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@MilkManMSU Getting ready for Bayview parade. This place is a time capsule in every respect.

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@CompletedStreet In traditional courtyard blocks, you send your kid downstairs to get eggs from the grocer who occupies the storefront in the same block development. They don't even cross the street.

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The Golden Age of semi-automated stone carving is coming. Get ready for Cicada Plague architectural friezes like this one adorning the entrance to your new Chicago courtyard building.

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@JackChambersGB This is rustic by the standards of mature European cities. Mature urbanism is 6 stories of mixed use courtyard blocks with monumental public spaces every other block or so.

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@IDoTheThinking Every city needs to RFP to developers to build courtyard blocks on distressed commercial corridors near transit. 4-6 stories, mixed use, with massive condos for families on ground floor and penthouse, and small condos for seniors and smaller households in the middle.

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@Sanilac_J The picture of rural single families home all signal “you have to get in your car and drive 30 minutes to do ANYTHING”

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@Sanilac_J Traditional courtyard urbanism is best and perhaps only development type that gives families the space and safe yard they need without sacrificing density and commercial convenience.

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@PaulSkallas 1) do the Japanese and Germans have no interaction anymore? How can anyone think Americans overdo polite business culture when the Japanese still exist? 2) my favorite is when euros aping American manners smile a lot. It shows how boring and uncharismatic their default gestural

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@ballesteros_312 Businesses would be more resilient if they were more plugged into the ground floor of mixed use buildings with all their customers living above and around them. In Japan, they have laundromat cafes so you can hang out and get work done while you wait for your laundry.

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@JakeSheridan_ Do they have data for east Asians, Indians and Jews? Those ethnic groups may have net worths at or above white racial group net worth.

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@chicagobars We are losing too many middle and high income families to the burbs because of real estate cycle. We should be taxing the hell out of commercial parking to incentivize the sale of parking lots for redevelopment as housing.

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@PaulSkallas I am looking forward to the day when the suburban right discovers how trad urban living is and how attractive people are when they walk everywhere

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@confusionm8trix Chicago is the promised land

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@NQRW I also want dogs on transit but it absolutely requires enforcing standards of behavior for dog owners and it possibly requires breed restrictions.

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@mattyglesias These are midrise buildings. Classical urbanism is 6 stories. Very few people would NIMBY if developers made attractive, six-story buildings in a traditional style.

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@JakeSheridan_ This study reflects disturbing trend in Chicago where low and middle income whites leave the city for the suburbs, leaving a “missing middle” demographic situation where you have a lot of high income whites and low income minorities and no middle class.

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@frenvonnebenan @PaulSkallas Yeah, I hate it when people violate my personal space with a smile

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@patio11 I love to hear this!!

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@AldMattMartin @40thforward @ChiAlderwoman Fantastic! Now we just need to find a developer to put in courtyard, aka perimeter blocks. This is the time-tested development type that is uniquely able to create private green space in a mixed-use, midrise building. Enclosed Courtyards on western will bring families back to

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@bp_geo lol there are probably more Irish in Chicago than there are in Dublin

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@AustinTunnell This looks fantastic. I love arches. Have you done any buildings in cities? I feel like there is such an opportunity for brick arcades (collonnades) along sidewalks, like they have in Bologna.

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@the_transit_guy We were visiting petoskey last week from Chicago and were sad about the decommissioned train station and railway that used to take Hemingway from oak park to petoskey back in the day when we had decent passenger rail.

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@LionBlogosphere @TheAtlantic This is just a population density issue. Europeans city centers are noisy and always have been. And you know what Charles Murray found about the association between city centers and human accomplishment.

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@elneurozorro Narrow streets with tallish wall-to-wall buildings solve so many quality of life problems

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@PaulSkallas Pet restrictions are an artifact of red tapey post-WWII America. The deepest envy I have ever experienced was at a Julius Meinl in Berlin, where a Berliner was enjoying lunch INSIDE the restaurant with her Bernese mountain dog snoozing at her feet.

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@JGrantGlover I think the proportions could be tweaked but I love the idea

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@sushil_js The solution is bringing courtyard urbanism to North American cities. We need midrise courtyard blocks with massive 4,000 sq ft condos opening up onto playground in the interior courtyard.

