About this blog
About the blog
“Steven can plan” is a personal blog I started for my class at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC): UPP202, Planning Great Cities, in 2007. The semester ended and my blog kind of fell to the wayside. I’ve picked it up again in 2009.
This blog is about urban planning, cities, and transportation. I use my classes and new knowledge to inspire what I write. I seem to write most often about Chicago and bicycling.
About me
I’m Steven Vance. This is my objective: “Obtain a transportation planning position with an organization that recognizes the importance of accommodating and providing service for all transportation system users, including transit, motorists, bicyclists, pedestrians, and freight.”
My sites:
- stevevance.net – My personal homepage (personally mine since 2001)
- Nishiki Bicycle History – A wiki about Japanese Nishiki bicycles.
- Odd and ends – Posts that don’t belong here. I collect my webdesign tips on this blog. If you want to know how I design “Steven can plan,” visit Odds and ends.
Here I am on other websites:
- Flickr (photos)
- LiveJournal (personal blog before blogging became popular – this wasn’t even called a blog back then)
All content is my own except where otherwise noted. The views and opinions I express on my blog are my own and do not represent those of my employers, past or present.
I use Google Reader (and the compatible Mac client NetNewsWire) to read other blogs. You can see the biking bundle, a collection of all the bicycling-related blogs and news I read.
My issues
- HOV and HOT lanes, tolls and equity, toll revenue distribution
- Access to airports, alternatives to SOV driving there
- Bicycling: Separated infrastructure, bike parking, the use of helmets
Plugins I use
- Twitter Widget Pro – Grabs my Twitter statuses.
- Clean Links SV – Modification of built-in Links widget I created.
- FlickrTag – Automatically inserts photos into Posts and Pages using simple code and syntax.
- flickrRSS – Displays my Flickr photos in a widget. I specify that it only grabs photos from a certain Set.
- Related Posts (YARPP) – Browses through your posts to pick ones that are related.
- ShareThis – Gives visitors quick links to share the blog post on social networks.
- WP-Cache – Caches the homepage and posts for faster loading.
- WP Widget Cache – Caches the sidebar widgets for faster loading.
- WP -> Twitter – Sends a tweet to Twitter with a link to your newest blog post.
- WP Thread Comment – Allows visitors to reply to others’ comments
- XML Sitemap – Creates a Sitemap for search engine crawlers.
- Simply Exclude – I use this plugin to exclude from the homepage posts tagged “page2.”
