This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Waste collection in Edinburgh takes advantage of the abundance of street space typically reserved for car parking. Since containers aren’t stored in a dedicated room in a building or in a private alley (less common in Edinburgh), they can be shared between multiple buildings.

The Johnson Administration had fought off ward-based restrictions on ADUs because of a 2023 federal ruling that aldermanic prerogative leads to segregation. Trump’s HUD freed the mayor to wheel & deal with alders. @danielkayhertz.bsky.social on this: illinoisanswers.org/2025/09/25/c...

if your elevator be stretcher compliant the budget will grow giant but if your elevator be slight your proforma will take flight

It’s unfortunate that protectionism is so deeply embedded in American politics that they can only suggest such a tepid reform:

got some bad news for anyone who voted for Trump because he promised to bring down prices www.ft.com/content/dd6d...

Some sort of “limitations and local review” and a union labor requirement for an ADU (lol) sounds like, in effect, Chicago has chosen to not allow ADUs

On one hand, U.S. automakers hate competition, and autoworkers love deportations. On the other hand, U.S. automakers and autoworkers make crap products designed to kill children & wreck the climate. On the other other hand, if the US car industry collapses, the whole world would be a better place.

I wrote about one man's quest to not have to ride in pitch black darkness through South Minneapolis. Modern day Don Quixote here, except the windmills are lampposts stripped of copper. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

They reduce transport emissions by as much as 100%. They reduce building sector emissions as much as 60%. They reduce industrial emissions as much as 25-50%. And they do this by putting all things people need -- jobs, schools, etc. -- within walking or transit distance of homes with elevators.

This is an exceptionally good thing. It should not be a priority to electrify public transit buses anywhere in the US, particularly if it electrification isn’t ETBs. The priority should be butts in seats, increasing frequency/span of service/coverage, and purchasing more regular buses for operations

The world is divided between supply skeptics who believe high hard costs are an intractable problem and those that have looked at US codes and buildings in other developed countries.

Interim Executive Braddock's proposed budget for King County Metro DOES hit the brakes on planned fleet and base electrification projects.

I’ve been waiting to show someone these pics I took of a “kei class” fire truck at a car show in SF. Recently retired from service after 30 years of fighting fires in a tiny mountain town near Nagano. Need these everywhere in the Bay Area.

Public developers that build mixed-income homes now develop capacity and assets to take advantage of a future Federal cash infusion. Just dumping a bunch of money on mostly inert PHAs and expecting them to have the staff, skills and structure to build and manage lots of new units is risky.

Photo from Seattle's ID, circa 1940's. Look how wide our sidewalks used to be. That same sidewalk is now about half the original width, plus it shares much of it's space with street trees. Ouch. But at least we 2 vehicle lanes running in either direction 🥴

Imagine holding a Climate Week in New York City and not hosting an urbanism event to compliment it.

There are more YIMBY wins than meets the eye. For single family lot that can keep trees, large apartment buildings are now allowed up to: - 10k sqft - 4 story - 10+ units - no parking Single family zones next year will be zoned denser than basically all current lowrise zones!

And they’re single-family is all on lots that are 4,000 sq. ft. at most, often closer to 2,500 sq. ft. – half to a third the size of what you find in the U.S., about what we used to build on in the early 1900s.

One thing I wish Americans would appreciate more is just how many apartments are being built in Canada Construction has doubled since 2018, and Canada now spends 2x as much on new multifamily housing as single-family housing. (ratio is 3:1 in the opposite direction for the US)

More micro retail in France: ~150 square feet and a dream is all you need for an organic juice bar with both table and bar seating. Would love to see more opportunities (spaces!) like this for small-scale entrepreneurs back home.

The Boston Globe Editorial Board is running a whole series on the state’s excessive building code regulation over the next three weeks – single-stair, Massachusetts’s unusually low high-rise definition, and the mess of different septic system rules www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/21/o...

Exactly. The smaller drain on the left is able to keep solids in suspension due to the flow depth and velocity whereas the larger drain with the shallow flow will likely fail at shorter travel distances.

