Buildings & Cities @tedlott.bsky.social
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I disapprove of the form you make, but I will fight to the death your right to make it... #citybuilding
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Jun 11
Probably the most important graph explaining California’s housing crisis.
Construction costs are up 53% since January 2019. Interest rates are up from 2.7% to 4.1%.
This is why a San Francisco report recently found that most housing projects are no longer feasible.
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From our man on the scene, @nickrmanes, noting that the people charged with putting out fires are 'unswayed by the data...'
We need to get this change made ASAP.
Housing shortage spurs a push to allow apartment building designs with a single stairway crainsgrandrapids.com/real-e…
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Serious question: What happens when an ambulance or fire truck can’t get through because the street has been narrowed down to a single lane for bike infrastructure?
Look at this mess.
Who thought this was a good idea?
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Jun 1
hear me out--what if we moved the bears stadium DIRECTLY next to halas hall on state owned land
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Supply matters…
Jun 1
San Diego built more apartments per person than any CA metro last year—and rents fell 2.2%, dropping the city from 5th to 12th priciest nationally.
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Municipal consolidation is like a #1 civil reform issue in the United States. It Has To Happen.
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May 20
Just ate ice cream from a land grant university and I Get It Now. This is literally the entire point of America. No clue why we do all that other stuff.
the land grant university is a sign of a developed civilization
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Build a Bigger Manhattan: “There is a way to help tackle both [housing and climate change] in one bold policy stroke: expand Manhattan Island into the harbor... New York was once a city of big projects...” nytimes.com/2022/01/14/opini…
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Every day of my life...
It seems there is a hot debate afoot
Have you ever called the Pistons ‘The Stones’
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This is a critical historical document. God bless you, Stanley Tigerman.
Apr 30
Falling down a rabbit hole researching a big empty building on Michigan Avenue, I stumbled across this absolutely fabulous 1994 Reader piece by Cate Plys where she asks Chicago architects which building they would blow up.
A fantastic read. Check it out.
chicagoreader.com/news/build…
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Apr 29
We should create a 21st-century civilian conservation corps to build these green medians down the middle of every American stroad. We should then run streetcars down them, densify the surrounding commercial offerings, and add social housing with courtyards.
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Apr 26
Detroit used to have a municipal civics curriculum in the public schools. Here’s the 1968 textbook.
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Apr 26
This program is based on the "white genocide" conspiracy that Black South Africans are planning to rise up and kill white property owners
It's impossible to explain how infuriating this story is without telling 1 of the greatest stories in all of Black history.
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Apr 26
If we raised the property tax bill on the blue lot to match the others on a $/SF basis, the overall tax bill for the houses/businesses would go down.
People who want to see lower property taxes should be all over this!
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Apr 24
If you can't build this by-right, on any lot in your city, you still have work to do.
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Apr 20
Happy 420 Day.
As always, we celebrate the 53rd anniversary of when Gail & Dale sang "One Toke Over the Line,” on Lawrence Welk.
Neither knew what the song was about. Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”
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Ride on, #Patriots!
As ridership swells, bill to study expanding passenger rail service out of Twin Cities revived startribune.com/as-ridership…
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