Eddie
@chacaranda
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Catholic • Urbanist • Loyal Son of South Bend
Joined January 2017
Universities should be building insane, aspirational buildings again. No more bland, uninspired copies of the same buildings.
Cathedral of Learning (1926) Pittsburgh, PA America’s tallest academic building, the Gothic Revival-Art Deco skyscraper was designed by architect Charles Klauder to serve as the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh campus.
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My favorite of this year’s mural crop
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Got to spend a few incredible days at Nazareth Farm with a student group this week
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She knows what must be done. Drink the forbidden beer so we can destroy the Dodgers once and for all
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The crazy thing is, it really do be like that. I saw sunsets like this in Tucson like once a month.
Spend a whole ass hour trying to reserve img search who painted this to no avail, but I discovered the art of Mark Maggiori and omg just look at this:
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I have found this to be true
Small cities are the new small town. You’d be surprised even in a city of 100-200k how small the number of people who do things are. A liberal estimate of the people involved in civic orgs, charities, and local politics might be a couple thousand.
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God shows a preference for the poor: the Lord’s words of hope and liberation are addressed first of all to them. Therefore, even in their poverty or weakness, no one should feel abandoned. And if the Church wants to be Christ's Church, it must be a Church in which the poor have a
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“It is literally against the law almost everywhere in the United States to build the kind of places that Americans themselves consider authentic and traditional.” — James Howard Kunstler
Philly would be a top 5 city if the whole place looked like this
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America needs John Henry astride the mighty Mississippi like a Colossus
@WASPmexicano John Henry and Pecos Bill at the terminus, Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed at the headwaters
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Simple as
The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe
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All I want is for this be legal by right everywhere
Yeah, a lot of genuinely privileged Westerners are looking for something more like this, not a new-build glass tower in Dubai (or even a new suburban house in an exurb). This can be really hard for immigrants/non-westerners to grasp.
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we should simultaneously recognize and promote the fact that mass transit is far safer than driving AND support additional measures to make it even more safe (e.g., better faregates, open gangways, etc.)
Good morning. I have a new piece in @TheAtlantic making the case that safety and orderliness really do matter on public transit—and that those who want more robust public services have to make those issues a top priority.
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I’ve been saying for ages that there are tens of billions to be made for whoever invents The Cigarette That Doesn’t Kill You
A nonalcoholic cigarette
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Four greatest baseball photos of all time, imo 1) Osaka, Japan, 1960 2) Bhutan, 2023 3) Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning, during World Series game 7, 1960 4) San Diego, 1992 All Star Game
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Sick today, and pulled this battered soldier from the very back of the cabinet. Huge
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