Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

Hear Ray @nerd4cities.bsky.social on Chicagoans, how our love for city living is on the verge of pathological (but in a good way amirite @betterstreetschicago.org ?), on Edgewater, where you can live out all your transit oriented dreams, the beauty of our beaches, and more :
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CityNerd — Top 10 US Cities That Are Becoming More City-Like If you listen to political discourse or follow urbanism content on the apps, you could easily believe US cities are uniformly terrible and getting worse. I'm here to tell you, this is incorrect. US ci...

New on Nebula: which cities have improved the most in the last 15 years?

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In the pocket of big aerospace smh

The leaf situation is out of control

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd Why Are They Making Up Nonsense About Our Cities?

I LOVE this video from
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about Portland & urban freight. Since I can't fly everyone out to Portland & take them on a bike tour with me, please live vicarious through this video & all the awesome bike routes that we use on a regular basis. youtu.be/ARTLXxPI2X0?...

Like if I said “the fact that housing in urban centers fetches much, much higher rents per square foot than suburban housing proves people prefer urban living,” this would also be stupid. It’s ok to accept that these things are complex, heterogeneous, and borderline unknowable

I hate to even weigh in on this, but citing the fact that the proportion of people living in suburbs has grown faster than the proportion of people living in core cities as evidence that “people prefer suburban living” is…well, I barely know where to start

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd Let’s Survey the Carnage of War-Torn Portland

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YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd Let’s Survey the Carnage of War-Torn Portland

A truly lovely snapshot of Portland’s cycling infrastructure and initiatives during a time of “war” (on artisanal chilli crisps) - thank you @nerd4cities.bsky.social:

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Damn he’s still posting through it huh

i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all

Every U.S. city has a map like this, and every mayor and city councilperson in U.S. should internalize it

I love a blue spruce

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CityNerd — Let’s Survey the Carnage of War-Torn Portland The president declared Portland a war zone and his buddies in the administration seem to agree, so I decided to see for myself. Bonus: a tour of Portland's central city by cargo tricycle. What did you...

New for the Nebulized: up-to-the-minute, on-the-ground reporting from the front lines of America’s most war-ravaged city

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4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

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No more big city mayors who hate big cities.

Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit

These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.

And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?

My most woke opinion is that cities should completely ignore suburban commuters and design the city we aspire to be. They’ll either begrudgingly commute in by car, mode shift, or be replaced by others in foot traffic

I made this video three years ago and the answer was Seattle

Yeah I need to do an update to that video. Seattle’s population boom in that time and the change in political climate evidenced by the latest election results support this too

"If you have a water view, Bruce Harrell might be for you!"

For urbanists not from Seattle who want to learn more about the differences between Harrell and Wilson, here's a thread I wrote a few weeks ago. 🧵

My favorite moment from all this is Kristi Noem standing on top of the ICE facility surveying all the glassy luxury towers and barre studios/dog spas of South Waterfront and then agreeing with Trump that it’s a war zone

I’m making a video basically about this right now

Altered photo of the famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" with Katie Wilson's face photoshopped holding the early Decision Desk HQ call in the Seattle mayoral race

It's @thewaroncars.bsky.social Week in PDX!

Mon @opb.org w @anomalily.net
Wed @bikeportland.org HappyHour
Thurs @powells.bsky.social (need $$$ ticket)

plus @shift2bikes.bsky.social Thurs 5:30P bike w @contraireclaire.bsky.social from Colonel Summer's to Powell's www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/eve...

Tripe D all the way