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  1. @rnzbot_nz It’s good to see an admission here of why Auckland City is such a sprawling car-dependent mess now.

    > A striking theme in the article was how successive governments opted to invest in Auckland's motorway infrastructure rather than commuter rail. "That went back to the 1950s and 1960s, there was a considerable push for motorway development [which was] a world-wide trend for most major cities.

    > "Auckland looked to Los Angeles for a lead -- Los Angeles was investing very heavily in motorways -- and the Auckland commuter system was deliberately run down from the 1950s through to the 1990s."

    #UrbanPlanning #Transport #NZ #PublicTransport

  2. Why sell public land cheap? Questions about parking for high-density projects. This allows coffee shops & restaurants to use sidewalk space and parklets for tables. More opportunities for businesses to thrive! #DowntownRevitalization #SmallBusiness #LocalEconomy #UrbanPlanning #Community

    tiktok.com/@619cvld/video/7684

    #CVLD
    #JDATA

  3. The Dutch approach to floating architecture is often praised as a futuristic miracle, but for me it is just honest planning. They stopped fighting the water and started integrating it into the urban fabric. We could learn a lot from this logic when thinking about our own coastal cities. It is less about the tech and more about accepting the context of the land.

    #netherlands #urbanplanning #architecture

  4. The Dutch approach to floating architecture is often praised as a futuristic miracle, but for me it is just honest planning. They stopped fighting the water and started integrating it into the urban fabric. We could learn a lot from this logic when thinking about our own coastal cities. It is less about the tech and more about accepting the context of the land.

    #netherlands #urbanplanning #architecture

  5. The Dutch approach to floating architecture is often praised as a futuristic miracle, but for me it is just honest planning. They stopped fighting the water and started integrating it into the urban fabric. We could learn a lot from this logic when thinking about our own coastal cities. It is less about the tech and more about accepting the context of the land.

    #netherlands #urbanplanning #architecture

  6. Good timing for NACTO (an association of North American #cities and #transit agencies formed to exchange #transportation ideas, insights, and practices and cooperatively approach national transportation issues) to have its 2026 Designing Cities conference in #Minneapolis, May 12-15. events.bizzabo.com/designingci

    As Thomas L. Friedman suggested in March 15 column “Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future”:
    "For anyone outside of #Minnesota who wants to help, the best thing you can do is #vacation in the #TwinCities or hold your next #convention here.”
    nytimes.com/2026/03/15/opinion

    #LoveThyNeighbor #LoveYourNeighbor #neighboring #neighbors #community #PublicTransit #TransportationPlanning #CityPlanning #UrbanPlanning #NACTO