Mike Day

From the company set to redevelop Murphy Crossing on the #ATL Beltline. 👀

A new town was built in the Netherlands and it’s not what you’d expect… A thread🧵

8/ Criticism: A Copy of the Past? Critics argued that Brandevoort was just a nostalgic copy of old towns. But in reality, it’s not about nostalgia at all: it’s simply a new town using time-tested principles, proving once again that learning from the past can go hand in hand with modern living and contemporary desires.

Gen Alpha is the ebike generation!

If it’s modelled on a contemporary interpretation of the Chautauqua Institution @devonzuegel…it’s destined to be sought after. @chq

Financial Times | Deyan Sudjic In the Lon­don Soci­ety’s new book about the future of Lon­don, which is pub­lished this month, clouds of fly­ing taxis, ran­dom out­crops of super-tall, swirl­ing glass high-rises and a plan­ning regime that might have been con­ceived by Elon Musk are all con­spicu­ous by their absence. ft.pressreader.com/v99c/20231021/… The most enga­ging con­tri­bu­tion is in the form of three ima­gin­ary scen­arios sug­ges­ted by Kat Hanna, a plan­ner…. Hanna’s most optim­istic pro­gnosis for Lon­don is that it becomes a more bal­anced series of neigh­bour­hoods: no longer a mono­cul­ture or a place in which City of Lon­don author­it­ies dis­cour­age house build­ing for fear of ham­per­ing the mas­ters of the uni­verse as they go about their money mar­ket busi­ness, but the focus for a diverse mixed eco­nomy. In this ver­sion of the future, the res­id­en­tial pop­u­la­tion of the City of Lon­don grows from just 8,000 to 20,000, as subprime office space is turned into flats. In turn this makes it a more attract­ive place to work, shop and eat out… ft.pressreader.com/article/283115…

Based on the analysis from Archistar.ai, Blackfort and CoreLogic granny flats have the ability to quickly and affordably address some of the current housing crisis. lnkd.in/gmdDnp_b Across Australia’s three largest capital cities there is the capacity to introduce 655,792 self-contained two-bedroom units as an addition to existing dwellings, providing an immediate opportunity to address the severe shortage of housing in these cities.

Unfortunately the graphic’s not a compelling portrayal of the human habitat we are all attempting to deliver.

Public Square | Timeless walkable N/Hoods need safe and interesting places to walk…and useful destinations. That's where mixed-use centers come in… Discernible centres and well defined edges are the hallmarks of timeless neighbourhoods…. cnu.org/publicsquare/2…

Rose Wilder Lane through Earl’s Court, Mt. Pleasant, SC

It’s not just Tampa. Everyone is waking up to how deep the demand for walkability is. 92% of Gen Z would pay more to live in a walkable neighborhood. Every city is in a dogfight to become more walkable before the others do. Even if they don’t know it yet.

Every generation wants to live in a walkable neighborhood. But what I want to know is why the gap between Millenials and Gen X is so much bigger than the gap between Gen X and Boomers?

Paris now has 180 gorgeous ‘school streets.’ They are pedestrianized and landscaped streets around schools - to mitigate crashes, prioritize walking to school, reduce noise and air pollution. No brainer, really.

WSJ | Before the pandemic, San Francisco’s California Street was home to some of the world’s most valuable commercial real estate… wsj.com/articles/san-f… The corridor runs through the heart of the city’s financial district and is lined with offices for banks and other companies that help fuel the global tech economy… One building, a 22-story glass and stone tower at 350 California Street, was worth around $300 million in 2019, according to office broker estimates… That building now is for sale, with bids due soon. They are expected to come in at about $60 million, commercial real-estate brokers say. That’s an 80% decline in value in just four years… #SDGs #HybridWorkplace #WFH #WFA

Rethinking Real Estate podcast just released an interview with me about our just released research, Foot Traffic Ahead 2023, and the future of the built env in the US. rethinkrealestateforgood.co/2023/04/19/foo…

Thx @MichaelBleby…begs the question why we have spent $4.8 billion on the Melbourne to Geelong Regional Rail Link, $50 million on each of the Wyndham Vale + Tarneit rail stations….and encircling them with 1,200 car bays!

wow, thank you @SunValleyFilm and audience! So grateful..

NYTimes | Andrew McCarthy Friedrich Nietzsche “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” #WalkingWorld #SolviturAmbulando via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2023/03/25/opi…

Exactly 1,602 years ago today the city of Venice was founded. So here's a thread of some of the most beautiful places in one of the world's most beautiful cities:

WSJ | Walk­ing….#SolviturAmbulando #WalkingWorld #WalkableUrbanism #20MinuteNeighbourhoods ⁦@WSJ⁩ wsj.com/articles/women…