doom cycle meme with i just need to break up the massing
23.03.2025 17:49
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doom cycle meme with i just need to break up the massing
It's central to the logic of Ottawa's new as-of-right high-rise provisions that, once you've got a point tower, it doesn't really matter if it's 25 or 27 or 30 storeys. Hardly anyone can tell the difference without counting balconies.
Oh right. I forget about those.
That'll be a fun OLT hearing.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
This is why it is an important political project to force lawyers, bankers and tech bros to work fewer hours. They *will* make a lot of money, and then use that money to influence politics, and influence it for the worse because, having never had the time to read a book, they are stupid and evil
Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
A Drive to Survive spoof.
Or a Senna documentary but for Ratts Tyrell who tragically struck a stalactite at 400mph
I'm surprised you didn't combine the fandoms & pitch a Toyota Cavalier
Period photo of a ST185 Celica GT-Four rounding a hairpin in front of a crowd of rally spectators.
Period photo of a Toyota HiAce rally support vehicle parked at the side of a dirt road.
A complementary pairing.
A "Honda Racing" Baja trophy truck in a cloud of dust
A Honda Africa Twin in an arid landscape
Baja Ridgeline & Africa Twin.
I love the concept and hope you finally complete it someday!
Another remarkably superficial piece on one of the more extensively studied questions in urban economics. "Getting CDC recommend vaccines alone does not guarantee health." It's not sufficient, but it's necessary, and publishing a lot of context free stuff about its insufficiency will only do harm.
Are "pre-rebuttals" a thing, like "pre-zonings"?
If so, here's a pre-rebuttal from @jensvb.bsky.social and I to the latest argument that supply doesn't matter (from CCPA, sigh).
The Key: Doubling up is the demographic indicator demonstrating our shortage. homefreesociology.com/2025/07/06/h...
Beyond being bad for affordability, I think discretionary approvals process are socially/morally destructive for this reason—they turn seemingly normal, well-adjusted people into monsters.
Any future Democrat administration needs to consider that international opinion & cooperation will depend, to a degree, on energetic prosecution of the Trump regime's criminals - to give the world some confidence we won't have to deal with a rogue state every four years.
love when there’s a newspaper profile of some psychopath that points out they allow themselves “a lone vice, like a single cup of black coffee in the morning.” personally I am a bundle of trash glued together by vices. they’re all load-bearing
Minimum parking ratio abolition was a day-one goal for the zoning team. Our only regret is that Donald Shoup didn't live to see it.
🚨 Yesterday, Ottawa City Council approved its new zoning bylaw, abolishing parking mandates across all urban and suburban regions of the city!
Hear what councillor @arieltroster.com had to say about the importance of removing parking mandates.
+ on the corner stores issue, I'm hoping that the expansion of local commercial will be our first DLC once the workplan begins to settle.
Good news for you, then: Council approved a motion to revisit angular planes in the coming years. Just deleting it at this stage doesn't achieve much, since we'd still be obliged by policy to do "transition" - it'll have to be a systemic re-evaluation of how we think about built form.
In fairness, this 30-storey rule can be subject to preconditions like lot size, and can sometimes be overruled by local area plans - but most of the area plans themselves permit some kind of highrise anyway.
Potentially because Portland doesn't have city planners like me. My consulting fees are fair and reasonable though.
@mnolangray.bsky.social, @maxdubler.com, @ebwhamilton.bsky.social, @stephenjacobsmith.com
Want a case study? A city of 1.1M just approved 4 units citywide, 6 or 9 storeys in most transit centres & on mainstreets, 30 storeys subject to lot size requirements, all as-of-right. Watch this space!
We've done it.
Refinements and corrections will certainly come. There are still areas where we want to push the envelope further. But our understaffed team, working on a tight timeline, has delivered what is very likely one of the most aggressively pro-housing zoning reforms in the country.
My theory for North America is that this is the consequence of the fact that every urban profession shifted to work in the wrong field: road engineers design public spaces (it should be planners), planners meddle with architecture via design reqs/codes. Architects became façadists.
Two Honda Fits with racing numbers & decals entering a corner at speed
There is even an amateur racing series dominated by Fits. Anything so tough and nimble makes for a decent race car!
Taught junior high in Japan in 07-08 and in the library they had a cutesy manga about the period around WW2. Their account of the war itself mostly amounted to "we were minding our own business and suddenly nuclear bomb? Why???"
You've written a remarkably concise Naomi Klein book here!
A nearly featureless two-storey apartment building with a fully paved-over front yard dedicated to parking spaces. An exterior stair leads up to a dark void from which the second-storey units are accessed.
Aerial view of a mostly- but not entirely-residential neighbourhood in Japan. Compact lot fabric and varied land uses.
This neighbourhood in Japan was the most "livable" place I had yet lived in, yet it subverted nearly everything urbanists tend to believe about character, landscaping, "eyes on the street" etc. From the aerial view, though, you can see some of the land use mix & how compact the urban fabric is.
