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It's not even just high rises either, Austin is building huge amounts of 3-5 story residential neighborhoods outside of downtown, like none of this was here 10 years ago. They're outbuilding us in like every type of building short of labs lol.

https://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/mbta-cabot-rail-equipment-ma-42214-42214/item/48-rail-car-0578-262585/ Bidding just ended on this flat car which NETransit Inventory says was originally built for BERy in 1928 :ROFLMAO:

I think this has been really interesting to watch happen in real time. I feel like housing market dysfunction in particular has been driving left of center types to recognize the importance of market allocation (and increasingly in other areas as well). Funnily enough I was just reading a blog...

Fellow zoomer 🤝 This is a big part of state capacity liberalism that they talk about in the introduction, that a large bureaucracy not only is a little politically insulated but also obviates the necessity for lawsuits in every dispute or variance adjustment. It's definitely a matter of wait...

I read through the introduction but not beyond that so my perspective is a little limited rn. I think the intro works pretty well given my understanding of what the authors' goals seemed to be from how people talk about the book as offering an alternative set of heuristics for liberals to judge...

1151 Walnut St, Newton (25 units)

Looks like there are a handful of smaller lots in the plans, but mostly just more superblocks lol. I don't think I mind it that much, they aren't that much larger than the residential blocks next door and I assume they're saving money on the economies of scale. That said, I do hope that once the...

80-100% AMI is kind of absurd for this type of stuff. Following this to its logical conclusion it would mean that for the program to address the entirety of the problem we would have to spend tens of billions to house anywhere near the number of people on the "affordable housing" waitlist. This...

By no means is it the only way to evaluate cities lmao, directly looking at regulatory codes and per capita GDP get at those fundamentals much more cleanly for sure. It's possible to build a nice city without the high rises, but constraining their construction entirely in favor of historical...

The average size of a Japanese home has expanded a lot even in the last 30 years. It's largely caught up with all the other rich countries short of the United States and Canada (although it's not that far behind). I would speculate a lot of that change is enabled by the shorter duration of the...

https://odessitcapital.com/portfolio/the-bertram-inn/ 153 Saint Paul Street

I don't know how many people share the way I think, but it comes down to the distinction about whether the height itself or the environment that enables height is what makes Boston "better". That's what I mean when I say I like supertalls as a proxy of other underlying metrics that matter...

My 2 cents: it's mostly as a proxy for things that I care more about than raw aesthetics (in which case I do like supertalls lol, guilty as charged). Resistance to dramatically changing the skyline is symptomatic of an excessively conservative local culture that is more focused on the past than...

At some point one of these buildings in the commercial triangle must build out with significant dining/retail right. 10,000 people with above average income within a 5 minute walking distance just sounds like a winning location but idk

Just counting the major projects that people have been posting on the forum: South Station tower 0.7m 10 WTC 0.6m Volpe C3 0.6m 290 Binney 0.6m 585 Kendall 0.5m Alewife Park 0.7m Fenway center 0.7m Landmark Center 0.5m 109 Brookline 0.3m Allston Labworks 0.5m Harvard ERC 0.7m That's...