Marcel Moran
@marcelmoran
San Francisco 🌁 City Planning, Sustainable Transportation, Spatial Science. Union Member. Assistant Professor. Banner by Bellows.
Insane details from SF's housing market right now: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...
Aside from all of the terrible policies, I really thought the *daily chaos* would be what would keep enough Americans from voting for this person again. Obviously I was wrong.
Enjoyed writing this reflection essay for the Berkeley Planning Journal: "In Defense of 'Slow Research' in Urban Planning" (which could also be titled "Why did I walk to roughly 3,000 bus stops?") berkeleyplanningjournal.com/blockbyblock...
Chambéry, a French city of ~60,000, has done some lovely street pedestrianization in the last five years
Super fun to discuss our new NYC bike-lane study with the Bike Talk radio program. Full episode: biketalk.org/2026/06/26-2... Full study: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
San Francisco housing is too expensive and we need to build so much more housing, but I'm sorry, a couple *both making $180K* can absolutely find a 1br under $5,000.
What if the best view of Notre Dame is from the Left Bank protected bike lane. What then?