Heather Boyer

#IslandPress has long championed urban planning literature, publishing foundational books across transportation, street design, & more. Publisher @hboyer.bsky.social & senior editor Stacy Eisenstark discuss the future of publishing for planners—& of @islandpress.bsky.social, newly an imprint of PUP.

Free Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead?

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New York City’s Worst Highways Can Lead Somewhere Better The expressways that Robert Moses carved into the city helped inspire the entire American highway system. Now they can be models for community-led reform.

NYC may have created the design template for the U.S. highway system, but it's now a part of a national movement to reimagine them and reduce our exclusive reliance on cars.

New from Ali Sant, author of From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Inspiring interview of @modacitylife.com in the NYTimes. By the way, you can get Melissa's two earlier e-books half off from @islandpress.bsky.social right now (islandpress.org).

Our 50% off print sale is over BUT...

If you are still looking to get these books (or any other Island Press titles) be sure to take advantage of our $6.99 ebook sale happening NOW! islandpress.org

You can get Walkable City Rules by @jeffspeck.bsky.social HALF PRICE, just in time for the holidays (check it out in the NBM holiday gift guide nbm.org/2025-holiday...) and other amazing @islandpress.bsky.social books HALF PRICE until midnight on November 17. Use HALF at checkout. islandpress.org

To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks

To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Fabulous book event for Unfinished Metropolis by @benschneider.bsky.social @islandpress.bsky.social

Check out our awesome new book by @malgeo.bsky.social front and center at Barnes and Noble in Brooklyn @islandpress.bsky.social

A person on a bus holding a book "When Driving Is Not An Option" by Anna Letitia Zivarts with a drawing of people waiting at a bus shelter with a bus pulled up at the curb. A person driving a Subaru is in the background of the photo

On the 🚌 opening up my newest book by @nondriver.bsky.social I love to see how they connect climate and transportation.

"we know that if we don't act to reduce emissions now, the disruption our children will have to survive will be even worse."

‘New York’s Secret Subway’ Review: Tunnel Visions An inventor in 19th-century New York had been dreaming about a subterranean railway for decades. He’d have to break a few rules to build it.

Read about @malgeo.bsky.social Matthew Algeo's "delightful" new book, "New York's Secret Subway" in the WSJ www.wsj.com/arts-culture... @islandpress.bsky.social

'Call it a comeback': Manhattan foot traffic finally tops pre-pandemic times Visits to office buildings in the city’s commercial districts were up 1.3% last month compared to July 2019, data shows.

Strange, I was told congestion pricing would turn Manhattan into a ghost town

There is still time to read the great selections on the summer reading list from @sightline.org including Arbitrary Lines by @mnolangray.bsky.social and Bet the Farm by Beth Hoffman @islandpress.bsky.social @emilyturner2000.bsky.social

Surdna hosted a wonderful book event for THE BANKS WE DESERVE by @oscarthinks.bsky.social. Learn more about the book @islandpress.bsky.social @donchen.bsky.social

Can Americans Just Stop Building New Highways? A new book argues that the expansion of the US roadway network has exacted social and environmental costs that far outweigh the benefits.

Great @davidzipper.bsky.social interview with Erick Guerra on Overbuilt. To read more, get the book from @islandpress.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along An Odd Line: Car Ownership - Jalopnik Car ownership and transit ridership serve as a shorthand for someone's entire living situation — and, apparently, their politics.

"...the data backs up the vibes. The less time you spend in a car, the more likely it is you backed Zohran Mamdani."

Amazing closing plenary by Charles T. Brown @nacto.bsky.social @islandpress.bsky.social

Hey, @nacto.bsky.social Designing Cities attendees, you can get your hands on a free copy of ARRESTED MOBILITY by Charles Brown, closing plenary speaker, if you can get to this Little Free Library first. It is wishing 1/2 mile of the conference. @islandpress.bsky.social

Why Planners and Policymakers Must Address Structural Barriers to Mobility Arrested mobility, coined by author Charles T. Brown, threatens the ability for Black people to move freely in public.

An exciting new book from Charles Brown! nextcity.org/urbanist-new... @islandpress.bsky.social

Disorder in the Court: U.S. DOT Lawyers Upload Memo Admitting Their Congestion Pricing Case is Weak - Streetsblog New York City Lawyers advising U.S. DOT Secretary Sean Duffy make it clear: His case to end congestion pricing is weak.

Own goal nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/24/d...

Congestion Pricing Will Live On for Several Months After Court Agreement State and federal officials agreed to a timeline in their court dispute over the tolling program that is likely to leave it in place until the fall. Other threats to the program still loom.

When we fight, we win.

Want to join me for this Transportation Alternatives event?

People have the power to take our democracy back. This right here helps to prove that after Musk quite literally tried to buy votes yet again to manipulate our government.

Definitely calling 311 on this parking situation.

@islandpress.bsky.social books in Oslo (with IP author Dan Piatkoswki)

😍😍😍 @islandpress.bsky.social

Stop Everything You're Doing and Build a Bicycle Sidecar for Your Dog Momentum Mag is closed for the rest of the day, something came up.

Stop Everything You’re Doing and Build a Bicycle Sidecar for Your Dog.
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We've achieved record on-time performance while delivering exceptional customer service, and it is all thanks to the hard work and dedication our employees bring every single day.

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