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8 Mar 2022
So who else is doing this? Chris would pointedly ask me (and others) "but what are you BUILDING?" What are we? Who in addition to LivingProcess.net is implementing or testing the #PatternLanguage or Form Language with buildings? Great strides are being made, let's advance.
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a weird general rule in urbanism is that the more aesthetic choice often delivers some enormous public benefit
narrow lane widths are not just picturesque; they're also associated with FAR LOWER pedestrian fatality rates
Jun 13
Stockholm’s pedestrian fatality rate per 100k is 0.45. The U.S. is over 5x that.
Like much of the EU Stockholm uses standards of 9.8’ for city street lanes, even narrower for residential ones, and allows for 10.8’ in bus and truck corridors. The U.S. sets 26’ as a minimum width for a two lane street and common lane widths on city streets are 12-14’.
Yet when proposals are made to narrrow lane widths along dangerous streets, local fire departments are first in line to stop them.
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Jun 14
America's 250th could look so good if we took aesthetics seriously
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This is a newer building in downtown Salinas.
I repeat this is a not an old building!
Replace the old Dick Bruins department store and they did such a beautiful job on it, makes me smile every time I drive by it.
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No one wants to replicate Florence. We want to adapt and improve the timeless urban tech of aligning many small multifamily along narrow streets. Not rocket science. People did it for thousands of years before car based zoning
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A Parisian blogger living in the US noticed that American urban neighborhoods often sort into very rich and very poor areas, while Paris appears to have smoother income gradients. His map raises the larger question of how much does housing typology shape the income distribution of a city?
the"mixed-income" apartment building goes back to ancient Rome, but it was also a noted feature of the Haussmannian apartment building. In the absence of elevators, and with commercial on ground floor, the first floor was for the wealthy, with units becoming more affordable as you climbed up the stairs ...
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The view walking out of our apartment in Stockholm is a spiral single stair with an open elevator inside.
Three kinds of illegal at home all in one small space.
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This is the month of June.
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Jun 12
Old Trails Building (1928)
Indianapolis, IN
Designed by the firm Pierre & Wright for the Old Trails Auto Insurance Company, featuring Art Deco Native American ornament.
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Bottle brush, Santa Monica
24”x48”
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Entryway. Love flat stacked stone.
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Jun 10
From the outside it may seem nice, but the inside...
Built in 1902, Maison Hannon is one of Belgium's Art Nouveau treasures.
Designed by Jules Brunfaut, every curve, detail, ornament reflects the optimism, artistry, and imagination.
This is how we used to build.
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Jun 11
Something extra nice about this windows above walls with deep eaves. This is great 💯
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A place called Burden of Proof in South Pasadena that sells non alcoholic Limoncello also has this italian bitter herbal soda.
It tastes like pipe tobacco.
It’s very nice.
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Jun 10
Yesterday evening, Rose performed some fairly accomplished structural engineering.
#LivingProcessLLC
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Jason found a great diagram contrasting the double loaded corridor courtyard (bad-what Americans think I’m talking about because it’s all they know) and the point access block (good-what we should have, would transform our cities, etc)
Jun 10
Here’s an example from @UrbanCourtyard’s favorite typology.
The faux courtyard L-shaped buildings are 26 units per fire area. The point access block would be 2 to 4 - 1/13th to 1/6th the scale in units to respond, clear.
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Jun 9
Horrible execution!
It’s so embarrassing how many institutional developers ruin what could be really great projects because they look at them as cost-optimization problems rather than trying to create good living environments
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Jun 8
one of my favorite things about biking around chicago is finding random beautiful residential buildings to admire
ALT a tan 4-story brick building with intricate decorations on the facade
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Jun 8
This guy gets it:
Would YOU want to stay in Hammond? Would you want the Bears and their fans to breathe that poison air?
To paraphrase the old R. Dean Taylor song:
🎵Indiana wants them.
Lord, they can't go play there.🎶
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