"From a legal perspective, Euclid will be attacked from multiple angles. Below, I outline three lines of argument that offer the most coherent routes to overturning the decision."
- @aaron_lubeck, Overturning Euclid
substack.com/home/post/p-22…
- @aaron_lubeck, Overturning Euclid
substack.com/home/post/p-22…
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"From a legal perspective, Euclid will be attacked from multiple angles. Below, I outline three lines of argument that offer the most coherent routes to overturning the decision."
My latest in Southern Urbanism:
substack.com/home/post/p-22…
My latest in Southern Urbanism:
substack.com/home/post/p-22…
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The cost of traditional architecture might be a little more
But the cost of maintenance, over time, is substantially less.
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
But the cost of maintenance, over time, is substantially less.
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
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Southern Urbanism retweeted
Housing policy meets democracy! 🏘️
Join @sarabronin, @StrongTowns & Ned Resnikoff at #YIMBYtown2026 to explore what works, what’s broken & how we move forward.
🎟️ yimby.town
Hosted by: @CityBuilder_NC @raleigh_forward @SouthernUrb @wakeupwake
Join @sarabronin, @StrongTowns & Ned Resnikoff at #YIMBYtown2026 to explore what works, what’s broken & how we move forward.
🎟️ yimby.town
Hosted by: @CityBuilder_NC @raleigh_forward @SouthernUrb @wakeupwake
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While there are a wealth of building products to develop beautiful traditional homes, some synthetic materials can come off as "Traditionalist Kitsch".
Here, Krier shows disdain for screw own shutters, cheap doors, and out of place windows
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
Here, Krier shows disdain for screw own shutters, cheap doors, and out of place windows
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
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Southern Urbanism is a proud sponsor of YimbyTown '26.
The event will take place in Raleigh, November 17-19,
and will include incremental development training by @IncDevAlliance.
Get your tickets today.
yimby.town
The event will take place in Raleigh, November 17-19,
and will include incremental development training by @IncDevAlliance.
Get your tickets today.
yimby.town
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A little while ago, I (Jaime Izurieta) published on my personal Substack a reflection about the Historic Preservation profession. Being both an architect and a trained preservationist with adaptive reuse and rehab projects under my belt, and having sat at the other side of the elopment official in local government, it's been interesting to feel the effects of the profession in every touch point from idea to built project, regardless of where you sit.
Interactions with the project review bureaucracy, which includes architects, politicians, activists, and citizens, the approval process, which involves Iran Hostage Crisis-level negotiation skills to jump through real and imaginary hoops in regulation and civil servant discretion, and the suspicious look from colleagues when the lines on your papers draw cornices and moldings instead of curtain walls.
The issue is relevant when we look at the dire need for good new urban spaces, and how the process I describe above blocks us from addressing.
Yes, we can build, but are we building well? Will people love the buildings they are getting now? Will those buildings even be around to be loved in 100 years?
These reflections brought me to question the preservation ecosystem, to explore how the framework under which it operates reflects on solving what is possibly the single largest issue facing us today: what are the shared values that inspired our society to progress in leaps since 1776, and why so many barriers are now stifling further progress.
If new ideas need old buildings, then solving this fundamental issue needs preservation to be a space where we find ourselves and our identity, and where we gather and talk.
Is the preservation system doing that for us?
The updated piece is now on @SouthernUrb anism. It's my first regular piece since taking over as editor-in-chief. Do come in and read it, and subscribe if you haven't already. We appreciate the support.
->EssayViABiO
Interactions with the project review bureaucracy, which includes architects, politicians, activists, and citizens, the approval process, which involves Iran Hostage Crisis-level negotiation skills to jump through real and imaginary hoops in regulation and civil servant discretion, and the suspicious look from colleagues when the lines on your papers draw cornices and moldings instead of curtain walls.
The issue is relevant when we look at the dire need for good new urban spaces, and how the process I describe above blocks us from addressing.
Yes, we can build, but are we building well? Will people love the buildings they are getting now? Will those buildings even be around to be loved in 100 years?
These reflections brought me to question the preservation ecosystem, to explore how the framework under which it operates reflects on solving what is possibly the single largest issue facing us today: what are the shared values that inspired our society to progress in leaps since 1776, and why so many barriers are now stifling further progress.
If new ideas need old buildings, then solving this fundamental issue needs preservation to be a space where we find ourselves and our identity, and where we gather and talk.
Is the preservation system doing that for us?
The updated piece is now on @SouthernUrb anism. It's my first regular piece since taking over as editor-in-chief. Do come in and read it, and subscribe if you haven't already. We appreciate the support.
->EssayViABiO
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Community design take cues from smaller-scale vernacular and duplicate the traditions.
Modernism rejects tradition, leading to unloved, placeless architecture.
It is often demolished within a generation.
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
Modernism rejects tradition, leading to unloved, placeless architecture.
It is often demolished within a generation.
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
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Southern Urbanism retweeted
If you have only one guiding principle in building a neighborhood, maximizing trick-or-treatiestness would be a pretty good one.
North Shelmore Boulevard in I'On ranked among the nation's best streets for trick-or-treating.
HT @VincentGGraham
North Shelmore Boulevard in I'On ranked among the nation's best streets for trick-or-treating.
HT @VincentGGraham
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Cities can be victims of their own success.
The key is to duplicate local successes through local practice and tradition.
Failures to do so result in "futureless, unreformable over-development".
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
The key is to duplicate local successes through local practice and tradition.
Failures to do so result in "futureless, unreformable over-development".
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
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Modernism claims to be things it is not
and reframes reality to serve its own purposes.
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
and reframes reality to serve its own purposes.
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
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What people want and what architecture schools train designers to build are not the same thing.
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
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Southern Urbanism retweeted
Really excited that our new apartment building at 3008 Monument Ave (in the Historic Monument Avenue district) was approved by the Richmond Commission of Architectural Review.
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Community design take cues from smaller-scale vernacular and duplicate the traditions.
Modernism rejects tradition, leading to unloved, placeless architecture.
It is often demolished within a generation.
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
Modernism rejects tradition, leading to unloved, placeless architecture.
It is often demolished within a generation.
Drawing by #LeonKrier, 1946-2025
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