neil21
@neil21.bsky.social
Renewables SaaS PM by day, Urbanism by night. Scot in #newwest
The J.J. and Lottie Johnston House (1905 / 2025) at 125 Third St. #newwest #livingheritage
After a century housing just one wealthy family, the Johnson Building now houses six (wealthy!) families in generously appointed full-floor three-bedroom apartments, all with abundant natural light.
After a century housing just one wealthy family, the Johnson Building now houses six (wealthy!) families in generously appointed full-floor three-bedroom apartments, all with abundant natural light.
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The J.J. and Lottie Johnston House (1905 / 2025) at 125 Third St. #newwest #livingheritage
After a century housing just one wealthy family, the Johnson Building now houses six (wealthy!) families in generously appointed full-floor three-bedroom apartments, all with abundant natural light.
After a century housing just one wealthy family, the Johnson Building now houses six (wealthy!) families in generously appointed full-floor three-bedroom apartments, all with abundant natural light.
Despite passing #singlestair #sharedstair over a year ago, the BC government is doubling down on dark overheated airless and friendless double-loaded corridors.
They’ve just spent a packet of CMHC grant money and this is what they hope to accelerate:
They’ve just spent a packet of CMHC grant money and this is what they hope to accelerate:
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Despite passing #singlestair #sharedstair over a year ago, the BC government is doubling down on dark overheated airless and friendless double-loaded corridors.
They’ve just spent a packet of CMHC grant money and this is what they hope to accelerate:
They’ve just spent a packet of CMHC grant money and this is what they hope to accelerate:
Bryn’s nicer renders of same
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Bryn’s nicer renders of same
The lighting of pillars under an enclosed ceiling in Stockholm station could offer ideas for the remodeling of #newwest bus station. litawards.com/winners/winn...
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The lighting of pillars under an enclosed ceiling in Stockholm station could offer ideas for the remodeling of #newwest bus station. litawards.com/winners/winn...
![Jill Lepore: During the pandemic, I was trying to figure out how to bring people back to in-person classrooms in new, exciting, or different ways. I decided to hold a constitutional convention in my U.S. history survey class as the final exam. All semester the students were doing exercises that were building toward the final exam. One of the assignments was to research the history of previous attempts to amend the Constitution. It turned out this was extremely difficult to do. There was no single way to do it. I applied to the NEH [National Endowment for the Humanities] and got some funding to have a team of crackerjack undergraduates help to compile a list of some 12,000 constitutional amendments formally introduced in Congress, 9,000 petitions submitted to Congress, and thousands more proposed amendments that came in other forms.
The Amendments Project launched two years ago. It's public and free. We don't have any money to update it. We asked the Library of Congress to host it, but the Library of Congress is in crisis.
Nothing's happening. Like most good intentions, it will go uncelebrated and will probably disappear for lack of funding. My students who worked on that project taught me how rich and democratic and contested and fascinating the history of the Constitution is. That's how I came to write the book. Once I decided to do it, I made a big push to do it in time for the 250th anniversary of the country.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cba6uwzluplegj2ejsn4tc2m/bafkreihmh7cgvohv2qrjz5qpups5wehkdhp6cz3ds6dqkx2naiwemrntdm@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It's amazing how much wider these little Parisian streets look afterwards. (Images via @urbancyclinginstitute.org)
November 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It's amazing how much wider these little Parisian streets look afterwards. (Images via @urbancyclinginstitute.org)
Playing with more Pacific Northwest #sharedstair street ideas
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Playing with more Pacific Northwest #sharedstair street ideas
Funny these were so close in my feed
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Funny these were so close in my feed
#newwest will have a new elementary school at Queens & McInnes for kids born today.
All the blue lots can be built to 8 storeys (if assemblied) or 6 storeys (single lot, my preference). Many of them are one storey, one family today.
Most of the streets in this diagram are open to cars today.
All the blue lots can be built to 8 storeys (if assemblied) or 6 storeys (single lot, my preference). Many of them are one storey, one family today.
Most of the streets in this diagram are open to cars today.
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#newwest will have a new elementary school at Queens & McInnes for kids born today.
All the blue lots can be built to 8 storeys (if assemblied) or 6 storeys (single lot, my preference). Many of them are one storey, one family today.
Most of the streets in this diagram are open to cars today.
All the blue lots can be built to 8 storeys (if assemblied) or 6 storeys (single lot, my preference). Many of them are one storey, one family today.
Most of the streets in this diagram are open to cars today.
Does anyone have a handy list of who globally (outside North America) has heralded Vancouver, cited Vancouver as a climate leader, and benefited from the ripple effects of Vancouver policy?
I see a city littered with combustion engines, decentralized gas heating, and stonewalling densification.
I see a city littered with combustion engines, decentralized gas heating, and stonewalling densification.
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Does anyone have a handy list of who globally (outside North America) has heralded Vancouver, cited Vancouver as a climate leader, and benefited from the ripple effects of Vancouver policy?
I see a city littered with combustion engines, decentralized gas heating, and stonewalling densification.
I see a city littered with combustion engines, decentralized gas heating, and stonewalling densification.
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pile growing too quickly, help
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Pile growing too quickly, help
"In Europe, people would often turn up in ball gowns and tuxedos expecting it to be a classical show with Hans conducting," says Marr.
"But in America, there were kids in their early twenties on mushrooms who were like, ‘I’m here to see a rock show, I hope there's going to be lasers’."
"But in America, there were kids in their early twenties on mushrooms who were like, ‘I’m here to see a rock show, I hope there's going to be lasers’."
November 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"In Europe, people would often turn up in ball gowns and tuxedos expecting it to be a classical show with Hans conducting," says Marr.
"But in America, there were kids in their early twenties on mushrooms who were like, ‘I’m here to see a rock show, I hope there's going to be lasers’."
"But in America, there were kids in their early twenties on mushrooms who were like, ‘I’m here to see a rock show, I hope there's going to be lasers’."
Catalonia's Rosalía showcasing single stair condos and mass transit www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Catalonia's Rosalía showcasing single stair condos and mass transit www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...