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@FoxNews Suburban living is child abuse. Kids can develop psychological and physical independence only in the cities

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@PaulSkallas Covid was such an interesting time because it broke the niceties code. I will remember forever the first time I got yelled at in public — by a UMC white lady who went after me for not maintaining six feet distance in the grocery store.

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@Steve_Sailer @TheAtlantic And yet almost all of the eminent writers have been connected with the activity and bustle of urban centers of their times. I doubt Shakespeare’s London or Huxley’s LA were very quiet.

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@aaron_lubeck @nytimes the demand for single-family homes in US cities is a consequence of there not being any spacious condos with private enclosed green space. Courtyard urbanism is the obvious solution to creating family-friendly density in American cities.

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@SLSadler66 @JGrantGlover More foot traffic and eyes on the street improves public safety. In Lincoln Square, car violence is a greater threat than gun violence.

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@vanillaopinions Build tallish courtyard blocks in every immature urban neighborhood

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@53viroqua @chicagobars Oh I LOVE the arcade. We need more of those in Chicago. In bologna, Italy, you don’t need umbrellas thanks to the excellent arcade network.

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@Eric_Erins I’m a little ashamed we even considered moving in 2020.

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@Tesho13 @jasoncoxnc nobody gets the windows right anymore

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@Eric_Erins This why we have to do tallish courtyard blocks in Chicago. You can get a ton of housing in a block and still have private green space in the middle. Great opportunity for starter homes in the middle floors.

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@BronskiJoseph @wrathofgnon Any mom with multiple amerimut kids of varying eyes color not only knows that the blue eyes see better in low light but also that they’re annoyingly sensitive to bright sunlight.

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@IDoTheThinking I talked to seniors empty nesters in our northside Chicago neighborhood all the time who say they would love to move and downsize, but cannot find attractive condominium options in the neighborhood. They love the idea of buying a unit in a mixed courtyard block in a walkable

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@IDoTheThinking @holz_bau Low dense courtyard blocks maximize the ground floor area and ADA compliant units.

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@BrentToderian Build 4-6 story mixed-use courtyard blocks!

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@Sanilac_J Oh, yes, I do not like these because they are private and not integrated with the political and commercial life of the city. Europeans cities are great because you have mixed-use and mixed-income courtyard blocks that bring households of all incomes and sizes together to

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@royalpratt @byaliceyin @nellbsalzman @joemahr Another program that both harms tax payers and fails to benefit the recipients.

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@eyeslasho @gtrxman Similar story in Chicago. Our home value has increased by a couple hundred thousand in the few years we’ve owned it. We are in a low crime neighborhood, but the higher crime areas closer to downtown have seen even greater increases in home values.

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I for one am ready for the Chicago renaissance of urban architecture and ornamentation, and I won't be happy until my local bike shop looks like this.

Austin Tunnell

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I am so excited to share this episode on The Building Culture Podcast with @mspringut , founder at @Monumental_Labs , a robotic stone carving company--the first of its kind in the US. He got started just a year ago, so you're getting to hear about this really early on. They've

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@CityBureaucrat lol I love the intersectionality of how mean this is

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@uraniumpill @nilocobau @mattyglesias It’s imprudent to squander resources on high rise buildings when you can get comparable density and much more attractive housing by doing low, dense. Both of these building scenarios have 200,000sqft. The low courtyards have more ground floor, naturally ADA-compliant area.

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Illinois Policy

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this you?

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@wrathofgnon Anyone who wants to understand how to plan and build great traditional city blocks and neighborhoods should read Jan Gehl’s “Soft City.” @IslandPress

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@mollyfleck Building walkable, dense, courtyard developments with speech therapy offices tucked into ground floor of every block solves this problem

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@eyeslasho Nice. How can you deploy this new technology to advance the discourse about blank slatism, hypercentrism, a statistical view of society, etc.?

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@MBA_Bitcoiner @chicagobars A commercial parking lot might generate $20k/year in tax revenue. If you replaced it with a mixed-use, midrise courtyard block, the development will 1) make the neighborhood way nicer, and 2) generate a million/year in tax revenue. How is this a bad idea?

