https://www.facebook.com/groups/artdeco1930/posts/10161193224076561/

Annorations - live youtube event - Urban dev in era of geopolitical change - https://www.youtube.com/live/555ncdksVO0

Notes - Bloxhub is a consulting company working on the frontiers - panel debate with - Michela Magas (Director of Research and Innovation at the Industry Commons Foundation), - Helle Søholt (CEO, Gehl Architects) & - Indy Johar (Executive Director, Dark Matter Labs). Moderator is Andrew Dubber.

IJ - don't have copper infrastructure to electrify everything - we can only building 144,000 homes in all of EU but UK alone wants to build 350,000 homes - service and management processes that built our cities are no longer viable - probably looking at 3 Deg C GMT - 5 deg C higher on land - 8 deg C higher in city - if food prices are too high, the social contract is broken - we are living in a bubble of the idea of the city that is outdated - geoBIOLOGICAL factors - how radical can we get? - incremental change is not enough - what is the radical re-imagination required? - AI - 1-on-1 with energy, cognitive inequality = energy inequality = AI inequality - How do we operate in a post-labor economy? - Human economy is radically different - Need to operate between the philosophy and the technical

HS - polycrisis - addressing it is challenging - people are talking about the positive outcome - EU countries coming together - I'm spokesperson for new architecture policy of Denmark - cultural, planning and housing minister all meeting - unprecedented - Using what we already have: - idling resources of empty buildings - Urban nature / biodiversity - More urban green - re-imagine the future EU city - energy transition - localized - Inclusiveness - Bloxhub advocates the Copenhagen model - On US side, 1/3 of our revenues are from US - public sector - real estate dev - 25% of US malls closing down - philanthropy - recently, due to Trump govt policies: - 5 projects closed due to DEI - climate action plans in jeopardy

MM - translating philosophy into technology as per IJ but also - translating morality into technology - New European Bauhaus High Level Round Table - 18 experts - value mapping - justice is high priority - Quote - Alan X - Unless ideas are massaged into reality, they evaporate - Ecosystem Living

discussion HS - Copenhagen is the most livable city in the world now - but will it be the most resilient? - We need to think extremely long term - but we are searching for a new model - The infrastructure-led approach is not going to be enough to deal with the social and political crisis - We at Gail are searching for a more problem or culture led approach

IJ - Walked past a beautiful piece of jewelry but behind that visible beauty is invisible violence - Copenhagen as most livable city, is backed by invisible high carbon intensity - Have to think about the systems in which our human system exist within - There's a shadow behind a wellbeing city - We need a new theory of abundance - Regenerative supply chains - required but are difficult - If we consider externalities, we have to multiply by 10x - The future is not just infrastructure but multiple portfolios - City must go from representation to participation - perspective shift - from austerity to abundance - Edo period of Japan was already a circular economy - Need to construct the new politics of abundance and abundance economy is based on intangibles

MM - joining together many small groups is important

? What's the next steps?

HS - THere is innovation capacity at a neighborhood level - We need to find ways to give agency to citizens - Locating intermediate organizations to lead the way

IJ - Look at the shadow, don't run away from it - Book - In praise of shadow

MM - cities give us a template to look into public commons - state owned on one side, corporate on the other - public commons

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Intersssant dafür, ob urban metabolism ein metaphorischer Ausdruck ist. Im sinne dieses Ansatzes dann nicht, wenn der Begriff in Verbindung mit (quantitiver)MEFA, Material and Energy Flow Analysis, verwendet wird.

for - chalmers university - digital twin cities centre - from - youtube - urban data visualization using mixed reality - https://hyp.is/ptvO5BexEfC063-4BZXD-A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN2_TJ1ZYhQ

for - doughnut economics - digital twin cities - planetary boundaries - urban planning - chalmers university - digital twin cities

