Previous issues

✊🏙 ONE YEAR 🎉 Building sustainable cities 🌳 New Uber safety features 📱 High-speed rail news 🚄

#51 Sep 16, 2018

✊🏙 The brutalist revival 😍 Will AVs be mobile hotel rooms? 🚗 Many questions about Sidewalk Toronto 🤐

#50 Sep 9, 2018

✊🏙 SF awards scooter operating permits 🛴 Uber confirms focus on dockless bikes 🚲 & much more!

#49 Sep 2, 2018

#48

Aug 26, 2018

✊🏙 A new name for bike lanes? 🧐 Media ignores car danger in calling scooters a hazard 🗞 & much more! – Hey urbanists!Do we need to rethink the way we label areas of our streets, as more modes enter our bi
#47

Aug 19, 2018

✊🏙 Urban heat is a growing problem 🔥 Vienna named “most liveable city” 🏆 Are e-scooters a safety threat? 🛴 – Hey urbanists,This issue's a long one, but I think you'll like it! First we look at urban heat, and t
#46

Aug 12, 2018

✊🏙 NYC caps Uber & Lyft vehicles 🛑 Richard Florida's bad take on “over-tourism” ✈️ & much more! – Hey urbanists, and a special welcome to all the new subscribers who've signed up in the past week.The
#45

Aug 5, 2018

✊🏙 Radical Urbanist special issue: We need urgent climate action (and other urbanist reads) – Hey urbanists,This issue is a little different than what I usually do. I still have some urbanist art
#44

Jul 29, 2018

✊🏙 Uber & Lyft cause congestion 🚗 Scooter adoption at record levels 🛴 Is Housing For All the solution? 🏠 – Hey urbanists!There were two fascinating reports this week and a compelling policy proposal on housin
#43

Jul 22, 2018

✊🏙 Dockless bikes cannibalizing Uber 🚲 NYC subway key to prosperity 🚇 and much more! – Hey urbanists!Dockless bikes are becoming ever more common on the streets of major cities, and Uber's
#42

Jul 15, 2018

✊🏙 Future streets to be multimodal 🚲 Uber & Lyft backing off AVs 🚗 Insecure housing makes people sick 🤒 – Hi urbanists,Transport-focused issue this week. First, a look at the rise of bike share and scooter r
#41

Jul 8, 2018

✊🏙 Big Tech gets huge subsidies 💰 Deadly urban heat waves☀️ Lyft now major US bike-share player 🚲 – Hey urbanists,The Guardian had a great series on the subsidies that US cities are giving to massive t
#40

Jul 1, 2018

✊🏙 Cities turning against tourism ✈️ Car use declines in Paris 📉 SUVs killing pedestrians ☠️ and much more! – Hey urbanists!As cities are flooded with tourists, residents are increasingly turning against the inf
#39

Jun 24, 2018

✊🏙 BIG breakdown of global transit news 🌎 SF elects moderate mayor 🗳 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 & much more! – Hey urbanists!I'm continuing with this new format as we focus on transportation news from around the
#38

Jun 17, 2018

✊🏙 Boring Company wins Chicago bid 🚇 Amazon defeats Seattle tax to help homeless 😡 and much more! – Hey urbanists,I'm trying a new format to dive a bit deeper into a couple of topics that dominated hea
#37

Jun 10, 2018

✊🏙 How safe are self-driving cars? 😳 Lyft expands services like Uber 📱 CA evictions 3x previous estimate 🏚 – Hey urbanists!There was a lot of new about autonomous-vehicle and ride-hailing companies this week, s
#36

Jun 3, 2018

✊🏙 Dark side of tech disruption 😡 Growth of new US housing movement 🏠 What future for bike share? 🚲 – Hey urbanists!The Atlantic had a piece this week about a gig-economy worker who died on the job, and
#35

May 27, 2018

✊🏙 NTSB's damning Uber report ☠️ Byford's plan for NYC transit 🚇 Cities regulating new transport tech 📱 – Urbanists!This is a really long issue, but you're going to like it.I dig into the NTSB's report on th
#34

May 20, 2018

✊🏙 Can declining ridership be fixed? 📉 Uber CEO lays out grand vision 🌎 Paris considers free transit fares 🇫🇷 – Hey urbanists!I have a very transit-focused issue for you this week. Firstly, some articles on the is
#33

