Transition Design, Carnegie Mellon University | @suburbcivics | Landecker Democracy Fellow
Joined January 2009
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14 Jan 2022
Can we talk more about suburbs?
'Social services have not caught up with the needs of residents in sprawling suburbs. #Aurora is addressing auto-oriented dev. w/ mobile 'public spaces'
Advancing equity in suburbs w/ suburbfutures.org @BrookingsMetro
#mobilityjustice
14 Jan 2022
.@eldorn: Aurora, Colorado’s racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity is largely representative of the present and future of U.S. suburbs, which have seen a significant rise in residents of color over the last two decades. brook.gs/3zWMrrB
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17 Apr 2024
Is there a doctor in the house? There is if you're currently next to Erica Dorn! Yesterday, Erica successfully defended her dissertation and became our newest PhD in Transition Design. Congrats, Erica!!! bit.ly/4aD3UHj
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28 Feb 2023
what are your preferred terms or phrasing instead of saying non-human or other-than-human?
I often use more-than-human (thank to @mr_tumnus during our Wassan Island trip in 2015?) but also don't like the hierarchy implied.
#earthlings
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20 Jan 2023
This campaign @Marcano4Aurora makes me so proud to be from Aurora!
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17 Nov 2022
I am often asked 'what exactly do you mean by no borders"
So I wrote on what borders are, why we need to abolish borders, and how movements are defying & dismantling borders.
w/thanks to Robin Kelley, Adom Getachew, Deborah Chasman, Hannah Liberman.
bostonreview.net/articles/th…
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14 Nov 2022
People who are sick… need health care.
People who are homeless… need homes.
People who are poor… need money.
If the “free market” does not provide that, the answer is *not* a series of nonprofits. The answer is universal health care, housing, & income.
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14 Nov 2022
In 1791, the Second Amendment was written.
In 1847, the bullet was invented.
Thus, the Second Amendment only applies to muskets.
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10 Nov 2022
I am honored and humbled to serve Oregon.
I promise to be a Governor for all of Oregon.
And I’m ready to get to work and move Oregon forward.
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7 Nov 2022
Yes and... I was reminded after a recent trip to a high rise suburban development outside of Toronto that, unless we shift capital sources/structures for profit-driven projects that lack civic and social infrastructure...
7 Nov 2022
Investing in relationships & inclusivity without changing the designed spaces that perpetuate polarization & the breakdown of relationships, isn't enough.
#Placemaking can enable (pluralistic)relationships & designed spaces to build each-other up in a virtuous cycle.
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7 Nov 2022
we will continue to have many spaces that no amount of money can activate as public since the design was married to the money, already divorced from community imagination. Hence investing in relationships as precursors to design actions...
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7 Nov 2022
What we invest in, we design, and what we design, perpetuates our lived experiences. Invest in relationships, invest in depolarization, invest in plurality.
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4 Nov 2022
In every talk I am asked this question in some shape or form “can one become Indigenous to place?” This is of course referencing Braiding Sweetgrass. Indigenous scientists: thoughts on this? And does anyone want to co-write a paper on this?
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4 Nov 2022
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept cheering on the axe. Because its handle was made of wood, and they thought it was one of them.
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4 Nov 2022
Trees, trees, trees as a leverage points for systemic and sustainable change. Fan girling as always over the work of @urbanbird77 @CarnegieMellon @CumulusDet22
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3 Nov 2022
2 big stories in the NYT and WSJ about suburban women have relied on polls that surveyed just over 100 ppl. Leading to days of coverage about how we're running back to the GOP and don't care about Roe after all. Which drives news ratings & attempts to depress turnout. But FYI ...
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3 Nov 2022
Thank you so much to all of the international community of suburb researchers that presented at #peripheralcentralities @YorkUniversity I learned so much through each of your inquiries to decipher the complexity that is suburbanization in its global metamorphosis.
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3 Nov 2022
Inspiring Community led infrastructure projects untransferable from Medellin to Mexico City without the continuity of governance and participation @LuisaSotomayorA
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3 Nov 2022
And so much more … I’m curious if others who were there could comment in this thread on some takeaways while they are fresh… Thank you to the hosts @rkeil @TheBigNA @Planographer and the incredible community tagged above @hanneslangguth @williamson_arch @TRU_Lab @Sean_Hertel