Donald Shoup, 86, Dies; Scholar Saw the Social Costs of Free Parking by [[Michael S. Rosenwald]]

for - book - Sacred civics - ch 16 - Commons Economies in Action - Mutualizing Urban Provisioning Systems - Michel Bauwens - Jose Ramos - Ron Kranjc

for - cities - urban planning - book - sacred civics - contributors - Michel Bauwens - Jose Ramos - downscaled planetary boundaries - cross-scaled earth system boundaries

summary - click on the chapter hyperlinks to see the annotations for each chapter

for - urban farming - wicking bed tutorial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_forest_inequity

urban forest inequity

Mentions of humans thinning trees for better tree canopy in the section on black ash trees in Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

for - earth system boundaries - safe and just earth system boundaries - cross translated - to cities and business - planetary boundaries - downscaled planetary boundaries - urban planetary boundaries - Johan Rockstrom - Xuemei Bao - Lancet paper - just and safe earth system boundaries - Earth Commission report

paper details - title: A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations - authors: - Joyeeta Gupta - Xuemei Bao - Johan Rockstrom - Diana M Liverman <br /> - Dahe Qin - Ben Stewart-Koster - et al - publication: Lancet 2024, Sept 11

summary

https://fallingfruit.org/

I went gleaning for fruit to try and reduce my carbon footprint. Was it enough? by [[Caitlin Hernández]]

for - unsustainable urban spatial planning

unsustainable urban spatial planning - It is no longer sustainable to take ecologically critical land and destroy it to install human habitat

for - urban planetary boundaries - barriers to transition - downscaled planetary boundaries - barriers to transition - cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries - barriers to transition - question - retrofitting cities to stay within the doughnut - what are the challenges?

for - urban agriculture - 2024 study - 6x carbon footprint as conventional agriculture

summary - The results are not surprising. It is the infrastructure used to build the urban agriculture system that has the greatest carbon footprint - This can be lowered dramatically by - having longer lasting UA projects - having larger scale projects - reusing urban demolition waste materials to build UA systems

from - search - Google - 2024 percentage of carbon emissions from food system - https://www.google.com/search?q=2024+percentage+of+carbon+emissions+from+food+system&sca_esv=9d5b952a18faf0f8&sxsrf=ADLYWIIlye-Qwjiqr8aEdCoiJshs-88Yqw%3A1720874425938&ei=uXWSZvvuOMjXhbIP-YeX6Aw&ved=0ahUKEwi7r_HmhKSHAxXIa0EAHfnDBc0Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=2024+percentage+of+carbon+emissions+from+food+system&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiNDIwMjQgcGVyY2VudGFnZSBvZiBjYXJib24gZW1pc3Npb25zIGZyb20gZm9vZCBzeXN0ZW0yChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEdI3A5QmwhYpA1wAXgBkAEAmAGUA6AB6QiqAQUzLTIuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAaACBJgDAIgGAZAGCJIHATGgB6IR&sclient=gws-wiz-serp - search results returned of interest - Food from urban agriculture has carbon footprint 6 times - A new study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater . - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240122140408.htm

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pking

pking - player killing

Update on the Urban Legend Institute by [[Richard Polt]]

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Definition of Urban Metabolism

for - urban planning - tools - sustainable cities - Next Generation Cities Institute - TPF - LCE

Osijek ist einer neuen Studie zufolge die europäische Stadt mit den meisten Hitzetoten. Nach den Ursachen wird noch geforscht. Die hohe Feuchigkeit önnte genauso eine Rolle spielen wie Nachwirkungen des Kriegs. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/06/its-full-of-green-areas-mystery-of-europes-heat-death-hotspot

• for: downscaled planetary boundaries, planetary boundary cities, ARUP - planetary boundary design

• comment

  • There is no threshold information, just general design methods

• for: annotate, urban planning, downscaled planetary boundaries, downscale earth system boundaries

• for: urban planning - open source tools

• for: urban planning - open source tools

• for: urban planning - open source tools

• for: urban planning - open source tools

• for: urban commons - history

• for: interesting fact - urban growth and slums, quote - urban growth and slums

• interesting fact: urban growth and slums

• quote: urban growth and slums

  • globally, 70% of today's urban growth occurs outside the formal planning process

• comment

  • this is definitely a unique urban planning problem of large metros, especially in the Global South

• for: regenerative cities, living cities, urban permaculture, Pocket hoods, relocalization, Mark Lakeman, Portland villages, people-oriented city-villages, city-village, pocket neighborhood, communititecture, urban planning, urban planning - city villages

