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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU

@completedstreets.bsky.social
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City Planner. Complete Streets Designer. Multimodal commuter. My book, Human Speed, now available on Amazon. My Substack: carfreeamerica.substack.com

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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My new Substack piece: Why Gilded Age Tycoons Built America’s Greatest Cities, And Why Today’s Billionaires Won’t carfreeamerica.substack.com/p/why-gilded...
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Why Gilded Age Tycoons Built America’s Greatest Cities, And Why Today’s Billionaires Won’t
The Gilded Age was incredible, wasn’t it?
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My new Substack Piece: Florida's Brightline Train Deserves to Live. carfreeamerica.substack.com/p/brightline...
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Brightline Rail Service Deserves to Live
Brightline, America’s only privately operated intercity passenger railroad, continues to face serious financial pressure.
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My new Substack piece: Why Do 15 minute Cities Make The Right So Angry? carfreeamerica.substack.com/p/15-minute-...
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15-Minute Cities: Beyond Conspiracy Theories
Social media outrage vs. the reality of 15 minute cities
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My new Substack piece: Why We Should Build A Pedestrian Bridge Over the Miami River carfreeamerica.substack.com/p/why-we-sho...
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Why We Should Build A Pedestrian Bridge Over the Miami River
A proposal to build a pedestrian bridge linking Downtown Miami to Brickell.
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The Overhead Wire @theoverheadwire.com · 29/04/2026
Tuesday's Most Read # 1 - The Weekend Transit Problem That’s Killing Ridership And Pushing People Back Into Cars link.theoverheadwire.com/8ref3 @completedstreets.bsky.social
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The Weekend Transit Problem That’s Killing Ridership And Pushing People Back Into Cars
This tweet got a lot of traction, which was surprising.
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My new Substack article: The Weekend Transit Problem That’s Killing Ridership And Pushing People Back Into Cars carfreeamerica.substack.com/p/the-weeken...
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The Weekend Transit Problem That’s Killing Ridership And Pushing People Back Into Cars
This tweet got a lot of traction, which was surprising.
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
With e-bikes and scooters multiplying in our cities, we need these everywhere.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 15/02/2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reviving four projects that bit the dust — often at the behest of powerful business interests — under Eric Adams.
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DE-ADAMSIZATION: Mamdani Restores Multiple Street Redesigns Killed By Eric Adams - Streetsblog New York City
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reviving four projects that bit the dust — often at the behest of powerful business interests — under Eric Adams.
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"San Francisco is so beautiful." 90% of San Francisco:
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
There are about 30 other U.S. cities that need to do what Seattle did.
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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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Baltimore’s Highway to Nowhere: Reconnecting Street Networks as a Foundation For Livable Cities
I’m currently living in Miami, but much of my formative hands-on planning education took place in Baltimore.
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
They should put this graphic in all traffic engineering college textbooks.
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
All the ways to die in U.S. crosswalks.
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Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @completedstreets.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It's so wasteful to build streets just for cars.
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