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I'm Alexandros Washburn, former chief urban designer of New York City, and I'm here to answer your questions from the internet.

The best way to make a bike lane safer on, say, 6th Avenue?

We moved the parking lane away from the curb and put the bike lane on the sidewalk side of the cars.

Is the New York City subway really that bad compared to other world city metro systems?

It's a great system in the way it's been laid out and how many miles it is.

And one of the reasons is that the city that never sleeps, we never shut down the subways at night to fix them.

The cumulative effects of lack of maintenance or sleep for our subways have really caught up with us and things are not good right now.

It's also interesting if you go to another city with a major metro system, say like Moscow, you will be amazed at how fast the trains run and how fast the escalators go.

There's just kind of a sense of pace that we seem to have lost.

We have neglected our subways and we have a long way to go to make them halfway as good as many cities around the world.

At deep yearning asks, guys, can anyone help me understand something?

Rent control is a tool to make cities more affordable.

Some places in the world where rent control is actually a national policy, say Germany has a pretty stable, solid housing market.

But then again, rent control in other places has different effects.

Sometimes people don't want to build a building if they know it's going to be rent controlled in the future.

Sometimes banks don't want to give a loan on a building that will be rent controlled in the future because nobody knows what the future will bring and development starts drying up.

Why can rent control be workable in one place and then have a chilling effect on another?

And you know, I think the answer is actually societal.

You know, places where it works best are relatively homogeneous societies.

It becomes a policy tool, not a discrimination tool.

But there are other tools like rent support vouchers or simply increase your supply.

Why would you let your city planners do this to you?

As we all know, Boston was planned by cows.

Essentially, the streets of Boston follow 17th century cow paths that crisscrossed it.

Sometimes even the planners aren't at fault.

A green city because it made a decision at its very start to be a city in a park.

Everything about it is geared towards bringing the nature into the city and using nature like infrastructure.

Part of their main issues is, of course, the very hot climate.

So nature becomes a way of creating a microclimate.

So the plants have a cooling effect on the city.

They take solar energy, and they turn it into biomass.

And that biomass pulls the energy out of the microclimate system.

And beyond that, turns it into shade, which then protects the pavement itself from getting over hot.

What airports are perfect, close to perfect, or otherwise great?

So Singapore is the best because anytime they have to figure out how many square feet do we need for, say, security, they double it, triple it, quadruple it.

Then they ask, are people bored in between flights?

So they built the most incredible nature park inside of an airport with hundreds-foot-tall waterfall, incredible jungle trails you can take, shopping, dining.

It would be good for us in the United States to start thinking about it that way.

Let's make an airport you actually will be delighted to visit.

All right, EnergyPer250MLServe asks, are there any cities that are really doing everything or almost everything right in regards to urban planning?

New York, we love our city bikes, but we stole the idea.

The next one that I'd like to steal from them is that they've made a network of streets that are meant to get to schools.

So they're like super safe streets, streets where you'd be happy for your kids to walk on their own or bike on their own to school.

At Endava asks, what makes a smart city smart?

A smart city is a city that makes the right decisions.

Now, the best cities right now for smart are the ones that have great databases because the data helps you make the right decision.

An example of data a smart city would use are traffic flows.

It's the ability to respond in real time that makes a really good smart city really smart.

Reddit sub admin, what is the biggest reason

The one thing that says it all is a phrase from the 1950s.

What's good for General Motors is good for America.

The United States, right at the beginning of its largest growth spurt, decided that cars were the answer.

Everything in American city planning was dimensioned to a car.

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