There was a ton of pre war TOD around IC electric stations when it ran as rapid transit in the first half of the 20th c

from 1999-2001, State Senator Barack Obama and Prior Robert Prevost lived about 650 ft apart from one another

11 is to me almost totally implausible, given it happened what like 7 times independently on Earth?

interesting question--what is the largest apartment building by unit count in Chicago with zero parking? including pre-war and post war buildings @slucy.bsky.social

One thing that startled me about SF was densely packed timber housing in fairly central areas. Some of it predates 1906, but a lot of it seemingly doesn't. Feels like they were less aggressive than other cities in banning fire-prone typologies in the 19th/early 20th c? @stephenjacobsmith.com

the residence of Her Imperial Highness Zeynep Osman, widow of His Imperial Highness, the late Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman Efendi

it seems that dutch land use regs prevent ASML from expanding into the corn fields adjacent to their main campus, so they're expanding into a satellite campus near the airport. i feel like this is kind of absurd? ASML is like 3% of the country's economy

what is up with this insane padding on metra? i've never noticed it be this bad

Ikaria is also famously a kind of strange place, with a very complex political and social history -- a brief period of "independence" following Ottoman rule, Italian and German occupation followed by mass evacuation to DP camps, and later lots of internally exiled communists.

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what is the reason this agricultural land in Oxnard, CA has not been developed into housing? is it a California Coastal Commission thing?

kinda strange request, but anybody have any idea how i could look up some representative retail prices for cut diamonds by carat in the 1930-1940 period in the US?

lookin at the google reviews for the computer store that now occupies the second oldest synagogue building in the americas, in paramaribo

Nothing makes me prouder to be a Chicagoan than to learn one of my ancestors got caught in 1936 by G-men with the equivalent of $11m of stolen treasury notes, in Blue Island of all places