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Phil

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Phil

@Urban_Connector

Urbanism at the intersection of transportation and development | Professional Engineer | CNU-A | Posts not representative of my employer or any organization

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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Jul 5, 2023
Launched my UrbanConnector YouTube channel this weekend. I plan on posting a mix of my usual written content on the site as well as new video content on YT such as drone tours, city reviews, opinions and more. What type of videos do y’all want to see? youtube.com/@Urban_Connect…
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Aug 31, 2024
San Fransisco really fumbled being the greatest city on earth by not building housing.
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Sep 28, 2025
Imagine the fight if any US city tried to do anything remotely this ambitious today
Amazing Maps
@amazingmap
Sep 27, 2025
Since 1630, land reclamation has made Boston over 10 times larger
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Jul 4, 2023
We’ve got to get past this “bike infrastructure is only for rich white people”phase. Go to any majority Black or lower income neighborhood, and you’ll see more people biking for day to day needs than anywhere. And usually, with little to no bike infrastructure.
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Jan 16, 2025
The sprawl that causes it…
Everything Georgia
@GAFollowers
Jan 15, 2025
name something worst than atlanta traffic
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Jan 12, 2025
A city not evolving is one dying
Darin Givens
@atlurbanist
Jan 12, 2025
Some folks say: "I drive around Atlanta now & everything looks so different, it makes me sad." Windshield perspectives are so weird. Folks like me have been walking & riding MARTA for many years; pedestrian-oriented development that puts destinations on sidewalks make us happy.
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Sep 3, 2023
Hotel over fire station. great land use.
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
May 26, 2024
The absolute worst trend that’s taken over cities right now.
Sky ferreria
@whitedirtycat
May 26, 2024
Replying to @JoeBrunoWSOC9
people were injured last night in NoDa
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Oct 1, 2022
Was doing some research last night. The true cost of car ownership is over 10k per year. Imagine the blanket savings if we had more neighborhoods that enabled more families to become 1 car households.
Phil
@Urban_Connector
Dec 22, 2022
Probably one of the best new construction small scale buildings I’ve seen in a while.
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Sep 3, 2023
They lied about Baltimore
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Mar 8, 2024
I will never have an ounce of respect for people who fight housing on the basis of environmentalism. How is people commuting 20+ miles better for the environment than infill?
Jonathan Berk
@berkie1
Mar 8, 2024
Over 50% of Cape Cod's workforce commutes from off Cape as a housing crisis grows. 300+ units were proposed on a golf course in Hyannis. Environmental groups & wealthy neighbors sued, killing the project, further exacerbating the regions housing issues. bostonglobe.com/2024/03/08/bus…
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Oct 29, 2023
I think this is a pretty good looking building. The “everything needs to look amazing” crowd is weird and half the reason we’re in the crisis that we’re in.
BowTiedRanger
@BowTiedRanger
Oct 29, 2023
We gotta stop building stuff that looks like this
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Phil
@Urban_Connector
Dec 8, 2023
1970s urban planning was a weird time Houston basically has an entire underground city
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