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militant market urbanism

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

I trust there are great things happening in Austin but please develop it distinctly with design attention to locale, history, human scale

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

@anothercohen Wdym by high quality of life? Can you list the aspects that define that, as you did for the rest of the bullets?

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

@AChillGhost Well it’s scariest moment, so more apt is Black Sunday 1935. 536 may have been a more grueling long period, w/ higher death toll, but the duster descended on a single, rare clear-weather day, extremely suddenly, causing a visceral moment of terror, ppl thought world was ending

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

Ljubljana along the river and up to the castle

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"But the greedy developer will make a profit."

GOOD.

Developers provide homes. The more they profit, the more homes they can build. The more homes they can build, the more affordable homes become.

People across the economic spectrum win when developers are allowed to build.

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

No one talks about Mao’s Great Leap Forward famine enough including me I’ve only brought it up a couple of times in my life and I will change that

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

@JacobyBrandon This sums up my politics

[Brandon Kainoa Jacoby @JacobyBrandon]

We simply need to figure out how to develop cities without them all looking like this

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

@p8stie Ur like my fav travel blogger

[Justin Mares @jwmares]

18/n The way forward isn't more restrictions.

We must restore connection between flavor and nutrition.

You can have an incredible relationship with food, eat wonderful meals, and not pay the terrible price of being overweight and sick.

It's time to end the war on food.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

What America looked like a century ago 🧵

1. View from Central Park, 1933

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

Once someone points out the dysfunctional nature of land use under communism - like density where it makes no sense for there to be density - your mind starts to cascade through scenarios where this plays out at different scales and you notice it everywhere, impossible to unsee

[vik @vikhyatk]

Denver International Airport superimposed on Europe

[Phil Thompson @wonder_city_]

Rowhouses of New York City: A style guide.

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

A tax is compulsory and distinct from price, which is a direct exchange for a use, good, or service. Even when the govt sets a price, it functions fundamentally differently from a tax. It is not a mere tool for generating revenue.

[Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS @17cShyteposter]

No, we're not doing this again. Imperial units are proportioned to the human body (measure your forearm against your foot sometime) over thousands of years of living

Metric system is just something murderous French rationalists made up to scrub the world of our connection to it

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

@YIMBYLAND You bring up good points, but I think it’s more about the homogenized, nondescript design lacking ties to regional context - lost opportunity

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

But the perpetuation of this view is myopic. It would behoove anyone affected by the economies of urban and semi-urban areas to consider the broader framework.

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

Congestion pricing is a far more pervasive issue than much of the conversation around it (traffic, revenue, double-taxing) implies. When placed in a framework of land use & market dynamics, those figures, while helpful, become incidental to the crux of issue, which is economic.🧵

[Rae @Rae_marg_]

And it’s extremely challenging to change an entrenched mindset like this or to roll back a government program already in place (which this effectively does).