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We’ve been thinking a lot lately about Marchetti’s constant, the idea that people will spend an hour commuting each day, or half an hour each way and adjust lives accordingly based on transportation technologies and housing location choices. Two research papers posted today feed into that with interesting results. Using data from the Canadian Mobility
This week on the Talking Headways Podcast we’re joined by Tom Flood, Grant Ennis, and Brent Toderian to discuss their new communications project, The Urban Truth Collective. We discuss pushing back on falsehoods and conspiracies through positive messaging around cities. Listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA. Find all our past episodes here. Below is
I love this superhero introduction story to a parking enforcement officer. Grant Nakamura may not be motorists favorite officer, but his valor in the theater of public rights of way as portrayed by Sacramento Bee writer Ariane Lange is now the stuff of legend. A true Shoupista whether he knows it or not. Of course
