I just wanna live somewhere I can get a cute little apartment and be able to walk to a grocery store, park, church, and rapid transit station. 100 years ago that was standard in every American city. Today, it’s a luxury experience that costs $2000+/mo

A Brief Architectural Timeline of the past 500 years:

Last month, the average cost of plant-based meat (including beef and chicken products) in the Netherlands was reported to have finally dropped *below* (not just parity!) the average cost of their animal-derived equivalents per kg. foodnavigator.com/Article/2022/0…

Made a playlist for your weekend hike

1/ A small thread about how Switzerland is effectively using railways for almost everything - in this example household waste logistics. Let's have a look at how garbage is transported in the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

After decades of community destruction through dreadful development patterns, people are (finally) pushing back against places like the bottom two malls, & embracing the top two. While it might seem obvious with malls, the story is the same everywhere. It's time to build better!

The Now Demolished 1895-1974 John Wolfe Building in Lower Manhattan was the polar opposite of every bland repetitive boxy skyscraper.

Pickering Nuclear Station supplies more clean electricity to Ontario than Niagara Falls & more electricity than all 3,273 wind & solar contracts in the province, and it does so at a fraction of the cost per kWh and on a tiny fraction of the land leaving more space for nature.

Loneliness Epidemic Starter Pack:

Maybe people don’t want to throw their life away toiling long hours to design ugly things for shit pay. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

USA vs EU Football Stadium (same capacity)

the space race vs the timeline for seattle to build a bike lane and bus lane. same scale.

Since 2020, 211 schools across Paris have piloted “school streets”—closures to motor traffic during drop-off and pick-up. Twenty-two have become permanent car-free spaces—like on Rue Eblé—offering a glimpse into a future that prioritizes children’s health, safety, and happiness.

A few yards and 50 years apart. Two approaches to designing a high street in Leicester right next to each other. The collapse in civic pride, ambition & delivery is profound and goes far beyond changing technology or economic pressures.

We should copy and paste places like this in the US instead of generic sprawl

Density feels far less intrusive when united with beauty!

Project Syndicate Per unit of electricity, Germany emits 4.5-times the amount of CO₂ as nuclear-friendly France. ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon…

The paradox of the 21st century: We can hop on a plane and visit humanity’s most beautiful creations in a matter of hours, Yet it is more difficult than ever to build anything remotely beautiful at home.

Man: no definition needed. Non-man (formerly known as woman): a being definable only by reference to the male. An absence, a vacuum where there's no man-ness.