peak California experience is going to the sea, forest, lake, and mountains within the span of a week

22 ideas from 2022. The top 1% of ideas I encountered:

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)

Tokyo is an interesting counterpoint to this! Not a lot of old architecture in most of the city. But the intimate *layout* of Tokyo's old school neighborhoods, designed for human-scale community rather than cars, makes for a magical city. "Vernacular architecture" is nice, but...

A few people (actually quite a lot) have asked me what I think of recent announcements on “the war on motorists.” Here is my reply which I suspect will annoy people on both sides … createstreets.com/street-fight-w…

sometimes when i journal a bunch i write a sentence that just bursts my heart open and floods me with relief. today that sentence is, "i've been living in fear of getting it wrong, but when i look back i realize i've been doing it wrong the whole time anyway, and i'm still here"

every now and then i have to re-watch this video of an nyc children's choir singing jóga by björk (2008)

blue hour-holic

better late than never .

1/ 🇺🇸 Today, California Forever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.

Everything is literally vibrating slower in under freezing temperatures. It is a different world on the most atomic level.