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holz-bau.bsky.social
architect @ Larchlab.com (Seattle) activist for: car-light climate adaptive cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
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At this meeting is a honest-to-god discussion about the Bellevue City Council "pushing back" wholesale on House Bill 1110, 27 days before the state model code is set take effect in jurisdictions that haven't acted.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Our approach to climate change summed up in one photo from @mprnews.org . 🫠

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

lmao

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

counterpoint: the press seems to equally hate visionary mayors who get shit done (see paris under anne hidalgo)

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

New steel & aluminum tariffs put tariffs on the non-metal content in derivatives, so if you have a $1k bicycle that’s 40% aluminum you pay a 50% tariff on $400 then a 10% tariff on $600—Unless the bike is from 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇨🇳🇲🇽 in which case the numbers are completely different. Insanity.

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 10 hours ago • 275 comments

The way people are talking about the current demolition of research funding and HE legitimacy reminds me of the early days of COVID when I (and others) said it would be at least six years before any normalcy. Rage, despondency, rejection…eventually voting for a dictator just to feel alive.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

always cool to see my book at elliott bay books

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Before/After: 2010s/2020s -Remove car parking (L-R) -Install mobility lanes and grass trams Super great now! Avenue Stéphane-Mallarmé 17th Arrondissement, Paris

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

This protected, elevated, separated bike lane didn't exist 6 months ago. Slow implementation of safe mobility infrastructure isn't a spatial problem. It's a political choice. Pass it on.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

The two of us celebrated #WorldBicycleDay while working in separate cities. Melissa in Gothenburg, where she advised an EU-funded project focused on the reallocation of street space. Chris in Vienna, where he joined a World Bank technical deep dive on urban space and mobility for @dutchcycling.nl.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Spuren von der autogerechten Stadt: Wie absurd ist es eigentlich, Autos vor Schulen fahren zu lassen – trotz der vielen verletzten Kinder durch den Straßenverkehr?! In Paris sind diese Zeiten zum Glück vor immer mehr Schulen vorbei.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

reconfiguring streets for people is great policy, actually

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Cycling isn’t just good for your health – It’s good for the planet, our cities, and the economy. ✔️ Over 92,000 km of EuroVelo cycling routes across Europe ✔️ Nearly 10 million bicycles produced yearly in the EU ✔️ 1.35 million jobs supported by the EU cycling sector

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

enjoying this single stair single loaded corridor senior housing in aargau by zulauf schmidlin look at that daylit stair omfg www.subtilitas.site/post/6554361...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

“Milk came from a family that had a history of naval service and he was commissioned as an officer in 1951 … Milk then served as a diving officer on the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged from the service as a lieutenant junior grade in 1955.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

unrelatedly, it must be quite nice to buy or inherit a single family house for next to nothing, and spend the next 30 years trying to block housing while it quintuples in value

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

We wouldn't have to break down the massing if we returned to not having flat AF facades

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

was talking with a journalist about energy codes and building practices in the EU v. US - when the discussion of flat facades came up. this is an issue that plagues everything from ADUs to midrise buildings.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

eliminating LIHEAP was noted in project 2025. not only is this an issue for heating - but it also addresses the cooling crisis and assisting vulnerable populations in an era when both heat and cold snaps will be wild and deadly. 1,600 people died in the PNW heat dome.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Rising seas will cause coastal groundwater to rise in some areas - mobilizing soil contamination near old factories, dry cleaners and military bases. The really fun part is that it can enter your house. 🧪 #hydrology #climate essopenarchive.org/users/929678...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments