Urbanists of the world, rejoice—The Line, the most absurd development project on planet earth, has collapsed under the weight of its own fantastical claims. What other grand schemes in this age of unreal promises may soon unravel? www.samholden.jp/p/the-line-w...

The story of Tokyo’s very high rate of #bicycle use is not so much about hard bike infrastructure as a question of neighborhood scale. For ex., #Tokyo has a latent network of ancient “desire lines”: paths that directly link activity centers (former villages) or flow with the contours of the land.

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

Rare analysis of CAHSR that contextualizes its difficulty/cost in @asteriskmag.bsky.social. Abundance dems should fight to accelerate, not abandon, this project. Complaints about how gov fails at building belies fact that we have *barely even tried*. Funding at less than $1B/year in $4T CA economy!

Being in America always makes me think of the transit that should exist, but doesn’t. With inspiration from the maps of @lostsubways.com and @nickandert.bsky.social

If Silicon Valley wants to take credit for all their inventions, only fair that the balance sheet also includes saddling us with a futurist death cult, no? Looking rather net negative atm

Holy smokes—Trump knows the word “ennoble”

Hard to miss the cultural revolution parallels when 19-year-old Thiel acolytes are driving career bureaucrats out of the treasury, but this also applies

Funny how in 2012 Obama runs and wins against Romney as the rapacious private equity guy who shredded good companies for profit, so the republicans pivot to “party of the working people,” then let the richest guy in the world actually execute a hostile takeover of the government to scrap for parts

Christopher Alexander wrote of two systems of creating the world: system-A, organic and rooted in context and wholeness, and system-B, mechanical, money-driven, and rarely context-sensitive. Labyrinth House is an effort to practice architecture in system-A.