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@CharlesFLehman I have a Polish friend who is obsessed with looking at the backs of people's heads. He insists that nice, rounded head is a sign of a caring mother and that a flat head is a sign of a negligent mother.

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Is Vienna the best exemplar of traditional courtyard urbanism? It seems to have resisted the urge to infill courtyard interiors with more housing or parking. I want a unit right above the grocery store.

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@DKThomp @judgeglock The solution is building attractive courtyard blocks of massive, family-sizes condos in dated commercial corridors in urban neighborhoods with decent schools.

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@Shredded_teat @AldMattMartin @40thforward @ChiAlderwoman Help me spread the word! The 40th and 47th ward alders are ready for creative, mixed-use housing visions! Courtyard blocks have been making European cities amazing places to live and visit for centuries. It's time to bring them to Chicago.

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@dmtrubman @INDEPENDENCENHP This would be an excellent site for a courtyard block.

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@eyeslasho I will never get tired of posting Charles Murray’s chart showing that almost all of significant figures in modern artistic and scientific accomplishment lived in the cities. It’s partially an effect of selection and it also applies to attractiveness.

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@ramit I agree with your conclusion that car culture drives obesity. Every summer I take my chicago kids to the Wisconsin Dells, and they can’t get over how big everyone is.

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@BrentToderian Courtyard blocks are the traditional urban answer to the desire for private green space. Bring courtyard blocks, aka perimeter or enclosed blocks, to Vancouver and watch families move from the burbs back to the city en masse.

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@_Mark_Atwood @stonemasonryco @mspringut @michael_diamant Yes! So many modernist buildings are grotesque and ironic in their structure instead of in ornament. I would like to see more traditional new buildings that keep the irony and grotesque for ornamentation, like they did in medieval cathedrals.

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@JATompkins @holz_bau @IslandPress I think your building would be attractive for people without small children. If you want to make it work for families, you need to have ground floor units with private yards within the interior courtyard.

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@RalphAichinger @PaulSkallas Ahahhahaha that’s perfect and I bet it happens a lot.

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@YIMBYLAND Transit with no building is not progress

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@Nerd4Cities It’s because middle and high income families live in the suburbs. Make cities attractive to families and you will see the focus shift back to cities. Start with courtyard development to create family sized housing with private yard space without sacrificing density.

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@Henryz_mom Car alarm. But I agree the gas leaf blowers are awful. Arguably, the best urban neighborhoods have tree-free streets.

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@JackChambersGB Many San Franciscans sympathize with this point except substitute horse for human shit.

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I am ready for new golden age of structural stone, lots of arches, mansard roofs, terracotta friezes, all the pretty things but better …

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Extremly important video! Modernist architects love to blame developers. Yet it is their (ugly) designs that fail to add value customers are ready to pay more for.

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@Donttellm5 @the_transit_guy But the American way is to make walkable urbanism bigger and better than Europe. Cars and suburbia got in our way, but millennials and zoomers are going to get back on course.

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@patio11 And yet Chicago is still probably the best legit--walkable, urban, urbane--US city to raise a family in.

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@noone79751 I think you’re thinking of castles and walled cities. Courtyard blocks are so popular that they’re still building new courtyard blocks all over Europe. And probably other continents, too, I am just familiar with Europe. Here’s a new one in Berlin.

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@mnolangray The deeper question: why do affluent North Americans prefer suburban single family housing when their Euro counterparts live in cities. My hunch is that it is because we never embraced courtyard, or perimeter, blocks, which are uniquely able to provide attractive, spacious

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@bubbly__creek That’s a reasonable and kind-hearted take, but I still find nascar deeply repellent.

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@YIMBYLAND IT’S THE COURTYARDS, PEOPLE

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@YIMBYLAND Chicago would definitely benefit from more reactionary urbanism

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Urban planners, neighborhood orgs, and developers: your job is to compete with suburbs for growing families. Every distressed commercial corridor and surface parking lot needs to be replaced 4-6 stories, mixed-use courtyard blocks with MASSIVE condos with courtyard access.

sushi 🍣

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Don’t worry, the planning department will get it right next time (for real this time, promise).

