Study suggests bike lanes do not cause gentrification
Hello all - my favorite tweets on urbanism from the past couple days below.
Happiness with WFH directly related to length of commute. Survey by @HUBBLE_space HT @axios
Takeaways:
#SMP1 plan buildings and transport together (routine life doesn't require a car!) sharedmobilityprinciples.org
More/safer bike/walk infrastructure. Biking is the happiest mode
Boom! More BRT for Indy!
The @FTA_DOT announced the $81 million grant to go toward construction of the 15.2-mile Purple Line, which will connect Indianapolis and Lawrence and largely replace @IndyGoBus's existing Route 39.
The Purple Line is the second of three BRT lines to be built as part of the Marion County Transit Plan, approved by voter referendum in 2016. To come will be continued improvements to local bus services and the Blue Line.
Amazing new paper by @amirrkermani @francisawong on the racial gap in housing returns.
Black and Hispanic households see their housing wealth grow less, contributing to the overall racial wealth gap substantially.
The large raw differences are mostly about differences in borrower characteristics, particularly about *place* of purchase.
Timline for the Van Ness BRT line in San Francisco:
STUDY: Analysis of 29 U.S. cities over 10 years concludes no evidence that bike lanes cause gentrification.
And they were installed the least in POC hoods
I mean, duh. But it's one less thing to blame gentrification on so we can focus on the actual cause.
In the anti-displacement world there's a school of thought that gentrification is caused by amenities: parks, traffic lights, bus and bikes lanes, cafes, cause gentrification. Another school (mine) says these are not the cause, just lagging indicators of gentrification, at best.
Its a very real debate. Student fans of mine invited me to speak at Oakland High School to a bunch of classes a while back and a debate actually broke out between students as whether Chinatown bikelanes were causing gentrification or not. Its a real perception.
Amenities based gentrification is real tho: trains always seems to cause gentrification espesially if its a commuter line. Buses & Bikes just dont because they're more accessible to the poor. Train ridership is upper income. Its why cities always do light-rail/streetcar gimmicks
From 1980 to 2015, South Korea built so much that they increased the amount of housing floor space per person by over two and a half times. play.google.com/store/books/de…
For those who prefer feet, Korea built so much that it went from 109 square feet per person to 290 square feet per person, in just 35 years.
Paris’ edge is denser than Atlanta’s core. Atlanta does not have an edge.
Edges don’t just define the city — they define the countryside.
Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel
Thread on the costs of big-box stores for cities and towns (including cost of public services and decreased value of downtown properties) and big-box stores’ efforts to reduce tax payments: