UrbanSpaceInitiative @UrbanSpaceInit
Improving urban public spaces through small-scale interventions and research. Joined July 2013-
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BSA IMAGES OF THE WEEK: 07.05.26 brooklynstreetart.com/2026/07/05/bsa… PichiAvo. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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And because it has a courtyard :)
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The street life in so many American urban cores is bleak. Small main streets and big downtowns should pulse with kinetic energy and community, yet the drive to actually create that vibrant sense of place seems completely nonexistent as a society.
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If in doubt, plant street trees.
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WALKING • BREATHING • SLEEPING Cities must make WALKING a top priority. It's how humans were created: birds fly, people walk. We should walk 30+ minutes a day. Cities must make it SAFE & ENJOYABLE. 'Magically' it'll improve our HEALTH: PHYSICAL + MENTAL + SOCIAL. #NoExcuses
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We strongly object to development on #Havering’s #GreenBelt behind Wingletye Lane and Benets Road. The fields are rich in #Wildlife and play a vital role in separating Hornchurch from Upminster and preventing #UrbanSprawl. Plenty of #Brownfield land that could be used instead!
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"The bike lane is empty."
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My new Substack piece: Why is Copenhagen's bike network the best in the world? (Link in reply)
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The overlooked sidewalk has become a central site of public life. We should treat it like one. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/06/02/doe…
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My new Substack piece: How Copenhagen’s Bike Infrastructure Was Built. A Policy Analysis (link in reply)
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Inspiration from the country that invented car dependency. If Seattle🇺🇸 can change, why can't your city?
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This is the best preserved medieval street in Europe. Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, The Shambles in York, England has had shops trading on it for nearly a thousand years. It's older than the Crusades.
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Street lights don’t need to be ugly. Biomorphic in Barcelona. With seats built in. The society which created this over 100 years ago was in absolute terms massively poorer than our own. And yet we cannot match it due to a total failure of regulation, aspiration & culture.
Narrowing urban public space by patrol: how a security robot reorders underground mobilities tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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A forest of colorful chimneys is rising on Albania’s coast.🌆
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Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars
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Street network design can make or break a neighborhood. Unfortunately, letting developers design suburban style networks has made many neighborhoods permanently auto-oriented.
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Secure bike parking could be coming to a neighborhood near you. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/04/the…
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'Turning car street outside schools into spaces for children will not work here, we are not Paris🇫🇷.' @anjes_tjarks of Hamburg🇩🇪: "Hold my Bratwust🌭 & Astra🍺" By making 300 school streets car free in 6 years Paris showed us what is possible. Hamburg shows us we can all do it!
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Park Avenue used to have a park in the median of it, hence it's name. It's time to bring that back.
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