As a former geography teacher and self-proclaimed GIS nerd, I’m thrilled to proclaim today as Geographic Information Systems Day.
Here in Minnesota, we are using GIS to make state government more effective - whether we’re replacing lead pipes or expanding homeownership.
Carlo Scarpa’s Casa Borgo (1974) in Vicenza, a block of flats mildly playing with the city’s Palladianism - I particularly like the steel capitals & cornice of rondels.
@holz_bau @holz_bau Check out the 2020 publication of the Northeastern University studio focused on student-generated single stair residential building prototypes:
https://t.co/iJSKbnFThj
This was the first year we ran the studio. I’m teaching the class again this spring.
1914 Boston Globe: "The adoption of the tenement house act will prevent the erection of the 'three-decker' house and insure the erection only of desirable residential buildings.
MA Tenement House Act of 1912 created an opt-in for towns to limit development of apartments.