flex posts up in the corner of Mass/College

the new 30th St bridge is awesome

in freeze/thaw cities like Indy with deferred maintenance and ballooning infrastructure costs, a good strategy to help with potholes would be a de-paving strategy of underused excess lane miles and replacing nonessential pavement like alleyways with rocks

Today, Area 2 Farms is unveiling an innovative model to establish farms within 10 miles of every American. orenfalkowitz.substack.com/p/behind-every…

that’s alot for a township’s comp plan, several times what some whole counties comp plan would be.

Looks like this prime redevelopment opportunity between downtown and Fletcher Place is going to become a basketball court

General German Protestant Orphans Home in Indianapolis, once an orphanage and today a drug treatment center… and a deeper story on how we’ve confronted social ills in the US: Located just south of the popular Fountain Square neighborhood, General German was once one of four

Not just brutalism: plants make so many otherwise average buildings look vibrant. Examples from CDMX:

Indiana has no money for parks or fixing your roads, but sits on a fat stack of cash

Letting people sleep on the street is not a form of social welfare. But we need a better option than clearing them out. My latest in IndyStar: indystar.com/story/opinion/…

Letting people burn down buses or smoke on trains or sleep on streets is not progressive!

Why do the top three major US cities keep electing really terrible mayors? Jury still out on Mamdani fwiw

Area 2 Farms and Oren J. Falkowitz are literally going to change American cities by bringing food production back to neighborhoods.