Time will either have to pay a billion dollars or agree to this fix

🧵 How public spaces make cities work.

How public spaces make cities work.

#AmandaBurden was Director of the New York City Department of City Planning and Chair of the City Planning Commission under Mayor Bloomberg from 2002 to 2013. youtu.be/j7fRIGphgtk?...

There Goes Valzer www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3... @lrb.co.uk

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Recommended : American Urbanist / How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life​ by Richard K. Rein. Island Press. islandpress.org/books/americ...

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. 1980, William H. Whyte. HT @adamtooze.bsky.social

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Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Roz Chast.

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We need child-safe traffic – not traffic-safe children.

Illustrations : @coldwarsteve.bsky.social

"Many I spoke with are centrist liberals. I asked them what if anything might force the industry to confront its dim longer-term prospects. Midterm election? Economic collapse? One Silicon Valley figure suggested “It could be as simple as 10 Republican senators discovering they have backbones.”"

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Top Links 883 Has most of the world passed peak social media? A planet healthy diet & will China forever remain an engineering state? @adamtooze.bsky.social

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Ice huts, those brightly-coloured shacks and ice villages out on frozen lakes, captured the imagination of photographer Richard Johnson. A new book showcases his 30-year pursuit of Canada’s iconic wintertime structures. https://macleans.ca/culture/richard-johnson-resilience-ice-huts/

Downtown Brooklyn has become a showcase of millennial architectural mediocrity, architecture critic Justin Davidson writes.

One of the most serious consequences of Canada's low population density is the effect on our climate impact. Not only the extreme inefficiency of low-density homes, but the far greater number of private-automobile trips needed per person, etc. Underpopulation is climate catastrophe

#SketchUp rendering based on the Royal Hotel, Picton ON. Niagara Peninsula wine country. An elegant adaptive reuse of an exquisite old-economy building. Architects Giannone Petricone.

"The public space in front of the gallery is Vancouver’s only real piazza. It is perverse to hollow this place out and take the energy of its visitors and activity somewhere else."

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New documentary gives E.J. Hughes, painter of lyrical Canadian landscapes, his due - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events share.google/AofNnOhYsdmG...

4 Storey version.
8 to 16 homes on a 50x122 lot.
So, this could soon be allowed anywhere in @victoria.ca ?
@jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social

I guess it will depend on the actual rules adopted (FSR, lot coverage, min parking etc)

On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan review – ties that bind