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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 17/04/2025

I hope we can do more to increase density in some suburbs and build more affordable housing in walkable/bikeable/transit accessible cities like mine. Everyone who wants to live in a city that’s accessible for all modes (not just cars) should be able to afford it.

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Fix zoning Village, town and city centers over time see markedly increased density which increases demand for transit and lowers housing costs, reduces need for a car and frees up space for good bike infrastructure

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semiquaver @semiquaver.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

oh fuck off -- I'm just a voluntary pedestrian in LA wishing my city had enough density to be actually liveable. We need density to support transit so we can live on our feet among people rather than sitting in a fucking drivethrough. And I want my kids to be able to find and afford apartments.

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Karl Christensen @karlchristensenaz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I dread every day I have to drive instead of take the bus to work. I hate driving so much free me from this low density low public transit availability USA mid size city nightmare

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Shirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’ve been saying. We already know what makes a great city. Density on quiet streets and abutting green space, which forces u to walk through parks to get to transit and services. It’s easy. (But not if u have NIMBYs trying to hoard all the quiet streets and force growth onto highways)

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

ICYMI: Suburban development costs 38% more in upfront public costs & 10% more in ongoing costs than compact development, PLUS has only 1/10th the tax revenue per acre, confirms report summarizing 17 studies. Via @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social The blunt truth? Sprawl is heavily subsidized by ALL of us.

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Quantifying the Cost of Sprawl

In infrastructure, service delivery and tax receipts.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The lesson from New York is that no amount of density and transit access will prevent a small but vocal segment of the population from being complete babies about congestion pricing. So just do it anyway! Your city will be better for it.

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

What’s crazy is that if we did radically upzone to allow everything up to a tower (basically no height or density cap), the entire city would be able to develop the appropriate density for their location and we’d only see more towers downtown and at transit stops. (1/2)

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 06/08/2025

Thus, to improve housing affordability, we need more housing density close to jobs/amenities AND also need better city+regional mass transit options

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

"Would you be so cruel as to deny our children the life-saving benefits—Yes! life-saving benefits!—and oxygen that trees provide?" You would really think this hearing was about trees, not allowing a minuscule amount of new density within two blocks of a couple dozen transit stops across the city.

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Rob Galanakis @robgalanakis.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I went back to sim City 2000 recently. If you ignore their advice on zoning and roads, and just do high density, mixed zoning, heavy transit, and nothing bigger than a road, you basically print money, it's too easy.

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fema 🚲 @fema.monster · 01/09/2025

So, I don't mean that all places need city density, but rural towns and suburbs were once significantly more compact than they are now. I want infill as a return to form. These places will always be less dense but their extreme low density make transit really hard to justify.

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TGS @lilybeansdad.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

much like density, walk, roll infrastructure regular reliable transit is the best way for us to grow our city population and get out from under the disastrous moves of previous administrations. density builds tax base, transit is the only way to be able to build density

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Some people love living in the burbs. They don't want to live in the city or out in rural areas. That's okay! While def we should stop sprawl, we should make current burbs better, and that includes improving access to transit, building density and bike infrastructure.

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Fractal @fractaledge.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

New York City shouldn't be an anomaly for its walkability/bikeability, transit, density, and amenities; there should be at least a few major cities in the country like that, with Los Angeles and Chicago becoming similarly-endowed.

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Connor Crowley @croweleycf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Bikes cannot fix bad land use policies of: -Historic preservation of low density residential city centers, preventing transit commuting to dense office locations. -Housing shortages, preventing people from moving closer to work. -Most jobs being located in suburban office parks.

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Jason Mark Henderson @streetfightsf.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Respectfully: Do you wonder why the dire situation, when the city is so full of wealthy tech & real estate? Why cut lines to parks when it was promised for car free space? Why cut electric trolley bus lines - the most green? Why cut transit that is required for future housing density?

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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Idk, who wants to go live in a new, empty city? Cities are great because they are already full of people. This might be pedantic, but the better idea is to allow extant cities to grow in sustainable, vibrant ways. Density, upzoning, public transit, affordability, energy codes, parks!

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i dreamt a dream, @adistantdream.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

American state capacity is so terrible that you can't build good transit even with density and fifty billion dollars. The only city in the US with proper transit is NYC with its density and a tax base of infinity dollars, and even then it costs them about 10x to build and run it as Asia.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Trying to imagine what a “Trump city” could look like and it’s just the most depressing cookie-cutter Dallas suburb on Earth. These people would never accept any of things (density, public transit, other humans) that are needed to make a city work.

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Even a 3 min walk zone (3-4 blocks) around the frequent transit network covers a lot of the City. The idea that higher density buildings should all face directly onto busy streets makes no sense.

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TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I’m a city planner, I’m happy to answer any questions. In short, density near transit is the only way to ensure sustainability and equity. If no new housing is built, displacement happens - this is proven. Lincoln Pk is the best example in Chi. Up/Edge was downzoned, it used to have WAY more people.

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alexrakefire @alexrakefire.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If Los Angeles had the density and transit of New York City, it would be a world metropolis on the level of Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, and Paris. It would be the envy of the planet. But no. Big smoggy suburb.

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David Cole @dsc-pnw.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I can’t find the quote-post probably because I blocked the dipshit being quoted, but the topic was if Los Angeles had NYC’s housing density and transit coverage. Are you kidding? That would make it about the most awesome city on the planet. Tokyo but with better tacos and awesome weather.

