my heart: reallocation of public space. It’s an all-star panel, with representatives from Copenhagen and Groningen and other cool cities. Ok these graphics are a bit over-stylized but it’s surprising that most trips in Copenhagen are still by car and cars still dominate public space.
Jun 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
I’m at #VC22 with 1,400 of my closest friends. Velo City ballroom as people file in. I’m sitting in the front row, as is my custom, “because that is where the learning happens.”
Nov 1, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Pedestrian streets from around the world: Paris, Utrecht, Oslo, Seattle. Pedestrian streets from around the world: Singapore, Strasbourg, Taipei, Seattle.
Oct 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Leaf blowers are the only things propping up the Lawn Industrial Complex. Ban them and the whole thing collapses under its own weight. Image Big Lawn has survived thus far on cheap oil, lax regulation, labor exploitation, and a collective delusion that fetishizes the lawn as a symbol of wealth and power. Image
Oct 22, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
I’m here at the ribbon cutting for Climate Pledge Arena. Police are obstructing a protest on a public sidewalk.
Sep 30, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The metropolitan council of Lyon has launched a €100 million ($116 million) plan—Les Voies Lyonnaises—to build 250km (155 miles) of new or upgraded bike lanes. This before-and-after rendering shows what an upgrade might look like, with subway-style markings on the pavement.
Sep 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Remembering how Belltown advocates wanted to convert the Battery Street Tunnel into a below-grade garden but WSDOT crammed it full of viaduct rubble and sealed it up before the idea could get traction. Image Predictably, naysayers were fixated on crime. Apparently, if you create space for people, those people are going to do crimes. Whereas, filling every space with cars keeps the criminals away. Image
Jun 23, 2021 • 93 tweets • 17 min read
THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF MAGNOLIA is happening right here. (5-8p)

thread⤵️ In case the title graphic wasn't clear (frankly, it should be obvious), this is the thread where I livetweet the proceedings of a Design Review Board meeting considering whether or not to approve the construction of a new Safeway store in Magnolia with 133 homes on top.
Apr 11, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
One of Seattle’s “European-style curbless streets.” The lack of a curb creates a shared environment that encourages motorists to drive more carefully. The subtle change in paving materials from asphalt to mud puddles visually narrows the space and keeps motorists confined to the center of the roadway.
Apr 8, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
I am checking out the newly reopened Brooklyn Avenue...SDOT’s Hybrid-Green-Half-Curbless-Not-Quite-Complete-Arterial Frankenstreet. Image First of all, do you remember what Brooklyn looked like before? It was ok (bricks!) but the sidewalks were narrow and there was no bike lane, no seating. The street looks nicer now. Image
Apr 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The genius of Elon Musk. 👍👍👍
Dec 3, 2020 • 92 tweets • 14 min read
The Queen Anne Safeway DRB meeting starts in about five minutes. It runs for...

T H R E E H O U R S

...so I might just check in every once in a while. I don't think we're going to do a full "screaming and explosions" format for this particular livetweet session for reasons that will become clear.
Nov 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The concept of the urban village as little pockets of density linked and bisected by urban mini-highways is obsolete in Seattle. The whole city is a city and we should plan it like a city. The urban village concept is also poorly reflective of reality. I live deep in a single-family zone but we’ve got pockets of European-style density here. Image
Oct 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
DEMOCRACY! Cameo appearance by @TheStranger.
Oct 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Because cars take up space and jam up easily, they create an artificial sense of urgency that their needs aren’t being met. Cities respond to this artificial sense of urgency by restricting the mobility of others.