NYC is a city begging for high-density housing as a matter of both equity and efficiency. It has a dedicated water supply, 21 bridges into Manhattan alone with another 40 bridges in the outer boroughs, two tunnels, multiple subway lines, several rail lines, ferry lines, two airports, and a network of streets and highways. Who...
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For the Green New Deal? Against Climate Change! Of course! Unless it involves sacrificing their Victorians!
Senator Markey (D-MA) and Representative Ocasio-Cortez(D-NY) released a Green New Deal proposal (Senate Resolution 59, House Resolution 109) on February 7, 2019. The goal of their plan included several measures to make the United States a zero-emission country within 10 years. Included in the proposal is a call for investing in electric vehicles and...
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San Francisco Planning Commission
If the San Francisco Planning Commission had been in charge of planning for the city of Rome in 753 B.C, Rome today would not be the magnificent city it is, but would be a simple farming village with some Etruscan temples as points of interest. The SFPC seems to think that ‘planning’ means frozen in...
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From Selma to Montgomery, from Castro St. to Douglas St., a Parade Proposal
Just as blacks marched over 50 years ago from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama to protest the discrimination against blacks by the racists of the Deep South in housing, education, and public accommodation, so again we need to march, this time, not against the racists of the Deep South, but against the Castrocreepers, who have...