Urban planner. DC ➡️LA. Queer Deaf. PhD @ UCLA.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2011
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PhD student @UCLA studying urban planning. Primarily interested in community development, including the documentation of the relationship between urban planning practices and deaf spaces/communities. My goal is to create links between the two.
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“People dramatically underestimate the risks of driving and overestimate the risks of crime.”
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Someone should correlate this with travel distance to school over the same period. Kids are physically farther apart, an ugly consequence of super-suburbanization.
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Places can be rebuilt more beautifully than before. That's what Poschiavo did after a devastating 1987 flood and now it's won the Swiss Wakker Prize 2025.
Rebuilding beautifully allowed it to become a tourist destination and new buildings also follow traditional principles.
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Happy New Year.
The picture on the left is the free market.
The picture on the right is billions of dollars of government incentives and regulations.
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Reminder that submissions to Critical Planning Journal Vol. 28: Margins and Junctures are due October 31, 2024. Graduate student submissions are especially welcome!
For more information and submission instructions visit our website: criticalplanningjournal.org.
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Critical Planning Journal is pleased to announce our call for submissions to Volume 28: Margins and Junctures. Submissions are due October 31, 2024.
For more information and submission instructions visit our website: criticalplanningjournal.org.
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Volume 27: “Open” is now published and accessible via our eScholarship page: escholarship.org/uc/uclaspa_…
Volume description below ⬇️
#criticalplanning #critplan #urbanplanning #urban #cities #urbanism #urbanist #ucla #luskin @uclaurbnplnning @UCLALuskin
What’s a good academic article that talks about deaf people resisting being “fixed” or other hearing/ableist norms? #deafed
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“Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.”
- Lewis Mumford
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North American cities often go from skyscrapers to sprawl because we’ve made middle housing styles like fourplexes and mixed-use multiplexes illegal. If we want to build livable, human-scale places again, we have to start by legalizing them with zoning and parking reforms.
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Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s, via @fietsprofessor.
The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
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My research introduces an innovative approach to an old problem
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Looks dumb, right?
This is how we design cities.
HT @urbanthoughts11
#CarDependency
This is me, but DC to LA suburbs. Went from front porch culture and knowing a lot of people to fenced in lots and not even meeting the neighbors next door. 😢
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Passenger Capacity for Different Transport Modes 👇
HT @NACTO
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A bike-lane moved 2.5X as many people as a regular traffic lane in a @TFL study, & given that they are half the width, the study concluded that bike-lanes are 5X as efficient as vehicle traffic lanes. HT @urbanthoughts11
Mobility in cities is about space.