Anecdotal, but I've been in Copenhagen for 24 hours, and I've had my ticket checked 3 (three) times in the metro. I've taken a dozen trips, maybe, so that's 1 in 4 chances of being checked

TikTok trading hands from one authoritarian, anti-democracy national security threat to another one was so predictable! Europe has every reason to immediately ban it, including active firewall blocking it. So glad I didn’t use that spyware, misinformation social media

Welp, guess we're not teaching science or social studies this year. We're being told we have to teach 90 minutes of math each day & 120 minutes of ELA each day. With specialists, lunch, & recess, the only time left is silent reading time, which is when all my SPED & EL kids are being pulled.

It’s the culture of total ideological permissiveness that got us here - the idea that everyone has a completely unrestricted right to endorse ideas that are stupid beyond belief, and that if you make them feel like an idiot for acting like an idiot, you’re the problem. No. We need MORE judgement.

NYC: we need a ventilation building for air intake and smoke extraction, so it's at least 40 feet above street level. Actually, we need two for each station. NFPA 130: extraction/intake should be a couple of feet above street level, so one can't park above it. Copenhagen:

Yearly reminder the UF officials really sunk the programs ability to be relevant in this new college football era when they fired Dan Mullen. Also, so tired of athletic quarterbacks that can't hit layups and severely over throw guys.

Okay after the media freakout over Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan the wrong way- a courageous and popular project that the media conspired to use to destroy Biden’s presidency and elect Trump! - it would be an O Henry twist if Trump reinvaded Afghanistan for no discernible reason

One of the strange things, to me at least, about Seattle planning politics is that we invest public money in public assets then don’t make the policy moves to bring people to them. Trees, parks, schools, shorelines: all treasures, but locked away for a few when we could bring more people to them.

Again Bouie from the top rope

Seattle renters - who make up the majority of the city - identifying areas of the city they're systemically excluded from living in and pushing for change is Good Actually

I had this same experience last year when I visited Manhattan for the first time since 2014. And that’s why I live in New York, now.

In order to solve its housing crisis Germany should embrace its Turkish citizens and allow this style of building in Germany

While shrinking, they are growing in areas of density. The black community is declining outside of urban villages and growing inside them. 2/3rds of all BIPOC population growth is in urban villages as well which only take up 18% of the city

Cannot stress this enough, the black population is actually growing in the areas of the black community inside areas with housing growth.

I read the amendments and I have a full-time job completely unrelated to city business. It seems like our councilmember, whose job is to vote on things, could read them.

Recalling a local Seattle state legislator brushing off this as a problem. To be clear, fare evasion is also a problem. Two things can be true and they should both be dealt with at the appropriate levels because they have serious financial consequences in capacity to deliver services and expansion

Ducking votes is cowardly.

The Big Four elevator oligopoly might become the Big Three, with Kone in talks to buy TK Elevator. This isn’t a huge deal in Europe or Asia, where there are many sophisticated nonproprietary mid-sized companies. They don’t enter the US/Canada though, thanks to the prohibitive technical standard.

Why are Democrats (and competitors) not raising hell over this? We're just going to sit by and let Trump take over another platform? One ten times as influential as Twitter?

new buildings are safer than old buildings, so allowing old buildings to be replaced by new ones is good for (fire etc) safety

No difference in life safety outcomes between SES and dual stair buildings

Finally, egress failure and smoke penetration are incredibly rare. Two times as many people die each year in LA County from car accidents than in the ENTIRE COUNTRY from apartment fires. And the vast majority of these deaths are in older buildings without fire sprinklers.

That can’t happen in a single-stair building. Under the California Building Code, an apartment door can be 250’ from the nearest staircase. The proposed single-stair ordinance limits this to 20’. An entire minute to reach the stairs vs. ten seconds.

When a fire breaks out in a corridor apartment and smoke protections fail, residents must navigate a long hallway to find stairs w/ zero visibility while not being able to breathe. In the infamous 1993 fire in Westlake, all 9 deaths occurred from smoke inhalation in the hallway

In residential fires, the most common cause of death isn’t the fire itself, but rather smoke inhalation. Modern building engineering has gotten really good at fire separation and suppression. Typically, it takes at least 1/2-1 hour for a fire to spread beyond the initial unit.

Some news: This winter Team Oonee is launching NYC's first Dutch-Style🚲 parking hub in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The Hub will provide free parking for 100+ bikes/scooters, and will include safe charging, and appt based repairs + lite service. This will make history in several ways. More deets in 🧵👇🏾

these are segregationists