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Fans of the theory of constraints and urban complexity may find my new article insightful: thenatureofcities.com/2023/04/11/exp…
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Mathieu Hélie
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Mathieu Hélie
@mathieuhelie
Aspirant director of techno-bric-à-brac, ecologist, urbanist, complexity scientist, because beauty wants to be free.
Montreal, CA Katılım Mart 2010
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@bobbyfijan The better question is why there is no budget for trams.
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@mathieuhelie Either way … Don’t build them, and people will go somewhere where they do.
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No. You’d get even more people moving Dallas, Orlando or Austin … or any of the other metros that spend on infrastructure (roads & schools) which enable inexpensive single family homes
In America, if you enact greenbelting … people don’t go denser, they go elsewhere
Matthew Chapman@fawfulfan
Houston is basically what it looks like when you pair abundance policies with massive, massive overinvestment in freeways. Spend less on freeways and more on transit, while keeping the rest of Houston's development policies, and you'll get something denser and more walkable.
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@PaulSkallas A major murder trial will have the same stakes. That is why juries decide the outcome instead of judges.
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@mathieuhelie This isn't a minor building. This has received extreme reactions in every place they tried to put it in.
It matters and is important to people. Exactly what direct democracy is good at
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Approval of a data center is often decided by a small number of city councillors. Leading to anger by the populace.
Just let the people vote directly on approving it.
Direct Democracy solves a lot of political extremism because everyone recognizes its legitimacy
Resist Wire@ResistWire
BREAKING: 13 shots fired into home of Indianapolis councilor; note reading “No data centers” left at scene.
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@CharlestonArchi After WWII it was agreed that architecture was a powerful tool of propaganda and was to be disarmed to save humanity.
Since then all modern buildings are intentionally illegible and confusing in scale, to conceal the true nature of their form. This job requires rigorous training.
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National media: shits on decent design, exalts dystopian modernism.
Why is all our new architecture so bad? Oh well, can't regulate beauty.
tom@tomisont
Both completed in the early 2000s, phase one of Poundbury and the Scottish Parliament. Have a guess which one the @guardian described as "fake, heartless, authoritarian and grimly cute / sterile and suffocating" and which they described as "a masterpiece in the making".
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@NY_LBSS @PaulSkallas Create a kind of jury duty but for city planning. Old folks are filtered out in jury selection.
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@PaulSkallas People are retarded. Why would that be allowed?
This would just be whatever old people show up on a random Tuesday.
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@peter_tulip This is a case of Seeing Like a State. The planners lack a language to describe beauty, and their language of function requires them to make the wrong choice.
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I think aesthetics are important, but how do you regulate beauty? Part 2.
Like most people, I think the building on the left is more attractive.
But Christchurch council planners vetoed it and insist on the building on the right.
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@jayphelps When lightning strikes a tree it doesn’t matter how old a branch is, all that matters is what place it occupied.
Nothing shameful about being unemployed. It’s just luck.
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Reminder: it doesn't matter if you've worked at a tech company for over a decade, you can be let go for any number of reasons.
This wasn't me, to be clear, just a reminder cause I've seen it for folks at all the major tech companies and very understandably it can feel crazy.
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@UrbanCourtyard What do people think fascism is?
This is fascism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_…
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I hear this argument a lot (that cities require authoritarian control to function) but it overlooks fact that many urban neighborhoods are already thriving without “fascism”
What thriving neighborhoods DO have is genuine income diversity. A large, stable middle class anchors the neighborhood, while low- and high-income households are integrated into the same urban fabric.
And this income diversity is downstream of housing density and diversity.
Megha@megha_lilly
I love city life because of the walkability and the ability to patronise small businesses and get to know your neighbours. It just requires a lot of fascism to make it safe, clean, affordable and child-friendly. And many people aren't okay with that unfortunately.
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@bryan_johnson The only defense against idiocy is the Lindy principle.
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Guys, I’m an idiot. All this time I’ve spent trying not to die, I had toxic turf in my backyard. Artificial turf contains crumb rubber infill made from recycled tires, which leaches chemicals including PFAS, heavy metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These compounds are linked to hormone disruption, carcinogenicity, and systemic inflammation.
I don’t know how I missed it. It makes me question my basic competence in life.
What gets me is that I try so hard to survey the world of potential idiocy. Then I find out there’s a monument to idiocy sitting right in front of my face that I was blind to.
I’m removing the turf, yet I’m still stuck with this seemingly unsolvable problem of how to not be an idiot.
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@SamoBurja It’s hard to write off decades of investments from trillions to zero.
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I was too optimistic a few days ago. It now seems the U.S. military won't be reformed as a result of painful lessons learned in this war.
It wants to keep living in an age of aircraft carriers and tanks, not the age of drones and fortified command centers.
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Claude is the steam power of an industrial revolution in digital goods. Nothing will be made by a craftsman by the end of the year.
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Factories improved quality, reliability and throughput from the previous craftsman model. Software factories will deliver the same benefits provided they’re provided the right examples to produce from. Preparing and inspecting work becomes the most essential task of software.
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Coding agents have changed my job description from programmer-analyst to pure analyst. I only need to capture what’s failing in the system, with as much precision as needed.
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My one nitpick is that Xavier Dolan is just not French enough to be believable as a French technocrat.
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Just saw L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche.
youtu.be/lx-4zBY6DEA?si…
It is the greatest film ever made on the subject of modern architecture. Way better than the A24 one. Watching the project die slowly then suddenly is heartbreaking.
And it’s a real building so everyone can visit.
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My guess is it overtakes their car on the highway.
Jeffrey Luscombe@JeffreyLuscombe
Why do Conservatives hate this so much? Anyone?
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Indifference to your project’s neighbors is an architectural statement.
david atkins@atkins_dja
@michaelmalice Data centers are not designed to make architectural statements. They are designed to be functional.
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@boys_nicholas @createstreets @EricTrump The triumphal arch started as a literal door to get through city walls, then it became a monument to the glorification of powerful states.
Future presidential libraries will probably be orbital platforms showcasing the retired president’s many accomplishments.
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This week @EricTrump released a video about the planned Donald J Trump Presidential Library. ‘This landmark on the water in Miami, Florida will stand as a lasting testament to an amazing man, an amazing developer, & greatest President our Nation has ever known.' I've written...
Eric Trump@EricTrump
🚨 FIRST LOOK: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library is officially here. Over the past six months, I have poured my heart and soul into this project with my incredible team at @Trump. This landmark on the water in Miami, Florida will stand as a lasting testament to an amazing man, an amazing developer, and the greatest President our Nation has ever known. 🇺🇸 These images have never been seen by the public — until today. Enjoy! trumplibrary.org
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@mnolangray Thinking in 2nd, 3rd, 4th degree is beyond most humans’ ability. Explains a lot about politics.
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It's crazy to me that the housing shortage isn't a top issue for teachers and their unions. There are going to be mass closures and consolidations of public schools in coming years if families keep leaving Greater Los Angeles in droves.
Jake@JakehellerAI
Crazy how the LA starter home is $1M-$1.2M
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@build_canada @zandertoo Every consulting report now consists of a one-pager that states “you’re absolutely right!”
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@VicctorianChad Post-civilization even, a new state of evolution.
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