• summary

  • Mark gives a tour of his work at his company, Communittecture in applying permaculture principles to redesign communities in urban environments.
  • The central focus is designing based on commons principles of actually creating lived environments where healthy socialization is a primary design objective.
  • The design involves creating common areas that residents can share, from common food gardens to many mini-parks and recreation areas where families can gather.
  • The modern community has alienated socialization, creating groups of juxtapositioned strangers. There are two different design categories:
    • retrofitting existing neighborhoods
    • designing greenfield new neighborhoods

• reference

  • Communititecture home page
    • https://www.communitecture.net/about.html

• for: future cities - Africa, CommuniTgrow, urban planning - Africa, African cities, futures - African cities, 2 Billion Strong, Gita Govin, Richard Rubin, Alistair Rendall

• title:

  • 2 Billion Strong
    • A Regenerative Solution to Building Sustainable African Cities
• author
  • Gita Govin
  • Richard Rubin
  • Alistair Rendall
• date: 2012
• summary
  • This book outlines the vision from sustainable architectural firm CommuniTGrow for a template for a future sustainable African city. The first project launching in 2024 is the Milkwood Development in Cape Town:
    • https://milkwoodcity.co.za/

• for: redistrict cities - based on watersheds, watershed - urban permaculture, urban climate action, climate action - urban scale

• summary

  • old communities were designed around watersheds. New cities are designed around arbitrary grids.
  • creating new districts based around their respective watersheds, an idea called watershed democracy makes sense
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKGvj50r_6w
      • then reservoirs can be customized to each respective watershed
        • neighborhoods can be redesigned around each watershed:
          • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R-fAc0wl10&t=5s

Aus einer Nature-Studie geht hervor, dass sich die von Menschen bewohnten flutgefährdeten Flächen in den letzten 40 Jahren verdoppelt haben. Mehr als die Hälfte dieser Zunahme fand in China und Vietnam statt. Auch weitere südasiatische Länder spielen für sie eine große Rolle. In reichen Industrieländern ging die Besiedlung von flutgefährdeten Flächen dagegen zurück. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/climate/global-flood-risks.html

Studie: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06468-9.epdf?sharing_token=lpLSX0c_H2RI-pKt6iP_i9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N5PpHI13vjZwm42632-yUOKAmeWVVA09hCWJsOuBg5RtJFsHbrapKlxrvx0359W4uRPwef-npfYwNwSGVyxJ-YlZI11HzNuhfqUjPscjX71YbnF6RwtayHuYSFb5gtw8LBW5Ei0mZFLroD_yNuU52xf2peUhGEIsOyYLmDDX6jpKDD-Ce3ulRLxi6O-57ohGU%3D&tracking_referrer=www.nytimes.com

• for: urban development, inequality, just boundaries, safe and just boundaries, climate justice, urban planetary boundaries, livable cities, earth system boundaries, earth system justice
• title: Urban inequalities in the 21st century economy
• author: Jan niman, Yehua Dennis Wei
• date: Apr 2, 2020
• source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124478/

• for: adjacency - urban decay, suburbs, history- suburbs, history - car culture, urban decay - economics

• paraphrase

  • as the suburbs expanded they need more and more roads highways Bridges infrastructure to stay afloat
  • but because the nature of the suburb is spread out single-family housing as opposed to the densely packed City Apartment dwelling the suburbs have too few people to be able to fund this infrastructure
  • subsequently, they so they have to keep expanding in order to fund themselves and even then they still can't fund themselves
  • so they often rely on tax dollars from City dwellers to subsidize their Suburban excesses
  • who lives in the cities because of white flight ?... people of color

  • when it comes to housing, people of color have been screwed over in literally every way in imaginable

  • so we have this self-perpetuating cycle

    • the growth of suburbs leads to more suburban sprawl
    • this increases the need for cars
    • this leads to the building of more highways and Roads
    • this leads to not enough income to pay for the suburbs
    • this leads to black and brown communities being forced to subsidize Suburban Lifestyles at the expense of the beautification of their own communities leading to the degradation of inner city neighborhoods