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Love to see the increase in economic activity following pedestrianization

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Brussels implemented the "Good Move Plan" in 2022 which restricted vehicle access to the city center & reorganized streets to improve mobility, safety, quality of life & air quality. Since 2022; 🌬️NO2: -35% 💰Economic activity: +10% 🚲Bikes: +37% 🚑 Accidents: -21%

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@RGBCubed @eyeslasho @gtrxman Because cities are amazing places to live and raise a family, if you have money. If you’re not in a gang, you are at low risk of being a victim of violent crime.

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@chicagotribune How about accelerating permitting of new development proposals. Adding midrise, mixed-use density to high cost, underdeveloped neighborhoods is a means of increasing tax base while also improving these neighborhoods

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Adding mixed-use, mixed-income housing does not lead to gentrification but to walkable, family-friendly neighborhoods that are dense, diverse, and ecologically sustainable.

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@UrbanCourtyard @JBPritzker You are just advocating for further feeding the beast. Despite Chicagoland is actually awesome. Feels like Queens.

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@PaulSkallas Barbarism of the suburban lifestyle comes in many guises. Wood-paneled library is one.

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@PaulSkallas You are trying to reinvent courtyard urbanism, aka perimeter blocks, which have formed the nicest euro urban neighborhoods for centuries.

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@MarketUrbanism This is actually the truth

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@realjonahlynch @stonemasonryco @mspringut @michael_diamant In the mid 20c., we were investing in suburban developments and highways, not public-facing urban housing for middle and high-income tenants. Also, the modernist aesthetic eschewed ornamentation.

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Why don’t we have arcades in Chicago?

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The solution to extraordinary 60625 demand for SFH is not more detached SFH. It is building massive--4BR+, 3000SqFt--condos in 6-story perimeter blocks with enclosed, kid-friendly courtyards. @Andrefor40th @MattMartinChi

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@holz_bau Your urbanism will not entice suburban families to move back to the cities

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@RalphAichinger @PaulSkallas My Japanese friends make me feel like a savage in comparison

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@Liberty_336 @YIMBYLAND I really want to understand what your point is but I do not. It sounds like you're talking about tresspassing but that doesn't make sense.

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@Liberty_336 @YIMBYLAND YIMBYs want freedom from zoning and code restrictions that currently prohibit land owners from building the way they want to.

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@SLSadler66 @JGrantGlover So in traditional mixed-use, midrise urban neighborhoods, people get from their homes to stores and other destinations by foot. No mandates. It’s a natural and spontaneous consequence of dense, mixed-use neighborhoods. This is how all cities and towns worked before the 20thc.

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For Jan Gehl (“Soft City”), urbanism means enclosure. Enclosing a property with a perimeter of buildings, and leaving the interior a protected open space. AKA courtyard urbanism.

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@aschweng93 @AldMattMartin @40thforward @ChiAlderwoman I pitched traditional Euro-style (totally enclosed courtyard, mixed use) courtyard development to @40thforward and the DPD people at his open house, and they said that zoning would not be an issue. Also, one of the potential sites is the 160x600sqft site where the post office

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@Andrefor40th @ShutUpOtis What is your sense of impact of migrant crisis on housing shortage?

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@JATompkins @holz_bau @IslandPress In Sim’s book, this malmo building is an example of a partially enclosed interior. There are others that are completely enclosed. I am interested in buildings that maximize privacy and security for families with small children. that is the group that is leaving Chicago for the

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@stevemouzon New Builds like this are just confirmation bias for NIMBYs, who have a legitimate fear that "development" is code for unattractive, unsustainble building that will make their lives worse. If develops put up attractive developments that made neighborhoods better, they would find

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@PaulSkallas Our pet culture will never be truly great until 1) breed restrictions are imposed and zealously enforced, 2) I can take my kids and border collie into the public library without any dirty looks from the staff.

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Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist

@UrbanCourtyard

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In traditional COURTYARD BLOCKS, you send your kid down the stairs to the mini grocer occupying a storefront on the ground floor to get eggs.

Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist

@UrbanCourtyard

23 days

When you get to the point where you can send your kid to the bodega to get eggs, you're a made man (made mom?).

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Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist

@UrbanCourtyard

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@eyeslasho I wish there were an anonymous mode that allows real name accounts to comment anonymously on controversial issues.

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