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@hectorarbuckle
Iowan. Once and future East Coast urbanite. Born this side of the millennium. Italianate architecture stan. And yes, I love pineapple upside down cake.
Interestingly enough though, if I adjust my dewpoint maximum down by just 5 degrees F, I get a totally different habitability belt!
The Great American Habitability Belt, for people who hate the heat but tolerate chill temperatures. Unfortunately I was not able to specify a *minimum* humidity, but if I could, it would eliminate all the interior West. Source: myperfectweather.com
If we *do* keep Daylight Savings Time, we should start on April 1st. There's no reason why the sun should be rising after 6 am during the true springtime.
Also, apartment buildings like these *do* exist, with courtyards incorporated into the site plan!
Luckily, the NYC region also has the LIRR! It's incredible how much faster you can go on the LIRR. If it were frequent, and fare-integrated, with through-running, it would give NYC something similar to BART to connect the region.
That's the same trip time as the entirety of DC's Orange Line, which is just over 26 miles long and also takes one hour to traverse, giving an average speed of 26 miles per hour! The difference is probably in part because the Orange Line has one stop per mile, whereas the F line has two.
Some of the NYC subway lines are really slow. This F line journey has an average speed of only 16 mph.
I found the answer. San Jose exempted their northern office parks from SB 79 but are otherwise implementing directly; Sunnyvale declared their caltrain area Historic but already planned for housing along the VTA Orange Line; not sure about Santa Clara or Mountain View.
I wonder why many African cities are so sprawling, if their motorization rate is low. @alonlevy.bsky.social any insight?
It sounds like Mountain View and Beverly Hills are trying and maybe failing.
I was a bit worried that these northern light rail stations were too close to sea level, but apparently almost all of it is safe from 1 ft of sea level rise.
I think the bus system is quite well-designed for the city! Great job Duluth Transit Authority!
I've wondered: in DC, we have a lot of alleyways that back up onto super-deep backyards. I've wondered logistically how one could convert these backyards into new zero-setback units and turn the alleys into streets, while ensuring that trash doesn't end up taking over the streets.
This is where people commute from to downtown Pittsburgh. Very sad to see the conspicuous lack of the Hill District, which used to be a thickly populated neighborhood within walking distance of downtown.
These sure are some far-flung suburbs, except for Stone Mountain (which has a MARTA station).
Someone already did this to my proposal in Arlington. They labeled it as a modest proposal, as if it were a joke lol. I stand by the analysis of the 545 million sqft of residential space, but I think the # of residents depends too much on other factors to know for sure. ggwash.org/view/88883/a...
I think that if Europeans had had the Assembly Line Housing moment back in the prewar era, before modernism took hold in architecture and planning, the buildings and neighborhoods might be a lot more cherished today. Imagine rows and rows of the below buildings. It would be like Washington Heights!
Just don't forget to eat your acephalan brassicas so that you can load up on riboflavin, pantothenic acid, carotenoids, and glocosinolates!
Corn-based diets can be okay if the corn is first processed with slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) or wood-ash, which is how corn is traditionally processed in Mesoamerica to this day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtama...
So even in the 1930s, they believed that "thru highways" were damaging to property values, and yet in the 1950s they claimed to believe that ramming highways through neighborhoods would improve them? It suggests that they actually just wanted to get rid of the neighborhoods.