#39: Bogotá's Care System, Grand Paris Express, California Housing Near Transit

Welcome to the 39th issue of Urbanism Now, our weekly newsletter curated with brief and insightful urban ideas from around the world to inspire action where you (c)are.

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• New research examines how Bogotá’s District Care System transforms urban governance by embedding care work into city planning, creating a new model for feminist municipal policy across Latin America during and beyond COVID-19

• Denver’s pioneering e-bike rebate program has distributed over 10,000 bikes since 2022.

• The Grand Paris Express, a new suburb-to-suburb metropolitan rail system, is being tested in Paris. The system will feature 68 stations with 2-3 minute headways and is expected to carry 3 million passengers a day.

• In California, a landmark bill allowing for mid-rise apartment buildings near major transit stops in the state’s largest metro areas is official. The law overrides local zoning restrictions to increase housing supply.

Videos, podcasts, books, and socials:

• Develop your urban mobility business idea with the MobyLaunch program from the Technical University of Munich and humankind. The course fee is waived with a coupon code when you enroll before October 15.

• Chris and Melissa Bruntlett are launching their book, “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation,” at the SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver.

Jobs:

• City Lab Barcelona is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to model bicycle ridership patterns in Barcelona with a focus on gender and equity. The role involves working with large-scale sensor and citizen science datasets. €35k salary.

• The University of Florida is recruiting PhD and Postdoc candidates for 2026 to advance UrbanAI through research in AI and resilient spatial planning.

• Tampa, Florida is hiring a tier 3 planner for affordable housing to manage federal and state grants and determine project eligibility. $75k - $132k salary. Apply by October 20.

• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is hiring a tenure-track professor for ‘city and climate’ to advance the design and adaptation of the built environment to the challenges of climate change. October 31. Submitted by Franziska.

Events and deadlines:

• The AMS Scientific Conference is accepting abstracts from young researchers for its event themed “Reinventing the City.” The conference offers a new AMS Young Scientist Award for

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