Bernie Sanders says climate change will hit communities of color hardest. His climate plan is by far the most progressive of all the candidates. #DemDebatecurbed.com/2019/8/22/2082845…
.@AOC has a plan to address the housing shortage. She wants to flood local, state, and federal governments with YIMBYs. @dianabudds writes bit.ly/3zUxV3Q
.@mcmansionhell remembers architect Ricardo Bofill, who shifted the idea of public housing away from bleak tower blocks towards vivid, otherworldly spaces of discovery bit.ly/3IJC1ir
Breaking: @AOC and Squad unveil People’s Housing Platform, a collective platform tackling tenant rights, housing assistance, real estate speculation, public housing construction and more curbed.com/2020/1/29/2111240…
New York streets are a mess. So we recruited a team of designers and consultants, led by the architecture firm WXY, to imagine what a comprehensive transformation would produce on one Manhattan block.
Read it here: bit.ly/3c0hUy3
Robert Mueller submitted his report wearing a hat familiar to modern architecture fans. Here's the story behind the Sea Ranch—including the logo. curbed.com/2019/2/20/1823159…
New York streets are a mess. So we recruited a team of designers and consultants, led by the architecture firm WXY, to imagine what a comprehensive transformation would produce on one Manhattan block.
Read it here: bit.ly/3wCrNxe
All of the people who fled the city over the past three years should have left behind a surplus of empty, habitable apartments. What happened to them? And why is it so difficult and expensive to lease one now? trib.al/DciczY6
We set out to find neighborhoods in eight American cities for you to thrive in this year, all known for their amenities and architectural styles, affordability and access to transit. Check them out—you might fall in love with a new home:
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Missy Cummings, who has been studying autonomous vehicles for longer than Tesla has been around, seems to make Elon Musk very nervous, @awalkerinLA reports bit.ly/30IZMGu
After each Mets win, Dan Abrams (@athletelogos) creates graphics that honor Shea Stadium’s old neon signs. Now he’s proposing to re-create them at Citi Field, @joedelessio writes bit.ly/3RAsu2f
One of L.A.’s most important pieces of architecture, Julia Morgan's decadent Herald Examiner Building is finally restored after being walled off from the public for three decades bit.ly/3mPH74v
"With an inventory shortage and a healthy pool of buyers, the pandemic in Atlanta is causing more of a temporary slowdown than a Great Recession-like slump."
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.@awalkerinLA talked with @coribush about the Bus Rapid Transit Act, an effort to allocate $12 billion in federal funding annually to bus rapid transit projects where buses run more reliably in dedicated lanes in order to address transit equity in cities trib.al/3kAyGEH
The brand-new 6th Street Bridge over the L.A. River was supposed to be a symbol of the city’s move away from a car-centric past and toward a future of more walkers and cyclists. @awalkerinLA explains what went wrong bit.ly/3cilKpB
Overnight, LAPD fenced out 100 people who had made a home at Echo Park Lake. Why? Because the city wants to repaint some bathrooms. @awalkerinLA reports trib.al/46Izkj6
After each Mets win, Dan Abrams (@athletelogos) creates graphics that honor Shea Stadium’s old neon signs. Now he’s proposing to re-create them at Citi Field, @joedelessio writes bit.ly/3QEN94V
For the past six months, Denver's STAR program has been dispatching social workers instead of cops on nonemergency calls with astoundingly good outcomes, @awalkerinla reports trib.al/NwJZaGj
.@nymag's annual "Reasons to Love New York" issue this year is a wake for 500 lost businesses that were, at least in their own corners of the city, essential bit.ly/36P89AY
Workers at Snøhetta, the global design firm behind the renovation of 550 Madison and its lush public garden as well as One Vanderbilt’s mildly hallucinogenic Summit, are filing to form a union. @cliomiso writes trib.al/5jcVc6A