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I am writing a book about the ways the founders of American urban planning experimented on the neighborhoods of Washington, DC before World War II.
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Last call for my new Substack post on Swansea before and after the First World War when the borough was in the vanguard of housing reform: Early Municipal Housing in Swansea: breaking ‘the thrall of dreary terracing’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/early-muni...

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OK there are real odds this all ends at the hands of a jilted Sexy Bormann.

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Re-upping this, but now with an economic crisis.

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OK, so the very stupid garden of busts from the 2020 architecture EO was Trump’s idea. Not sure why I had any question.

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Absolutely the fuck not

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This is incredibly smart by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, a lesson Democrats have to learn fast. There will be no a-ha moment for the electorate. You can't wait around for people to realize how bad it is if they'll invariably wind up blaming the Reverse Vampires. You just have to fight, right now.

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Lovin' this @civetta.bsky.social . Mostly know it from Johnny Cash, one of the American recordings, and a gorgeous Charlie Haden album, The Art of Song.

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Microvolunteering opportunity! On Douglass Day, February 14, join a transcribe-a-thon to be part of a group working together to transcribe items in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress so that they can be more searchable and accessible. douglassday.org

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Hot, dry, lots of fuel, little rain. How climate change made the LA fires more likely, by @eroston.bsky.social [gift link]

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It’s interesting how everything about wildlife-urban interface fires in America is up for discussion except light wood-frame construction www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Rushing to update my portfolio for the first time in 10 years and regretting that most of my student work is laid out as custom, full spread drawings that can’t be cropped nicely.

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Phenomenal take on Trump’s architecture order.

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Once again, complying from the top.

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The double standard of crying overregulation and immediately using the full strength of the permitting hammer to block wind shows that Republicans are not serious about fixing permitting. It's a smoke screen to enrich the fossil industry while blocking competition from clean, cheap energy 🔌💡

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Stonework like this is a system, with a clear logic of construction; it is as simple to disassemble and move as it was to build in the first place, and it is beautifully fit for alteration and reuse.

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Lots of interesting tidbits in the Capitol One Arena submission at the DC Green Building Advisory Committee next week, particularly: 1. It's a complex, multi-permit, multi-phase project 2. A dual-use arena has strange energy demands 3. Lots of timeline details.

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That's good news because otherwise they'd have to rename the neighborhood just "Adams."

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Like most Trump apparatchiks, Justin Shubow is a weird little bully with psychosexual issues, and I appreciate that Dana Jacobson shows him stumbling in the face of mild pushback.

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Saw some art over the weekend.

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This casino or not, you gotta imagine soaring gambling debt is going to compromise a lot of Potomac River birdwatchers.

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Surging data center demand has made Virginia the biggest importer of electricity in the United States. I am sure if you broke this down by county, the picture would be even starker.

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I have passed all six divisions of the Architect Registration Exam. Now onto the most challenging part of licensure: convincing the government of the District of Columbia that I am of good moral character.

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The bendy part of the stretch bus is said to be the most succulent. The filet mignon of transit.

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We took 100+ hours of footage of Lexington Ave in Manhattan, capturing some 75,000 vehicles before and after congestion pricing started, and found the drop in vehicles appears to be coming entirely from fewer personal cars. Also no change in avg car value. Congestion pricing is working (for now).

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This article tries really hard to spin a pretty mediocre booking rate. Combined with the polar vortex inauguration might be a total dud.

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