Trevor Acorn 🔰🌹🇺🇸🌎
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Structural Engineer, Dreamer, Urbanist - Hyde Park, KCMO - Equal parts Don Shoup, Christopher Alexander, and Henry George
Paris of the Plains
Joined January 2010
Heavy left-turn volume on 39th street (71 to StateLine) and pedestrian crossing makes it a perfect candidate for 4 to 3 lane conversion. That bit of road paint would save lives and reconnect my Hyde Park neighborhood (and others). Thoughts @QuintonLucasKC and @BrianDavidPlatt ??.
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I mean yeah. Exactly.
For as long as I live, I’ll never understand why mass transit is expected to turn a profit while we give roads and highways $250B+ annually with zero expectation of profit. Either it all should or none of it should.
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Henry’s 4x800m team were recognized at City Hall today. Such a cool thing! Boys got to meet the mayor and council members. So proud of these kids. 2nd at Nationals, 1st at Penn Relays, 1st at State. Historic year for Rockhurst and Kansas City.
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Good ideas win.
It’s wild how single-stair went from zero to consensus in 18 months flat.
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I think about this almost daily while driving my kids to school sports friends haircut dentist omg etc.
Imagine what industries and arts Americans could fund if they weren’t pissing away so much wealth on cars.
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People widely believe that masonry buildings are more durable and long lasting than wood buildings…and yet you’d be hard pressed to prove that looking at the data. In the last 50 years we have demolished a lot of masonry buildings due to neglect. Maintenance matters.
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All this talk about food deserts and people forget about Aldis and Save a Lot and Happy Food. Do people think cheep grocery stores don’t count?.
There is a successful Aldi a mile from the failed KC subsidized grocery store. All the interviews with the failed store’s shoppers talked about its high prices. The lesson isn’t that you can’t run a grocer in a poor neighborhood, it’s that poor people need cheap groceries.
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RT @UrbanCourtyard: What family-friendly density looks like in Copenhagen, officially "the most livable city in the world":.Small-lot, mixe….
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Looks like a great thing!.
In partnership with the City, Swope Health will create Missouri’s 1st purpose-built healthcare community. Swope Health Village will offer affordable housing, supportive healthcare, mental health services, and senior care, all in a community designed to champion well-being.
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This is the project. Would be great for Volker. Neighbors want to 30ft setback (suburbia?) and reduced height (3 stories it seems). And no balconies on the north. So basically a much worse project that adds fewer housing units with worse urban design.
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YIMBY action alert for my local midtown Volker neighbors! Go support this project before a small handful of neighbors that don’t represent OUR city try to shut it down at city hall. August 19th at 1:30p. VOTE YES.
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Even this very basic single stair apartment complex in Ghent has tilt/turn windows and cross ventilation. Who even needs a balcony when you can turn your whole unit into a de-facto balcony in 2 min.
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Even if we clad these with fiber cement siding and thin brick veneer these buildings would be so much better and just as cheap (if not cheaper than) traditional 5/1s.
These are extremely simple buildings, with low construction and maintenance costs thanks to middling height and shared walls. Their value comes from their shallow and wide design, which passively creates ….
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In the real world…this interesting fact…makes no difference and should be ignored.
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This one seems plausible but also kinda like Who actually even cares.
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