#Construction

This is a thread about the companies that donate to Ted Cruz. Now that Cruz is an open seditionist, perhaps these companies will want to rethink their support for his
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Democrats held another relief bill hostage to try to extort a massive bailout for blue cities and states totally apart from the CCP Virus. So Trump is now signing an
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Why has SF made it nearly impossible to build #MissingMiddle housing-- which you can build with wood, quickly and inexpensively, adding incrementally to existing neighborhoods? https://www.sightline.org/2019/02/13/who-would-live-in-missing-
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I just finished my Market Urbanism book manuscript, and to celebrate am visiting Monterrey. I'll take a bunch of photos this next week and post them on this thread. Here's
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Not really in the mood for @threadapalooza but this is an IOU for a thread inspired by @DRMacIver's book pairings one.I'll expand it to include internet writings to make my
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Covid and the labour market: we've new analysis today, showing how >5m workers were still away from jobs or on reduced hours at end of Sept- with worrying signs that
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I'm not sure why there is this increasing centrist hand-wringing over a possible revival of public housing. Even supporters like me feel that that revival is far off. But here
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I also just finished reading the beautiful piece on Saidiya Hartman.I'm like 94% sure I disagree with Nell Painter here.History can be, should be, more than fidelity to "the archive,"
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This thread corrects errors in the ‘British Penal Laws' and window tax tweet (’the tweet’), with reference to primary and authoritative sources, and is expanded in my blog: http://bit.ly/3kVroxV .Let the
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This is my love letter to @StrathearnCL’s gablefront houses. #yegheritage 1946 was the first full construction season after #WWII. With the return of veterans and start of the baby boom,
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Anyone interested in what a #JustTransition could look like should pay attention to Greece. The plan for phasing out coal in W. Macedonia and in Megalopolis is ambitious and, in
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(1/9) Good news about COVID-19 suppression in Hong Kong, today we estimate that the daily reproductive number Rt dropped below 1 on 22 July, around a week ago https://covid19.sph.hku.hk/  (2/9)
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Il y a quelques semaines @Courdescomptes a publié un rapport qui n'est pas passé inaperçu, concernant la filière #EPR. Si vous voulez le lire en intégralité, c'est ici :https://www.ccomptes.fr/fr/publications/la-filiere-epr Le
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NEW: Anti-landfill protests have erupted across Russia over controversial reforms in waste management policy. In this OCCRP investigation, @iStories_Media reveals these protesters may unknowingly be challenging powerful people with ties
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Congressional probe: Russian oligarchs using U.S. art market to evade sanctionshttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/probe-russian-oligarchs-evade-art-sanctions-386154 The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations traced $18 million in hi
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I opted to do the overflow room for tonight’s Beaumont City Council meeting. I feel very safe with this warning. On tonight's agenda is residential speed limits, video surveillance at
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