When something costs someone nothing they take more of it. -utility easements -mandated setbacks -fire lane & street widths -elevator dimensions -double loaded corridors We have a serious spatial discipline problem in this country that keeps costing us over and over again.

I *rode my bike to the library* to read computer magazines and manuals. Since you can't check out peridocals or reference materials, I'd pay 10 cents per page to copy the really important bits

The replies to Blake’s very reasonable assertion are as unhinged as the 15 minute city logic jumps. “Highway driving will be absurd and illegal” as a descriptive fact apparently means cars will start selling without steering wheels or pedals and ppl will horde pre-autonomous cars

I’m clearly mis-remembering but I could have sworn that Mycogen was a separate planet, not just a sector on Trantor. Is this what getting old is?

Culver City is the 1st in CA to legalize single-stair buildings up to 6 stories 🏗️—slimmer buildings with bigger, family-sized homes full of light & air. Credit to Bubba Fish 🐠, Abundant Housing LA & HAC SoCal Dir. Jesse Zwick for making it happen!

I’ve been saying this out loud for years — moved to Chicago in 2008 and cops were walking the beat in my neighborhood, stopping into stores and restaurants to talk to owners, and shooed away people. By 2021 when we left, cops just sat in SUVs no with no street interaction

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

This incredible Bel Air estate just listed for $15m. With 11 beds/16 baths. Stunning interiors. And a primary lot property tax bill of a whopping $9,725.

Boy there is a lot to unpack here

McKinsey estimates that there's currently 1.5... trillion dollars of capex currently going through federal permitting

I had a world map up in my room starting in early elementary and my mom’s house had a full world map mural stretching the length of a hallway. It was old as hell and was dominated by the USSR in the East, but the US states were the same. Just give the kids a wall map to stare at

Updated look of the absolute dominance of institutional investors on the U.S. single-family housing market.

“The ability to pay” and “the relative value of the land” sounds suspiciously like “demand” and “supply”, but… that can’t be right!

The tweet > mainstream pipeline is real. A few months ago the discourse On Here noticed MS’ reading and math scores improving since Covid. That led to posts about phonics. Now, heard a story this week on NPR with a former Obama admin saying pivot away from phonics was a mistake

One of the least known things about retail is how frequently people drive their cars through the front doors of stores This is a Sherwin Williams

#BREAKING: 2 pedestrians killed in Santa Monica hit-and-run; driver at large abc7.la/47mNCll

Thought of a way for LA to raise a quick chunk of $, solve the cut-thru traffic problem, & improve traffic safety w/ a single initiative: If everyone on a minor block voted for it, parcel out the stub end of a minor-major intersection for sale to the highest bidder. 1/2

WILL KLEIN 🔥🎉