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✊🏙 Showing love for buses; Vancouver transit booming; Musk misleads customers; Push documentary; New Zealand; California; Cuba; & more! #83 Apr 28, 2019
✊🏙 Cities are going green; Australian election focused on climate; legal code subsidizes driving; Sidewalk Toronto; Notre Dame; & more #82 Apr 21, 2019
#81 Apr 14, 2019 ✊🏙 Uber S-1 reveals new details; Barcelona’s superblocks; Canada warming 2x global average; Hudson Yards; Toronto; flooding; & more! – Hey urbanists,Uber released its S-1, giving us a better look at their financials and business practic
#80 Apr 7, 2019 ✊🏙 NY approves congestion pricing; tech-transport’s false promises; Melbourne Apple store dead; #BlockSidewalk; overnight trains; floating cities; & more! [RU80] – Hey urbanists,NYC finally agreed on congestion pricing, tech’s transport solutions have the same fals
#79 Mar 31, 2019 ✊🏙 Drivers strike as Lyft goes public; Facebook charged for redlining tools; lessons from Copenhagen; Auckland transit; Chinese e-bikes; private cities; & more! [RU79] – Hey urbanists,Lyft has gone public, touting its vision to reduce car use as academics say it’s doing
#78 Mar 24, 2019 ✊🏙 Flooding in Midwest & Africa, Elon Musk is at it again, cities taking on cars, electric buses, air pollution, climate change, & more! – Hey urbanists,Cyclone Idai and the flooding in the Midwest show that climate change won’t just make s
#77 Mar 17, 2019 ✊🏙 Christchurch terrorist attack, Trump’s austerity budget, Hudson Yards, San Francisco, McMansion Hell, climate strike, & more! – Hey urbanists,My heart goes out to New Zealand, Christchurch, and its Muslim community. It shouldn’t
#76 Mar 10, 2019 ✊🏙 Speaker wants NYC to control subway, Airbnb buys hotel-booking service, AVs won’t happen, Musk redefines ‘self-driving,’ ocean heatwaves, & more! – Hey urbanists,NYC’s Speaker is actually putting forth the kind of vision the mayor is unable to muste
#75 Mar 3, 2019 ✊🏙 Lyft’s terrible financials; NYC mayor backs congestion pricing; Chicago done with Elon Musk; scooter economics; Amazon betrays Seattle; climate; & more! – Hey urbanists,What to expect this week: Lyft’s IPO filing shows its financials are also terrible, con
#74 Feb 24, 2019 ✊🏙 Berlin’s radical housing measures; Silicon Valley dystopia; public MaaS app; Hudson Yards; Auckland scooter ban; high-speed rail; & more! – Hey urbanists,Radical Urbanist soared passed 500 subscribers, and should hit 520 in the next few days
#73 Feb 17, 2019 ✊🏙 Amazon scraps NYC plans; Sidewalk’s full Toronto ambitions leaked; CAHSR (not) canceled; Lime; Egypt; Uber; & more! – Hi urbanists,This was a big week for tech backlash with Amazon leaving NYC and new revelations about
#72 Feb 10, 2019 ✊🏙 Green New Deal has vision; free transit momentum?; high-speed rail; Amazon HQ2 drama; housing discrimination; & more! – Hey urbanists,AOC’s Green New Deal resolution was unveiled this week, so I couldn’t not talk about th
#71 Feb 3, 2019 ✊🏙 Cities MUST be for everyone; Uber doesn’t care about transit; Paris’ public housing success story; congestion pricing; greedy oligarchs; Airbnb; & more! – Hey urbanists,I was crushed reading the story of Malaysia Goodson’s death this week. It really needs
#70 Jan 27, 2019 ✊🏙 Build more public housing; scooters as a public service; Uber killing transit; LGBTQ cities; EVs; socialist utopia; & more! – Hey urbanists,This week I'm diving into how government disinvestment from public housing is partially
#69 Jan 20, 2019 ✊🏙 Making US transit better; Portland loves scooters; TRB highlights; WeWork; e-bikes; & more! – Hey urbanists,I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but it’s certainly getting cold in Montreal
#68 Jan 13, 2019 ✊🏙 Light electric vehicles are coming; shaky global housing market; future megacities; UK airport drones; US construction costs; & more! – Hey urbanists,This week’s issue is pretty long, but I think you’ll like it!It starts with a closer lo
#67 Jan 6, 2019 ✊🏙 NYC L train shutdown canceled; Elizabeth Warren’s housing plan; Quebec childcare; Venice arrival tax; LA’s urban forests; & more! – Hey urbanists,I hope the new year is treating you well. This week we’re looking at the reversal on Ne
#66 Dec 30, 2018 ✊🏙 Looking back at 2018; debate over social housing in UK; Bay Area exodus; Aussie transport; Amazon HQ2; and more! – Hey urbanists!2018 is almost over, so I took this issue to look back at some of the big issues that d
#65 Dec 23, 2018 ✊🏙 Challenges facing scooters in 2019; Elon Musk’s disappointing tunnel; cycling; subways; and more! – Hey urbanists,The year is winding down, but I still have a long issue for you this week. We start wit
