@maxdubler You can’t buy modern wood windows? They are common in my area of Canada - expensive but easy to get and built to a very high standard.
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Robert (Bob) Summers
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Robert (Bob) Summers
@RJSCity
Academic Director of the Ualberta Sustainability Council and Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning.
Edmonton, Alberta Katılım Nisan 2012
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One fun thing about owning a home in San Francisco is that it’s illegal to replace my street-facing windows with new energy-efficient and sound-insulating double pane designs because busybodies at the planning department think they look tacky. default.sfplanning.org/publications_r…
Market Urbanism@MarketUrbanism
Americans devised a nationwide landscape-altering land use regime to avoid building structures that keep noise out, but it is not resilient against novel threats. Might I suggest…triple-glazed tilt-and-turn windows? nytimes.com/2023/06/30/spo…
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@CompletedStreet Edmonton does not have growth boundaries but has led North America in zoning reform, does have minimum densities and, until recently, had strong regional provisions against ‘leapfrog’ growth.
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@CompletedStreet Loads of Canadian urbanists jumping on to label Edmonton as “massively sprawling” but the original poster is comparing it to American cities which are much much more sprawling with more discontiguous growth.
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Edmonton.
There's much less sprawl in Canada. I admire their urban growth boundaries.
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@moebius_strip @Barb_Here …and that not everyone on the Island has access to all you can eat buffets.
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@moebius_strip @Barb_Here I found Cuba intriguing due to its rather strong state capacity relative to other poor nations I have visited. If they had followed China and Vietnam’s models and allowed markets to function, they could have done tremendously well.
I also understand they are a totalitarian state
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This is the right solution. Make it easier to build new homes, make it easier to rent spaces out legally.
Governor JB Pritzker@GovPritzker
It's time to build, Illinois.
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@LukaszukAB As much as Kenney’s tone is hyperbolic, the Iranian regime is a terrible regime which has sponsored terrorism throughout the Middle East and they were producing a nuclear bomb.
There were other pathways to prevent that , but keeping Iran from having nuclear bombs was critical.
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To be filed under the “Fiction & Fairytale” category.
#cdnpoli
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱@jkenney
Without US-Israeli leadership, all of Europe would have ended up living under the threat of Iranian nuclear annihilation, armed with long range ballistic missiles. A threat controlled by jihadi fundamentalists who believe it is their religious obligation to accelerate the apocalypse. Like Europe’s elites in the face of Hitler’s massive military expansion in the 1930s, today’s appeasers would continue to look the other way and mumble about diplomacy until it’s too late. Europe failed to protect its Jews from Hitler. But now the descendants of the Jews who survived Hitler are protecting Europe. #AmYisraelChai
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@ExnerPirot @wilsonfink15 Approximately 10-15% of all oil production is used for things other than burning it for energy.
You would still have that production even if we reduce the amount of oil and gas used for energy.
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@wilsonfink15 Do you see that to me what you’re saying is we need to pivot away from fertilizer, plastics, resins, chemicals, air travel, heavy machinery
i.e. industrialization
We cannot sustain 8.5 billion people without very substantial hydrocarbons
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Some of you still seem to think oil is only used for gasoline for light duty vehicles, because that’s the only time you’ve physically encountered it.
Expensive and scarce oil is an omnicrisis for the global economy. It cannot be replaced by electrons from solar panels.
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@PHfloor Yes, approximately 10-15% of all oil production is used for things other than burning it for energy.
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Thank you Heather from making this graphic.
If you are Canadian, you need to know this.
Heather Exner-Pirot@ExnerPirot
Some of you still seem to think oil is only used for gasoline for light duty vehicles, because that’s the only time you’ve physically encountered it. Expensive and scarce oil is an omnicrisis for the global economy. It cannot be replaced by electrons from solar panels.
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@sarkonakj The free(er) market won’t survive if they return to highly restrictive zoning.
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Calgary city council is prepping for an upcoming zoning hearing like it’s a natural disaster so cataclysmic that not everyone is expected to survive
Landon Johnston@Landonforward14
Council gets Therapy Dog Visits for the blanket rezoning hearing. That is it.
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweetledi
Delighted to join Minister @EleanorO_MP, and Deputy Mayor @AshleyASalvador this morning to launch five new #yegdt Student Housing Incentive projects that will provide over 550 new units in downtown Edmonton. This is great news for learners at @MacEwanU, @NorQuest and @UAlberta!
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweetledi
This should have been on the front page of The New York Times.
I speak to students in America and most have no idea that more than 30,000 Iranians were killed for protesting and demanding freedom.
No names. No faces. No coverage. This silence kills me.💔
Thank you, Australia.
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweetledi
The United States is no longer a democracy and is sliding towards autocracy faster than Hungary and Turkey, according to the annual report of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University. theguardian.com/world/commenti…
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweetledi
"Six months ago the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines.
It gets dumber: Those four final American minesweepers left the theater in mid-January."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweetledi
Platform screen doors are going in on Madrid Metro Line 6. The cost to add them to 28 stations is $150 million CAD, or $5.4 million per station. The TTC's cost for installing Platform Screen Doors at 70 subway stations is $4.2 billion or $60 million per station.
Juan Tébar Molinero@Ferro_Veloz
En Madrid avanza un cambio trascendental en la movilidad: la automatización de la Línea 6. Por ahora solo hay puertas de andén en Legazpi y Arganzuela-Planetario. Pero, tras el ramp-up y la curva de aprendizaje, la producción se acelerará y empezarán a verse en más estaciones.
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Honestly, this period will be called the “Great Stupid Era” by future historians.
The Telegraph@Telegraph
🗣️ "I'm going to make a prediction that you will be, in the not too distant future, running for political office. And you have my complete and total endorsement" Donald Trump endorsed Jake Paul at a Republican rally before dancing with the Youtuber backstage
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Do other people on here get reply guys who can spell? Does that service come with the blue check?
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The oddest crush in presidential history continues.
Kaitlan Collins@kaitlancollins
"He wants to be helpful," President Trump says regarding his conversation with President Putin and Iran, despite reports that Russia was providing intel to Iran on US military targets.
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweetledi
1/ Messages hacked from a Russian general's phone illustrate the sweeping scale of corruption at all levels of the Russian army. They highlight a top-to-bottom pyramid of extortion and bribery to obtain promotions and influence, plus scams and theft of military resources. ⬇️
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@m_boustani @ksadjadpour @anneapplebaum I know that the President is a weak role typically in Iran, but with no Supreme leader and the clerics and IRGC fractured, he has some visibility and institutional legitimacy that other possible emergent leaders would not have.
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@RJSCity @ksadjadpour @anneapplebaum Presidents in Iran don't hold that much power. IRGC does not listen to him. The command and control is broken.
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An hour after Iran’s President Pezeshkian apologized to neighboring countries for attacking them and reassured them it would stop, an Iranian drone hits Dubai airport. I wrote about the division of labor within the Islamic Republic years ago theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Another Iranian attack drone hit Dubai International Airport, barely missing Concourse A.
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