If each fact that runs counter to your narrative “doesn’t really count” for some reason or another, perhaps the most likely explanation is that you see the world not as a rich tapestry of balanced forces, but as a morality play whose beauty is in the simplicity of its heuristics.

@LivingTesla Tesla It’s there for when we start competing with Uber/Lyft & people allow their car to earn money for them as part of the Tesla shared autonomy fleet. In case someone messes up your car, you can check the video.

herzog & de meuron weaves mixed-use timber development into existing austin street front designboom.com/architecture/h…

Every once in a while a building makes you stop and say "Wait, what? That's real? I didn't know we could make places as magical as this anymore!" and this is one of those for me

Exciting supertall skyscrapers coming to Austin bloomberg.com/news/features/…

I've been collecting a list of recently-built places with good urban fabric. Here are some of my favorites: 1. Las Catalinas is a hill town overlooking an ocean cove in Costa Rica, built just over a decade ago with the bones of a classic Mediterranean hill town (Las Catalinas)

Affordable Housing doesn't have to be dreary, segregated out of sight and mind, or stigmatized. It can be embraced by communities if thoughtfully developed. Places like The Baldwin in DC are showing us what's possible! A lovely mixed-use building on trendy & cool H Street!

Brooklyn Heights, known as the "first suburb" in New York City, is one of the densest neighborhoods in North America with 78,000 people/square mile. Levittown, the first postwar suburb of Long Island is 10% as dense. Dense communities can still be gorgeous. (Insta: JoeThommas)

Yields on 12-month U.S. T-bills rose to the highest since 2001 yesterday, to 4.84%.

Office to residential conversions are extremely challenging ... but worth it Here's a photo thread of the renovation process of one of the first projects I worked on: Turning a 275,000sf Art Deco Office Building into 200+ apartments, retail, pizza & kickboxing Enjoy 📸🧵

Tell me this isn’t the best “traffic” you’ve ever seen. A school “bike bus” planned each Friday in Barcelona a few years back, grew from an initial 5 kids when it started. Safety in numbers — do you think you could do this in your city? Via Lluís Juncà

The narrow, car-free streets of Philadelphia are some of the most beloved places in the city. They’re also some of the most expensive areas to live, partially due to scarcity, since we’ve made this development style illegal to build nearly everywhere in America.

Utrecht may be the most under-ratedly beautiful city in the world

Sometimes a new development just stops you in your tracks. This is a NEW CONSTRUCTION condo complex, not adaptive re-use

For the past 18 months, Megan Cassidy and I have been working together on a deep dive into drug dealers in the Tenderloin—the epicenter of SF’s open-air drug markets and overdose crisis. sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/…

Omoide Yokocho is a narrow street in Tokyo with over 70 tiny bars and barbecue stands. It looks like it's straight out of "Blade Runner." x.com/tuidelescriban…

Herzog & de Meuron begins San Francisco Power Plant transformation in Dogpatch dezeen.com/2021/06/08/her…

HUGE housing wins in Austin today! Council just passed resolutions to: - Legalize 3 homes on every lot by-right - Lower minimum lot size to 2500sqft - Exempt 3 and 4-plexes from site plans, expediting approval from 1yr+ down to 60 days Things are looking up in good ole ATX!

Maybe my favorite so far: 329 Vanderbilt Ave Located in prime Clinton Hill, this is a recently renovated 19th-century carriage house totaling ~ 3,000 square feet A truly one of a kind property

AUSTIN OFFICIALLY LEGALIZES 5-STORY SINGLE-STAIR APARTMENTS WITH A 10-1 VOTE!!! 🏗️🏬 This makes Austin the 2nd largest city outside of NYC to legalize single-stair apartments! Massive day for Austin and massive thanks to Council Member Chito Vela for taking the charge on this!