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NEW: "Byron Hanke was not an elected official, or a cabinet member, or even an agency head. He was the chief land planner for the Federal Housing Administration from 1945 to 1972." https://t.co/ctx00Dw2GY

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"We see the world around us not in three dimensions, but as a two-dimensional picture, generated by the reflected light that the lens of the human eye projects onto its retinal 'movie screen.' That logic informed the design of the Treasury colonnade." https://t.co/4dNhH48DRE

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NEW: "Since Greco-Roman antiquity, the architecture, sculpture, and painting of the Western world has engaged mind and senses not only through different artistic media, but different modes of perception." https://t.co/4dNhH48DRE

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"When demand for housing rises and supply doesn’t keep up, prices rise. This primarily punishes people lower on the wealth distribution." https://t.co/o5O0x1IIMe

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NEW: "Rising prices are causing the left to reckon with the realities of supply and demand." https://t.co/o5O0x1IIMe

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"The mentally ill homeless population went from being considered deviant to viewed as making an 'alternative lifestyle choice.'" https://t.co/pHNfWicg8E

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NEW: "In the wake of the recent rash of subway violence, there are plans to revive and expand Kendra’s Law by requiring mandatory treatment for the violent mentally ill. But there is already resistance to this." https://t.co/pHNfWicg8E

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"As Jane Jacobs wrote, 'New ideas need old buildings.' As malls become the 'old buildings' of our time, they should be prepared for new ideas." https://t.co/1M1iXawdQR

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NEW: "Now that many malls have died, the debate has turned to their future uses. In some parts of the country, their fate is certain: redevelopment." https://t.co/1M1iXawLGp

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"There is certainly no aesthetic justification for the various financial district glass-pane shoeboxes—structures the late Sir Roger Scruton described obliquely as 'buildings for nomads.'" https://t.co/suSlzmylVi

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"How do we cut through it and properly address the ecological destruction wrought by the construction cycle? One thought: By designing beautiful buildings." https://t.co/suSlzmylVi

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NEW: "A conservative policy would tie these subsidies to deregulation of local housing markets." https://t.co/OJDqoDvmWs

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NEW: "How exactly does the city of Denver propose to boost its missing middle housing supply? By increasing fees, of course." https://t.co/Gv9SPHEuzp

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"The novelty of their work came from the fact that the stations were being built to precede new communities, rather than serve existing communities." https://t.co/uZZrnyhUjm

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NEW: "Richardson had made his signature stylistic turn to crafted rustication, making his first use of local 'bowlders' and using them in rough-hewn form...Olmsted had begun shaping naturalistic landscapes, often using exactly these sort of stones." https://t.co/uZZrnyhUjm

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NEW: "Cemeteries serve as a kind of memento mori ensconced in the built environment, a place where the community publicly recognizes the transcendence and mystery that encapsulates human life and is reminded of the inevitability of death." https://t.co/EBjDpPMlOQ

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NEW: "Whyte wrote, 'People very rarely think in groups; the talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.'" https://t.co/YVKLNweqEk

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NEW: "If vengeance and deterrence were prison’s only purpose, ornamented prison walls would be an intolerable excess. But by the early 20th century, humane architecture was seen as an essential element of rehabilitation." https://t.co/PvUAMbU3A8

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NEW: "The brick buildings I’ve been discussing incarnate this pattern quite literally: having originated in the bare needs of life, they continue in existence for the sake of a good life." https://t.co/L9ODmC1sIL

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NEW: "As a friend recently observed, the housing crisis mirrors what we’re now seeing with cars. Production flagged, supply fell, prices skyrocketed, and poorer motorists got squeezed out." https://t.co/wrtXqnl6Wg