Dan Keshet
@dankeshet
Austin urbanist
Bike rack situation on the first day of school. Safe routes to schools give kids freedom!
Methodological problems go way beyond sample size. Non-random cohort, self-report with no control group.
Austin is the 25th largest MSA in the country so what's stopping your city from having a downtown like this? (Panoramic photo; click through.)
Interestingly, Gemini Flash 3.5 says Lamar was Houston's bitter rival. I think Google is doing a lot of brand damage by showing everyone bad answers from their cheapest, worst AI.
It's not widely known, but the house painter Mr. Popper of Stillwater invented the accent wall
Suburban contradictions: two shots taken from the same point, rotated 90°: water fowl hunting in a marshy creek, the loading dock behind the Wal-Mart.
Hell yeah, Austin! c/o @alexhrwtz.bsky.social www.pew.org/en/research-...
For those unaware, the shamwow guy is primarying a Republican up north of Austin.
Texas #politics in action. Candidates for state house give their pitch at an @aura-atx.org happy hour.
When every house on the street decides to put up an 8' concrete/cinder-block fence rather than engage with the street, do the traffic engineers never ask themselves how they effed up so badly?
This is awesome. 24th century lingui-archaeologists are gonna be so confused.
There's a lot of golf courses out there in cities that don't have the water to support them. Cities have a lot of room for creativity in how to use this space.
Austin's "Community not Commodity" NIMBYs opposes community coffee shops. Remember: to build community, there should be no places to gather.
The studio floor plan (315sf) also looks pretty claustrophobic. I would totally eat in a cafeteria and do laundry in the laundry room to get a little more space but I guess in-unit facilities are hot rn.
Lake Travis is at its highest level since 2022 and still growing rapidly. But, obviously, we got the rain much too fast and I can't stop thinking about the girls from Camp Mystic.