Hector Arbuckle
@hectorarbuckle.bsky.social
Iowan in DC. Born this side of the millennium. Italianate architecture stan. I love a good corn maize!
LA's government has no interest in housing affordability, it seems.
Let’s be totally honest about what’s going on in Los Angeles: at the behest of NIMBYs in well off neighborhoods, the city is forcing all development into lower income areas that already have some apartments, where these types of evictions will have to happen.
February 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
LA's government has no interest in housing affordability, it seems.
Sooo frustrating to see expensive blue states stagnate in population rather than simply build more housing to become more affordable.
January 31, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Sooo frustrating to see expensive blue states stagnate in population rather than simply build more housing to become more affordable.
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Many new apartment buildings in the US are this but turned on its side – 70’ thick and 30’ tall, rather than 70’ tall and 30’ thick
les HBM 162 rue Gabriel Péri, Gentilly, 1945. © Robert Doisneau
January 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Many new apartment buildings in the US are this but turned on its side – 70’ thick and 30’ tall, rather than 70’ tall and 30’ thick
@stephenjacobsmith.com i found a company that builds infill in Chicago, and it seems most of their projects are 3 bed condos?
www.platinumhomeschicago.com/current-proj...
www.platinumhomeschicago.com/current-proj...
Current Projects — Platinum Homes
www.platinumhomeschicago.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:48 AM
@stephenjacobsmith.com i found a company that builds infill in Chicago, and it seems most of their projects are 3 bed condos?
www.platinumhomeschicago.com/current-proj...
www.platinumhomeschicago.com/current-proj...
www.dwrowlands.net
January 30, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Please please please democratic leaders, let us build apartment buildings in blue neighborhoods! It will support both our economic, environmental, and social goals by improving affordability, reducing carbon emissions, and improving social integration!!!
It's not over yet, but we have very little time to fix this. We need a commitment from blue state leaders to actually get moving on legislation to accelerate housing growth.
January 30, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Please please please democratic leaders, let us build apartment buildings in blue neighborhoods! It will support both our economic, environmental, and social goals by improving affordability, reducing carbon emissions, and improving social integration!!!
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What kills kids in America:
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
Gov. Landry: "I like to ask Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or safe. Do they want their children to be able to walk to school or do they want to worry if they send them on the sidewalks, that unfortunate violent things are going to happen to them?"
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 PM
What kills kids in America:
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
Why are they so HIDEOUS 😭
You'd think they could manufacture a standardized neo-Victorian wood-style façade...
You'd think they could manufacture a standardized neo-Victorian wood-style façade...
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Why are they so HIDEOUS 😭
You'd think they could manufacture a standardized neo-Victorian wood-style façade...
You'd think they could manufacture a standardized neo-Victorian wood-style façade...
High-key scared for the Springfielders.
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 29, 2026 at 12:07 AM
High-key scared for the Springfielders.
I think DC should ask the federal government to consolidate JBAB into a tiny area so that the rest of it can be made into a new mixed use neighborhood with a metro.
January 28, 2026 at 11:20 PM
I think DC should ask the federal government to consolidate JBAB into a tiny area so that the rest of it can be made into a new mixed use neighborhood with a metro.
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Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
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"Disconnected" is the word I want to highlight here. Percolation Theory 101 says in order for something/someone to move from point A to point B through a network, there must, at minimum, be a connected, continuous path for them to traverse. If that path doesn't exist, then the trip doesn't happen.
My biggest problem with this this argument is that while Portland’s bike network has grown in the past 16 years, very little of what has been built is that great, and when it is, it’s disconnected.
January 27, 2026 at 9:52 PM
"Disconnected" is the word I want to highlight here. Percolation Theory 101 says in order for something/someone to move from point A to point B through a network, there must, at minimum, be a connected, continuous path for them to traverse. If that path doesn't exist, then the trip doesn't happen.
