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Non-essential Fred
LesserFrederick
Kamala Harris wants to legalize accessory dwelling units. Kamala Harris wants to have district-wide school choice. Kamala Harris wants to allow duplexes on corner lots. Kamala Harris wants to consolidate
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Megan Lynch
may_gun
I’ve asked my followers many times for RTs when I ask for abled allies. Folks rarely RT. They’d rather RT an abled person with a blue check. But RT this:
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David Perell
david_perell
One of the weirdest things about modern urbanism is that we build the opposite of what we like.We adore Europe’s narrow streets, but build skyscraper-lined cities with six-lane roads and
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Bike Daddy Tim 🚲🔰🍹
tstaub
Currently quarantining on the Jersey Shore at my late grandfather's house. My contact with others will be limited & I'm just going to be reading and doing solo bike rides.
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Tim McCormick
tmccormick
when people say, it's all about relationships, I often think, What is the City but the People with whom you don't have relationships? -- or, a place relatively full of
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Ashley Salvador
SallyAnn_12
There's a dearth of small scale retail space available in most N.A. cities.Humans are wired to like cozy, fine-grained urbanism, like these cafes in Japan. It feels good, AND it
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Marco Chitti
ChittiMarco
1/ I've always been persuaded that most policymakers have little understanding of the spatial implications of their policies. That because policymaking is mostly dominated by discursive and econometric logics.An example?
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Rothar
CafeRothar
After my post yesterday, I got a few critical voices about the quality of that cycle lane and why it's no reason for celebration. Firstly, yawn. No sh*t Sherlock. But
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erstwhileboffin
So...They're building about 7,000 homes on a spit of land in Bayonne that was reclaimed from New York Bay for the Military Ocean Terminal in the 1930s. It looks like
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wout van aerchitecture
mcmansionhell
i'd post "what's your controversial take about architecture" but i already know the replies will be a combination of "brutalism rules" and "brutalism sucks" fine, 1 like = 1 controversial
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Wrath Of Gnon
wrathofgnon
The city of Ghadames on the edge of the Saharan desert in Libya is maybe one of the finest examples of desert urbanism still in existence. Inhabited since the 4th
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John McCartin
mccaartiin
fwiw: tentative lessons on minimizing police interference of protests from an urban planning / urban design perspective. 1/x in grad school for urban planning, i did my thesis on the
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am
lambarghini_
Can we talk about the dissonance in the terms used in this hellscape called planning? Let's start a thread: placemaking - how you gonna make a place that was already
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Wrath Of Gnon
wrathofgnon
The old walled city of Shibam, Yemen, has been inhabited at least since the 3rd c., an example of perfect desert urbanism. A pop. of 7000 living on 0.03 square
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Ace the Architect is Voting for Sherae For State
TheUrbanAce
Ok, it is officially thread time!This thread is about zoning, and specifically the need to eliminate "single-family only zoning" aka "oneplex-only zoning" aka "apartment bans" aka "white lining" here
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Sligo Cycling
SligoCycling
Thread: When the first slide @EngineerIreland webinar with Sharon O' Gara & Mairead Hunt @KildareCoCo is titled “Tactical Urbanism COVID – 19 Response” it’s a cause for cheer. When @kleyden7
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