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Similar to the Parisian practice of renting out that top floor to the "maid"?

I guess the debate among the landed gentry is "brownstone" or "rowhouse". While for the unlanded gentry, it's "three-decker" or "triple decker".

When I think of great plazas, I think - where is the place in a city where would one organically set-up a giant jumbotron to watch a broadcast of the World Cup, Eurovision (in European contexts), the Super Bowl (on a fair winter day here in New England), or the World Series. Or a place where...

Some things that I like - they tend away from pure civil engineering, to politics and policy supportive of transit and opposing urban freeways Crockett has a great history of Bos-Camb anti-freeway activism in People before Highways. Elkind's Railtown is good for a Califa-phile and a history of...

I struggle with the characterization of Elon Musk as an "American Dreamer". On topic, he is a white South African born of the apartheid era and emigrated to Canada and the the US to attend UPenn/Wharton and Stanford. He happened to be in Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom of the 90s and...

Well - the Federal Government so far in 2021: Legislatively * Passed Coronavirus relief package through budget reconciliation - sending out 1,400 checks to many people, extended unemployment, continued the pause on Federally-owned student loans, and a number of pretty important less flashy...

Wellington Circle is probably a bit too local access-y on the northern side of the intersection. This Dutch intersection design is highly limited in the access to the street/highway. All of the Dutch intersections like this have cycling and walking handled either as under or overpasses. Note...

1 Cumberland is an interesting "problem" for the architect. It feels like the resolution of keeping the facade or the form of 1 cumberland could use some further development. In place of some building on that corner, that mini-park/pocket-park looks quite a useless bit of open space -- it'll...

I came here thinking that this was about publications, but, I'm pleasantly surprised that this about the British institution of daydrinking.

This is like the trump fridge vs biden fridge thing the NYT did a while back, right? EDIT: That being said, the NYT folks who created this have been playing too much of Geoguessr!!!

I'm waiting for these roundabout innovations to make their way to Massachusetts highway building. "Rotor" turbo roundabouts - with signalization, of course I don't know if you all have experienced the types of multi-lane modern roundabouts that are partially "spiral" or "turbo" styled. This is...

3rd-ing the confusion.

The delays plaguing Crossrail aren't pinned on just the realisation of automated signal/vehicle systems, though, the breaking in of automated signaling and vehicle systems do take longer given the highest standards demanded of those systems -- it's ever more likely to be delayed by the...

The bus tunnel is definitely mostly done, so, is there mabye $2mn left to spend this year?

And added to that is the new safety focus of the agency after hiring their C-level safety officer who actually seems a competent guy who knows how to work the levers of C-level management.

The city is considering something similar, though, not as expansive for that part of Central Square. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/239734a5042d45d693c18bab6f7f60b6 Restricted traffic on the short block between Magazine and River Street with one-way traffic on Magazine Street from Green...

I struggle to think of an industry comparator with as many derailments as the T on rapid transit. To a layman it feels like a demonic "Oprah's Least Favorite Things" and all the "gifts" are derailments on every rail based mode since the beginning of the Baker Administration.

I mean the fishook isn't really the city's plan there anymore.

This statement does dirty to some of the wonderful sun shade and platform structures in Southern California. Oceanside - https://www.google.com/maps/@33.1925989,-117.3801249,3a,75y,43.79h,94.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shPyTj2oRplVYzQt-5y6Mgg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Carlsbad -...

The way a lot of places are going -- maybe it would be better to look at former gas station or auto repair sites that have been closed as the inner core cities have had less need for those businesses as MPGs and reliability have gone up over the years.