• for: regenerative cities, sustainable cities, doughnut cities, earth system boundaries, urban planetary boundaries, circular cities
• comment
  • if they are envisioning a lot of cities, they need to carefully think about earth system boundaries for each city, otherwise, they will simply be adding to the problem of cascading tipping points.
  • They also have to be designed to be climate resilient as extreme weather will make any human settlement of the future very challenging

In Frankreich stellt das Forschungsprogramm Popsu territories die gewohnte territoriale Trennung von urbanen und ländlichen Regionen in der Begrifflichkeit wie in der Praxis von Politik und Raumordnung in Frage. Man versucht, jenseits von binären Entgegensetzungen die Möglichkeit der Transformation von Territorien zu erforschen, wobei der Ausgangspunkt nicht die Attraktivität sondern die "Gastfreundschaft" der Territorien ist.

https://www.liberation.fr/societe/ville/france-des-villes-france-des-champs-des-possibles-20230629_YWVNX4OYOZHBJHWLOJX56PFODQ/

In der Liberation bezweifelt der Architekt Albert Levi, dass der Plan der Stadt Paris für die Klimaanpassung ausreichend sein wird, um eine unerträgliche Erhitzung und insbesondere die Bildung von Urbanen Hitze-Inseln zu verhindern. Geplant sind 60 Hektar zusätzlicher grünräume, die Entsiegelung von 30 bis 65% aller Parzellen, ein Verbot von Hochhäusern und des Fans von Bäumen. Levi kritisiert, dass die Verdichtungspolitik der vergangenen Jahre nicht gestoppt wird und eine Intensivierung des Tourismus geplant ist. Der Artikel verweist auf wichtige Dokumente zur Vorbereitung der Klimaanpassung in Paris. https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/paris-face-au-rechauffement-climatique-mauvais-plan-20230630_FEFN6PDVJJCXJK2NYAFIE2YZFU/

Längerer Artikel über die Funktion von Bäumen in Städten und über die Schwierigkeiten, dort mehr Bäume zu pflanzen. Detaillierte Informationen zum Programm der rot-grünen Pariser Stadtregierung. Interessant ist auch ein portugiesischer Versuch, die Services von Bäumen finanziell zu bewerten, wobei eine solche Bewertung immer problematisch bleibt, weil sich nicht finanziell messen lässt, was Bäume zu einem Ökosystem beitragen.

Henry Grabar schillert in einem neuen Buch ausführlich die Folgen des parkens für amerikanische Städte. In den USA wird mehr Fläche für das Parken als für das wohnen verwendet. Allein um Houston in Texas herum wurde in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine Fläche, die dem Land Belgien entspricht, versiegelt. Die verkehrsemissionen sind der größte Teil des enormen amerikanischen treibhausgasausstoßes. Das Buch behandelt gründlich alle Aspekte des Themas und stellt Alternativen vor.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/26/paved-paradise-book-americans-cars-climate-crisis

Vergaberecht, Langsamkeit der Verwaltung und Unterfinanzierung des öffentlichen Verkehrs sind haupthindernisse bei der Umstellung einer Stadt wie Wuppertal auf klimaneutralität. Interview mit dem grünen Wuppertaler Oberbürgermeister Schneidewind, der zuvor das Wuppertal-institut geleitet hat. https://taz.de/Gruene-Politiker-ueber-Wandel-der-Stadt/!5938576/

Interview mit Carlos Moreno, dem Erfinder des Konzepts der 15Minuten-Stadt und inzwischenerritoriums auf dem Land. Transportwege zu vermeiden und Services in unmittelbarer Nähe zu den Menschen anzubieten ist, wie Moreno bestätigt, notwendig, um die Klimakrise einzugrenzen. https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/05/21/news/carlos_moreno_citta_da_15_minuti_circonomia_il_festival_delleconomia_circolare-401044919/

TED-Talk von Moreno zur 15 Minuten-Stadt: https://www.ted.com/talks/carlos_moreno_the_15_minute_city

It would seem that most of the large swaths of rural poverty in America are those with historical roots of slavery, colonization, and exploitation. These include: the Deep South and Mississippi Delta region where slavery, share cropping, and cotton plantations abounded; Appalachia (esp. West Virginia and Kentucky) where the coal mining industry disappeared; Texas-Mexico border where the Latinx populations have long been exploited; the Southwest and Northern Plains (including Alaska) with Native Americans who live on reservations after having been exploited, dealt with broken treaties and general decimation of their people and communities; central corridor of California with high numbers of exploited immigrant farm laborers.

