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.

Dated criticism. All these small towns are either rebuilding their main streets or want to but struggle to come up with the funds or have genuinely difficult tradeoffs to consider with through traffic on state highways.

Interesting story. The shooter was targeted by a city-funded ‘focused deterrence’ program but never engaged. He was caught using surveillance footage and the city��s automatic license plate reader network. Has a $50k cash bond.

The George Cutter Company of South Bend was once the largest municipal street-light manufacturer in the United States. Their lamps lined cities across the country with warm light and cast, ornamental detail. Beauty, in the public way.

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Whittier, Alaska- nearly the whole city lives in one building Coober Pedy, Australia- nearly the whole town lives underground in former mines Ganvié, Benin- in water, built on stilts!

scrolled by and recognized the skyline immediately

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Also important to recognize that the costs aren't just to the givers, and they aren't just that the receiver has to help later. Most people feel rude asking for help when they don't 'need' it, when they can just hire out for it instead. It's a very difficult norm to sustain.

I think the underlying reason that these ties of mutual obligation are fading is that they are becoming less necessary as our society becomes more affluent, and most people discount the long-term gain of community you get by sustaining them against the short-term costs.

Lots of replies to my post about Cairo a few days ago saying that Mississippi River trade only doesn't induce urban growth along its course because we've nerfed inland shipping with the Jones Act. Interesting but wrong. Consider international container ports, the successor to

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Or perhaps touring 20th century megaprojects in the US—there aren’t too many people driving I-70 through Glenwood Canyon or visiting the Pick–Sloan dams on the upper Missouri River for cultural or aesthetic reasons

What’s the equivalent of this today? Nothing as monumental, of course. Maybe something online?

it’s started coming down but there’s a pretty serious lag between interventions (tightening prescription standards) and overdose deaths, as most overdoses are longtime addicts & we’re still suffering from the over prescription epidemic of a decade+ ago

There’s kind of an inverse “the future is already here it's just unevenly distributed” thing happening with AI where people who consume lowest-common-denominator media are deluged by AI generated content while the mainstream & especially elites are hardly seeing any of it

Here’s the pattern for Cleveland

The only growing 1st ring St Louis suburb is the downtown the region built to replace their downtown downtown. It’s a mirror of what’s happened to the city proper (growth in the core, decline in the peripheral neighborhoods).

The Saint Louis metro is populated by a people who are unique in their desire to move as far from the urban core as possible. Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City all have a number of growing and stable first ring suburbs.

Got back with just enough time to catch some of the insane color combos happening in South Bend right now

Get in kids we’re reinventing new urbanism from first principles

This is a good post, on a topic I return to repeatedly The modern building is better on every relevant dimension - more efficient, commodious, comfortable to work in, secure against fire, rot, mold, safer and more stable for food - than the one on the left The single exception