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Patrick Kennedy
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Cities for choice in housing, neighborhood, transpo; universal access, opportunity & upward mobility. Prof of Sustainable Development @SMU; Board of Directors Dallas Area Rapid Transit; Founder: THE.City & the American Dream
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Is the data center equivalent of the skyscraper index the landscraper index?
“When all the data centers in New Carlisle are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas”; “AI-related spending now contributes more to the nation’s GDP growth than all consumer spending combined” … www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
I dont have much faith in AI nor nvidia but imagine trading that stock for beans bc you already lost the bean trade.
Think we can hold off on the crash until 2029 for rhyming purposes?
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you see this happen a lot in "streetwear." people who co-opt a streetwear aesthetic frozen in time while making cities more hostile to the people who gave that aesthetic meaning — less affordable housing, more crackdown on noise, more policing, etc.
Sounds like Plano intends to hold a withdrawal election next year. This is the right thing to do, IMO, rather than going to the legislature again, which I stated in my testimony in Austin. The voters elected to get in, ask them if they still want service. www.dallasnews.com/news/transpo...
DART’s future in Plano in question as City Council considers vote to withdraw
The future of the region’s rapid transit system could take a major hit when the Plano City Council holds a special session next week to consider a ballot...
www.dallasnews.com
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Paris shows what happens when cities put people before cars: cleaner air, greener streets, and healthier lives. The data (and the air) speak for themselves! 🌱🚶‍♀️🚴
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
Fall break and off for election day?! Do kids even go to school anymore?
Highways wiped 14.29% of Milwaukee's property tax base off the map.
No, you're right it is simple math. Roads are expensive to maintain and rebuild (this is a number for annualized life cycle costs of roads, maintx + reconstruction). And it is easier to afford when shared by more people. This concept is not well understood in local political discourse.
Not RoboCop for Dallas as a stand-in for futuristic dystopian Detroit?
If this is our new CBD we are gonna need to build a new highway over turtle creek. It's the only way.
any idea how accurate those are? I have never found buildings to have the same available units as what is listed.

I see EQ is offering two months free.
East Quarter Residences and AMLI Fountainplace FYI
I would love some intel on how these two buildings are doing from occupancy and lease rate standpoint. If new construction downtown is doing ok, my concern-o-meter can drop a few points.
I could really stand to never see another picture or video of Javier Milei.
I really need to roll out the Atlas of Inner City Highway Impacts.
How is this good? The state's financial gains from lending are dwarfed by the debt statewide. This is feudal economics.

Car-dependence will undermine this state's growth and bankrupt it eventually.
How is this good? The state's financial gains from lending are dwarfed by the debt statewide. This is feudal economics.

Car-dependence will undermine this state's growth and bankrupt it eventually.
leaving a gap of $103 million that banks wouldnt finance (bc they won't fully finance a loser). The developers successfully convinced the city council and the Tax Increment Board that the investment is worthwhile.