@dcurbanist.bsky.social
📍FFM - ❤️ DC - Firm believer in abundant housing and safe transportation
The difference is night and day
September 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The difference is night and day
Famously no FBI informant has ever participated in the crimes that they were informing upon, just ask anyone from Boston.
September 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Famously no FBI informant has ever participated in the crimes that they were informing upon, just ask anyone from Boston.
This ad is going to make me the Joker
August 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This ad is going to make me the Joker
Life is so much better when streets are given to people
August 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Life is so much better when streets are given to people
This line is to view a studio apartment in NYC. America has Soviet bread lines for housing. We need to end government-imposed supply constraints.
August 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This line is to view a studio apartment in NYC. America has Soviet bread lines for housing. We need to end government-imposed supply constraints.
Whatever trains could and should be built, it’s certainly not light rail. This distance is way too long. This is high speed rail distances
June 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Whatever trains could and should be built, it’s certainly not light rail. This distance is way too long. This is high speed rail distances
Don’t worry, I annoy her with those too 😂
May 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Don’t worry, I annoy her with those too 😂
I was on vacation with my German gf and her family in Croatia this week. Her brother asked me why I took this photo of a nondescript European street, and the groan my gf uttered when I said “the single staircase buildings” is one of the best memories of the trip. 10/10 would recommend
May 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I was on vacation with my German gf and her family in Croatia this week. Her brother asked me why I took this photo of a nondescript European street, and the groan my gf uttered when I said “the single staircase buildings” is one of the best memories of the trip. 10/10 would recommend
All of the cars combined in this image, assuming 1.5 people per car, carry fewer people than that one bus.
Traffic is nothing more than a geometry problem.
Traffic is nothing more than a geometry problem.
May 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
All of the cars combined in this image, assuming 1.5 people per car, carry fewer people than that one bus.
Traffic is nothing more than a geometry problem.
Traffic is nothing more than a geometry problem.
Even here in Germany, where chains are *much* less common, my local plaza and shopping street was anchored by a couple chain bakeries, grocery stores, and florists. They were greatly outnumbered by non-chains and food stalls, but the chains help a lot.
May 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Even here in Germany, where chains are *much* less common, my local plaza and shopping street was anchored by a couple chain bakeries, grocery stores, and florists. They were greatly outnumbered by non-chains and food stalls, but the chains help a lot.
Easy solution: legalize this on every lot in DC and the housing shortage will be solved before 2030
Will it ever happen? No, but I like to dream.
Will it ever happen? No, but I like to dream.
May 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Easy solution: legalize this on every lot in DC and the housing shortage will be solved before 2030
Will it ever happen? No, but I like to dream.
Will it ever happen? No, but I like to dream.
IMO nothing worse than the historically preserved strip mall on top of the Cleveland Park metro stop. Just an absolute embarrassment on so many levels. Not to mention the atrocity of the adjacent zoning.
May 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
IMO nothing worse than the historically preserved strip mall on top of the Cleveland Park metro stop. Just an absolute embarrassment on so many levels. Not to mention the atrocity of the adjacent zoning.
Take me to God’s country
May 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Take me to God’s country
Mostly because it’s my hometown, but I really think Reading is a great example of how the 2-staircase requirement (yellow) makes new buildings dwarf classic MFH (red, classic Somerville-esque triple-decker)
This is why we need to legalize single staircase buildings
This is why we need to legalize single staircase buildings
April 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Mostly because it’s my hometown, but I really think Reading is a great example of how the 2-staircase requirement (yellow) makes new buildings dwarf classic MFH (red, classic Somerville-esque triple-decker)
This is why we need to legalize single staircase buildings
This is why we need to legalize single staircase buildings
Well, seems like IRS really did get DOGE'd, huh?
April 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Well, seems like IRS really did get DOGE'd, huh?
It is famously impossible to have public space for public gathering if you build apartment buildings. It just doesn’t exist anywhere in the world!
April 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It is famously impossible to have public space for public gathering if you build apartment buildings. It just doesn’t exist anywhere in the world!
Imagine if American cities prioritized public space and community to such an extent that there could be a festival every weekend all summer…
You want to build community? You need to first build public spaces for community to thrive like this
You want to build community? You need to first build public spaces for community to thrive like this
April 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Imagine if American cities prioritized public space and community to such an extent that there could be a festival every weekend all summer…
You want to build community? You need to first build public spaces for community to thrive like this
You want to build community? You need to first build public spaces for community to thrive like this
Im not religious but I believe in the holy trinity
April 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Im not religious but I believe in the holy trinity
For the benefit of both our countries
March 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
For the benefit of both our countries
Housing discourse is the gift that keeps on giving to make me keep smashing my head against the wall in frustration
February 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Housing discourse is the gift that keeps on giving to make me keep smashing my head against the wall in frustration
Also gotta appreciate the *impeccable* land use here for a metro stop (red X). Truly is the worst of all worlds
January 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Also gotta appreciate the *impeccable* land use here for a metro stop (red X). Truly is the worst of all worlds
The worst “two stairwell, long hallway” apartment building I’ve ever been in is actually right across the street from this. This building is an absolute nightmare.
January 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The worst “two stairwell, long hallway” apartment building I’ve ever been in is actually right across the street from this. This building is an absolute nightmare.
I recently met a Bostonian here in Frankfurt, and they were complaining about how bad traffic back home.
I explained this @nacto.bsky.social chart, saying that one commuter rail line has the equivalent of a ~40 lane wide highway, and tbh I think that helped more than anything else I could’ve said
I explained this @nacto.bsky.social chart, saying that one commuter rail line has the equivalent of a ~40 lane wide highway, and tbh I think that helped more than anything else I could’ve said
December 30, 2024 at 3:01 PM
I recently met a Bostonian here in Frankfurt, and they were complaining about how bad traffic back home.
I explained this @nacto.bsky.social chart, saying that one commuter rail line has the equivalent of a ~40 lane wide highway, and tbh I think that helped more than anything else I could’ve said
I explained this @nacto.bsky.social chart, saying that one commuter rail line has the equivalent of a ~40 lane wide highway, and tbh I think that helped more than anything else I could’ve said