Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...

Same. Knew some people who hunted but I don’t think I saw a gun on a mon-police officer my entire childhood.

no quarter given lmao

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It’s Sunday and I’m trying to catch an 8-minute connection from BART to Caltrain at Millbrae. BART arrived on time at SFO but departed 7 minutes late for Millbrae. Will there be enough time for the time-honored Millbrae escalator sprint?

The age of the Boomer has ended. The time of the YIMBY Millennial has come.

By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy! substack.com/home/post/p-...

A new disruptive transport technology is rapidly changing cities across the rich world. It is not the self-driving electric car, but the humble bicycle, writes @dlknowles.bsky.social www.economist.com/internationa...

13 billion reverse branch

Level of Service F

ICE janitors are all immigrant contractors anyways. None of them are directly employed by DHS.

hot damn look at that density discontinuity for the south and east sides of Bangalore

Has anyone here played subway builder yet? Looks like fun.

Gross

This issue along with the fact that bidets require larger bathrooms, are reasons the bidet/WC fixtures are much more common in new construction in many regions.

You joke but the limited parking keeps costs down.

Yes, imagine if Montreal and Toronto had a rail line that ran through downtown, with a station in the middle and multiple branches on each side. I'm sure we'd make great use of it....

How was there no discussion of this bat shit “business curfew”

Congrats to San Francisco on its coming Manila-ization 48hills.org/2025/09/the-...

How are the LA nimbys handling the news?

Building code reform has never been so important. Every dollar you take off building is cheaper rent on Redwood City

I would pay to have a regional railway network around Montréal like Sydney has. I would probably go visit some new corners of QC every other weekend. Do we have a plausible theory why Australia went all in on electric suburban trains from the 1920s, but Canada didn't?

They saw it coming

Magnitude 8.0 upzoning - 0 km from Sacramento, CA - 2025-10-10 17:00:00 UTC - TSUNAMI of SB 79 housing expected in all urban areas of California. Nice new apartments will reach 6 stories over normal housing heights. RECOMMENDED ACTION stay in CA to enjoy affordable housing with great transportation

What’s cool about baseball is sometimes a great player looks like a Goliath and sometimes he looks like some guy from the bar.

Three generations: Bologna-Fierenze

In case you missed it, Governor @governor.ca.gov signed every one of @cayimby.bsky.social 's priority sponsored bills today. SB 79 was the whale. But there are a ton of big, important bills that went in alongside. Check out Nolan's thread for details.

The three AI outcomes - we all become one with the machine god and shuffle off our mortal coils to live as a hive mind of cyborg superbeings - we all die horribly and painfully in an alien world that has no use for human emotion, creativity, or intellect - 1.5% TFP growth for seven years

That’s right

Egg everything, crew. Cheese, red onion, capers.

How long can contra costa resist the siren song of a new fixed guideway station? We’re about to find out!

RIP Bozo

Cities are friendlier to office development, but not as much as the suburbs. NYC throttled office growth in America’s most prime business district in 1982 with the Special Midtown District, SF did the same, LA has always been lukewarm about offices on the west side, where they really want to be.

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit! Our statement: cayimby.org/news-events/...

This bill I wrote is now law.

In fairness the Hoover Dam isn’t even listed on Wikipedia’s list of notable power producing dams, a list dominated by other countries.

In fairness Zurich may be more exciting than Boston.

Huge gap (10+ minutes!) on the glenmont bound red line right now. What gives @metrorailinfo.bsky.social @wmatagm.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/10... IMO this is somehow worse than this looks. If this room was booked via federal travel software he’d have to have really worked at it to cancel this room. This isn’t just a call the hotel thing!

Man becoming powerful in Washington as a Republican is so easy. This guy is 30.

What do you mean "possible rise," dude is at the top of the pack. He is the literal pope

Cubs in 5

Here are the Subway/Metro Station design guidelines that were compiled by UMTA/USDOT in the 1970s in an attempt to prevent WMATA-style cost overruns again. It got shelved when everyone at UMTA got laid off and we forgot it. But it's prescient about cost drivers -- rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11352

it's so crazy that the 1986 tax law that created the Low Income Housing Tax Credit also eliminated accelerated depreciation on rental housing and the results were predictably terrible taxfoundation.org/blog/1986-ta...

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

I hung out with @woolie.meowmeow.city

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

How much of this is a spirit airlines story?