Resources & Articles

If you are new to planning issues:

A city built around people

A city built around cars

If you haven’t been exposed to modern issues in city planning, prepare yourself - once you see the issues being discussed here, you will never look at your own city the same way again.

Many of us have spent our entire lives in suburbia - which is only one way of building a city - but most of us have never experienced anything different.

Over the past few decades, consensus has grown among urban planners that single family tract home development are the worst kind of housing a city can build, and for MANY reasons. Although there is a lot of content out there regarding city planning, the video playlist linked below from the “not just bikes” youtube channel, illustrating the work of the housing advocacy group “strong towns” is somethig we think that every voter should absolutely watch. But be warned… you will never see your city with the same eyes again.

Our Must-Watch Playlist

These are easy to consume primers on modern issues of transit, urban design, and economics.

“Nobody should have to own a car just to participate in society, and designing a city that way on purpose is criminal”
-Not Just Bikes

Davis-Specific Articles

A neighborhood built around the automobile

A neighborhood built for people