Good On Paper

Posts from @andymcmillan's blog, Good On Paper.

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📝🎬 Upscaled footage from 1917 shows scenes of downtown Portland, the US Custom House building, and even a sneaky shot of the second Oregon State Capitol in Salem: https://t.co/ZB8a9VE2lJ https://t.co/X9cRYsBAe9

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📝🏙️ Buried in a Planning and Sustainability Commission meeting from last year is this excellent presentation on the “Historical Context of Racist Planning in Portland”: https://t.co/2jUFEMar1A https://t.co/PtTRJzvnzg

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📝🎬 A really great primer from Vox on how American public transit got to be the way it is today, and how we can begin to change it: https://t.co/TfD77qpSRZ https://t.co/REO6RM2pC7

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📝🚆 New York City has a new “live” digital subway map,
which combines the style of the classic Vignelli map with the Tauranac/Hertz map that replaced it: https://t.co/3JhtMvxB0Y

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📝🎬 Very excited for this Ric Burns documentary on the life of neurologist and author Oliver Sacks: https://t.co/gYmzKLEcVN https://t.co/tRtFbf3RnL

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📝👟 A surprisingly fascinating deep dive by Wired into how Nike’s new "ZoomX Vaporfly Next%" shoes make runners more efficient: https://t.co/3qjgrwVLTL https://t.co/wxyIDXuL8k

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📝🌉 According to a new study conducted by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, 1 in 3 of America’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete: https://t.co/16imSFXwQH https://t.co/pUBbYlo75D

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📝🗳️ After filing a complaint about Wheeler illegally contributing to his own campaign, I spent the day digging into it—and found that the City Auditor's office is clearing the way for him to go unpunished for $$$ of illegal contributions: https://t.co/8hSqwYtNvj

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🎟️ Hi! I'm producing Duocon, a conference about language and learning hosted by @duolingo, this coming Saturday: https://t.co/uZi01rwWc5 Will be back to writing about bridges and public transit or whatever next week. https://t.co/ev2Hn8z4KC

[Duolingo @duolingo]

Duocon is COMING! 💥

Join us live on Sept. 26 at 11AM ET for our first virtual conference! Be the first to hear about new Duolingo features and learn from language experts & innovators. We may also have some surprises in store! 😉

Register here for free: https://t.co/pmpkYxCC85

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📝 This footage of an elevated monorail in Wuppertal, Germany, originally shot on 68mm film in 1902, has been color corrected and upscaled to 4K and is absolutely stunning: https://t.co/nvK572yyed https://t.co/WKcl96MbS7

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The @Moma released this haunting 1902 film of the Wuppertal Suspended Railway in Germany - but now it’s been colourised and upscaled to 4K and it is incredibly beautiful

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📝 From transit planner @humantransit, "Public Transit and the Postal Service Have the Same Problem": https://t.co/8SsK56f5Ss https://t.co/gmINTj6HcP

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📝 From earlier this year, Vox producer @ranjchak shares the story of Seneca Village, the Black neighborhood that was razed to provide land for the construction of New York’s Central Park: https://t.co/tYwgjXjs2c https://t.co/lyJ0wZaogx

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📝 It's Rain In Games, a 30 minute long supercut of rain in videogames by @jezburrows: https://t.co/N2XOCK38rH

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📝 After almost 10 years of silence, indie supergroup Gayngs have reappeared with a new song titled Appeayl 2 U: https://t.co/xsVB3ESYKC

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📝 Motherboard just announced a weekly newsletter about the United States Postal Service called The Mail, written by senior staff writer @A_W_Gordon: https://t.co/51ACR1dXho

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📝 The history of the Steel Bridge: https://t.co/LmjFmvwmoV

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📝 Earlier this week, Portland City Council passed historic housing reform known as the Residential Infill Project, which re-legalizes middle housing and incentivizes building more affordable housing throughout the city: https://t.co/cVjhOb4VRh

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📝 The City of Portland has just announced that they'll be offering their annual Portland Traffic & Transportation course as an online class this year: https://t.co/GQy3W8WpHc