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Scratch off the tarmac and don’t bring it back.

People enjoying the elegant and ornate Pont Alexandre III bridge over the Seine River.

Roundabouts are safer for all road users because they (1) reduce the number of conflict points, and (2) slow down the cars. 🖼️ by Smart City Memphis

Glad more people are making the argument that beautiful housing can be affordable: dwell.com/article/the-ca…

My son's roommate in college had a dog chained to a doghouse. It was killed by a swarm of bees because the chain prevented its escape.

Sweat and toil are irrespective of whether you're working for yourself or someone else.

Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency

Helsinki might be the capital of art nouveau or jugendstil architecture. And it is robust, ethnic, and with a distinct vernacular touch.

Traditional architecture appeals the most.

The 1882 National Gallery vs. The 2022 National Museum. Oslo, Norway. Modern architecture is meant to demoralize you.

Built 25 yrs ago near Rome, Georgia. This stack contains four separate flues and stretches seven and a half feet across the top. I could literally lay on top of it and not be seen.

Can you guess which the public prefer?

This idea for a job program in the U.S. still hasn't caught on.

This👇is one of the most important posts I've seen in awhile. Read it carefully, then ask yourself "which side of the institutional fence am I on?"

"Proximity trained us to be citizens." Inspiring Charles Marohn piece on how car domination deconstructed American citizenship, and how people are working to get it back. panoptica.ai/the-gutenberg-…

Built in accordance to the Excel templates that defined them.

When my kids were 5, 3, and 1—and it was Covid and city parenting was pretty brutal—my sister with five kids in the suburbs would call me and tell me about how her toddlers would play happily “for hours” in the sandbox right outside her kitchen window. That’s when I would

The Cotton District is arguably the US epicenter of Missing Middle Housing types per acre. Can't think of another place that comes close, and I've shot a lot of them.

Shocking results from the latest polls: People prefer traditional architecture over box slop!

Really important thread👇on architecture regular folk prefer given the choice. Unfortunately, that choice is rarely given, which begs the question of how do those building major projects get duped into commissioning the unlovable? If it can't be loved, it won't last!