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Grassroots attempt at bringing green spaces into nyc, starting with rooftops

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We should just shut down all of Broadway street and turn it into a greenway. Broadway runs diagonally through Manhattan, but the surrounding grid of perpendicular streets—both vertical (north-south) and horizontal (east-west)—already provides enough routes for car traffic. cars can easily navigate around Broadway without needing to use it, making it unnecessary for car mobility. Think of the possibilities! We could transform it into a street-level Highline, would serve as flood resilient infrastructure

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“Who the fuck needs two Hermés stores in their 15-minute city?” @jaanli texted this to me and it’s too good not to share (This is Williamsburg, nyc)

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The wackiest NIMBY-ism is New Yorkers complaining about a new building ruining the view of the Empire State Building. Complaining about views of skyscrapers. 🙃 What niche of NIMBY is this? 😅 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/05/new-york-262-fifth-avenue-condos-empire-state-building-housing-crisis

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Calling all /urbanism nerds to come join the fun!

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Street Takeover! https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x7c6035dcf9846074dd5e18af1a36fd88651ba892/4

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US is short about 1-5M housing units and the surge in multifamily construction is ebbing. Solution: create a secondary market for construction loans to increase liquidity in the construction finance market. This would allow developers to leverage up their capital and build more affordable housing units. https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/a-former-treasury-officials-radical-plan-to-create

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The whole point of cities is culture not efficiency

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Anti-homeless design / hostile architecture Spotted (everywhere) in New York

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America is so cooked. We love to talk about the free market but in reality we have regulated ourselves into a full blown housing crisis. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevator-construction-regulation-labor-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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I gotchu, quality /urbanism content

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Cities need to be built with redundancy into their physical systems. Architect Adrian Lahoud describes how “post-traumatic” cities like Beirut or Berlin have been rebuilt in a locally distributed way where everything from barber shops to grocery stores are replicated in each neighborhood. This is unlike many master-planned cities where needs are centralized into segregated areas like strip malls. This “network of redundancy” actually makes for a much more resilient system due to their decentralized and responsive nature.

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Dropping my coordinates from The Line

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