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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️
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I am writing a book about the ways the founders of American urban planning experimented on the neighborhoods of Washington, DC before World War II. I am also a licensed architect.
I certainly agree with her, but I'm still skeptical serrating the building delivers more than a marginal benefit relative to the costs. Yes, point access means shallower plates but the envelope can stay the same and you get real two-aspect.
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I dunno, seems like a big increase in envelope and surface-to-volume.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I don't know whether WMATA seriously considered routes to Charles County back in the 60s but (like PGC), its leadership was old landowning families catering to white flighters, and it committed to anti-urban growth patterns. Now the traffic is bad, there are few jobs... but at least it's diverse?
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
They weren’t wrong!
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
When my former firm was looking into using Stable Diffusion to augment renderings we discovered we were already blocked from resource cities CivitAI and HuggingFace by the adult filter lol
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
28 on a scooter is nuts. Props to this lunatic.
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Yeah academic publishing seems to go out of its way to make the subjects sound uninteresting and irrelevant to non-specialists.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I mean there are many, many avenues for that from Thornton’s plantations to Burnham’s work on Baguio, to any number of modern firms! But it’s a lot to rest on one government contractor.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I wonder what would happen if you pitched the Free Press on creating a “chief classics correspondent.” For some reason I don’t think they really care about the subject as much as they put on.
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I thought that was implicit in adding “stupid” to the name. No?
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Very curious how college administrations spent decades defending the value of various core curricula (AU’s hasn’t been western classics for a while) and they are now tripping over their dicks to hop on a bandwagon that is falling apart as we speak.
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The best part? It will also be 10x more expensive.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM