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Eric Martz retweeted
7 May 2025
Build this immediately đ
6 May 2025
Hero Village is a proposed community on the abandoned Floyd Bennett Airfield in NYC, creating thousands of homes for the NYPD, FDNY, National Guard, and other heroes who bravely serve and protect New York.
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La cultura del automĂłvil (la supuesta âlibertadâ), vs. la cultura de la ciudad. La ciudad como un bien comĂșn que solo tiene sentido cuando es disfrutado colectivamente.
14 Jul 2024
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Where would you like to spend your holiday?
(via @pushtheneedle)
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Eric Martz retweeted
17 Jun 2024
Gov. Kathy Hochul spurred controversy when she nixed the real estate-backed congestion pricing program in Manhattan weeks before it was set to take effect. It's a reversal that Two Trees Management's Jed Walentas calls "horrifying" â watch to learn why: youtu.be/1XbQNZylO1w
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Eric Martz retweeted
11 Jun 2024
Last week, the governor picked the one on the left.
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Eric Martz retweeted
25 May 2021
If youâre trying to think about how to drastically increase the number of street trees on a residential street w/ narrow sidewalks - consider planting the trees in the parking lane! Absorbs storm water too
đž Sycamore St in Providence, RI
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Eric Martz retweeted
8 May 2024
One of the most enduring myths is that âAmerican cities were built for cars.â No.
Our cities were *destroyed* for the car. We had dense, walkable cities as beautiful as Europe. DOTs razed entire neighborhoods to make way for freeways and demolished downtowns for parking lots.
8 May 2024
Myth: Los Angeles was built around the car.
Reality: Los Angeles was built around a few hundred walkable, transit-oriented town centers.
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Eric Martz retweeted
3 May 2024
Look at what once was Philly's Delaware waterfront!
Civic leaders of the mid 20th century forsook the city's past and condemned the waterfront to serve as a highway.
That mistake is still unquestionably perpetuated today, at incredible expense.
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Eric Martz retweeted
16 Apr 2024
I've stayed out of the 5-over-1 discourse, but worth saying a few things.
Yes, we desperately need new housing.
Yes, our cities are better when housing is more beautiful, and worse when it's more austere or even ugly.
These things are not mutually exclusive
Let's begin!đ§”
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Eric Martz retweeted
28 Mar 2024
The future I want: x.com/grescoe/status/1773053âŠ
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Eric Martz retweeted
14 Jan 2024
Posted this early last year I believe but finally found the source for it and its at an improved quality.
The Urban Basin of Cincinnati. 1931.
From the Wayne State University Collection
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Eric Martz retweeted
6 Dec 2023
It sounds hyperbolic, but it is no exaggeration to observe that state DOTs did more long-lasting damage to American cities in the postwar era than B-17s and B-29s did to Axis cities during the war itself.
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Eric Martz retweeted
2 Nov 2023
This parking lot in Jersey City, a block away from a light rail station and a 10-minute transit ride to Manhattan, paid $110,000 in taxes per acre last year. The residential tower behind it? $2,689,000 per acre. Surface parking is highly subsidized in this country.
ALT Red outlined parking lot
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Eric Martz retweeted
7 Feb 2023
Itâs a fact that some folks wouldnât be able to pull a cart of food a block from the Costco to our apartment. Thatâs a truth that all of our planning & urban design must never forget.
But many of us can, if the urban design allows it.
In fact, itâs our 7 year old that pulls it.
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Eric Martz retweeted
17 Oct 2023
Manhattan has lots of people and lots of tall buildings.
But the people aren't in the tall buildings.
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Eric Martz retweeted
29 Sep 2023
A quick transformation for a Patreon subscriber to show how protected bike panes could be added to Lido Boulevard in NY.
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Eric Martz retweeted
15 Jun 2023
'The lesson here is that traffic is not an inalterable and irreducible quantity dictated by nature; itâs actually very dynamic and elastic'
usa.streetsblog.org/2023/06/âŠ
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Eric Martz retweeted
7 Dec 2022
100 households sprawled out versus with some density. Transit works really well in one situation, Iâll let you guess!
ALT 100 households in sprawl versus a dense block
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Eric Martz retweeted
23 Oct 2022
If your city couldnât avoid making a huge city-damaging mistake, do the next best thing â remove the mistake, & repair your city. Like #Utrecht NL did.
(via @BicycleDutch)
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