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Coby

@Cobylefko

Working on creating better, more beautiful places to live in. Developer, Writer, Urbanist, Professor, Optimist. Check out my writing below!

Brooklyn, NY Katılım Eylül 2018
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Coby@Cobylefko·
It's a hopeful work about our ability to create places today that are as good as have ever existed. Our best days are not behind us. All it takes is a little bit of Optimism to get started! Check out the link on Amazon below!! shorturl.at/2sOW0
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Hills were meant to have beautiful townhouses on them, streets with cobblestones, and a lot of trees
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mottsmith@mottsmith·
Measure ULA's defenders are citing Q1 permitting data as "proof" multifamily development is "back." But remember: a building permit is not a housing unit. It's an option to start construction. And the data they're celebrating is actually evidence of distress. Let me explain.
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Coby@Cobylefko·
@JeffSpeckFAICP @VicctorianChad Huawei Headquarters! The Ox Horn Campus. It's admittedly strange, but doesn't seem cheap in its reproductions
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While these developments have been widely mocked (or attacked) by critics throughout their lifespans, they have undoubtedly succeeded in the only metric that really matters: the opinion of those who work, live, and visit these places. Here's to more aspirational city building!
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Coby@Cobylefko·
Honored to be featured in this edition of @ClassicPlanInst's Herald! I've been reading the Herald for some time, and it remains one of the best resources for those interested in building more beautiful structures, cities, & towns. And what an issue this is! Check it out below!
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Bill Maher@billmaher·
People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:
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Bobby Fijan@bobbyfijan·
Cities should start *buying* rather than building housing is because it short circuits a lot of their unique problems They can go shopping for building while they are still under construction and not yet in leaseup ... before anyone else is able to purchase Developers would be happy to sell and take leaseup and interest rate risk off the table.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin

one day new york city will enter its time of reform and there will be a lot to do

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Coby@Cobylefko·
From cleaning up trash at one end of the spectrum (negation) to planting trees / watering flowers on the other end (addition / maintenance), we can all take very small steps to make our world just a little bit better. Thank you, local heroes!
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There are few things as admirable as this!
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@queensnative123 I love it! Change comes one conversation at a time, keep fighting the good fight!
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C@queensnative123·
@Cobylefko Ireally appreciate your posts. I just got back from Paris and I told everyone who would listen that this beautiful family sized apartment in the 5th was only viable due to its single staircase. And it had a wonderful tiny elevator that could fit a wheelchair but is illegal here.
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Coby@Cobylefko·
One of the strangest shifts I've observed recently is that cities have become reflections of the media created about them. People move to New York or London to live out fantasies derived from whatever show / influencer they personally admire, and mirror their lives around that
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Coby@Cobylefko·
@petewilz Exactly! Was definitely drawing on Baudrillard with this thread. It feels like this has accelerated post-Covid
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Peter Wilczynski@petewilz·
@Cobylefko This is the end-state of Beaudrilliardian hyperrealism - the simulation of reality becomes more real than reality itself. Digital worlds that, rather than reflect, the real world.
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Coby@Cobylefko·
Very fair point, in pockets this is still true, but there's been a creep in sameness as those who move to the city-even for jobs not principally for experience-succumb to this phenomena. Richmond Hill (and even Flushing) are far enough removed from this to remain idiosyncratic, but LIC feels similar in many ways to Downtown Brooklyn, or much of Manhattan
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C@queensnative123·
@Cobylefko To what extent is this all that new for those places? I’m from Richmond Hill (years ago) and lived in Flushing and LIC. Those were three very different experiences. LIC felt like Disney world but outside of those neighborhoods, the city still feels idiosyncratic.
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Coby@Cobylefko·
This is exactly the point! Few people are moving to Buffalo (after 60 years of decline) because of the narratives surrounding the city. Those who are from Buffalo know it in a different way from those who don't, which explains many of the great things going on, but that's not the broader sense of the city
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@queensnative123 The built culture of Manhattan south of 96th Street, Northern Brooklyn, Western Queens, and increasingly other pockets of the city, contradict this. A Blank Street on every block, a Maman on every third
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C@queensnative123·
@Cobylefko There’s no more monoculture. Despite TikTok, there are so many subcultures into their own things that people move to cities inspired by their own micro influencers. Not everyone wants to be Carrie Bradshaw.
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Coby@Cobylefko·
The critical takeaway is that narrative is the most important currency. What cities (and those who live in them) say about themselves matters far more than what they actually are. Taste doesn't determine whether a $12 coffee is as good as a $2 cup, cultural narratives do.
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Ultimately, whether this is good or not is a very difficult thing to adjudicate. And if it's determined not to be good, it's not clear to me that this can be changed given the imperatives and protections of scale
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