This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
Jan 28, 2026 19:59This blew up fast, and some others seem to have tracked down the original quote attributed to Gareth Klieber, documented by Dan Wentzel (
@danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy) , :
urbanists.social/@danwentzel/...Yeah walkability improvements need YIMBY reforms to go along with them
