What Happens When You Remove 10,000 Parking Spaces

...ertion that he can’t think of anything better to do with his billions than build a moon base, let us collectively imagine a list of more worthwhile ideas he could fund. How about an organization that would gift all expenses paid trips to Amsterdam for any nay-saying, “We can’t possibly do that here” Angelino unable to imagine a future without gobs of free parking? Speak out in favor of parking at a community meeting and, congratulations, here’s yo...

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Flipped Out: The End of the American Bungalow

...ns and marble kitchen islands. If these old houses were being torn down to build nice, affordable multi-unit housing designed by talented contemporary architects I’d be cheering but that would mean that we lived in Austria and, here in the U.S., we aren’t allowed to have nice things. While nothing special, the bungalows in our neighborhood faced many indignities over the years. In the dark ages of the 1960s and 70s many experienced what we call th...

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Saturday Tweets: Return of the Oakland Monster

...to offer discounted or free Ring camera doorbells to residents, helping to build a street-level surveillance infrastructure that’s powered by consumer volunteers. My latest https://t.co/yyWoL5962r — april glaser (@aprilaser) July 19, 2019 Rising heat (& hint of monsoonal moisture) as Desert SW ridge builds into California. Also: thoughts on return of #TheBlob of warm ocean water in the North Pacific and the anomalous warmth projected for the upcom...

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Beautifying the Home Grounds: Your Source for 1920s Outdoor Project Inspiration

...e what it wants. The house, being a fuddy-duddy, vaguely colonial bungalow build in 1920, invariably tells me that it want something fuddy-duddy and vaguely colonial. It doesn’t want innovation or Starchitects or Pottery Barn or Ikea. The house doesn’t care what I want. My most successful outdoor and indoor projects have been ones that nobody notices, that look like they were always there. If you have a fuddy-duddy 1920s house in need of some trel...

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