Behemoth, you are amazing!

Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

🚨 WAYMO ADMITS USING REMOTE OPERATORS IN THE PHILIPPINES FOR U.S. VEHICLES - TESLA SAYS “NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO TAKE OVER CONTROL OF OUR VEHICLES.” During a U.S. Senate hearing, Waymo confirmed that human operators located in the Philippines can remotely intervene when

From my book, Human Speed. Not only did highways decimate American cities, but entire local road networks were destroyed

There is so much misinformation around owning EVs, especially Teslas. • No, you don’t get range anxiety. With a wall connector at home, you wake up to a “full tank” every day. • Tesla batteries are engineered for longevity, typically lasting 300,000–500,000 miles. • A Tesla

Research shows older street networks have lower crash rates. They're easier to navigate, too. Bring back the grid.

From r/architecturerevival. ie. one of the few spots of sanity on reddit.

We do.

If America were a proper country, we’d have a Midwest rail network as robust as this:

A fact about life

Couldn't have said it better myself

In so many ways the world has got better over the last century. We live longer. We travel more widely, visit more places, know more people. And yet we have scooped out the life, love & neighbourliness from our cities for parking lots & driving architecture. It was a bad deal.

Did a dementor come through St Louis? All of the life and character sucked out for parking lots and ugly lifeless architecture…

Pattern books work & normalise what normal people prefer, not the preferences of the 20% who disagree

🧵 CAMBRIDGE: New data. Clear preferences. The public want buildings that fit in, not stick out. A new poll by @DeltapollUK for @createstreets finds 71% of Britons prefer a traditional alternative to the current design for the Christ’s College library. Here’s why it matters ⬇️

Luxury high rises never depreciate into affordable housing because the capital costs of operating, maintaining, and renovating the large structures are too great. This is why density VIA many small multifamily is preferable to density via few large multifamily. Compare the

Clearly we should do this whenever we can afford to. Dare to make places better. Everyone knows what that means. Design is not subjective.

A good discussion: but it's missing a key point, especially when it gets to the end where they talk about "profit maximizing decisions" ... the short term incentives of capital are NOT aligned to make things beautiful Developers operate inside financial systems that demand fast,

The biggest problem with cars is that they mean each new neighbor directly takes away from your quality of life, and a lot of very nasty politics directly follow once you internalize that

Spanish study finds that the longer the school bus commutes of young students, the worse their academic engagement: “We believe they experience a more negative relationship with their place of study, which may affect their interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers

Do you want EASY viral urbanism posting? talk about mass-producing Haussmannian buildings to improve crappy US urban fabric. These always go viral because 99% of people love Haussmannian Paris and would love to live in an American version of that. But 1% of people are SO