Sitemap - 2023 - Urbanism Speakeasy with Andy Boenau
For better and worse, a personal automobile used to be a luxury
Social contracts and the greater good
You might think you can't, but I know you can
What questions do you have for me?
We're not prepared for Baby Boomers aging
NIMBYs exercise extraordinary power
You can drive but you can't speed
From snap judgments to unshakeable beliefs
This tool of destruction is worse than Level of Service
Tribes aren't just good guys vs. bad guys
Population control is bad medicine
They'll laugh when you're killed
Standard car lanes are 20% too wide
Some experts are either lying or ignorant
The urbanist's journey out of the cave
The damaging screams of sprawl
They didn't over-engineer those roads
Retail stores seem to care more about human life than DOTs
A walkable neighborhood is elder care
Planners keep their friends close and Jane Jacobs closer
Propaganda paved the way for an automotive society
Media's role in shaping perceptions of traffic violence
A way out of the status quo rut
Traffic laws contribute to the ongoing slaughter of pedestrians
Whatever you think of Secretary Pete, he's missing a huge opportunity
Roadblocks to healthy infrastructure
Watch a short documentary & talk about it
FREE Web Tools for Busy Community Activists
Road builders buy another bill
Filling a prescription for healthy living
This motorist is done with the war on cars
Invite your friends, get stuff
Neighborhood walkability as a remedy for childhood anxiety
Look inside the 15-Minute City trojan horse
Governments are blocking proven medicine for anxiety & depression
Eminent domain is government defending plunder and participating in it
Normalize bicycling as transportation
One day we'll wash our hands of the anti-tech agit-prop (but this is not that day)
Walking your way to a healthy brain
This is the most important week of the year
EV infrastructure can short circuit car dependency
Technology upgrades to improve the pedestrian experience
Middle-Aged Parents Breaking Free from the Shackles of Car Dependence
Traffic engineering claims another victim
30 ways bicycling is good for the brain
It's about time engineers included the cost of traffic violence in their calculations
Planners preserve car dependency
Good urbanism is criminal in most American towns & cities
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Level of Service: the destructive force behind deadly street design
The price of this car is your data
McDonald's failed so that you might succeed
The local grocery store is a better planning model than SimCity
Join me (and other writers/readers) on Notes
Embrace “Get off my lawn!” energy when you confront single-use zoning
Plan & design with the brain in mind
A transportation "improvement" can feel more like "destruction"
Hidden costs of car ownership are crushing Americans
Make propagandart to save the human race
"This is a stick-up, gimme all your property"
Live shows work best w/ live audiences
Introducing "Rules for Radical Urbanists"
Let's talk "missing middle" housing!
Zoning makes the housing go missing
Build better cities in the South
You don't need to be a master storyteller, but you do need to tell stories
The Process Dogma is not building better cities
Good urbanism isn't any good if you're not allowed to walk or bike
Happy, healthy communities aren't made from being stuck in yesteryear's mindset
Lobbyists spend millions to get the car dependency that's good for business
Zoning is even more harmful than you thought
Induced demand isn't just about highway expansion projects
The tool guaranteed to build predictable towns
Local zoning: population control without all that 15-minute city fuss
Take another look at where they put the guardrail
15-minute cities are either for lockdowns or liberations
Normalizing car-lite living during college years
A space for drivers to swerve or pedestrians to walk
A child can learn to be a person or a package
Calling your bluff on reducing car dependency
How to design streets for calm driving
Defy the arrogance of status quo transportation planning & engineering
I see in your future...cars, with a chance of more cars
Stated positions vs. shared interests
Approach urbanism with intellectual curiosity
Bypass the excuses and create a better built environment
Measuring the hidden costs of unhealthy infrastructure
Optimism about the future of the built environment
You're learning a ton about urbanism, but so what
Tech won't save us, except for all the times it will
Fixing mobility problems or forcing mobility solutions
86% of Americans now work from home because roundabouts are replacing traffic signals
Sometimes it's good to drop out of school
The internet might be the most compelling reason to reform land use & transportation planning