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    As far as I know it just means "I swear"
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    The people who move in here could have a lot of fun on Halloween.
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    I'm exactly the same, I can't make myself care about watching other people play a game. I also can't grasp these social events where people sit in a yard in lawn chairs and sip beer for hours while babbling away about nothing. And the beach? Boring...I'd rather walk in the woods or visit a museum or just about anything at least slightly active. Well that's encouraging, at least they're not making any friends.
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    I'm of the belief that while the render is heinous, that's just because of bad graphics and lack of parallax in the static image. When you're actually going by this building, assuming all the curves and angles survive to the final execution, it's going to look cool and have some unusual play of light on the surfaces.
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    Trust me, before google maps you literally had no idea where you were once you got 100 yards from your hotel. That city is a maze, and that's absolutely my favorite thing about it. Fortunately when you're tired of wandering, all you have to do is find a tube station and you're back on track. Meanwhile, it kind of forces you to be about the journey and not the destination.
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    This is way better than what we were shown before, in particular the building looks far more permanent resting on a base (however small) and the upper floor provides a kind of cap. I'm not enamored-it still looks ill-proportioned but not enough so to be interesting, and sort of like a community college--but we'll see what it's like when the exterior finishes are on. For what it cost, it's crap IMHO. Compared to many museums in other cities it's just sad.
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    and the lack of rail connections throughout the US. Our cities are too far apart for high speed trains! But not too far to drive...
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    Good article. Frankly I have nothing but contempt for Musk and I'm sure he's selling fairy dust here, but it'll be interesting if he gets into a put-up-or-shut-up contract with Chicago. He gets the most uncritical fawning reactions claiming as his own, various old ideas that he clearly hasn't thought through. I'd rather people study why these cost reductions have already been achieved in full-size subways in Stockholm, Seoul and Madrid, as the article states. I suspect it has more to do with politics and management than technology.
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    I'm excited as hell about this
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    I haven't shopped at GH since the bookstore closed years ago, but you should check out the theater since it's all overstuffed recliners and reserved seating now. You would think they would charge extra for that, but they don't. Very comfy.
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    Nashville gets mentioned in a chart in this article by Richard Florida, about a subject which has been concerning me for some time. Anti-Urban States Aren't Just Hurting Their Cities
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    What is up with Gilmore? She was pro-transit and then came out against it, and now this.
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    Finally got around to reading this, jeez this guy is relentlessly negative, resentful and smug. He's actually complaining that a fully formed 100 year old non-car-dependent city has not sprung up fully formed in a decade. He refers to Tony Giarratana's proposal for the homeless park as a "boondoggle". And he has no grasp that the out of control housing costs in this country are a systemic problem not created by a few millenials moving downtown. The desolation? Urban renewal was about creating skyscraper-dense downtowns? What planet is this clown from? His description of the Gulch: Seriously?
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    I think we've established that for purposes of this discussion, there is no distinction between monorails and elevated trains. Still for connections to Mboro etc, a train can go on the ground in the interstate ROW and start flying over obstacles when it gets to town.
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    I love the juxtaposition of different scales/styles/periods/uses; I would hope they could find a way to preserve the old house in place with towers around it, kind of like a "spite" house in reverse. An "in spite of" house.
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    This wonderful little statue was originally displayed at the old courthouse/city hall, it was partially hidden by the landscaping and it was this wonderful thing you could discover as you walked through the area-the tiny man seemed to be looking through his telescopes at the tall buildings around. Unfortunately it was vandalized several times and for its own protection had to be secured in the library courtyard. People are such jerks.
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    Looks very cool, but the strangest thing about DC (architecture-wise!) to me is the way the buildings are all chopped off due to the height restriction. Not a bad idea to preserve the dome-dominance but the buildings seem all to be chafing at the bit to go higher. It gives so much of the city an odd look as everything's the same height. One thing I like about Nashville is the huge differences in scale (as well as age and style) of buildings DT.
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    I don't have a problem with some of it being a park but I would like to see high rise office and residential buildings on the east bank with people walking back and forth on pedestrian bridges. I really want the idea proposed long ago, to dig a 90 foot wide canal that would create an island out of the stadium area with small inlets in the north part and have a small area of wetlands, boating and fishing along the canal and inlets. Some buildings with terraces overlooking the canal would create a great atmosphere. I've always thought it was astonishing they allowed those gas storage tanks downtown. Those things blow up. They should be out in BFE someplace.
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    I hope you're not talking about this prison.
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    Excellent video, but mistakenly it treats the housing shortage as a technological problem-we haven't figured out how to build buildings!-instead of what it is, a political one. This long article isn't mostly about urban development, but he hits the nail on the head when he says:
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    Really? I would have thought the day when a car was a status symbol were long over. Certainly the farther out in BFE you are the longer you'll have to wait for an autonomous taxi, and I would imagine the trailer parks of Hickman County will be rife with private car ownership, but the days of "ooh, they must be successful, they own a car"...? No.
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    Interesting fenestration on these buildings.
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    Well that's a relief, anyway.
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    I don't get it. I guess I'll just have to wait until it's built, I can't really make sense of the renders.
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    I hope that residential building turns out looking like that, tall and dark with beams breaking up the facade every three floors, it's evocative of tall buildings from the 1920's, not in the materials but in the spatial relationships.
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