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Hi everyone, While preparing documents I want to send to my local councillors to suggest building bicycle/foot infrastructure and public transport, I had an idea : why not replace lots of agricultural paths with separated bicycle paths ? However I have concerns about the feasibility of such a thing : do you think it is a good idea, and has it been done before ? submitted by /u/TheFighter137 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

BiggerPockets.com is one of the larger go-to sites/discussion forums on the Internet for real estate investors. That's why I was curious to click the link to this article in their email newsletter I received today. I was pleasantly surprised to see this topic broached in a fairly positive, forward-thinking way, given the target audience. https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/wave-of-zoning-law-changes-could-have-major-impacts-on-investors submitted by /u/arcticmischief [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Does the USPS have any metrics for whether their mail carriers walk their routes or drive from house to house? I honestly think it's a fairly good measure of whether a neighborhood is walkable but I wasn't able to find any rules on the USPS site. submitted by /u/sixtyacrebeetfarm [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

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Depending on how things go over the next couple months I will be graduating in either or December 2024 or June 2025. I will be graduating in Political Science and I’m hoping to work in the transportation planning industry. Some of my family works in government and it took them a very long time to be hired before you can start working. I’m a little wary of this since I don’t wish to go broke or anything. By graduation I’ll have 3 years of experience in the transit industry including 3 years of driving and 2 years of part time work in the planning department at my university’s transit system. R ..read more

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Over the past decade I've read a ton of books on urban planning, skim through the occasional planners journal, and follow forums like this subreddit, but something I have never seen get serious treatment is a vacancy rate. In any sort of other economic planning, like the Fed setting interest rates, the system is monitored and there are key metrics to see if the planning is working. For urban planning, it seems that the vacancy rate is an absolute key metric, as well as perhaps prices of various types of zoned space (residential, office, etc....) Is there much material in the planning literatu ..read more

“Restrictions on building housing, especially lower-cost housing, have often come in the guise of zoning reform. Local and state officials regulate how we use our property through land use codes that apply to nearly all populated areas throughout the country. And other invidious ways to regulate the use of land developed or accelerated in the 1970s as well.” submitted by /u/toomuchspoiledmilk [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Without question, the world changed after 2020. With the increased rallies as part of the Black Live Matter movement and the most recent changes to affirmative action policies. The Urban Planning book market is flooded with narratives from BIPOC and marginalized communities (as it should be) with narrative stories on what it is like to be Black or a person of color in America. I am curious if anyone knows of any books about what it is like to be white from 2000-current day specifically through the lens of Urban Planning. I am not talking about a white billionaire living in wealth and squalor ..read more