I discovered a type of vehicle mania I like. My piece this week is about the growing number of Americans importing 25 year old tiny Japanese "Kei" pickup trucks to do actual pickup truck work, for much less than a giant luxury American pickup costs:
https://t.co/6YIlhmI5T0
NIMBYs would literally rather screw over their own kids before making it legal to build apartment buildings near transit
just a deeply twisted psychology
Guess I’ll do a little housing post for the new year. The screenshotted post about a guy using a laptop on the L in Pilsen, Chicago illustrates something unfortunate about the direction of gentrification discourse: individual workers, rather than political systems, are blamed.
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath https://t.co/L9qdJ22ngc
Weekend reminder that SimCity's creators couldn't accurately reflect the scale of urban parking lots because if they did the game fell apart.
https://t.co/lOTjCzd3b5