Again, this is an aesthetic preference. That's totally fine!
But I'm not required to pretend there are no trade-offs to deeming one layout the "correct" kind.
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Again, this is an aesthetic preference. That's totally fine!
But I'm not required to pretend there are no trade-offs to deeming one layout the "correct" kind.
Buildings don't need shade. They work on central air to regulate heat.
Maintenance seems to work fine. Cities have been doing this for over a century without issue.
We don't live in China, we have a debilitating housing shortage.
Large buildings have back up generators for elevators.
The best neighbourhoods are the ones that can sustain themselves while meeting demand to live in the area.
That doesn't specify a level of density.
What you're describing is an aesthetic preference.
If it's more profitable, then why is >90% of our developed land made of low density sprawl?
Old Halifax is also wildly unaffordable because of inflated land values.
Density allows the splitting of land values among more payers.
South End Halifax and much of Downtiwn are radically under-developed for the level of demand.
In what sense is the 6th floor less liveable than the 5th?
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*makes a left turn*
*half-way up the block*
"You idiot, I could have killed you!"
I... I don't think you could have. That's why I comfortably made the turn!
The ticker was grimly funny because it basically represents the apex of our decision-making capacity
"Oh, they're using the ticker as a fun gag"
No, no. That's the best information they have about the hundreds of thousands of properties they manage and their financial impact.
The number of times I have been yelled at on my bike for performing legal road movements safely...
genuinely the funniest endorsement
Victoria General operating rooms are closed for a fourth day
reported by Jennifer Henderson @dartjenhen.bsky.social
I'm sympathetic to staff here, but it's actually a system failure.
1) ballparking the property values (and hence taxes) will never be precise, but uhhh, take a stab.
2) we don't measure costs, which is *insane*, but should be something we can estimate.
The city doesn't even measure things like that, so it would have no idea.
Just by the density, it's going to generate surplus revenue more or less by default.
Big if true. We probably can save a lot of money by relocating an urban amenity paid almost entirely by urban rate payers to an outer suburban or rural plot of land.
This redevelopment, which will plausibly pay for itself in terms of municipal services is greedy.
Not like the surrounding neighbourhood, which loses millions per year. Because they're... uhhh... not greedy(?)
I basically can't related to peoples' framing of this stuff anymore tbh.
Enshitification ratchet or realignment is basically the ballgame.
Which can come down to this question: can a critical mass of the electorate (both by churn and persuasion) change its preferences?
Comparison street view images of Sunview Street in 2009 and 2025. 2009 shows a pretty conventional suburban street with 1950s era bungalows. 2025 shows some of the same bungalows, but now there's a bunch of urban mid-rise apartment buildings around too.
I'm a broken record about how remarkable the transformation in Waterloo's Northdale neighbourhood is. If we could figure out a repeatable formula for mid-rise upzoning for low-car streets, we could achieve amazing things
Again.
“Given the current turmoil in the international order, the EU must elevate its strategic partnership with Canada to a new level, MEPs say, pointing to shared interests and values.”
It's so unfortunate that the primary lesson policymakers took away from the GFC was "thou shalt not lend money to poor people".
(The housing bubble was a generalized phenomena and not particularly concentrated in subprime)
@kevinerdmann.bsky.social on why banning build-to-rent single-family housing won't help today's renters become homeowners unless Dodd Frank refroms to lending standards are reversed. kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/observatio...
"I don't get it. Why are they confessing?"
"They're not confessing. They're bragging"
In Louisiana, the Democratic hair braiding licensing bill would require 600 hours of training at a licensed cosmetology school, an annual exam, and a fee. The Republican bill would require an annual 20-question health and safety exam and a fee. Why are Democrats like this?
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When I was in Ukraine in 2024, the drone-makers I met told me this indigenous Ukrainian drones without any Chinese tech — which was always stolen and copied by Russia — was their crazy, ambitious goal.
Experts said it was never gonna happen. Well, they got there. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...
I am now 30% convinced that the only reason this war is happening is so that certain people can profit off the price roller coast ride we've been on for the last two weeks.
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Now, there’s a new chapter in the story.
My latest for @thechronicleherald.bsky.social.
Going to start a second YouTube channel about my new passion.
I think some members of council are just desperate to believe there’s a way they can find someone else to pay for this.
That's plausible.