REGISTER TODAY, and note change to BIGGER venue! Mississauga Ontario, I’ll be back in town January 17th & will do A FREE PUBLIC TALK/EVENING to discuss Mississauga’s urban future and the many big challenges cities are facing. Thread below is from my last trip. Please help spread the word!

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An Evening with Brent Toderian

Join us for a captivating evening with Brent Toderian as we explore the future of Mississauga over the next 50 years!

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath https://www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-reasons-why-everyone-should-want-more-walkable-streets

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath https://www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-reasons-why-everyone-should-want-more-walkable-streets

Think public transit “doesn’t work” in your city or suburb? If that’s true, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion — it’s because of choices made. Land-use, funding, infrastructure & operational decisions. If you get fundamentals like frequency wrong, it fails. Make good choices.

“Currently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, Dutch cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.” — Chris and Melissa Bruntlett in #CurbingTraffic @npub1t9fr...5htd

As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re using as an excuse. If more walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. Spread the word.

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes break traffic laws while riding, yet 66% of people do so when driving. And if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @npub1dhnt...cknn https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists-break-far-fewer-road-rules-than-motorists-finds-new-video-study/

Attention Icelanders! I’ll be presenting at an open forum on sustainable planning and better transportation along with Maria Vassilakou, former Deputy Mayor of Vienna, on August 29th. NEXT WEEK! It’s part of the work we’re doing to plan an exciting new net zero district in Reykjavík, Iceland. Register below:

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I don’t hate cars. I hate surrendering our cities and our lives to them. Cartoon by @cowanrob #CarDependency

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/