Mayor Bowser's downtown action plan calls for making 'modest' revisions to the height act, in order to allow for more housing construction.

Honestly, if you're gonna do it at all, this seems like the moment to go big and push for seriously relaxing the rules downtown.

Stanley Kubrick: I set my film in the most unpleasant brutalist estates I could find as a cautionary tale

Housing Activists: at long last, we can preserve the estates from the classic film Look How Horrible These Estates Are

This paper is terrific!!!!!

The duck curve is a 2010’s problem.

By 2030, all solar will be solar + battery.

It’s time to start focusing more on seasonal supply/demand mismatches. Batteries have daily storage covered.

follow David Schleicher thought: jurisdictions aren't magic, they should be scaled to appropriately address the problems in residents' lives

People need to get a grip -- Salah has had a rough run of form at the end of the season, coming back from injury. But he was unreal in the 1st half, and we would be lucky to be able to keep him (unless there's an outlandish Saudi or PSG offer) #YNWA theguardian.com/football/2024/…

The cost premium for things built and operated by governments in NYC -- trains, jails, toilets - is just wild, across all domains.

'If any New Yorkers are feeling smug about San Francisco’s travails, allow me to direct your attention to five small — and quite ugly — public toilets that sell for $185,000 each and that the city estimates could cost more than $5 million to install.' nytimes.com/2024/04/28/opi…

Homebuilding - it works!

With some more context: Austin faced a huge surge in demand and rents went vertical. Instead of merely flatlining at a new, higher level when demand moderated, the building boom (which was chasing the high rents) is actually reversing the spike.

Embiid should be ejected for that. Beyond dirty.

Austin continues to be a national leader on zoning reform. Last year they built more homes than any other city in America. Instead of rents going up which some claim building new homes causes, average rents are DOWN 7% since last year. Boston/MA could learn from them.

California NIMBYism is so extreme that Redondo Beach has denied the demolition of a power plant next to a beach in order to block the construction of more housing.

I look forward to this AI-driven tool taking off.

State legislative and local slates during primaries are a path to a more functional democracy

Today, we’re celebrating the lifting of the FAR Cap in NYC!!🌇

This relic of the '60s arbitrarily limited residential density in tall Manhattan neighborhoods. Today, we’re going to look at some of the great buildings in NYC and beyond that exceed an FAR (floor area ratio) of 12.