Among the most beautiful buildings in America.

If you have only one guiding principle in building a neighborhood, maximizing trick-or-treatiestness would be a pretty good one. North Shelmore Boulevard in I'On ranked among the nation's best streets for trick-or-treating. HT @VincentGGraham

Transport equity is a new term for an old idea. Elizabeth Dilworth was a transport equity advocate. In the 1940s and 1950s, though most US households had an automobile, most women did not drive.

TRADITIONAL URBANISM vs MODERNIST SUBURBANISM built by people .............. prescribed by planners efficient .......................... wasteful beautiful ........................ ugly inspired ......................... depressing

“In his famed Fourth of July address, Frederick Douglass implored us to think critically: “The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced” (p. 366). Douglass argued that before a wrong can be righted, the wrong must be felt. A hundred years prior, Paine understood this, for he said that “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” The job of a planner, and the job of a writer, which I feel compelled to do, is to question the familiar.” - Billy Cooney, American Land Use at 250 Published at @SouthernUrb southernurbanism.org/p/seein…

AMERICAN LAND USE at 250: Essay 1/5 Euclid at 100 ____ This November marks the centenary of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. — the ruling that constitutionalized modern zoning and changed everything. What started as a Cleveland suburb’s attempt to protect “residential character” became the legal foundation for restricting property rights, limiting housing supply, inflating prices, and entrenching exclusion. The majority opinion even labeled apartments “parasites.” Newton D. Baker, arguing for Ambler, warned it would lead to politicized control, outdated plans, and a slow erosion of the constitutional right to property — essentially “communistic ownership and control” by local councils. A century later, the results are clear: #NIMBY power, housing shortages, reduced mobility for working families, and barriers that hit lower-income and minority communities hardest. At America’s semiquincentennial, it’s time to revisit this precedent. The arc of justice is long — Euclid doesn’t deserve a bicentennial. Was Euclid a necessary evil or a foundational mistake? 👇 Read Aaron Lubeck’s sharp, timely essay: (viaBio) #ZoningReform #Housing #Urbanism #SCOTUS @IJ @pacificlegal #YIMBY

A. Federally financed with public debt, laid upon children and the not-yet born for the benefit of today's road contractors, suburbanites, and exurbanites. B. Federally prescribed in development standards adopted by municipalities in the inter- and post-war periods.