So you’re telling me MS NOW isn’t a janky Microsoft news site?

Crumbs of the day: painted bump out on a two-lane arterial next to a newly renovated Jesuit middle school

These are gonna be the vibes at the World Cup (except the host nation is not likely to win)

Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.

"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]

Name a better 3 song run to open an album

Just two guys out there competing

He looks like there are 2 people in his coat operating the Trump suit

Cover your eyes kids!

It feels good to develop strong and principled views

Cat tax

Get this man a warm Ovaltine, stat

I tuned into the live stream, pretty surreal stuff

Addis Café

Transit oriented personal storage and 2-story townhomes

Hot take, Björk’s best work is with the Sugarcubes (is this a hot take?)

Redevelopment like this is genuinely great, but once I get past the excitement I start thinking about the forces that resulted in this whole project maxing at 5-6 stories. Even just one high-rise could increase the project’s long-term success and vibrancy.

The Decembrists guy now looks like he could be a mutual angry about local zoning ordinances.

🚨Scissor Stair Alert🚨🕺 222 St Paul Pl, a 37-story tower in dwntwn Balto. c. 1968 (at one point the tallest in the city) is being converted from a hotel back to original form (apts). -303 units (49 st, 240 1bd, 14 3bd) -Original arch: Jewell & Wolf -Current arch: Urban Design Group -IZ eligible

Has anyone ever been cooler than this

Umm who gave her a platform??

Update: Charles is either heavily leaning on ChatGPT or is in fact a bot

In Baltimore we have sharp slop

Very, very, very, extremely good building

When u learn they don’t serve raisins at the chicken tender restaurant

Terrible to yell racism and then leave out the overtly racial origins of single-family zoning in Baltimore City

This is an exceptionally beautiful building (my favorite in the whole city) and it would be even more beautiful if someone added on 3 more stories that perfectly replicate the bottom 3

I feel like for football players who already have CTE, a blow to the head feels mildly pleasant, like hitting a vape

Scott Wiener wants to PLUCK your single-family home out of your neighborhood, with you and your family & dog in it

I think there’s an opening in the market for a pharmacy chain that makes you feel somewhat human and doesn’t feel utterly bleak and dystopian. Might as well put a soda fountain in there too

Giraffe drinking water

The victory of the chad Connolly over the weak petulant Orbán

Watching 1970 football

Tip/guidance: it’s a faux pas to try to mug a someone of their phone when they’re talking on the phone

This guy seems to have decided at some point that he doesn't like YIMBYs, and all of his takes on housing are informed by that interpersonal "make up a guy to get mad at" feud.

I had completely memory-holed this album for 3 years but now I get to rediscover it in all of its glory

I’m gonna be telling my grandkids about Bluesky during the 2025 World Series

I’m a long-time fan of the Know Your Enemy podcast but sometimes Matt and Sam can get a little condescending to their listeners (like overtly using the term “hand-holding” to refer to what they’re doing)

Good. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

Study of residential density in the May-June 1945 (!) edition of the French modernist journal “Architecture Aujourd’hui” by Marcel Roux and André Sive Notable: trad. urbanism wholesale rejected for lack of “aération”, but the lack of cross ventilation in the counter proposal is acknowledged.

There should be a card in the referee’s arsenal before the yellow and red card called the “hello card”

Are you kidding me right now

The American modernists & reformers were so close to getting it when they were critiquing overly high land coverage in cities. If only they looked at post-war reconstruction of Europe and learned that they can preserve access light & air without throwing out the baby w the bath water!

*getting beat up in the street for listening to the Ezra Klein Show* “No, please!! I’m listening for John Ganz!”

I think Greg Bovino is playing with fire, flying too close to the sun, overplaying his hand, etc.

Sitting next to some people in DC Union Station having a spirited discussion about how annoying the ubiquitous scaffolding in NYC is @stephenjacobsmith.com

Was just in a room with the guy that wrote Trump’s executive order mandating traditional architecture in federal buildings. He brought a real sour vibe to the function and the guy introducing him pretended to not know his name on purpose

In this op-ed, someone living in a neighborhood with a vacant problem opposes a bill that would make it more feasible to fix up said vacants. I understand a commitment to homeownership but I don’t think limiting a neighborhood to SFH is the way to do that! www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/11/12/a...