Alessandro Rigolon

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Associate professor of urban planning at the U of Utah. Research on park equity, green gentrification, and health. Opinions (good or bad) are my own 🇮🇹🇺🇸

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Excited to share this new article in Landscape and Urban Planning. 2+ years in the making. To our knowledge, this is the first study showing evidence of gentrification before and after greening. It provides more evidence about the "green gentrification cycle." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I finally saw a cybertruck in the wild

Is this parody? #urbanism

It is time to legalize street cameras in Utah. If we care about protecting lives, we should do it #urbanism

What happened after Philadelphia installed traffic cameras that automatically ticket cars going >11 mph over the speed limit? ⬇️ Total crashes ⬇️ Traffic injuries ⬇️ Crash deaths ⬇️ Pedestrian injuries We should be using automatic enforcement everywhere. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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CityNerd Pickup Truck Guy: A Brief Psychoanalysis youtu.be/VLe94d2hzMA

Pickup Truck Guy: A Brief Psychoanalysisyoutu.be Dudes who drive pickup trucks: easy to dunk on, but there is A LOT more going on here ---- some of it hilarious, some of it disturbing. But, strangely, in re...

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According to Twitter, the reason people run red lights is that they were entrapped by short light timers, or were forced by road design and speed to safely continue through the red, or couldn’t see the light. Oddly no one has ever run a red light because they’re a bad driver going too fast

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Too often, active transpo facilities are built without regard to creating a network. We just posted a new $44.5M grant opp that's different: 1) Just for active transportation, 2) Focused on *networks*, 3) Aims for outcomes beyond safety. Learn more about ATIIP: highways.dot.gov/newsroom/bid...

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Great new episode by on car insurance. They point out that driving is the only activity that requires an insurance (besides being a professional, like an engineer). This speaks about just how dangerous our transportation system is #urbanism

New episode: "Car Insurance is Too Cheap." It's never been more expensive to insure a car, but coverage barely covers the full personal and societal harm of car crashes, something we all pay for whether we drive or not — and that traffic violence victims subsidize with their life and limb.

122. Car Insurance is Too Cheapthewaroncars.org

“Painted bike lanes are good enough bike infrastructure” The painted bike lanes:

A little focaccia to warm up our hearts

I checked and it’s still there. What has academic publishing become? Elsevier is charging so much money to university libraries and they can’t catch blatant AI like in this paper #AcademicSky

Another Elsevier article clearly written by hooomans: "I'm very sorry, I don't have access to real-time information as I am an AI language model". 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This is great. British PM Rishi Sunak, an opponent of streets for people over cars, ordered a study of Low Traffic Neighborhoods "amid efforts to stop them being built." When the study showed LTNs were popular and effective, it was allegedly buried.

Rishi Sunak’s report finds low-traffic neighbourhoods work and are popularwww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Downing Street initially buried study, which Tories had hoped would strengthen arguments against traffic-reducing measures

Two gigs in geography at Illinois #AcademicSky

Last call! University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is hiring two (2) Visiting Assistant Professors for next year: 1) Human Geography illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... 2) GIS illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Much of this thread resonates with my experience buying a heat pump in Utah. A few other items: 1 most HVAC companies carry inferior heat pump brands that don’t work at low temps. 2 many companies try to tell you that heat pumps won’t work in cold climates. 3 many don’t really know heat pumps

why are residential heat pumps so expensive in the US? a short 🧵

I’ll just leave it here for #AcademicSky

Skipping the carline since 2021 #urbanism

Midwinter nights are back

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The Big Mac.

My department at the U of Utah is looking for a postdoc in disaster planning. It’s a cool gig in a great department and beautiful region #AcademicSky

Post Doctoral Fellow (E)utah.peopleadmin.com The Department of City & Metropolitan Planning (CMP) within the University of Utah's College of Architecture + Planning invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral research and teaching position....

Never stop feeling grateful for these views

So many policy debates in the U.S. are affected by ideological priors. In planning, the priors that harm debates the most are motornormativity and the belief among many that new housing is bad (either because it lowers property values or because developers make a profit) #urbanism

Some exclusionary cities around the U.S. are entering the “finding out” phase due to their refusal to comply with state laws requiring minimum zoning standards (in this case, near transit) #urbanism

Milton has lost eligibility for a $140,800 state waterfront improvement grant, in the wake of the town's vote to override a state-mandated zoning plan.

Milton begins losing state grants after town vote overrides state-mandated housing planwww.wbur.org The town's "non-compliant status means the town will begin losing out on significant grant funding from the state, effective immediately," Massachusetts Housing Secretary Ed Augustus wrote in a letter...

Pro tip for journal reviewers: when you preview a paper in a journal outside your discipline, don’t impose your discipline’s standards, expectations, and customs on others #AcademicSky

A short sad story of a paper I am coauthoring: - Paper gets submitted - Revise and resubmit - Conditionally accept - Editor-in-chief assigns the paper to a new associate editor, who looks for new reviewers (who knows why) - The new reviewers ask for (undoable) major revisions #AcademicSky

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Stuart C. Reid: “While I respect and, in some cases, consider Utah Republican leaders my friend, I am extremely embarrassed by their senseless performative stunts that have become more and more common with today’s political class."

Opinion: As a former Republican senator in Utah, I’m embarrassedwww.sltrib.com “For Utah Republican leaders to rush in with military troops to the Texan border is beyond embarrassing — it is disgraceful.”

An instant classic #urbanism

One of the hardest things to accept for bike/walk advocates in the US is that the pace of change toward people-first streets is monumentally slow. We are so car centric that even in the most progressive cities, it takes decades to see systemic change in mobility infrastructure #urbanism

Why are academic journals still asking to place tables and figures at the end of manuscripts? It's so inconvenient for reviewers #AcademicSky

This is the only correct way to frame stories where wealthy cities/neighborhoods oppose projects that are helpful to the broader community #urbanism

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Swoon