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Potentially a dumb question, and no animosity intended, but do they all work for the same company? Is this some sort of "contractor" thing where they all buy equipment from the same vendor?
Potentially a dumb question, and no animosity intended, but do they all work for the same company? Is this some sort of "contractor" thing where they all buy equipment from the same vendor?
Amazing how US cities took a good idea from abroad and so thoroughly botched it that it's now a joke. If I were a planning reformer in another country with a good idea, I would do everything in my power to avoid Americans finding out about it.
Amazing how US cities took a good idea from abroad and so thoroughly botched it that it's now a joke. If I were a planning reformer in another country with a good idea, I would do everything in my power to avoid Americans finding out about it.
What should I do/see/eat/drink/walk/bicycle in Tampa-St. Pete?
"Continued demand and limited supply challenges renters with rents exceeding their affordability and no relief on the horizon for first time homebuyers. The dream of homeownership drifts further from reach for too many [Tucson] individuals and families." tucson.com/opinion/column…
"SB 1077, which would have made it easier to build backyard cottages on existing residential lots [in urban areas of] the coast, was gutted." Saying "no" to the most reasonable reasonable reforms is a good way to make legislators stop listening to you. politico.com/newsletters/ca…
New York City is about to become a suburb of Newark.
It's so funny how the US builds nicely designed alleys (left), cozy and calming residential streets like you might find in most other developed countries, and then we build absolutely massive, unpleasant frontage roads (right).
Weird as heck style of development in Orlando. Large front yard, front-loaded garage, zero rear yard. Why..?
I didn't think I was going to like Lord Byron going into this The Rest Is History miniseries, and well, I now know that I don't like Lord Byron.
North American cities, take note! BC just rezoned a mansion-only district beside our major university. Areas closest to transit are now open for apartment towers. Snob zoning is finally cracking.
North American cities, take note! BC just rezoned a mansion-only district beside our major university. Areas closest to transit are now open for apartment towers. Snob zoning is finally cracking.
Compare to Greater Los Angeles: 1.5 million aces of transit-optimized street grids.
Compare to Greater Los Angeles: 1.5 million aces of transit-optimized street grids. https://t.co/dRow8VOWM7
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This seems like a common thing. Somebody pointed out on here, the early seasons of the Simpsons were written by eclectic nerds who had marinated in all sorts of weird old media. The newer seasons are written by people who grew up watching the Simpsons.
i think what destroyed the “mockumentary” style was that they started getting made by people who didn’t watch documentaries
@mnolangray And that's just the Pacific Electric lines. They had another system (the Los Angeles Railway) with 25 streetcar lines covering the central part of the city. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angel…
this image clearly resonates in the psyche of post atomic age man. it is archetypal, somehow. never a horse, or pig. do we intuitively sense its correctness?: “yes, aliens would obviously want their own cows. that makes sense.” the doctor, likewise, has no theories about this.
I cannot stress enough how hard it is to build and operate transit that's useful when places look like this...
Very embarrassing American performance. A Danish child born in the bottom half is >50% more likely to reach the top quartile than an American. More like the "European dream."
The year is 2017, you just paid $9.99 for a month of unlimited movies. You watch the LEGO Batman Movie 3 days in a row. You have no idea how any of this is sustainable, but you don’t question it. Life is good.
A handful of Builders Remedy projects but otherwise the same.
A very niche construction: a jetted pocket where the stitching around the pocket bag is visible, giving the impression of a patch pocket. Cloth covering pocket bag is part of facing. Style is only seen in Florence and Naples, Italy. First by Liverano; second by Rubinacci.
I don’t think people are fully grasping how incredible it is that rents are FALLING in one of America’s most popular cities. We were told this wasn’t possible!
Here's a great visualization: Austin's rent relative to the country (@zillow's measure) is now the lowest it has been in at least a decade.