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City & Regional Planning. KC by way of DC, Detroit, South Bend, & Jacksonville.
Kansas City
Joined December 2020
My latest blog post explains why Kansas City seems so isolated despite its absolute centrality in the country. This chart has a lot to do with it. Link in the first reply.
Related: Kansas City is the closest major city to both the geographic and population centers of the mainland US
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A short glimpse into the future . via the AppliedAI newsletter by @aaronpholmes @theinformation
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Apartment infill Friday: a drive through bank and parking lot in Westport Kansas City becomes 256 apartments and a ground floor Dave's Hot Chicken and Taco Bell Cantina. 1bd market rents start at <60% AMI affordability
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RT @SidKhurana3607: The largest Trump-Harris city is Lee's Summit, Missouri (KC suburb of 101K):. 2012: R+16.2016: R+11.2020: R+1.2024: D+2….
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RT @Caol_MacCormaic: the chatgpt em dash seems to mostly be for emphasis—like this. the real way to use an em dash—if you want to make reas….
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I would not have guessed that Indiana is so forested today
Indiana forest pre-european contact, woods today, and mature and old growth forests today.
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The Pearl Schultz Apartments, twin six-unit colonnaded buildings with distinctive brickwork in Northeast Kansas City, sit vacant and crumbling after a failed renovation and sale. It would be a tremendous shame to lose these.
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Local coverage of economic development, public finance, and housing is so underwhelming here. Just read back-to-back stories from outlets that should be better full of inaccuracies, hyperbole, and lazy ideologically-blinkered speculation.
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RT @dricketts71: @kclightrail thanks for retweeting. I encourage everyone that frequents Troost to take the survey following the link in th….
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The reality of immigrant detainment in this country is as bleak as it is cruel. You’re proud of this?.
Welcome to Alligator Alcatraz— 3,000-bed detention center BUILT in just 8 DAYS. This is incredible
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To derek's point here. If you're doing something cool we'd love to have you here. We have cheap housing, good cultural venues, and great people .
IMO, the housing crisis is directly about fashion. — Tailors can't make a living bc of high rents.— People can't afford nice clothes bc of high rents.— Collapse of creative scenes, such as musicians and artists, bc of high rents. Aesthetics become uglier & homogenous as a result.
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One reason the Kansas City scene punches above its weight is that you can still afford a small apartment (with a balcony!) in a cool urban neighborhood with just a decent part time job
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I'm surprised this hasn't become more common -- a 5-over-1 apartment building with ground floor retail configured as a strip center, with a large parking lot for the shops in the front and a combination of garage and rear surface parking for the apartments
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My only contribution to this discourse is that if you're *losing* weight on vacation, you're doing it wrong.
Every summer we get the European weight-loss discourse again, and every summer the only two options this website offers are "walking" (left-coded) and "secret chemicals in our food that makes us fat" (right-coded). The official centrist position is that it's reduced sodium intake.
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Kansas City to double police presence for World Cup with outside officers
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Two teens shot in a Northland park; victim blames argument that turned violent
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Google is looking to build $100 billion of data centers on one Kansas City site over the next thirty years. Forget the data center market. 100 billion dollars would be the second largest single-site industrial investment of any kind in US history, trailing only TSMC in Arizona.
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