WILLIAM RIGGSAcademic Leader · Urbanist · Researcher

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Everything, since 2011.

456 posts, interviews, and field notes — now searchable and hosted here.

Feb 5, 2020

Op-Ed: Balancing profits and human dignity in the gig economy

Balancing profits and human dignity in the gig economy Cities have been ecosystems to improve trade and connect humans since the earliest days of civilization. As they evolved, cities developed protocols to ensure their denizens would experience more dignified, livable conditions. Historically, they have grappled with

Feb 5, 2020

Feature of My One-Way Street Conversion Work

Feature of some of my work in LEO Weekly: https://www.leoweekly.com/2020/02/new-albany-louisville-not-pushed-downtown-street-redesign/ Two-Way Streets Make Better Cities Who says two-way streets are better than one-way streets for cities? UofL urban and public affairs professor John “Hans” Gilderbloom and William Riggs

Dec 30, 2019

Interview on Housing Costs w/ SF Chronicle

williamriggs: ““A household can bring in $120,000 to $140,000 in most places throughout the Bay Area, and still not be able to affording housing within a comfortable 30 percent of their monthly expenses,” Riggs explains” — SF Chronicle https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/What-does-it-mean-to-be-middle-class-in-the-B

Jul 2, 2019

Fun Home Preserving

piegal: Ramona Apricot preserves ready for the Greenmeadow 4th of July bake sale.

Mar 10, 2019

Interview in WaPost

A lot of this is based on existing assumptions of travel behavior, which we can’t assume will be the same in an autonomous future…The caution is that we don’t overstate the doom that AVs will cause to society and then therefore undersell the potential benefit in terms of trip optimization and saved lives. Me in… Contin