Hans Monderman (19 November 1945 – 7 January 2008) was a Dutch road traffic engineer and innovator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Monderman

Suggested by Jerry Michalski: https://app.thebrain.com/brains/3d80058c-14d8-5361-0b61-a061f89baf87/thoughts/bd9c210a-ac8a-0e34-b309-f62e61e72778/attachments/724c3cbf-7aba-4ac7-5b1a-392125168c09

... act rather as a magnet for the in-flow and retention of ‘creative classes’ and as gateways for gentrification."

I agree. There needs to be a focus on pursuing smart city initiatives with the help of local talent and in harmony with the existing community rather than bringing in outside actors, who run the risk of trying to effect change without a thorough understanding of the city as it stands.

This isn't fantasy, anymore; it really happening. The floating city has six integrated systems: #zerowaste and #circularsystems, closed-loop water systems, food, net-zero energy, innovative #mobility, and coastal habitat regeneration. These interconnected systems will generate 100 percent of the required operational energy on-site through floating and rooftop #photovoltaicpanels.

Is this responsible for some of the "group think" seen in the Republican party and the political right? Imitation of bad or counter-intuitive actions outweights scientifically proven better actions? Examples: anti-vaxxers and coronavirus no-masker behaviors? (Some of this may also be about or even entangled with George Lakoff's (?) tribal identity theories relating to "people like me".

Explore this area more deeply.

Another contributing factor for this effect may be the small-town effect as most Republican party members are in the countryside (as opposed to the larger cities which tend to be more Democratic). City dwellers are more likely to be more insular in their interpersonal relations whereas country dwellers may have more social ties to other people and groups and therefor make them more tribal in their social interrelationships. Can I find data to back up this claim?

How does link to the thesis put forward by Joseph Henrich in The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous? Does Henrich have data about city dwellers to back up my claim above?

What does this tension have to do with the increasing (and potentially evolutionary) propensity of humans to live in ever-increasingly larger and more dense cities versus maintaining their smaller historic numbers prior to the pre-agricultural timeperiod?

What are the biological effects on human evolution as a result of these cultural pressures? Certainly our cultural evolution is effecting our biological evolution?

What about the effects of communication media on our cultural and biological evolution? Memes, orality versus literacy, film, radio, television, etc.? Can we tease out these effects within the socio-politico-cultural sphere on the greater span of humanity? Can we find breaks, signs, or symptoms at the border of mass agriculture?

total aside, though related to evolution: link hypercycles to evolution spirals?

Fernández-Penny, F. E., Jolkovsky, E. L., Shofer, F. S., Hemmert, K. C., Valiuddin, H., Uspal, J. E., Sands, N. A., & Abella, B. S. (2021). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among patients in two urban emergency departments. Academic Emergency Medicine, 28(10), 1100–1107. https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.14376

https://thehustle.co/would-you-take-free-land-in-rural-america/

Liu, C., Yang, Y., Chen, B., Cui, T., Shang, F., & Li, R. (2022). Revealing spatio-temporal interaction patterns behind complex cities. ArXiv:2201.02117 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02117

Include this in a comparative analysis of other methodologies such as Hoornweg, Hachaichi, R3.0 Thresholds and Allocations, etc.

Schools in disadvantaged, rural or deprived areas are especially likely to lack the appropriate digital capacity and infrastructure required to deliver teaching remotely. Significant differences in the provision of online teaching and learning resources may also exist between private and public schools.

Khelsilem Is Young, Squamish and Reshaping the Political Landscape

How the kid they called Old Man Rivers is helping to change the future of his people and the region.

I worry about this often myself. We have bobcats, coyotes, and bears frequently in our neighborhood. Good to hear everyone came out alright.