May 13, 2018

✊🏙 Time to give buses some love ❤️ New details on fatal Uber collision ☠️ Public housing can be beautiful 🏠 – Hey urbanists!I think you'll like this week's issue. CityLab is highlighting buses and why they're es
#32

May 6, 2018

✊🏙 Jan Gehl on smart cities 📱 The case for public housing 🏠 Addressing the urban loneliness crisis 😔 – Hey urbanists!Skepticism about Silicon Valley's claims about the transformative and disruptive power
#31

Apr 29, 2018

✊🏙 Improvements coming for NYC buses 🚌 Cars are ruining cities 🚗 Making a walkable Los Angeles 🌆 – Hey urbanists!Some great news this week out of New York City with the announcements about some major
#30

Apr 22, 2018

✊🏙 SB 827 is dead (for now) ❌ China slashing electric bus prices 🚌 Data key to autonomous vehicles 🚗 – Hey urbanists!California's SB 827 housing bill is dead, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm i
#29

Apr 15, 2018

✊🏙 Uber expands service offerings 📱 Tesla fails to automate production 🚗 Challenges facing Australian cities 🇦🇺 – Hey urbanists!Uber made a big announcement this week, Elon Musk admitted Tesla has a technology probl
#28

Apr 8, 2018

✊🏙 A plan to revive US public housing 🏠 Melbourne considers superblocks 🚶‍♀️ Vancouver ridership soars 📈 – Hey urbanists!The People's Policy Project, a left-wing think tank financed by small donations, releas
#27

Apr 1, 2018

✊🏙 Self-driving Tesla kills driver ☠️ Cuomo rejects congestion pricing 👎 Housing crisis hurts mental health 😔 – Hey urbanists!I'm switching things up a little this week. Instead of simply listing articles in the s
#26

Mar 25, 2018

✊🏙 Uber AV kills pedestrian ☠️ Google wants urban data monopoly 👁 Strikes against French rail reform 🇫🇷 – Hey urbanists!It's impossible to put a positive spin on the events of Sunday night when one of Uber's
#25

Mar 18, 2018

✊🏙 Amazon Go's grocer impact 🛍 Debate on how to address housing crisis 🏚 Canada's big transit plans 🇨🇦 – Hey urbanists!This issue marks six months 🎉 of the Radical Urbanist — I took a week off over the holi
#24

Mar 11, 2018

✊🏙 Airbnb is pushing up NYC rents 📈 Self-driving truck trials expand 🚚 CAHSR announces higher costs 🚄 – Hey urbanists!Some very interesting articles this week. There's a new report out on the impacts of Ai
#23

Mar 4, 2018

✊🏙 Uber drivers earn $3.37/hr 🚨 Cities shifting away from cars ⛔️ Rome to ban diesel cars by 2024 🇮🇹 – Hey urbanists!If you've been subscribed to this newsletter for a few issues (or if you follow me Twit
#22

Feb 25, 2018

✊🏙 Uber facing more competition 🥊 Walkable cities saving lives 🏥 Court challenge for Paris anti-car plans 🇫🇷 – Hey urbanists!This week I decided to take a look at the existing studies that have been done on ride
#21

Feb 18, 2018

✊🏙 Uber CEO wants Uber buses 🚌 Safety concerns over driverless cars 💀 Seattle transit ridership surge 📈 – Hey urbanists,A bit of a longer issue this week because there were some really interesting articles I
#20

Feb 11, 2018

✊🏙 Subsidized Uber in Toronto? 🚗 Calls for massive upzoning in CA 🌇 Bringing down MTA transit costs 🚇 – Hey urbanists,Primary a transit issue this week. Toronto is looking to do more to improve its King St
#19

Feb 4, 2018

✊🏙 Sidewalk Toronto concerns 🧐 Airbnb hurts housing market 🏠 Addressing UK's housing crisis 🇬🇧 – Hey urbanists!Sidewalk Labs' project at Quayside in Toronto is positioned as the future of city-build
#18

Jan 28, 2018

✊🏙 Amazon Go & retail apocalypse 🛍 CA high-speed rail cost overrun 🚅 Trouble with Sydney's trains 🇦🇺 – Hey urbanists!Amazon Go, the new retail concept where you get to wait in line outside instead of at t
#17

Jan 21, 2018

✊🏙 NYC congestion pricing detailed 🛣 China's train & metro growth 🇨🇳 Cities moving away from cars 🚇 – Happy Sunday, urbanists!Gov. Cuomo unveiled the proposed congestion charge to be applied in New York
#16

Jan 14, 2018

✊🏙 Self-driving still years away 🚗 Uber increasing traffic congestion 📈 Google eyes urban data monopoly 📱 – Hey urbanists!If there's a particular theme to this week, it's to take what the major tech companies
#15

Jan 7, 2018

✊🏙 NYC subway needs to be fixed 🚇 Driverless cars still far off 🚗 Berlin trying to save affordable rents 🇩🇪 – 🎆 Happy New Year, urbanists! I hope you had a great holiday and your 2018 is going well so far.Over t
#14

Dec 24, 2017

✊🏙 Happy Holidays! 5 urbanist podcasts for the new year 🎄🎆 – Hey urbanists!🎄 Merry Christmas to those celebrating and happy holidays to all!With the news cycle sl
#13

Dec 17, 2017

🏙✊ Shocker: Musk hates transit 😮 48% approve of King Street Pilot 🚊 How Vienna keeps rents affordable 🏠 – Hey urbanists,Following Fast Company's story about the Boring Company's tunnel conveniently running f
#12

Dec 10, 2017

✊🏙 Is self-driving the new flying car? 🚗 Congestion pricing is coming 🛣 Housing in Vancouver and LA 🏠 – Hey urbanists,More on congestion pricing this week (see last week's issue for more), including a prop
#11

Dec 3, 2017

✊🏙 Cities need congestion pricing 🛣 Trucks go electric & autonomous 🚛 SE Asia investing in metros 🌏 – Hey urbanists,Transportation is changing, both due to new technologies, traffic congestion, and a gro
#10

Nov 26, 2017

✊️🏙 Smart city hysteria 📱 Uber makes $1B driverless car order 🚗 Politicians damaging NYC subway 🚇 – Hey urbanists!Did you see the news this week about Bill Gates investing in a smart city project in Ar
#9

Nov 19, 2017

✊️🏙 UK rules Uber drivers are employees 🚗 Redesigning urban streets 🛣 Reducing inequality with alternative transit 🤝 – Morning, urbanists!The ongoing changes in the nature of urban transportation is one of the topics I f
#8

Nov 12, 2017

✊️🏙 Urban living costs more 💵 How to make housing more affordable 🏠 Promoting cycling in cities 🚴‍♀️ – Hello urbanists!As many of you will already know, city living costs more than life in suburban and ru
#7

Nov 5, 2017

✊️🏙 Uber's push for private transit 🚗 A look at Canadian cities 🇨🇦 Sea level rise putting cities underwater 🌊 – Uber is a polarizing company. Some, typically in the higher income brackets, love it, while many othe
#6

Oct 29, 2017

✊️🏙 Singapore puts cap on cars 🚗 Land values drive housing crises 🏠 London mayor calls for public housing – There was some really good news this week that 12 major cities have made a new pledge to create zero-
#5

Oct 22, 2017

✊️🏙 HQ2 bidding is over 💰 Pollution is killing millions of people 🚙 Google extending its monopoly to the city 📱 – The bidding war for Amazon's second headquarters wrapped up this week with a bunch of stunts by mayor
#4

Oct 15, 2017

✊️🏙 We need to build more public housing 🏠 Uber is taking riders from transit 🚗 LA Metro's new PSAs 💜 – Housing in the world's largest cities is increasingly unaffordable to the people they rely on to prov
#3

Oct 8, 2017

✊️🏙 Amazon's HQ2 demands incentives 🏢 Tech is bringing back the company town 💵 Cities are leaving rural areas behind 🌆 – There's been a lot of fanfare about Amazon's announcement that it's looking for a city to host its se
#2

Oct 1, 2017

✊️🏙 China is phasing out gas cars 🚗 Embracing other modes of transit 🚌 A closer look at California 🚄 – Several European countries have already announced an end date for the sale of gas and diesel vehicles
#1

Sep 24, 2017

✊🏙 Uber loses its London license • High cost of housing for millennials • Cities embracing renewables – Welcome to Radical Urbanist, and thanks for subscribing!This week's issue looks at Transport for Lond