Erkin Ozberk
@krebzo
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Urban planner in DC. Mostly cities, arch, design, public space/art, bikes, Canada, visual communication, and the occasional foster dog. Personal account.
Washington, DC
Joined May 2010
1/ While DC rowhouses get their due love for providing flexible, charming housing at good densities, let me introduce you to an unsung hero of #missingmiddle and sometimes more affordable housing in our city, the DC “4-family flat” (aka fourplex, aka mansion apartment). A thread.
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Multiple layers of urbanist life goals unlocked yesterday: our baklava-focused cottage food business popped up at the Eckington Flea night market in the Quincy Lane 'woonerf' (where we sold out!). Follow our food adventures on IG: https://t.co/h7K8CAPnTt
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July 13 at 2pm: City Cast DC is LIVE at metrobar with guests from the DC Office of Planning! Dive into community stories, history, and city planning with us in this special edition of your daily local news podcast. RSVP at https://t.co/q11OFb2JJB.
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This would make a great mug/t-shirt for the @SpacingStore. Those anti-collision bird decals should be reaching heritage status soon.
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"At one time, LA had an electric railway system 4 times the size of the modern London Underground" - @lostsubways on @99piorg
https://t.co/eH15JaPfSv
99percentinvisible.org
If you’ve spent any amount of time driving through any major American city, you know what it’s like to be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. But if you’re from Los Angeles – the land of freeways,...
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The trash can designed for pizza boxes was introduced in Copenhagen a couple of decades ago, an anecdote Jan Gehl would share in presentations and @citiesforpeople books.
Extremely NYC specific story: Central Park is introducing new pizza box shaped recycling bins so people can recycle their pizza boxes, in an effort to stem the rat tide https://t.co/2gDQrIjnK9
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Duluth Ave ⬇️ is one of Montreal's original pedestrian streets, which I wrote about last year for @Spacing: https://t.co/XM0XJRnx6Z
spacing.ca
With summer coming up, some of us might start to see social media posts with images celebrating Montréal’s festive and convivial open streets. While many of these streets are temporarily closed for...
Summer is coming! Montreal’s pedestrian streets are starting to pop up. It's a quiet early afternoon on a Wednesday but still a pleasant walk.
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Bright red and green streaks light up the night sky in rural montane West Virginia tonight. This aurora is the real deal.
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In 2024, deleting an account that requires a password is one of life's more elusive yet gratifying moments.
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Oof. I wish they could have done a chamfered corner here, at least for the first two floors even. These acute angled avenues in DC can create some harsh built edges when maxing out FAR, especially at the sidewalk.
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Downed sign outside a Liberty Village condo in TO. French signs aren't required in Ontario, also "to idle" translates to "marche a ralentir"...
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Safe to say the GTHA is the only North American metro area within the arc of totality served by a functional mass transit system?
A look outside Niagara Falls GO station as people arrive to catch the total solar eclipse 📹 Follow for live updates: https://t.co/CZet33xSNz
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Riding buses, metros, and trains can be rather wild. An #animalsintransit thread 1/ The feline ticket inspectors of #Istanbul. Watch where you put your farecard, they are known to be very strict. 🐈⬛🚇🧵
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I got stung by a bee on metro today. I guess Spring has officially arrived in DC! 🐝🌱🚇
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The next installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise should be about the ghost bus. 👻🚍🏴☠️
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Who knew the Romney family was so entwined with the proliferation of condo as a feasible housing tenure in the US? From the book Dream Cities.
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It seems unnecessarily difficult to buy a decent CD player / radio for under $100 in 2024.
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