Lindsay Loves Cities
@LindsayJS
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I love cities. Let’s create beautiful cities by urban planning them. Livable Communities @LCI_LA Co-host Bike Talk @biketalkpfk Full of joy.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2009
Implication is that congestion pricing might improve heart rate survival rates. Someone should look into whether this happened in NYC.
Marathons kill people. Not the runners — the people having heart attacks nearby. Blocked ambulances arrive 4.4 minutes late. Mortality rises 13%. For every 100 elderly heart attack victims on marathon day, 3-4 more die than would on a normal day. @AnupamBJena studied 11 major
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Proof it’s possible to fix the housing crisis:
There's a guy in Tacoma, WA pumping out cheap for-sale 2/3br DADUs thanks to new State law changes $300,000 to build a 3br/2ba unit, quick construction & predictable permitting, sell for $430k
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I think it’s an underrated point that in walkable cities you can drink without worrying about driving.
the only solution to drunk driving is public transit.
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It's interesting that people who insist car storage should be subsidized by taxpayers think that transit or bike infrastructure should not be subsidized. Interesting, because they're typically making the case based on subsidies being bad. 🤔
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“No positive, inspirational vision of what an American city can be today,” they said
There's no positive, inspirational vision of what an American city can be today. The Creative Class vision, best epitomized by peak Portland. And the related Global City vision, epitomized by Bloomberg's New York, were this. But those have faltered and nothing has replaced them.
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‘Highways to Courtyard Blocks’ — it is a whole new world.
People are always like “but where do we put the courtyard blocks,” and I always point to parking lots, obsolete low-rise commercial sites. But the ultimate urban glow up is the highway to courtyard block district conversion
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“Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets … each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
There's no positive, inspirational vision of what an American city can be today. The Creative Class vision, best epitomized by peak Portland. And the related Global City vision, epitomized by Bloomberg's New York, were this. But those have faltered and nothing has replaced them.
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When the book is written and the movie is made of this era — this will go down as the most unintentionally funny / tragic own-goals: Thousands of well-meaning do-gooders and experts worked for years to change an obscure building code — Single Stair — to unlock walkable
Last year in Texas, the legislature authorized cities to allow single-stair buildings. In California, we passed a study bill three years ago—the study never arrived, and now a building code update freeze blocks cities from allowing single-stair buildings.
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The results of this poll: 85% = Yes 8% = Yes with parking 1% = No, wanted a backyard https://t.co/gtAUqhIg6p
docs.google.com
Imagine a car-free neighborhood -- walkable, with just bikes and small vehicles (LVs, golf carts), near transit, with tons of small shops for all your daily and weekly needs -- a 15 minute neighbor...
I would love a poll that asked — if your city had a car-free, bikes and golf carts only neighborhood — and you would spend the same on rent/mortgage — would you move there?
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Okay I need everyone to care about single stair coming maybe to Illinois and how happy it makes me
SINGLE STAIR COMES TO ILLINOIS Legislation filed by @RepKamBuckner & @SenatorSara6 would allow multifamily buildings with one central stairwell that connects each dwelling unit. HB5626 would allow single stair: - In buildings up to 6 stories - Must have sprinklers in the
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Good Urbanism is the inspirational vision that is emerging for cities. It’s for families, seniors, young adults, artists, people who like to stay active among others, defined by walkability, courtyard apartments, home ownership, parks everywhere, and great aesthetics. The next
There's no positive, inspirational vision of what an American city can be today. The Creative Class vision, best epitomized by peak Portland. And the related Global City vision, epitomized by Bloomberg's New York, were this. But those have faltered and nothing has replaced them.
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1960s, Pedal Power Sea of cyclists flows homeward after work: men in suits, women in skirts, bags swaying, wheels spin unison. PAA promises the world, Lyons Tea over Double-deckers. Dublin breathing the rhythm of pedals before car was crowned king. Do you cycle, drive or?
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I got in some trouble last week suggesting this -- but there are two easy ways to offset the loss of travel lanes by turning the West Side Highway into housing + parks: --WSH carries 70–80k vehicles/day --Congestion pricing removes 73,000 vehicles/day --NYC DOT has a plan to
How to get more housing in NYC? Tear down FDR and the West Side Highway and build homes • Average traffic on FDR between battery tunnel/brooklyn bridge was just 51k cars/day • West Side highway already "torn down" S of 59th street, which opened value –> ~15k/25k homes
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👀 👀 "A City Hall rep told The Post on Monday that Mayor Zohran Mamdani is open to updating the Big Apple’s parking rules. 'New York City’s parking rules haven’t meaningfully changed since the 1950s, when overnight street parking was first legalized. But our streets have'"
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I grew up on a commercial block in NYC. There was everything we needed in 3 blocks: grocery store, pharmacy (you could charge at both by signing your name), bank, restaurants, stationary and sticker store, candy store (I was 10), parks — and lots of friends. We walked to the bus
I love it when they ask me this
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All the reasons to *not* build housing disappear with a walkable neighborhoods: —Concerns about traffic and parking —> it’s car free housing + reduces congestion —Concerns about big bloated tall buildings —> don’t need to go big bc it’s not accommodating parking
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The Housing Theory of Everything - solve housing, solve a ton of other things. The nuance is: housing is unlocked through Walkability —> making it the ‘Walking Theory of Everything’ — if cities had lovely, calm, walkable streets where you can get everything you need in a 15 min
On some level, everything returns to housing. Whatever its problems, there is plenty of demand to live in NYC. If it were legal to build market rate housing, the tax base grows, school under-enrollment ends, pension costs are more manageable, etc.
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Beverly Hills is already walkable, a major job center (retail, businesses) and desperately needs housing. There are great schools, libraries and parks. It’s the perfect location for courtyard block development for families.
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This would make a great courtyard block!
I wonder who owns the empty Rite Aid in the middle of The Beverly Hills Golden Triangle, which is now zoned for up to 236 homes
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