Everything about this story angers me and breaks my heart about our #BrokenSociety.
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San Diego teens arrested for killing unhoused woman known as ‘Granny Annie’

"Pershal had long been waiting to get placed into housing and was working with case workers, but she was unable to secure a spot in the area that could accommodate her, her daughter said. She used a walker and couldn’t move into a place with stairs."
#homelesness #cities #urbanisim
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/san-diego-teens-arrested-killing-woman-pellet-gun

San Diego teens charged in killing of unhoused woman known as ‘Granny Annie’

Annette Pershal, 68, who was shot multiple times with a pellet gun, was ‘full of love’, said daughter Brandy Nazworth

The Guardian

When I first read the podcast title and saw the Illuminati themed cover art, I thought it was some new branch of wingnuttery conspiracies. Turns out, that part was satire. The podcast is really the very sensible Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes interviewing urbanists and mobility experts.

I listened to the second episode and became an instant fan. This is going to the top of my podcast rotation from now on.

#Urbanisim #NotJustBikes #CarFree #CarsRuinCities

https://canadian-podcasts.com/podcast/the-urbanist-agenda

The Urbanist Agenda – Canadian Podcasts

A podcast by the creator of the popular YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, The Urbanist Agenda is an exploration of the latest topics in urban plann...

Canadian Podcasts

Favorite podcast episodes from 2022: "A Conversation with 'Gridlock Sam' Schwartz"

https://groundtruthautonomy.com/noparkingpodcast/are-avs-the-key-to-reducing-gridlock-a-conversation-with-gridlock-sam-schwartz/

I thought I would share some of the various Urbanist/Climate/Housing podcast episode that were good enough for a second or third listen. This one is an interview with a New York City transportation planner credited with being one of the first to challenge car-centric orthodoxy #Urbanisim #CarsRuinCities #NewYorkCity #CongestionPricing #Jaywalking #SamSchwartz

Are AV’s the Key to Reducing Gridlock? A Conversation With 'Gridlock Sam' Schwartz - Ground Truth

Ground Truth
I thought my follow urbanists might like this article in 'The Conversation' today: 'The era of the megalopolis: how the world’s cities are merging' https://theconversation.com/the-era-of-the-megalopolis-how-the-worlds-cities-are-merging-193424 #megalopolis #postmoderncities #cityscapes #urbanisim #culturalgeography
The era of the megalopolis: how the world's cities are merging

Quite how to gauge the size of a city – or where one ends and the next begins – is getting harder to determine. The 21st century belongs to the limitless city.

The Conversation