Urban planning & experience design at @HarvardGSD. Previously @Sonos, @CityofBoston & @GroveLabs. 🌹 Passionate about people. 🌆: Atelier Olschinsky
Boston, MA
Joined September 2009
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Urban areas have more unique ecologies than you think - "peregrine falcons, for instance, exhibit higher rates of reproductive success in urban areas than in rural ones." nature.org/en-us/magazine/ma…
"Most of what happens in Tokyo would be illegal in America... in the US, the average age of a demolished building is 67 years. In Japan, it's 32."
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“It’s up to us to rediscover peace.” Together! It’s amazing to be back at Emerson and reminded of the importance of the arts in changing the story for good. @tcproj
Join us on 5/2 to celebrate the latest projects from the Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence initiative, co-created by @EmersonCollege students & faculty alongside partners from @LDBpeaceInst @Uncornered_BOS @MACoPGV @MGH_GVPC & @TeenEmpowerment
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ALT TNGV Peace in Process Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence through Documentary, Theatre, and Journalism Tuesday, May 2 from 5pm-7pm Little Building at Emerson College
“Bobi Wine: The People’s President” documents the incredible effort of the National Unity Party to unseat Museveni in Uganda. It was so inspiring to hear Director @bwayomoses share how they persevered to document this story — ty @IFFBoston!
I can’t say this enough — this film was incredible. Thank you @bwayomoses for coming to share your work with @IFFBoston! This will stay with me for a long time.
Congratulations to BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT. Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp's riveting documentary took home two International Competition awards from @MilleniumFest: The Audience Prize and the Bronze Goal for Best Film on Human Rights! Coming soon from @natgeodocs
The proposed Madison Avenue Pedestrian Mall in NYC would have replaced cars with custom designed “mini-buses” (1975)! #urbanmobility #nyc
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AHMA denounces a recent decision by Boston's ZBA to deny approval for an affordable, sustainable housing/commercial development in Roslindale. We ask @MayorWu, City Council to act to modernize our zoning & appt a ZBA that acts in all residents' interests.
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East Boston has the least amount of tree canopy in the city ( 7%) & Boston Logan Int'l Airport is its biggest polluter.
Here's how @MothersOutFront is pushing for cleaner air & healthier lives. #AirPollution #ClimateJustice #Boston
🛫Our moms are fighting to rid parents of climate anxiety. Check out our recent @npquarterly about our #EastBoston team fighting for cleaner air! #momsmakeitbetter
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I'd love to see @Amtrak figure out how to accommodate bikes on every train in the not so distant future. Even the Acela. Cue someone saying "we can't do that because X, Y & Z..." Let's be more imaginative than that.
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.@MITSloan's @climateinteract simulator makes it clear there's no silver bullet to reduce global warming. Methane has outsized impacts and 100% renewable energy won't be enough.
See the scenario I designed and create your own here! tinyurl.com/yc7mvmvx
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“If our vision is to be mediocre, if our vision is to keep saying we’re the oldest in the nation, if our vision is to keep going along to get along, we’re not going to have an excellent transit system.” - Dr. Beverly Scott
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Went on an amazing tour of the soon-to-be Charlesgate Park today with @EmNecklaceBos! Cannot wait for this to be a reality. – at Fenway, Boston
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NYC residents were protesting against a congestion tax.
A counter-protester (who wants a congestion tax) had this amazing quote
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If cities are spending record sums on police (I'm sorry to break it to the press: no one defunded the cops) and there is an uptick in crime, shouldn't we start thinking about whether police are actually an effective tool to reduce crime? Imagine...
What matters most to upward mobility may be cross-class interaction — ie. how often low-income people are interacting with and exposed to high earners. This appears to vary widely by geography. #RajChetty @OppInsights
Using anonymized tax returns, #RanChetty’s @OppInsights team looked at rates of upward economic mobility across the United States and found enormous variation based on geography. #EconomicMobility
Hard not to notice the overlap — see Olmsted’s map of the Cotton Kingdom from 1862. #CottonKingdom
ALT A map depicting dominant and subsidiary cotton producing districts that enslaved African American laborers in the United States in 1850.
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Mind-boggled by the Grand Paris Express project. 120 mi of rail connecting outer suburbs, 68 new stations, €35B budget. Started 2013, on track to open by 2030. 31 architecture teams; public art at each station. What would it take to make this possible here?
This is so important - if you haven't seen @jovialjoy's excellent #TEDTalk, take a watch - 'How I'm Fighting Bias in Algorithms' ted.com/talks/joy_buolamwini…
🚨READ MY NEW OP-ED in @TheAtlantic 🚨 “The #IRS Should Stop Using #FacialRecognition: Taxpayers should be wary of the U.S. government for pushing @IDMe’s face-based biometric technology on them
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