Brendan Babb

These are coral polyps, tiny animals that build coral reefs. Coral can grow into many shapes, including shelves, boulders, pillars, branches and cauliflower-like nubs. How these structures emerge is a kind of polyp packing problem. www.quantamagazine.org/the-elegant-...

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E-bikes are a legit car replacer!

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ChatGPT is an awesome tool for preparing facilitation, especially as an experienced facilitator.

It helps me brainstorm creative agendas, foresee challenges, draft messaging, train co-facilitators, and wrap it all up…all with the facilitation methods I like.

Paired with MiroAI….magic.

Bar graph showing effect of parking significantly exceeds effects of other changes

Bar graph showing effect of parking significantly exceeds effects of other changes

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Dense housing under construction

IMPORTANT NEW STUDY: Fully flexible parking rules would result in MORE NEW HOMES than legalizing granny flats & larger multifamily buildings near transit combined, even if every new building still included some amount of parking.

The #PowerOfParking. @sightline.org
www.sightline.org/2024/12/10/p...

Boston launches new fund to preserve affordable rental properties The fund will provide loans to developers to buy existing rental properties and prevent them being sold to investors who would convert them to condos.

Our $13M Boston Acquisition Fund offers low-interest loans to local, mission-driven developers to purchase housing, keep tenants in their homes, and make sure these properties remain permanently affordable.

Long line up of people on bikes waiting for the light to change on a Paris street, in a separated bike-lane.

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too.

Great pic via @JBPssx

Just started reading this at lunch (Alaska is 4 hours earlier than East Coast) and it so cool! Thanks US Digital Response and State of New Jersey for this amazing research and work and for sharing it openly for other states and cities to leverage and remix!

2/ A big thank you to these powerhouse panelists, @eyalfeder.bsky.social, Arti Tangri, Carrie Bishop, and Enzhou Wang, who made moderating this session a great experience and shared fantastic insights.

1/ Moderating a great conversation today at the 2024 GovAI Coalition Summit @cityofsanjose.bsky.social and Government Technology. I had the honor of leading a data governance session discussing ethics and best practices for public sector employees on the front lines of integrating #AI and #GenAI...

YouTube video by Municipality of Anchorage Meetings Assembly Retreat on Energy & Infrastructure

A good discussion about the #energy future of #Anchorage, #Alaska at the #Assembly retreat on Energy & Infrastructure. I'll be on a panel at 1pm talking about solar & Muni buildings. Happening now at UAA
Student Union - muni.org/Departments/...
Live feed - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqlt...

Honored to be named one of @statescoop.bsky.social's
2024 City Executives of the Year, on behalf of the #Anchorage i-team (Ben Matheson & Emily Bokar), Muni IT Dept., Muni employees & partners.

#Alaska #LocalGovernment #iteams @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social

statescoop.com/list/announc...

Title page of study

IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.”
www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-ci...

#GivingTuesday - I'm the co-captain of @codeforanchorage.org and we would love you to consider donating to our #civictech volunteer group - hcb.hackclub.com/donations/st...
We have been making projects for 12 years for #Anchorage & #Alaska and funds go to pay for software services, pizza and more.

Building homes - it works.

A line graph depicting the number of attached accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in Hamilton from 2014 to 2023. The graph displays two trends: issued building permits, shown in white, and completed building permits, shown in light green. Both lines show significant increases.

If you zone it, they will come. Trend in “Attached Accessory Dwelling Units” (planner-speak for housing units like basement apartments) since zoning/parking restrictions were removed (data and graph from new University of Toronto School of Cities report schoolofcities.github.io/gentle-densi...)

Totally agree! Also their is a certain excitement in having an idea and having #GenAI create quick prototypes moments later for you to refine that is very energizing.

An outdoor seating area resembling a modern architectural structure, with a group of people watching a performance or presentation on a screen. The setting is surrounded by trees, and the scene is illuminated by soft lighting.

A micro-theatre. Love it. Every park could have one.

This should be an informative and interesting show on Wednesday, Dec. 4th. I’ve heard @cmyeaton.bsky.social speak several times and enjoyed her perspective.

That is going to be a great show. Caitlin often presented on a weekly Zoom I used to be on and was great.

Why electric bikes actually give more exercise than pedal bikes Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That fact might sound strange (and...

“Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That fact might sound strange, but the science is clear.”

Why e-bikes actually give more exercise than “acoustic”bikes. (but both/either are excellent when it comes to better cities)
electrek.co/2024/02/20/w...

Land Acknowledgement Learn more about the land you're living, working, or recreating on. Data from native-land.ca/

Find out what #indigenous land you are on. @codeforanchorage.org collaboration w/ Native Lands Digital - native-land.ca
land.codeforanchorage.org

Apply for Bloomberg American Sustainable Cities (BASC) Innovation Teams - Experiment - #GenAI podcast fed job descriptions & overview - www.brendanbabb.com/experiments/...
Job Listings - publicinnovation.jhu.edu/about/career...
Not reviewed by @publicinno.bsky.social
#LocalGov #iteams Apply!

More cool stuff out of the @boston.gov!

Please enjoy this animation of peak hour MTA subway service (by u/mtdfan)

A line chart showing the number of trips per bike per day. There is a black line for e-bikes and a blue line for "classic" (non electric assist) bikes. The black line ranges from ~3 trips/bike/day in January to almost 10 trips/bike/day in October. The blue line ranges from ~1 trip/bike/day in January to almost 4 trips/bike/day in September.

A bar chart comparing the median trip distance of e-bikes and classic bikes (non-electric) by month. It shows that e-bike trips are 20-30% longer in distance each month compared to classic bikes. E-bike trip distances range from 1.3mi (January) to 1.57mi (June). Classic bike trip distances range from 1.09mi (February) to 1.24mi (June).

Reviewing our first year of data about e-bikes in the Bluebikes public bike share system. e-bikes get used much more frequently and people travel farther on them. Those things are workhorses.

You should check out my friend, @lanefab.bsky.social low-carbon house designs and more. And he is a really nice guy.

"if you unsubscribed by mistake" I HAVE NEVER UNSUBSCRIBED BY MISTAKE it is always 10000% intentional

A cool project I worked on w/@codeforanchorage.org, created in collaboration w/Native Lands Digital that lets you enter your city or zip code and learn what
#indigenous land you are on. Also a FB Messenger bot - www.messenger.com/t/LandAcknow...
land.codeforanchorage.org

Thanks for sharing this real world data - Bryn