YIMBYs I need you to focus your energies on this. I’m an American pig not some europoor your 600 sf one bed in a 5 over 1 disgusts me

Ultimately, bringing family-friendly density to North American cities will take an architect/developer team who can design a new perimeter block apartment building. Wide and shallow floor plate. 4-6 stories tall. Commercial and garage on bottom. Large, dual-aspect units for

and there it is: the first train on a floating bridge, anywhere in the world

hello Sound Transit - 🚆 🚈 🚍 !!!

99% of urbanists look at wide roads and see a beneficial but costly infrastructure project. I look at wide roads and see buildable land area for mixed-use buildings that simultaneously generate property tax revenue, calm traffic, and create a walkable neighborhood.

be quiet, it’s very skittish

Please share the best examples of a courtyard development similar to this but with townhomes rather than cottages. This example is from Seabrook, WA.

15 social housing apartments in Paris Concrete frame, with a solid stone facade and timber shutters. Looks wonderful, despite a compact and challenging site. Cost = €2.7m

When land use regs are relaxed, you can make good use of space under highways, along train tracks, etc. Here's a spot in London that has 6 soccer fields, 3 on each side of a pedestrian crossing.

Let’s review the argument that “green social housing” is best achieved through courtyard blocks that balance density with green space, creating aspirational city homes for households of all ages, stages, and income levels …

More trolleybus expansion in Mexico with the opening of the interurban trolleybus BRT between Santa Marta in the capital (DF) and Chalco. The line is 18.5 km, will have 15 stations (when all completed) and runs on both elevated and median alignments. 1/n youtube.com/watch?v=-ZJxeC…

New project submitted! We've submitted a new rental project across from the Jubilee Hospital on the eastern side of Victoria. This area is actually a huge employment zone that hasn't seen nearly as much secured rental housing delivered over the last decade as compared to there

The most confusing aspect of our time is that technology has made incredible leaps and bounds, yet we so clearly live in the shadow of a more competent past with regards to civil execution e.g. The US Interstate system is an impossibly colossal project to build today

⚡𝙏𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 🐺 I talked to someone who worked for Sound Transit, and I said improve the frequency, there is demand, and he said, there isn't enough ridership: to which I responded, because you run the trains 4 times a day, he responded that's why we only run them 4 times a day: think backwards

A tire store turns into 72 homes over shops in Berkeley, California. (2019➡️2024)

Peoria and Eastern Railway used to operate the Corn Belt Special daily between Peoria IL and Indianapolis until 1957. Many small cities were once home to many passenger train lines like this.

So exciting! Who wants to see pics of factory progress of the new Amtrak Cascades trainsets? There are more images to enjoy at the link! amtrakcascades.com/about/new-amtr…

Bon vent et bonne mer, mon astronaute! Bravo! Fair winds and following seas!

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“The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” 81 years ago. #DDay