Grant @gr444nttt
Artist & urbanist. Passionate about making cities for people. 🚲🏙️♻️🏳️🌈 Chicago, IL Joined June 2020-
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One of my favorite representations of Chicago in media is definitely the mid-90's anime called Gunsmith Cats, which follows women fighting crime in Chicago.
Do you guys ever think about what US cities would be like if mid-century urban renewal never happened?
HUGE housing wins in Austin today! Council just passed resolutions to: - Legalize 3 homes on every lot by-right - Lower minimum lot size to 2500sqft - Exempt 3 and 4-plexes from site plans, expediting approval from 1yr+ down to 60 days Things are looking up in good ole ATX!
this is a problem with American bureaucracy in a nutshell. Seattle voters already overwhelmingly voted for the Ballard link in 2016. They don’t want sparsely-attended community meetings. They want the train built. You don’t need to ask for permission 100 times, just build it!
this is a problem with American bureaucracy in a nutshell. Seattle voters already overwhelmingly voted for the Ballard link in 2016. They don’t want sparsely-attended community meetings. They want the train built. You don’t need to ask for permission 100 times, just build it! https://t.co/nkxxnODza9
Chicago Blue line
Why does Copenhagen invest so much in cycle infrastructure? They calculated every km. cycled produces a societal economic gain of DKK 4.79 (€0,64); every km. driven loses DKK 5.29 (€0,71). Society therefore saves DKK 10.08 (€1,35) per km. when people cycle rather than drive.
If conservatives were truly fiscally conservative, they would prioritize walking, cycling, and mass transit in cities because it's far more efficient and costs less to operate and maintain in the long run when compared to that of car culture and its supporting infrastructure.
This is a chart that big-city progressives really need to grapple with.
A stadium in America’s largest metropolis vs a stadium in Spain’s second largest city.
Time and time again, Urban3 has produced case studies across American cities that show compact neighborhoods raise the most revenue for cities, while car-centric ones cost more than they raise. Let's legalize building more economically productive, resilient places again.
For decades now, we have spent trillions to retrofit our cities, our public spaces and our society to cater for cars. It just hasn't worked. If only we had an alternative. If only... 🚲 (London by@PeterStuart3)
Department of Transportation: "Safety is our top priority." Also Department of Transportation: "Wellllll...it’s complicated."
All I want is a city center free of noise, fumes, and death machines.
I checked out the NASCAR set up today. There is no access from the Loop to the Lakefront Trail open anywhere between Monroe and Roosevelt underpass. Their claims that there would be access to Buckingham Fountain throughout was a lie. 🧵
What the NYC subway map should look like…
“On hot days with poor air quality, there’s never any suggestion that New Yorkers limit their driving to make life easier for their neighbors, even when…the air quality is poor enough that people should limit physical exertion.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/19/why…
Checking air quality because…you know…and it’s amazing you can just see major arterial roads lit up in deeper orange. Our own little parade of hundreds of thousands of tiny forest fires, except we do it every day and our transportation system is built on them
Cyclists wearing bike helmets/safety vests are perceived as "less human." Dehumanization "contributes to the propensity to commit violence and aggression," suggesting such cyclists could be at risk. Something to consider re: bike helmet mandates doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.…
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An English message for an Arabic-speaking population whose communications you’ve already cut off is how you know this is propaganda for Western audiences.
An urgent message for the residents of Gaza:
PTSD is a white, western, colonial concept that locates the source of trauma in the past and requires a “non-traumatic baseline” to compare to. What the Palestinians are experiencing is not PTSD. There is no comparable framework. The trauma is enduring.
I need everyone to read this headline
A happy early Halloween from Springfield! 🎃 MK and I were thrilled to welcome trick-or-treaters to the Governor's Mansion today. Thanks to everyone who came by!
Just about as close the Earth has to paradise and we filled it with some of worst, most inefficient urban landscapes ever built. Such a waste
Southern California from the ISS
The South Shore Line: We’ll soon run 12 trains per day from Dyer to Downtown Chicago, completing the journey in only 47 minutes, with several local stops to serve your commuting needs. Amtrak: Best I can do is a thrice-weekly, non stop service that takes 91 minutes.
omg i just watched a tiktok about how the orthodox jews that attend the protests WALK all the way to central london bc it’s sabbath so they’re not allowed to use any transport, subhana’Allah look at the dedication & commitment they have to stand up for what is right, i’m in awe
this is a ridiculous defense of gun violence but it’s an even more asinine point when you actually look at the traffic violence rates in Europe vs. America
Speaker Mike Johnson to Hannity on guns: "In Europe, and in other places, they use vehicles to mow down crowds at parades ... it's not the weapon."
Why do so many conservatives all of a sudden stop believing in supply and demand as soon as housing construction comes into the conversation?
Every time a major street in Manhattan is closed, there are more people on the street than would be in cars. How is this not better for business?!
it's hard to truly feel how profoundly old civilization really is but a fact that leaves me breathless is princess ennigaldi-nanna of the neo-babylonian empire was an archeologist who founded a musuem 2500 years ago and most of the artifacts in it were 1500 years older than that
I wanted to make a an easy guide for a humanity compass for this moment. Genocide = Bad Xenophobia = Bad Islamophobia= Bad Antisemitism= Bad Anti-Immigrant speech=Bad Let’s work on these for now.
Only solidarity and love will stop this war and stop more civilians from losing their lives. Over 400 Congressional staffers, led by Muslim and Jewish staff, sent a letter calling for a ceasefire, safe return of hostages, and humanitarian aid today.
unhinged quote yesterday in chicago magazine
Today, an alderwoman and an aide, while attempting to meet with constituents, were victims of a physical attack by area residents. My administration supports the right to peaceful protest and free speech, but this type of action against a public servant is unconscionable.
Free Palestine protests 🇵🇸 London Madrid Milan Brussels Berlin Doha Dhaka Bristol Amman Cardiff Dublin Paris Sydney Chicago Liverpool Los Angeles Amsterdam Edinburgh Damascus tt/syhu961
Massive pro-Palestine protest in Madrid, Spain.
Professionals are quick to say they can’t be certain it’s autism, because autism presentations can look like trauma symptoms, but nobody asks *why* autism presentations look like trauma symptoms? Maybe it’s because we are traumatised. What *does* trauma-free autism look like?
1/ Seeing this news, all I feel is gratitude as it’s what I and many have been calling for publicly for some time now! This helps address the bottleneck we are experiencing in Chicago because our new arrivals can’t work legally.
BREAKING: Biden administration grants protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the U.S. apnews.com/article/biden-…
If you'd told us six months ago that the Mayor engaged with a defense contractor to put migrants in camps, and that contractor had previously been fired by Denver for lying, and they had a history of recruiting child soldiers, we'd have assumed obviously Paul Vallas won.
Aegis Defense Services, the GardaWorld subsidiary contracted to run migrant tent camps, recruited former child soldiers from Sierra Leone for security in Iraq from 2005-2015. (GardaWorld acquired ADS in 2015) theguardian.com/global-develop…
I get its partially a gag but this stuff isnt a policy failure. Its an explicit outcome by Congress that riding the bus is akin to a welfare service you should work your way out of and into a car. Congress doesnt think buses are supposed to be pleasant. Its the whole point.
Every bus stop without shelter and a bench is a policy failure.
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