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[Matt Loszak @MattLoszak]

In the 1980s, the world added ~230 GW of nuclear capacity. (in 10 years).

A new reactor connected to the grid every 17 days on average.

Insane.

[Arpit Gupta @arpitrage]

Housing affordability is no longer a superstar city issue as the whole country is a linked housing chain

Migration from NY/CA to places like Florida priced out the middle class there, who move to other markets, pricing out lower income people elsewhere

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

One has to imagine if Chicago stuck to Daniel Burnham’s plan it would’ve essentially looked like this in many places.

[BAY AREA STATE OF MIND @YayAreaNews]

This rare 1935 photo shows both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge being built in San Francisco

[Colin @Colin_d_m]

There were Manhattans all over America and we destroyed them all for cars

[Jarjoh 🟥🚰🌇 @jarjoh]

The entire nation of Japan has 12 zoning districts. Why is an average American city or even small town so special as to have 100s of zoning districts.

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

US urban street life is held back by
1) lack of middle class families (whose teenage and 20-something kids are rotting away in suburbia instead of socializing in public spaces in the city)
2) building scale and mix. Great neighborhoods where people want to hang out are made of small-lot, mixed-use buildings with lots of plazas or pedestrian friendly streets with many businesses
3) way too many cars/auto-oriented areas

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

Americans accept as normal that half their cities have depressed housing values due to crime. Not normal. The state has failed to do its job

Concentrated crime removes vast housing stock from use, forcing demand into safe areas and driving prices up.

https://t.co/L0jJGMPctg

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

Ohhh everyone’s getting lead poisoning again. That’d be it, that makes sense.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Imagine looking at this gorgeous landscape 200 years ago and thinking the best use of it will be strip malls and wide roads.

[Alexis Rivas @alexisxrivas]

America can’t even agree on how to measure building height. 88 cities in LA county, 88 different ways.

Zoom out and we’re at 10,000+ different definitions of height nationwide.

Compare this with Japan: One way to measure building height nationwide.

[Alexis Rivas @alexisxrivas]

The entire county of Japan runs on 12 zoning types.

The City of Los Angeles alone has 37 base zones plus 50+ overlays and specific plans.

There are over 30,000 unique zoning codes in the USA. Even if the average city/county only has 12 zones, that’s still 360,000 zoning types across the country. Each zone with a few dense pages of zoning rules.

Zoning bloat stifles the natural evolution of cities and our country.

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

Pope Leo on the broadcast for Game 1 of the 2005 World Series

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

Chicago's zoning is still primed for the 1970s Growth Control "un-slumming" plan:

Growth control "spreads out demand", forcing renovation & rehab of dilapidated peripheries

Downzoning for gentrification has been the official plan for decades, & it's right on schedule 👇

[Wally Nowinski @Nowooski]

Our Lady of Arbitrage.

[B Talent @minc798]

Change in employed people by city propers Jan '25 vs '19

1. Phoenix: +118,778
2. Houston: +98,573
3. Chicago: +94,896
4. Ft. Worth: +93,383
5. Austin: +77,724
6. Oklahoma City: +60,268
7. Dallas: +58,471
8. Philadelphia: +50,776
9. Jacksonville: +50,670
10. San Antonio: +42,290

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

Unbelievable but true, there more people in France born in 1946 (and still alive) than there are people born in 2024

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

Case in point: our elevator industry is based on the desire of a Glendale AZ firefighter.

The net outcome is elevators that cost 3x those in the EU.

Rent-seeking & added cost, less ~real~ accessibility for those who need it. But hey you can spin a stretcher around fully flat (when you aren’t using the stairs because elevators are too expensive so we mostly build walkups).

[C. R. Wiley @crwiley1962]

The house on the left says, “Cars live here.” The one on the right is for people.

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

Wild that at some point in recent history we sat down and said “let’s make this illegal to build everywhere in Massachusetts.”