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A new urbanist in San Diego… www.howardblackson.com
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new south wales (sydney) govenment's pattern handbook - which fast tracks permitting applications - features 4-7 story single stair buildings

shop-pattern-book.planning.nsw.gov.au/collections/...
Corner Lot Apartments 01 by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
Corner Lot Apartments 01 by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer is a 4 - 6 storey shop-top housing or residential flat building. The design places dwellings above a flexible ground floor, which can be used for comm...
shop-pattern-book.planning.nsw.gov.au
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Terwijl zoonlief aan het luiden is, kan ik genieten van het uitzicht vanaf de Domtoren 🤩🤩🤩
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Density without height works.

We’re bringing attainable homeownership to SW Atlanta with 1-bed townhomes starting in the $190Ks—just a short walk to MARTA and the BeltLine.

This is what people-first, walkable development looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Attending Notre Dame’s Hommage à Léon Krier forum… a true giant we’re still learning from and will so for another generation or so. Bravo!
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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While in London studying ground floor urban conditions, I reflected on how revisiting a place deepens my understanding, and reshapes my #urbanstructurediagrams. This Bloomsbury sketch maps connections, landmarks, vistas, and densities in a richly walkable, transit served, amenity filled district.
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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@23cmcpadres tweeted
oh my fucking god Austin Reaves is unbelievable
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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If every structure is a statement, this one is an apt parable for the second Trump presidency, where smash-grab provocation is partly the point and where no one seems to give a hoot about procedures econ.st/3JpcuB3

Credit: Getty Images
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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it will never fail to amuse me that the origin of the “no kings” protest is when Trump tried (and failed) to scrap congestion pricing

as goes congestion pricing, goes the Republic
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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San Diego FC ends historic inaugural regular season with 4-0 win over Portland & stands atop the Western Conference Table. #FlowWithUs
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San Diego FC ends historic inaugural season with 4-0 win over Portland - East Village Times
San Diego FC ended their historic first season with a 4-0 win over Portland. San Diego Fc looks poised to go deep into the playoffs and will
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October 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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#nokings
Portland frog brigade
October 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime
October 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Big turnout in SD
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
October 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It doesn’t mean much without transit facilities. It’s just the absence of regulations on miles and miles of suburban roadways throughout our city.
Has San Diego maybe been less bad re corridor zoning? Any idea?
my hot take:

corridors are bad.

bad for neighborhoods. bad for buildings. bad for community. bad for public health. bad for climate.

the fewer corridors your city and the housing within it have - the better.
October 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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President Trump orders soldiers to Portland, Oregon to guard ICE facilities. City leaders denounce the move. www.scrippsnews.com/politics/the...
Trump orders soldiers to Portland to guard ICE facilities
Trump orders soldiers to Portland to guard ICE sites from Antifa “attacks,” authorizing “full force” use. City leaders denounce the move as misguided.
www.scrippsnews.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt.

And that’s wrong.
September 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM