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Is Minneapolis Too Nice for Its Own Good?

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Train Travel vs. Plane Travel: A (Mostly) Sober Analysis

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The Newest Vegas Loop Stations Will Blow Your Mind

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When Safety Is a Distant Afterthought

Read Dangerous by Design 2026 to explore the data, rankings, and how street design contributes to the pedestrian safety crisis: https://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/citynerd/ ---------- The U.S. achieves significantly worse results than the rest of the developed world when it comes to road safety. Let's explore the data, diagnose, and talk solutions. ---------- Smart Growth America helps create healthy, prosperous, and resilient places to live for all people through research, advocacy, and direct community support.Their work spans housing and land use, transportation, and economic developmen

Ten Seriously Undervalued U.S. Cities

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Washington: the Least American American City?

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A Very Unfortunate World Cup 2026 Tier List

We're right on the cusp of possibly the least eagerly anticipated World Cup of all time. Let's look at what kinds of surprises our international visitors are in for! ---------- Austin event September 3! Pre-sale available on my Patreon. Patreon — a way to directly support my ability to talk about what I want to talk about every week, and get out to the cities I want to highlight. Much appreciation to all of you who are already patrons! https://www.patreon.com/CityNerd ---------- Watch this video on Nebula, the creator-owned streaming service, ad-free! https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-a-

Marketing, Phytoestrogens & the Urban/Rural Divide

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Transportation as Atrocity: A Brief Investigation

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Why Tax Base Fragmentation Is a Serious Problem

In planning, you'll often hear that having a variety of suburbs with diverse approaches to taxation and service provision is good — that it lets people "vote with their feet" for their preferred approach to governance. Well, I'm skeptical. ---------- Patreon — a way to directly support my ability to talk about what I want to talk about every week, and get out to the cities I want to highlight. Much appreciation to all of you who are already patrons! https://www.patreon.com/CityNerd ---------- Watch this video on Nebula, the creator-owned streaming service, ad-free! https://nebula.tv/video

It's Time New York Became a Real American City

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How Safe Is Your City? The Data Might Surprise You

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It's Only Livable if You Can Afford to Live

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TCF is peak urbanism, don't try to tell me different

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The 10 Best Public Plazas In the U.S.

Squares, Places, Plazas, Piazzas. Whatever the language the idea is the same: it's the gravitation center of your city. Let's decide the best in the U.S. ---------- NEW YORK TICKETS! General sale now on for my April 24, 2026 event at Hunter College in New York City. Ticketing link: https://bit.ly/HC-4-24 ---------- Watch this video on Nebula, the creator-owned streaming service, ad-free! https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-do-great-plazas-exist-in-the-us Using my custom link gets you 50% off an annual subscription, and really helps the channel! https://go.nebula.tv/citynerd Also STILL avai

An Urban Planning Marvel Hidden In Plain Sight

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Putting 12 Urban Freeways Out to Pasture

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