15-Minute City & Inclusivity
I’m deep in my fieldwork notes as I work on my dissertation papers, and was transported this morning to when I first met Mateusz Majkut, Warsaw-based politicianContinue Reading
CITY ACCESS: Youth
How accessible is your city to youth? Are they often freely walking around and comfortably using diverse public spaces (as well as various establishments and institutions) throughoutContinue Reading
Book: Rewriting Exurbia
Today I finished the book ‘Rewriting Exurbia: New people in aging sprawl’ by Lawrence Davis (ListLab Publisher). I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in and/orContinue Reading
Book: Urban Gardening and the Struggle for Social and Spatial Justice
Added to my summer reading stack: ‘Urban Gardening and the Struggle for Social and Spatial Justice’, edited by Chiara Certoma, Susan Noori and Dr.-Ing. Martin Sondermann (ManchesterContinue Reading
‘Human Transportation’, Bill Nye
Video link here: ‘See, we’re on a pathway created by humans for human transportation, and you can see that these pathways have a tremendous effect on things.Continue Reading
Public Transit Connectivity to the Burbs
We recently moved to a suburban area of a Polish city. One of the criteria for the home we rented was that there needed to be publicContinue Reading
Pandemic Insights: Spatial Equity
The photos below are of two of the outdoor gyms closest to our home when I lived in the central Swedish city of Örebro. Both were withinContinue Reading
New Mobility Congress 2025
I’m looking forward to moderating the ‘Step by Step: Walking as a Tool for Urban Change’ panel at the New Mobility Conference in Katowice this September (2025),Continue Reading
Special Issue: Dimensions of the 15-minute City
📣 Call for Papers: Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability Special Issue on ‘Spatial, Environmental & Social Dimensions: The 15-Minute City’ I’m servingContinue Reading
5 years of Pedestrian Space
A little over 5 years ago (on May 17, 2020), I launched the Pedestrian Space Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/pedestrianspace/ I was a stay-at-home mom to two young childrenContinue Reading