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peter k @peterskim.org · 16/06/2025

Copenhagen’s city and metro population are about 1/3 of Philadelphia’s but its metro system is far more functional and beautiful. Americans have a weird idea that you need a certain level of scale and density for public transportation to be worth building. Smaller cities benefit from transit too.

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Panda 🇨🇦 @panda354.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It’s possible and arguably good to have high density transit oriented development AND medium density allowed by right across the city. It doesn’t have to be either or.

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Strong Towns Huntsville @strongtownshuntsville.org · 20/09/2026

99 out of 100 times, the people who say public transit doesn't work due to low density *also* complain about too many apartments and other high density housing being built. Every city has too much density while also somehow not enough density for transit to work.

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TGS @lilybeansdad.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“calling for city studies on issues such as traffic and parking” this, this right here is the crux of every fight against density, transit efficiency, bike/ped infrastructure we can not be held hostage by this overriding “concern”

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Yes, a walkable city requires population density, mass transit and lots of neighborhood retail.

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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Has anyone made a reverse Hallmark movie where a Simple Farm Boy comes to the Big City, discovers the heartwarming Christmas magic of density & public transit, and leaves behind his farm life to make oat-milk lattes for his new High Powered Lady Executive partner?… I’d watch it 🤷‍♀️.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/03/2026

tired: wait for density to build transit wired: build the trains and the housing will come inspired: the city should put social housing projects around all new transit nodes

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mhkmhk.bsky.social @mhkmhk.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Traffic is less terrible if public transportation is good. Cities are more walkable and shop-able. More tourism. That's money going into the city, going into business, going into taxes. The density makes money and is only possible with public transit.

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Wes Craven Glizzies @ywfyf.com · 27/09/2026

Ironically, it was the proliferation of "high quality of life" low density housing around where I lived in the suburbs made me hate living there. We had all the car traffic of a bigger city but no mass transit.

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 17/04/2026

If you want spacious detached housing, there are lots of places in Canada (and the US) to go do that. A city is a place for jobs, amenities, walking, transit, immigrants, culture - and density. We’ve been using zoning for the last 50+ years to fight that fundamental reality.

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Kelsey Huse @kelseyhuse.com · 29/11/2024

When I mention I’m a city planning grad student to boomers, they usually tell me about how XYZ city needs me because of bad planning. The bad planning is generally a big stroad with a lot of traffic. It’s cute lol they’re not wrong but they also don’t like the solutions (density & public transit)

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luffian.bsky.social @luffian.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Cant build the transit if there's no density to use it, can't have the density if there's no transit. I just want to turn the Car Dealership Row outside every city into a mini-Incheon and figure the rest out from there.

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Spent five minutes on Reddit and got into it with someone who argued that suburbanites cause less traffic in the city than adding density for car-less households because the suburbanites are more likely to use transit, so that’s enough Reddit for the day

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Be:Seattle @beseattleorg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Property owners have been organizing to exclude renters through restrictive zoning that limits density to small portions of the city, a contributing factor of our massive housing affordability crisis. Renters deserve accessible housing near parks and transit, but we have to advocate for ourselves!

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Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Shifting many trips to other modes is crucial. We must expand transit lines & create great pedestrian/bike paths everywhere. But it's equally important to increase the density of affordable housing & destinations near the transit/bike/ped infrastructure that exists. Act like it's a city. /end

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I guess for me, a city has to have density, activity, and identity. If your downtown is dead after 6 pm, you’re interchangeable for any other small city or college town, or I need a car to get around, it’s not going to feel like I’m visiting a city. I don’t think it’s just transit or tourism.

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Hgmvhf @hgmvhf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This question of "should we have mass transit" misses so many points. Mass transit is absolutely required for healthy cities with 15 minute city density. Forced car culture is objectively bad. It's polluting, unhealthy and prevents density required for small business and effective transit.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think we should try to make better suburbs *and* allow more density in the central city close to existing walking/cycling/transit infrastructure.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My personal inclinations are always towards structural fixes & away from cars (better/later/more frequent transit everywhere, more built density allowing car-free or car-minimal life) but also as someone in a vast sprawling city with car dependency who bought used last year: it's rough out there.

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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The way to get cars off the road are to situate housing density near transit spots and build out rapid bus transit and light rail, and let people wfh. Inter-city train trips are great but they do not help with 90% of car trips.

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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Your city isn’t doing enough to address the climate crisis. We are beyond the time for incremental changes like EVs - cities need to be getting people out of cars, which means significantly increasing housing density and investing in high frequency transit.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.

Highway willed with choked lanes of traffic

Massive suburban car-dependant sprawl in low density, single use housing subdivisions

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

if I could summarize my theoretical framework here, I would say that you cannot sustain density without transit and you can’t keep prices low in growing cities without density.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

we talk about missing middle housing but this is the real missing middle midrise housing. in walkable neighborhoods. dense enough to support multiple shops, restaurants, grocers, and transit. and actually affordable, too

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Dense housing, safe roads, fast & reliable transit, cheap healthcare, abundant clean energy, & unions powering the industries to provide all that; the winning Democratic economic program remains as obvious as ever. Democratic states must bear that standard without hesitating or faltering.

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 23/06/2025

There are small business owners who choose to work hard and make little money because our communities deserve what we make. We could do something more lucrative but we chose to do THIS. And whatever THIS is, it won't happen in a city that doesn't build transit or dense housing.

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