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Vision-Based Planning is when the rules follow the vision. Not: the rules create awful buildings with low quality units with massive carbon demand to cool the idiotic design (spend 2 days in a glass tower in Vancouver that is not built for their summers and you will be a believer in passive design)
Beauty is so incredibly important. One of the cruel ironies is that massing requirements and other efforts to “require beauty” often backfire and prevent the traditional styles many people love most.
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Parking minimums are just mandatory housing for cars
The People Over Parking Act went into effect on June 1, removing minimum parking requirements within 1/2 mile of rail stations and transit centers and within 1/8 mile of most fixed transit routes. In Chicago, that covers virtually all the areas where people live and do business
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The point about beautiful places and buildings is never that they MUST be classical or vernacular or Gothic or Art Deco but that patterns of harmonious ornament, coherent complexity, colour, detail, biomorphic (i.e. natural) forms etc are consistently more popular with more people
The White Dining Room (Ladies Luncheon Room), Ingram St Tearooms [Reconstructed 1996]. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1900.
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Design for new apartments in Zurich, by Studio Esch Rickenbacher Architektur
As is often the case, each core (stair and elevator) serve two homes per floor. That means all apartments are dual aspect, with great access to light and cross ventilation. Plan is good (not perfect!)
As is often the case, each core (stair and elevator) serve two homes per floor. That means all apartments are dual aspect, with great access to light and cross ventilation. Plan is good (not perfect!)
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Great news as platform extensions in all stations between #limerick & #galway approach construction. This will allow the use of 6 piece intercity trains providing more capacity on the heaving #westernrailcorridor @Limerick_ie @moranjohna1 @galwaytourism @galwayad @LimerickChamber
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I'm a huge advocate for urban greenery. Paris has transformed the once concrete-covered Place de Catalogne into a green oasis by planting 470 trees. With summer temperatures regularly reaching 35°C, more shade and less concrete is exactly what cities need. A wonderful ty can do the same by the way. Demand action!
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Barcelona’s Superblocks are one of the world’s most influential urban transformations. In a city where cars take 20% of trips but 60% of public space, they offer a radical proposition: what if streets were designed not as conduits for traffic but as extensions of living rooms?🧵
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After 25 years of delays, construction has begun on roads and utilities for Candlestick Point’s planned 7,200 homes.
The first phase supports about 700 homes, 41% affordable; Mayor Lurie says the city will keep pushing to build faster.
The first phase supports about 700 homes, 41% affordable; Mayor Lurie says the city will keep pushing to build faster.
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A West Portal apartment project doubled to 172 homes, and fast-track rules leave little opportunity for local incumbents to block it.
sfstandard.com/2026/09/05/wes…
sfstandard.com/2026/09/05/wes…
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NJ Transit showing the way by investing
Big things are happening on the Portal North Bridge! 🚧🚆
The future of rail travel is taking shape as crews continue making significant progress on this transformational project. With construction moving forward and portions of the old bridge coming down, a new era of ncy is on the horizon.
Every milestone matters, and we're excited to share the journey with you. Learn more at njtransit.com/portalcutover
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"Until 1930, rail passenger service was operated over nearly every mile of main line track in Texas. [...] From 1920 to 1930, nearly 1600 cities, towns, and villages in Texas had scheduled rail passenger service."
-The History of Rail Passenger Services in Texas 1820-1970 (1976)
-The History of Rail Passenger Services in Texas 1820-1970 (1976)
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San Francisco has about 2,000 privately owned vacant lots, under 1% of its parcels, and many can’t host homes because of zoning or shape.
A Terner Labs analyst says the city must also replace some existing buildings to ease its shortage.
A Terner Labs analyst says the city must also replace some existing buildings to ease its shortage.
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🏖️ Two lagoons, two colours! 🇪🇸
🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 captures Spain’s La Mata lagoon in green and Torrevieja in pink - a striking contrast shaped by different salinity levels and salt-loving microorganisms.
🔗 eu-space.europa.eu/explore-euspac…
#ImageOfTheDay
🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 captures Spain’s La Mata lagoon in green and Torrevieja in pink - a striking contrast shaped by different salinity levels and salt-loving microorganisms.
🔗 eu-space.europa.eu/explore-euspac…
#ImageOfTheDay
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For those keeping score at home, that’s Omaha - New York or Chicago - Miami overnight. Dallas to LA is just a little further.
All aboard the world's fastest sleeper train!
This is a China Railways CR400AF-AE taking me from Beijing to Hong Kong-West Kowloon covering the 2250km in 10 hours and 19 minutes. We will hit top speeds of 350km/h on this trip! 🇨🇳
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Just look at this *huge* courtyard social housing scheme inZurich
Impressively there’s no central corridor. Instead there’s 15 individual stairs and lifts! This means most of the 210 homes are dual aspect, with views to the street and courtyard
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects
Impressively there’s no central corridor. Instead there’s 15 individual stairs and lifts! This means most of the 210 homes are dual aspect, with views to the street and courtyard
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects
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What is the Retail economic impact when you put people before cars?
Great news 🙌🏾
Revitalising Oxford Street is helping to supercharge regeneration - boosting and supporting vital economic growth across our capital and country.
ft.com/content/d3d05f…
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Oxford Street is not London's only new pedestrianised high street.
We've been working with @CamdenCouncil and I'm delighted that the trial pedestrianisation of Camden High Street has been a success and will now be made permanent.
We've been working with @CamdenCouncil and I'm delighted that the trial pedestrianisation of Camden High Street has been a success and will now be made permanent.
Busy north London high street permanently bans traffic after successful trial trib.al/wG7sslt
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Future Baltimore Avenue–UMD Purple Line Station brings art, accessibility and connectivity to the University of Maryland campus! Visit our website to view design concepts for this Station. LINK: ow.ly/Yfsh5104fyn.
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1,089 people trained in Open Data in 2025.
That's 1,089 opportunities to build new skills, explore public information, and participate in civic life.
Help BetaNYC reach even more people by joining BetaBuilders.
beta.nyc/betabuilders
That's 1,089 opportunities to build new skills, explore public information, and participate in civic life.
Help BetaNYC reach even more people by joining BetaBuilders.
beta.nyc/betabuilders
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