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A feed for urbanists, transit nerds, cyclists, and advocates of safe and accessible cities. Check out @labeler.urbanism.plus for moderation and flair! Fund the project: tinyurl.com/m5jrmc25

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@urbanism.plus
11 months ago
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@jameshwidder.bsky.social
23 minutes ago
I was so happy to see my favorite bike 🚲 store in Madison put the painting 🖼️ I made for them behind their front counter over my left shoulder 🚲🌇 Cheers everyone ✨🕊️🌞🕊️✨ 🎄💚❤️💚🎄 #Peace on Earth ☮️🌎💚🌍💙🌏❤️🕊️ #painting #art #Madison #Wisconsin #loop #vibrant #colors #fun #biking #Machinery #Row #Bicycles
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hopebuilding
@hopebuilding.bsky.social
24 minutes ago
Congestion pricing came into effect in January, with cars paying $9 to drive through busy parts of Manhattan during peak hours. In the first six months of the program, traffic in the congestion zone dropped by 11%, accidents by 14%, and complaints of excessive honking or other noise by 45%...
In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution

e360.yale.edu

In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution

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Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
28 minutes ago
We just sent out invitations to my son’s Bar Mitzvah. I had to make sure they were at least a little Life-After-Cars flavored.
also a Citi Bike station across from the synagogue. It's also great to explore Park Slope and the surrounding neighborhoods on foot! Parking is very difficult in our neighborhood so don't drive if you don't have to. (My dad made me put that in.)
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Jason Rabinowitz
@airlineflyer.net
40 minutes ago
This entire sidewalk, curb, and adjacent street was completely redone when a new residential tower finished. Instead of actually building out a sidewalk extension at the corner @nyc-dot.bsky.social let the opportunity go by placing temporary flexiposts and painted the road. Guess what happened next
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S.T. Bikes KC 🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎
@stbikeskc.bsky.social
43 minutes ago
When will people start realizing that private car ownership is stealing their economic futures??? Start demanding real public transit, walkable/bikeable communities, with good land use. Rather than spending $1k a month (car/gas/ins/etc) you could pay like $200 including transit passes & taxes.

This is outrageous! “The average price of a new car broke the $50,000 barrier”, according to Kelley Blue Book. Why won’t car companies make cheaper cars? Why won’t cities build reliable mass transit so that cars are not needed?

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avery
@aefrankes.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
I can’t tell you how many people who actually live in downtown Ottawa (and not the rich suburbs) when asked how to revitalize downtown like the mayor is so desperate to do answer “make the core pedestrian-only” and those in charge just pretend they don’t hear it lol

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

The Strøget opens up into a large central space filled with people in central Copenhagen.
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ
@webuiltthiscity.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Please, please, please, we need to supercharge #TheWarOnCars 🙏 🚲 ‘Freedom is a city where you can breathe’: four experts on Europe’s most liveable capitals www.theguardian.com/citie….
The environmental epidemiologist is astonished that 30-40% of the Danish capital gets to work or school on their bikes each day, keeping their bodies moving while avoiding the deadly fumes that cars spew. "Those are amazing statistics," says Andersen. "It's because of very conscious investment in bike lanes and infrastructure - and taking away some road space from cars."
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OrangeJinty
@orangejinty.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Okay, TWICE I’ve been sent videos from “Official [insert defunct midwest railroad here] Channel” YouTube by my confused non-railfan friends. Somehow the foamer shitposts have breached containment and leaked into the general population. They’ve seen what American railroad history does to ones brain.
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🎅William⛄Butler❄️Yule🎄
@yeets.biz
about 1 hour ago
every city is a walkable city if you walk enough
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50501 Iowa Coalition
@50501-iowa.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
BlackRock didn’t grab headlines when they moved into single-family rentals. They bought homes in bulk, shifted them through internal landlords, and used the inflated repair values to push rents higher. Each step helped them secure bigger credit lines and buy even more property. #blackrock #housing
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Brendan Gutenschwager
@bgonthescene.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Abandoned Detroit Hospital Being Demolished to Make Way for New Soccer Stadium A long-vacant former hospital near I-75 and I-96 in Detroit is being demolished to make way for a new 15,000-seat soccer stadium and mixed-use development
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Jay Stange🇨🇦
@jaystange.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
So we got to visit this intersection nightmare in Tampa, Florida, but we also saw lots of Low Speed Vehicles, EVs, ebikes, people walking and many sites where new active transportation infrastructure is being built. Not many buses, but Happy Holidays car-free Floridians!
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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊
@emilylorange.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
framing 'oh your Ai carbon footprint will on average be much smaller than your travel and commute carbon footprint' as an excuse to use AI instead of an examination of how american car culture is going to kill us all is a very linkedin choice
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@jodellm.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
To reduce •property taxes, Build a Main Street ✅Nearby (Homes + jobs + bike lanes) 📗15-minute City ❌Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math We can’t afford Long roads, long pipes, long wires
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De Filmende Fietser
@filmendefietser.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Merry Christmas everyone and lots of 'fietsgeluk' (bicylcle happiness) in 2026!
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Kaz
@kaz512.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Interesting analysis on what makes for a good candidate for commercial to residential conversion "All the features that make a building an unpleasant office make for an excellent residential product." #yimby www.linkedin.com/posts/ia….
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All the features that make a building an unpleasant office make for an excellent residential product. A 12-foot floor-to-floor height feels cramped for modern office expectations (yielding roughly 8.5-foot ceilings after ducts and drop ceilings). But remove the office infrastructure, expose the ceiling, and you can achieve 11-foot residential ceilings, a genuine luxury in multifamily housing, where 8 to 9 feet is

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Konstantin V. 3rd+

Innovating Real Estate Solutions

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What do the Flatiron Building in NYC and the Bank of Italy Building in San José have in common?

Both are early 1900s office landmarks converting to residential. And it's not a coincidence.

These buildings share the physical DNA that makes conversion actually work: narrow floorplates that give every unit windows, high ceilings that fit modern plumbing and HVAC, and operable windows that meet building codes without ripping off the facade.

Here's the stark truth about office-to-residential conversions:

Only 25-30% of office buildings are physically suitable

→ Of those, roughly 5% are actually moving forward No amount of policy incentive can fix bad geometry

The counterintuitive part? Everything that makes a building a lousy office, cramped for modern expectations, outdated systems, old-school windows, often makes it an excellent residential candidate.

Pre-war construction wasn't designed for sprawling open floor plans. That "limitation" is now an advantage.

I put together a deep dive on the physics and financials of adaptive reuse, including an interactive "Developer's Quiz" to see if you can spot which buildings are viable and which are money pits. Curious how you score - drop your results below

Link in the comments.

#AdaptiveReuse #CommercialRealEstate #RealEstateDevelopment #CRE #SanJose
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