Hands-on, dedicated professional with over 15 years of experience in senior IT management.

Check out this BRAND-SPANKING-NEW PROTECTED BIKE LANE!! #albuquerque is making the right choices to address the inequity of our public spaces. 

Big thanks to all involved. 

City of Albuquerque Tim Keller Terry Brunner

Michele Gaidelis

Hands-on, dedicated professional with over 10 years of experience in senior IT management.

City of Albuquerque

Mayor at City of Albuquerque

Albuquerque Chief of Staff & Redevelopment Director | Strategic Advisor to Government, Funders & Agencies | Rural-Urban Investment | Former Obama Admin. USDA & U.S. Senate

Seasoned Global Technology Leader

Damn, Strong Towns articles have really been catching my attention lately. 

New Mexico Economic Development Department Albuquerque Business First 

"Prioritize maintenance over expansion.
Fund small, human-scale projects that residents actually want.
Stop using poor cities as props for economic development theater.
Tie dollars to outcomes, not just engineering inputs."

https://lnkd.in/eyEKjw_T

strongtowns.org

Highway Ramps Promised to Deliver Chester from Hardship. Residents Are Still Waiting. | Strong Towns

Strong Towns

New Mexico Economic Development Department

Albuquerque Business First

It is past the time where we rethink the structures that have been built.

Businesses and Communities that embrace this will end up weathering the shifts that are happening. The ones that don't? Good riddance.

"For centuries, urban policy has treated inequality as inevitable, rather than intentional." ... "unemployment kept wages low, proximity to the factory ensured control, and the working class was simultaneously desired and despised. Poverty and hunger were not aberrations, they were the consequence of policies. The resulting social ills of crime, disease, and despair were blamed not on the systems that produced them, but on the people who bore their weight."

time.com

What Zohran Mamdani Teaches Us About the Moral City

What a beautiful way to look at how we react to change in our neighborhoods.

"Maybe the next evolution of urban planning isn’t just form-based codes or parking reform or upzoning the city to lift the ban on multifamily homes like duplexes and courtyard apartments. Maybe it’s developing community rituals for transition: spaces to mourn, to remember, to mark what was, and to open ourselves to what could be."

abqurbanist.substack.com

Grief, Control, and the Myths We Build About Our Neighborhoods

"When neighbors show up to oppose new housing to “preserve neighborhood character,” they’re not just defending their territory. Whether they know it or not, they’re making choices about other people’s safety.

They’re voting for traffic congestion. They’re voting to extend someone else’s commute. They’re voting to put more cars on dangerous roads."

City of Albuquerque Tim Keller Terry Brunner Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance Albuquerque International Sunport New Mexico Economic Development Department

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