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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

She tried to get them to tell her whether the fountains recirculated or recycled the water and they wouldn't say

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LAist @laist.com · 1d

Millions have been allocated to remove asphalt from schoolyards and replace it with green spaces, such as plants and trees, providing much-needed shade for students. One local company, SLA, is also using the funds to train people who have few job prospects, giving them valuable skills.

Providing shade in schoolyards and valuable skills to young job seekers

The founder of this South East L.A. company grew up going to schools with few green spaces and living in neighborhoods with limited job prospects.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

14yo found himself by the Javits Center yesterday and just hung out to watch all the Comic Con attendees strut their stuff -- best people watching

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

Every year at #NYCC there’s one cosplayer that takes the cake, the cookies AND the pie. It’s only Friday but I think I found the one.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

Link to book and exhibition info so I'm not being needlessly mysterious. Book www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847... + exhibit coming to Atlanta, Salem and Rochester high.org/exhibition/n...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

There is an exhibition, starts at the High Museum in Atlanta high.org/exhibition/n...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking at proofs of a museum catalog essay I wrote about Noguchi's playgrounds that will be out next spring and it is really a chronology of cranky quotes about how and where and why kids play dating back to the 1930s. Nothing is new!

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting this because I keep telling people about the Designing Motherhood exhibit and they have heard / seen nothing madmuseum.org/exhibition/d...

Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

Great segment @wnyc.org on Designing Motherhood at MAD. I wrote the foreword for the catalog and can attest, it's a great show www.wnyc.org/story/how-de...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

The latest from mallworld courtesy @cmonstah.bsky.social: An update on Rick Caruso's faux urbanism, post fire @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/mal...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no I love it. So long it's like a quadruple A.

Cross-laminated & Skinned her 👻 🦇 🎃 @nickhasthoughts.com · 3d

🚨 A-frame alert 🚨

look at those timber and steel buttresses I think I'm in love 🥰. I look forward to the bidding war @langealexandra.bsky.social 😈, it's gonna take Dow money

www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

Love this since I actually wrote that ALL urban leaders should be doing that www.politico.com/interactives...

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‘stina is a scary spectral one 👻 @stinapag.bsky.social · 3d

BTW, the Chronicle is polling folk on Metro's decision, if anyone wants to give them input:

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

Catalog here if you can't make it mitpress.mit.edu/978026204489...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

Great segment @wnyc.org on Designing Motherhood at MAD. I wrote the foreword for the catalog and can attest, it's a great show www.wnyc.org/story/how-de...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

It was Richard Haag in Seattle in the 1960s (sorry if you were hoping for someone contemporary, this was for book research)

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

Reading about a famous landscape architect who camped out in a sleeping bag all over the site when he was working on the masterplan. Who is doing it like that now?

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

I lurk there for the sports! Sports media and chatter has not moved at all

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 4d

I think I talked to someone about Bayfair last year (even I get the malls mixed up) and it did seem like a site that should be a TOD no-brainer

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 4d

My dad just sent me the one millionth article on San Francisco Centre I really think the reporters need to get out more

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 4d

Loved reading this @timothyaschuler.bsky.social piece about the Erie Canal’s first 200 years … and what’s next (bridges! trails! art!) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Long Comeback of the Erie Canal

One of America’s first major public works projects is marking its 200th anniversary — and seeking a path to the future.

www.bloomberg.com

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 5d

yes, us! here you go:

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

??? I'm seeing mid-major publishing house but I suppose the font-first logos had to get phased out eventually. In 10 years everything will be geometric symbol again.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

Keri Russell = Brooklyn neighbor, kids the same age, AND also allergic to success (I broke out in hives for the first time ever after I won the Pulitzer) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 5d

TIL about Baby Park in Queens and I am fully on board with the Restore Baby Park movement www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/07/b...

How Queensbridge’s “Baby Park” Became an Orphan and a Battleground for LIC Rezoning

Public housing residents want to bring back a once beloved, New Deal-era strip of playgrounds under the Queensboro Bridge. Local Councilmember Julie Won said she won’t approve the rezoning plan withou...

www.thecity.nyc

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 11d

@skpawlicki.bsky.social was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

Women's History Illuminated

Women's History and the National Historic Landmarks Program

storymaps.arcgis.com

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