Today you're getting part two of my trip to the Phoenix area. This one focuses on Tempe, home of the largest university in the United States, and a pretty good college town in its own right — but...
2024-08-14 14:10:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I won't say anything about today's topic in this post, other than to say: the many people who have told me, "don't talk about politics," need to take it up with the YouTube algorithm. Or maybe just...
2024-08-07 13:32:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Today is part one of my trip to the Valley of the Sun. I just had WAY too much to say about Phoenix, so you get Tempe (featuring my tour of the Culdesac car-free/car-lite development) in a couple w...
2024-07-31 11:57:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This last week I spent far too much time looking at train stations, and today you're going to get a bit of a different assessment of the state of passenger rail in North America than I've done befo...
2024-07-24 11:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostToday's upload to YouTube is delayed due to unforeseen circumstances...that's all I'll say! Should be later today or tomorrow morning at the latest though.
2024-07-17 15:48:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't want to have a discussion thread about what's actually in today's video, which was actually kind of unpleasant to make. So instead, enjoy these asters!
One thing I do mention briefly ...
2024-07-17 12:10:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I've got a bit of a backlog of city visit-type videos now, to the point where there's a lag of a couple weeks to go back over all the photos and video I took on a particular trip, go over all the v...
2024-07-10 12:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I did a little more work with census data and the Housing Data App (housing units permitted per 1,000 residents for DC pictured above). The mission was to identify what I think of as "dyn...
2024-07-03 12:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post
As I explain in today's video, I went to Winston-Salem, NC earlier this month to do an event, but I wasn't sure there would be enough stuff to film and talk about in Winston-Salem to make a full vi...
2024-06-26 13:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's video revisits ideas around affordability and undervalued cities, using fresh data and a bit of a different approach. One thing I took a quick look at was how prices have changed in the two...
2024-06-19 12:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post
New video on YouTube today! This one's a bit of a case study on what I call "simulated urbanism" -- basically, places people go to experience an active, walkable and/or bikeable environment even th...
2024-06-12 13:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post
OK so this terrible event that happened in Redwood City isn't actually part of today's video (which has been up on Nebula for a few days). But if you didn't see it in Monday's news, 104 units that ...
2024-06-05 14:03:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey, so I did decide to take Memorial Day weekend/week off to focus on some non-YouTube stuff, so no video today. A couple other notes --
Durham event (with Bike Durham) coming up on Monday, ...
2024-05-29 13:27:00 +0000 UTC View Post
OK, I realize the chart in the picture is slightly graph crime-y in that I don't show the zero/origin line. But I like it anyway. The answer to what these two metro areas are and why I'm comparing ...
2024-05-22 12:24:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I still can't get over this picture I found of Route 66 (now Central Avenue) through the Nob Hill neighborhood of my current hometown, Albuquerque. I mean I'm kind of aware that, at the height of t...
2024-05-15 13:50:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, what a week! I meant to get a Patreon post up earlier, but there's a lot going on -- mostly stuff that should be good for the channel!
So today is the video I shot while I was in Minneap...
2024-05-08 17:09:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For my viewers in the Land of Enchantment, the RSVP link for my May 22 event is now live: 2024-05-05 14:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a couple new things on the calendar since I last updated you all. Here's what I have upcoming. If you live in (or near) one of these cities, consider coming out!
Albuquerque NM...
2024-05-02 17:35:12 +0000 UTC View Post
For today's YouTube upload, I investigated a claim that I came across when I was putting together my recent video on Car Harm: the idea that Americans spend 25% of their waking life either (1) driv...
2024-05-01 13:06:34 +0000 UTC View Post
New video! First of all, thanks to Cam Booth, who has had a side business making alternative universe transit maps and recreations of historic maps using a modern style, and sells prints at his sit...
2024-04-24 12:53:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, two weeks feels like an eternity between uploading videos to YouTube! But a video essay on my visit to Long Beach, California is coming today. Honestly, a very strange and interesting city. Ma...
2024-04-17 12:59:35 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to those of you who came out to Venture Bikes on the Midtown Greenway last night! It was a packed house for the Q&A with Venture's Anthony Taylor, AND for the post-ride feast. Such a coo...
2024-04-13 13:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
About last night! Full house at the Aladdin Theater in southeast Portland (I couldn't fit the balcony into the frame). From left to right: yours truly, Dr. Jennifer Dill (my advisor when I was a gr...
2024-04-10 13:32:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In regional planning, you strive to diversify employment and housing locations. The downtown of a region's central city is almost always going to be a big employment draw, but planners look for way...
2024-04-03 12:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostWanted to share a couple updates because the schedule is getting a bit hectic!
Video upload schedule. My aim is to have Nebula versions of my videos uploaded one week in adva...
2024-03-30 14:24:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It looks like we finally have an event dialed in for my Twin Cities visit, for Friday April 12. I had a call yesterday with the folks from Our Streets, streets.mn, the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota...
2024-03-28 13:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you need another video about all the harms cars cause to society? Of course you did. The image above is from a paper that counts all the ways, and I've adapted it for today's video, with my usu...
2024-03-27 13:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
For today's YouTube upload, I'm going back to a topic I haven't touched in a year and a half: pickup trucks. The comment shown above is...I don't want to say typical, but one theme of today's video...
2024-03-20 13:05:19 +0000 UTC View Post
OK, for those still looking for tickets, it looks like Jonathan Maus at BikePortland already got the scoop yesterday, which is: tickets SHOULD be available at the Eventbrite link at 9:30 am Pacific...
2024-03-14 14:09:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Wednesday! Today's upload to YouTube is about a particular type of city infrastructure that often takes up prime space in your downtown, but that you yourself probably rarely use. Convention ...
2024-03-13 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post