(20) ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @martikagv: New book “Urban Informatics”, #OpenAccess https://t.co/wp45uWU9Mi Edited by @jmichaelbatty @CUHKofficial Michael Goodchild,…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 April 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1384411081456582662

Anderson, D., Hesketh, R., Kleinman, M., & Portes, J. (2020). Global City in a Global Pandemic: Assessing the Ongoing Impact of COVID Induced Trends on London’s Economic Sectors [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/7m286

Hong, I., Frank, M. R., Rahwan, I., Jung, W.-S., & Youn, H. (2020). The universal pathway to innovative urban economies. Science Advances, 6(34), eaba4934. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba4934

Boutin, P. (2020, July 29). The Great Reset is here, like it or not. Dropbox Blog. https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/the-great-reset-is-here

Kejriwal, M., & Shen, K. (2021, March 9). Affective Correlates of Metropolitan Food Insecurity and Misery during COVID-19. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6zxfe

Heroy, Samuel, Isabella Loaiza, Alexander Pentland, and Neave O’Clery. ‘Controlling COVID-19: Labor Structure Is More Important than Lockdown Policy’. ArXiv:2010.14630 [Physics], 5 November 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14630.

Anderson-Carpenter, K. D., & Tacy, G. S. (2021). Predictors of Social Distancing and Hand Washing among Adults in Five Countries during COVID-19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zy82h

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @PsyArXivBot: Predictors of Social Distancing and Hand Washing among Adults in Five Countries during COVID-19 https://t.co/DHAjYHoS3a’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 2 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1366708059175849988

NW, 1615 L. St, Suite 800Washington, & Inquiries, D. 20036USA202-419-4300 | M.-857-8562 | F.-419-4372 | M. (2020, December 8). The Changing Geography of COVID-19 in the U.S. Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/?p=20076611

A richer and tastier alternative to hydroponics

Plosz. J., (2020/06/22)., How the Coronavirus Recovery Is Changing Cities. Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-city-in-recovery/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=citylab

COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved October 11, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13760/

IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. ‘COVID-19 and the Labor Market’. Accessed 6 October 2020. https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13644/.

Northern slaves had better chances of having a better life than what southern slaves did.

Slaves in the North were living in better life than the Southern slaves.

Karatayev, Vadim A., Madhur Anand, and Chris T. Bauch. ‘Local Lockdowns Outperform Global Lockdown on the Far Side of the COVID-19 Epidemic Curve’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 39 (29 September 2020): 24575–80. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014385117.

A Different Theory of Economic Development | Inside Higher Ed. (n.d.). Retrieved September 25, 2020, from https://insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/different-theory-economic-development

We did this when discussing the AM bus lane for Mass Ave in Arlington - there was an in-person presentation and people put sticky notes on a giant copy of the plan to note particular concerns. There was an online version after that meeting as well, where those who couldn't go to the meeting could submit further feedback.

I remember Chris Schmidt making a comment about how the online meetings for the Cambridge City Council suddenly had much higher attendance when the pandemic kicked in. But of course that means the meetings themselves got even longer.

Conflicting needs, and the best we can do is "nobody is satiisfied, even if they got what they wanted, because it took so long to do anything about."

Provocative summary. How does anyone determine the most marginalized voices in a given situation without turning it into competitive Oppression Olympics?

Two informative case studies from Boston.

Socialism for the oligarchs, the pointy end of capitalism for everyone else.

Though NYC has probably the most comprehensive transit capabilities in the US, and it somehow fails to charge for parking permits. Surprisingly, SF appears to be the "big winner" here, $12/month for a parking permit and $81/month for a Muni pass. (However, in these pandemic times, I wonder how much buying monthly passes has decreased. And for a compact city, so much SF stuff still assumes you have a car.)

Also of note: huge swaths of SF are SFH yet still have (one-car) garages so you don't have to park your (first) car on the street. Compare how many cars per household in SF, in the Bay Area, and contrast with NYC.

$70 for a monthly transit pass vs. $2.25 for a monthly parking permit. I wonder what the price for a monthly parking permit averages out to among the cities that DO charge.

Let’s Not Go Back to ‘Normal.’ (2020, September 4). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-04/return-to-normal-will-sacrifice-innovation