Erkin Ozberk

Urban planner in DC. Mostly cities, arch, design, public space/art, bikes, Canada, visual communication, and the occasional foster dog. Personal account.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

1/ While DC rowhouses get their due love for providing flexible, charming housing at good densities, let me introduce you to an unsung hero of #missingmiddle and sometimes more affordable housing in our city, the DC “4-family flat” (aka fourplex, aka mansion apartment). A thread.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

@ad_mastro @ggwash For many years there was a basketball hoop on this balcony, which made for an interesting little urbanism vignette.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

@82_Streetcar In cities like NYC and TO, very tall towers are what's been feasible and encouraged to build in the last two decades, often in clusters, compounding the post-2010 skew in top 50.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

Multiple layers of urbanist life goals unlocked yesterday: our baklava-focused cottage food business popped up at the Eckington Flea night market in the Quincy Lane 'woonerf' (where we sold out!).

Follow our food adventures on IG: https://t.co/h7K8CAPnTt

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

Midsummer post-drought re-spring.

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@imagineterrain Holding out hope for a plaza inspired by this aesthetic

[DC Office of Planning @OPinDC]

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[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

@nanjpowell @JoshGellers This is public space so it's not about regulating development but municipal investment. Did you see the city trucks watering the street trees and plants at night? In Mtl, there's a political culture that supports livability and it's decades in the making:
https://t.co/XM0XJRnx6Z

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

@Mehdi_IR_DC @DCDPR @DMPEDDC @OPinDC Old McMillan Sand Filtration site, between the Reservoir, North Capitol Street, and hospital center.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

It's a great day for a new park opening in DC!

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

This would make a great mug/t-shirt for the @SpacingStore. Those anti-collision bird decals should be reaching heritage status soon.

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

I really like Old Mill Station.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

"At one time, LA had an electric railway system 4 times the size of the modern London Underground" - @lostsubways on @99piorg

https://t.co/eH15JaPfSv

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

The trash can designed for pizza boxes was introduced in Copenhagen a couple of decades ago, an anecdote Jan Gehl would share in presentations and @citiesforpeople books.

[Laura Nahmias @nahmias]

Extremely NYC specific story:

Central Park is introducing new pizza box shaped recycling bins so people can recycle their pizza boxes, in an effort to stem the rat tide

https://t.co/2gDQrIjnK9

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

Duluth Ave ⬇️ is one of Montreal's original pedestrian streets, which I wrote about last year for @Spacing:

https://t.co/XM0XJRnx6Z

[Oh The Urbanity! @OhUrbanity]

Summer is coming! Montreal’s pedestrian streets are starting to pop up. It's a quiet early afternoon on a Wednesday but still a pleasant walk.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

5 years ago today we adopted Millie, our blue heeler mix through @ACDRA. On her gotchya day anniversary, my partner makes Millie a "Sundae of Horrors" which includes things like dried herring and a dehydrated chicken foot. She eats the chicken foot last.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

@82_Streetcar @christofspieler The tall towers on bulky, full-block podia and strong horizontal mode separation (especially peds) on the ground level looks like dev in fast growth cities in Middle East, China, etc.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

Bright red and green streaks light up the night sky in rural montane West Virginia tonight. This aurora is the real deal.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

@OhUrbanity The short answer is tax code changes in Canada in the 70s diminished the investment value of rental multifamily while a whole slew of tax/finance laws across US states make condo more risky/less attractive. So the multifamily markets are almost night and day in terms of tenure.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

In 2024, deleting an account that requires a password is one of life's more elusive yet gratifying moments.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

@ErinPalmerDC End of the F***cking World probably hits most of your criteria.

If you're open to scifi, The Expanse was an exceptionally well made series.

[Erkin Ozberk @krebzo]

Oof. I wish they could have done a chamfered corner here, at least for the first two floors even. These acute angled avenues in DC can create some harsh built edges when maxing out FAR, especially at the sidewalk.