Urbanist couple vacation walks: guessing how many units exist based on the footprint of the bldg then confirming via mailboxes, doorbells and electric meters.
Portland, ME: little difference in bulk between a single-unit and a 4-plex. And look at those 5 and 8-plexes! @tunameltzer.bsky.social
Until Oregon reforms property taxes (thanks to Measures 5/50), local governments will continue to add on a la carte service fees to fund critical services. This is an inefficient and inequitable way to generate revenue: www.klcc.org/politics-gov...
This week in Eugene, sponsored by Better Housing Together, Lane County, NAR & the school of PPPM!
Excellent coverage of the complex housing cost issues facing our state (and country). Quotes from several PPPM & IPRE faculty and alums! @uopppm @uoregondesign
Celebrating the end of the academic year @uopppm with a stellar bunch of Community Planning Workshop & Community & Regional Planning students and faculty!
Crushing the commute by bike in hail thanks to @cleverhoods, @VessiFootwear. & imported De Poort panniers “There’s no such thing as bad weather - only bad gear.”
Excited for @uopppm Winter Term. I'm teaching a revamped seminar called "Planning for Growth and Housing" to 25 engaged and awesome undergraduate and graduate students. I'm using @jenny_schuetz "Fixer Upper" and an assortment of academic & policy readings to complement the class
Join on Thurs, Dec. 8 at 12 PST/3 EST for a "Speaking of Books" Event hosted by UMD @smartgrowth_umd @Elgar_Geography to hear about the "Handbook of Smart Growth" co-authored with @gknaap, Arnab Chakraborty & Katy June-Friesen.
@uopppm @uoregondesign
Fantastic few days catching up with colleagues & friends, exploring Toronto & sharing research. #acsp2022 was a great success and it was great to be back together!
Today at #ASCP2022 in session 6.9: sharing hot off the press IPRE research for DLCD on barriers to housing production in Oregon with Robert Parker. We asked planners, private sector developers, and nonprofit housing developers about their perspectives about barriers. @uopppm
The novelty of #grocerybybike with our Christiania cargo bike hasn’t worn off. It’s so awesome & easy to do a full grocery trip & throw the bags in the box. And my daily commuter (Breezer uptown) is no slouch! (pictured with weekly Farmers Market hauls)
A @Nick_Offerman column about biking and canoeing as reprieve from “domestic and cultural stressors” that nails the nature of driver/cyclist interactions:
Hard to capture the joy & laughter that riding & steering a Christiania e-cargo bike brings. So happy for this new whip! @boxcycles #christiania
That’s a wrap! 17 students & 6 professionals completed UO Planning Cities for People on Bike course in Denmark and the Netherlands. Watching students be changed by experience firsthand is the most rewarding part. @tunameltzer @MarcSchlossberg @GEOabroad
From small towns (Cujik) to big cities (Utrecht) and from off street paths to highway interchanges, follow the red carpet rolled out to make bicycles feel like the most important user of our largest public space (roads). @tunameltzer
Our class takes us through mid-sized cities and rural areas in addition to large urban cities like Copenhagen, Utrecht, and Amsterdam. This contrast offers important lessons and inspiration from mid sized cities like Odense and Nijmegen. New blog posts (link in bio) @tunameltzer
The cities and landscapes are our classrooms. A few of the beautiful places we held class in Denmark: Marble Church, Copenhill, Traffic Playground (w/PSU), Harbor @tunameltzer @MarcSchlossberg @scandesignfoundation
Hard to believe we are 13 days into our course! Copenhagen was full of inspiration about planning cities for people, playful cities, conscious choices & infrastructure v human nature. I reflect on these topics in my blog! Link in profile & visuals for inspiration. @tunameltzer
And we’re off! Our class launched on Monday. @tunameltzer and I took time for our favorite activity of bike-watching on this bridge. Want to hear more about our class? See:
Two updates to share: 1) Wrapped up a stint as a Visiting Researcher this week at Malmö University. It was a remarkable experience and I’ll be sharing some about my research on my UO blog - part 1 is up:
We are the plannerd pair who takes a 17 hour night train, then visits the Stockholm Transport Museum (Spårvågsmuseet) We have no regrets and are ready for more trains and buses!
Early morning SJ Snabbtåg from Malmö C to Stockholm C for research trip. The #5 Express bus was running on 5 min headways at 6:30 am! Traveling by train is more comfortable than plane, and I appreciate the small design features.
Such a pleasure to present to the Malmö University Urban Business & Development faculty on land use & housing in Oregon today! Great discussion and exchange of ideas. @uopppm (📸: @tunameltzer )
Paris is like : “who says there’s no room for bikes?” Cobblestones? Monuments? Historic parks? Mature avenues of trees? Squares? Buildings with no setbacks? No problem. Plenty of room for safe protected biking infrastructure.
Last weekend, we completed the Öresund Round with a side trip to the Island Hven. A transport lovers dream! The local transport agency @skanetrafiken offers a 48 hr tkt that includes crossing the Öresund by ferry & train + local buses, subways & regional trains! For 299SEK ($32)
IPRE shout out!: In 2020, @UOregon’s UC partnered with OR Heritage to produce the Disaster Planning for Heritage Resources guidebook, bringing heightened awareness of the vulnerabilities historic resources face. The project received a @AASLH Leadership in History Award. #UCWeek
Thoroughly enjoyed being reunited with a night train (Vy Nattåg) on our journey from Stockholm to Abisko! Comfortable, convenient, timely, relatively affordable, and beautiful views. @tunameltzer
In addition to our transit art walk, we stumbled into the Stadsmuseet (City Museum) which offered lots of history about housing, transportation & planning! @tunameltzer
