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Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
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Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
@urbanistvc
Venture activist @ urbanist.vc | founding team @swyftcities ๐Ÿšก | scout @HustleFundVC | 2nd check @americanhousing ๐Ÿ—๏ธ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ | built @yimbyaction | abundance agenda
San Francisco, CA
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Jan 28
    HUGE announcement: The American Housing Corporation is on a mission to save the American Dream through all-out housing production, starting with gorgeous rowhomes for young families! โคต๏ธ I toured the factory and visited the first home last week. This is the real deal. It gives me
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    The American Rowhome built by The American Housing Corporation
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    The American Housing Corporation
    @americanhousing
    Jan 28
    For a half-century, America has critically under-built family-sized housing in our most dynamic cities and neighborhoods, rendering them childless and unaffordable. It's time to save the American Dream. Introducing The American Housing Corporation.
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Apr 11, 2025
    How we could be growing instead
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    Hayden
    @the_transit_guy
    Apr 11, 2025
    This is what the growth of Princeton, TXโ€”the third fastest-growing city in the countryโ€”looks like. We are a nation that measures growth in endless cul-de-sacs.
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Nov 7, 2024
    Replying to @mattyglesias
    Add something about excellence mattering in public education and not banning gifted programs
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Nov 22, 2024
    Replying to @masonmennenga
    He needed his wife to explain umbrellas
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Apr 29, 2024
    Replying to @tobyhardtospell
    It makes up for its impractical shape through its powers of cuteness making honey taste better
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Jun 16, 2025
    Cities of the future will be human and fine-grained. People vote with their feet and wallets. Americans crave human scale at the street level and a well-defined (not sprawling) public realm. Critical ingredients: - Narrow, well-defined streets - Narrow, small lots We already
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    Frontier Valley
    @_FrontierValley
    Jun 15, 2025
    1/18 Introducing Frontier Valley: A new special regulation district in SV thatโ€™s larger than SoMa. Once approved, it will be America's epicenter for physical AI and deep tech innovation, and will also be a template for "robotics-first" cities that can be replicated nationwide.
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Apr 4, 2024
    Googles โ€œhow to open a child care center in San Franciscoโ€ ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
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    Ryan Puzycki
    @RyanPuzycki
    Apr 3, 2024
    Who cares about childcare? Cities make urban life hard for families in a lot of ways beyond restricting family-friendly housing types. This week, I look at how land use policies make childcare expensive, rare, and stressful. ryanpuzycki.com/p/who-cares-abโ€ฆ
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Nov 16, 2024
    Is anyone talking about how our new Mayor who plans to fix SF in part by listening well and engaging top talent isnโ€™t following anyone on here? Seems like a good way to completely miss a lot of signal about what SF needs. Also just off-putting (and I genuinely want to like him).
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Dec 12, 2023
    Replying to @eatpraydiehard
    Spoken like someone who doesn't do the floor cleaning
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Jun 8, 2025
    SFUSD parent here. Our schoolyard badly needs more shade. Our kids accumulate sun damage at school even through sunscreen โ€” which is a pain to have to apply every day! Parent Faculty Club purchased a shade weโ€™re not allowed to install, SFUSD will not install it for us, and SFUSD
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    Armand Domalewski
    @ArmandDoma
    Jun 8, 2025
    a 100% affordable housing project in San Francisco is being opposed by @PODERSF, a progressive nonprofit because it might cast a bit of shadow on a nearby schoolyard
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Mar 23, 2025
    โžก๏ธ US cities have almost entirely *banned* the easiest, least-risky, and most affordable way to start a small business: in your own home.
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    Joey Katzen
    @joeykatzen
    Mar 23, 2025
    Contrary to popular opinion, itโ€™s not just โ€œcheap goods from Chinaโ€ that led to the replacement of small family-owned retail shops by superstores in the US. In other countries, they *both* exist in healthy parallel: Superstores for big shopping visits and small family
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Oct 15, 2025
    So... at the risk of kicking a hornet's nest... YIMBYs just had a whole national conference. I counted 90+ YIMBYtown sessions, and at least per the agenda, not one touched on California Forever's effort to build a new walkable city for 400k people in California โ€” or new cities
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    Jan Sramek ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ ๐ŸŒ โ›ฐ๏ธ
    California Forever
    @jansramek
    Oct 14, 2025
    1/ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Today, @CAForever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, Americaโ€™s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Jul 12, 2023
    Transportation dictates urban form. Why autonomous gondolas were born at Google: The strategic value of transportation. ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡
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    Laura Fingal-Surma ๐Ÿšก frontier urbanist
    @urbanistvc
    Nov 11, 2024
    BIG NEWS: Swyft Cities is moving ahead in Sugar Land, TX! @FastCompany: When widening highways will no longer do, the city of Sugar Land, southwest of Houston, is looking up for answers with @swyftcities and @WhooshTransport Additional reporting by @TIME and @HoustonPress โคต๏ธ
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