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When we look at transit supportive land uses the USA does only one thing (skyscraper office districts) well. We’d get a lot more value out of
1. Federal building and technical code standards for multifamily and non-downtown core commercial buildings
2. An attempt to legalize it near transit.
1. Federal building and technical code standards for multifamily and non-downtown core commercial buildings
2. An attempt to legalize it near transit.
January 26, 2026 at 10:15 PM
When we look at transit supportive land uses the USA does only one thing (skyscraper office districts) well. We’d get a lot more value out of
1. Federal building and technical code standards for multifamily and non-downtown core commercial buildings
2. An attempt to legalize it near transit.
1. Federal building and technical code standards for multifamily and non-downtown core commercial buildings
2. An attempt to legalize it near transit.
I love the metrorail. It is so fast.
January 26, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I love the metrorail. It is so fast.
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fresh-out-the-kiln take: the real male loneliness crisis is all these posters who find it incomprehensible that someone could be able to coordinate an activity and get dozens of people to show up, because their reality is they live online and don’t know anyone they could invite to anything
January 26, 2026 at 7:46 PM
fresh-out-the-kiln take: the real male loneliness crisis is all these posters who find it incomprehensible that someone could be able to coordinate an activity and get dozens of people to show up, because their reality is they live online and don’t know anyone they could invite to anything
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Every time I eat an apple I think "this is delicious and a satisfying sensory experience. I should eat more apples." And then I don't eat another apple for 6 months
January 26, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Every time I eat an apple I think "this is delicious and a satisfying sensory experience. I should eat more apples." And then I don't eat another apple for 6 months
@40goingon28.bsky.social I just discovered your blog and I love it. Thanks for bringing it into the world 🌎 🌎 🌎 🌎 🌎
January 26, 2026 at 8:22 PM
@40goingon28.bsky.social I just discovered your blog and I love it. Thanks for bringing it into the world 🌎 🌎 🌎 🌎 🌎
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There are a lot of men out there who do not see any of the logistics happening around them and they're like "wait, where the fuck did these hand warmers come from?"
Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.
Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.
January 26, 2026 at 1:52 AM
There are a lot of men out there who do not see any of the logistics happening around them and they're like "wait, where the fuck did these hand warmers come from?"
Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.
Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.
I'm looking to see if anyone with the relevant knowledge would like to use their architectural know-how to help create such a project.
I have the ambition to create a collection of architectural plans for "missing midrise" housing development. This would be along the lines of South Bend's pre-approved floorplans list. The idea is that cities could pre-approve these mid-rise buildings, which could streamline construction.
January 26, 2026 at 12:13 AM
I'm looking to see if anyone with the relevant knowledge would like to use their architectural know-how to help create such a project.
I have the ambition to create a collection of architectural plans for "missing midrise" housing development. This would be along the lines of South Bend's pre-approved floorplans list. The idea is that cities could pre-approve these mid-rise buildings, which could streamline construction.
January 26, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I have the ambition to create a collection of architectural plans for "missing midrise" housing development. This would be along the lines of South Bend's pre-approved floorplans list. The idea is that cities could pre-approve these mid-rise buildings, which could streamline construction.
I think that one new (branching?) metro line for Denver (in yellow) might be clutch. The visualization is from @82streetcar.bsky.social 's 2021 thesis.
January 25, 2026 at 6:21 AM
I think that one new (branching?) metro line for Denver (in yellow) might be clutch. The visualization is from @82streetcar.bsky.social 's 2021 thesis.
A cool quote from @82streetcar.bsky.social 's master's thesis:
January 25, 2026 at 5:33 AM
A cool quote from @82streetcar.bsky.social 's master's thesis:
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It just now strikes me that the United States, unlike every other democracy in the world, has never ever ever had an early presidential election. This seems like a problem? Like you need to have an institutionalized path for designating an entire administration illegitimate and voting for a new one?
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It just now strikes me that the United States, unlike every other democracy in the world, has never ever ever had an early presidential election. This seems like a problem? Like you need to have an institutionalized path for designating an entire administration illegitimate and voting for a new one?