“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

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As cities seek to build the housing and urban density we badly need to address many of our biggest crises, we should never buy into the false choice of urban density OR urban green spaces and people-places. Never forget, the latter are critical for doing urban density successfully. #DensityDoneWell

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Investing in a smart PEDESTRIAN STREET in your downtown isn’t just a “cost.” We need to talk about how much the status quo of a distressed street is costing all of us, and the BIG return-on-investment that’s possible. Plus when it comes to the politics, it’s not “right or left,” it’s smart or dumb.

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There are so many important elements of successful city-building that we need to get much better at, especially as we increase urban densities. One element we continue to underestimate is the need to create beloved new people-places that support more joyful and successful cities. #DensityDoneWell

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Honestly if most households just had *a* family car and relied on anything else (walking, bike, bus, train) for their other mode we’d be in a much better world. The issue is where we have a 1:1 ratio of cars to household members 16+

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