Lee Altman
@altmanx
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Urbanist. Architect. Map Nerd. Wordsmith. She/her. @ColumbiaUD @GSAPPonline @scape_studio
Brooklyn, NY
Joined April 2011
Biden’s explicit statement urging Bibi to halt the judicial overhaul legislation is the most pro-Israel move an American president can make at this time. Important scoop by @BarakRavid
Exclusive: President Biden tells me Netanyahu shouldn't rush "divisive" judicial overhaul bill amid threats on Israel. My story on @axios
https://t.co/XRr4MEyvYX
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“While it is important to highlight heat deaths as another example of the devastating toll of climate change, it is also important to say that, often, when people die of heat, they are actually dying of poverty”
nytimes.com
It is unconscionable that in our wealthy country, we let blue-collar workers and the economically disadvantaged needlessly die in oppressive heat.
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Underride crashes — when a passenger vehicle collides with a semi truck & slides beneath it — kill hundreds of Americans a year. A ProPublica/FRONTLINE investigation reveals how safety regulators repeatedly failed to collect accurate data or take action to protect passengers. 🧵
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[local business improvement districts (BIDs) … claim the busway would harm local businesses that “rely on car-dependent customers”] 🤦🏻♀️
planetizen.com
Bowing to pressure from business interests, the agency says it won’t build a full busway on Fordham Road.
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Creating CitiBike mega-🧵! It began 16 yrs ago. NYC had released a new 🌎 plan & Mayor Bloomberg had recruited @JSadikKhan to set a new transportation direction. Janette noted our early interest in what Paris was doing in the recent @Curbed 10-yr piece: https://t.co/OMyYWsagQb
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Recent research from GA shows that eliminating service led to increases in poverty and unemployment. If we take some money away from road expansions it won’t have that impact. It’s an easy choice but most lawmakers have windshield perspective.
governing.com
When bus service was eliminated for five years in Clayton County, in the Atlanta metro area, residents endured substantial increases in poverty and unemployment rates.
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Literally no one understands something more completely than a woman in a meeting who starts a question with “Just so I understand…”
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Yin Kong from @ThinkChinatown on tokenized engagement - are you talking with one person assuming that they rep a whole community? Are you engaging with the right community org? Is it their area of expertise? Trust-building + engagement needs to start before the project starts.
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Back on track :) Theo Oshira from @MaketheRoadNY on how it takes unique talent and capacity to be a community organizer, be able to organize+mobilize communities. We often see success but also defeat - those defat moments still help build leadership in our orgs and communities
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…aaand cue the (white, male) architect who uses all the “right” keywords while showing glitzy renderings of developer bait. Womp womp.
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“Design is such a powerful tool, why use it for evil?” - Gabrielle Vazquez on defensive, anti-homeless architecture
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Inspired by this group of eloquent young people following their dreams and making a difference in health and well-being through art and culture
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.@adriana_olivia: we are seeing and participating in a sea change, Fed government pushing for a focus on EJ communities, state gov-not just DEC- need to consider historic disproportionality in how we allocate budgets. Best way to do this is through building community capacity.
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