No One Special
@jonegreenwood.bsky.social
Syndicalist. Urbanist. Dense, compact cities. Public transit. High speed rail. Social justice. Environmental justice. Radical Buddhist.
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we talk about missing middle housing
but this is the real missing middle
midrise housing.
in walkable neighborhoods.
dense enough to support multiple shops, restaurants, grocers, and transit.
and actually affordable, too
but this is the real missing middle
midrise housing.
in walkable neighborhoods.
dense enough to support multiple shops, restaurants, grocers, and transit.
and actually affordable, too
really stunning and flexible 5-story mass timber point access block in frankfurt by DGJ architektur
www.detail.de/de_en/genoss...
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Co-Operative Building in Frankfurt am Main by DGJ
A colourful glass facade wraps around DGJ Architektur's cooperative housing near Frankfurt city centre. It serves as an eye-catcher and an effective soundproofing facade for the day-care centre and th...
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March 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
we talk about missing middle housing
but this is the real missing middle
midrise housing.
in walkable neighborhoods.
dense enough to support multiple shops, restaurants, grocers, and transit.
and actually affordable, too
but this is the real missing middle
midrise housing.
in walkable neighborhoods.
dense enough to support multiple shops, restaurants, grocers, and transit.
and actually affordable, too
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Dense housing, safe roads, fast & reliable transit, cheap healthcare, abundant clean energy, & unions powering the industries to provide all that; the winning Democratic economic program remains as obvious as ever. Democratic states must bear that standard without hesitating or faltering.
Decades of policies have made it illegal to build housing in the safest parts of housing—and pulled hundreds of thousands of families into the path of worsening wildfires. My latest today in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.’s Fires
The disaster can teach California how to rebuild, if the state will listen.
www.theatlantic.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Dense housing, safe roads, fast & reliable transit, cheap healthcare, abundant clean energy, & unions powering the industries to provide all that; the winning Democratic economic program remains as obvious as ever. Democratic states must bear that standard without hesitating or faltering.
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There are small business owners who choose to work hard and make little money because our communities deserve what we make. We could do something more lucrative but we chose to do THIS.
And whatever THIS is, it won't happen in a city that doesn't build transit or dense housing.
And whatever THIS is, it won't happen in a city that doesn't build transit or dense housing.
June 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There are small business owners who choose to work hard and make little money because our communities deserve what we make. We could do something more lucrative but we chose to do THIS.
And whatever THIS is, it won't happen in a city that doesn't build transit or dense housing.
And whatever THIS is, it won't happen in a city that doesn't build transit or dense housing.
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Then again, if I was an unconstrained autocrat, I'd also be doing Georgist land value taxation to fund social/affordable housing, transit, cycling & pedestrian friendly streets and urban planning & zoning authorities with obsessive kinks about mixed-use dense urban infill development.
August 27, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Then again, if I was an unconstrained autocrat, I'd also be doing Georgist land value taxation to fund social/affordable housing, transit, cycling & pedestrian friendly streets and urban planning & zoning authorities with obsessive kinks about mixed-use dense urban infill development.
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the best way to have more housing is to have more (mixed-use, dense, walkable, transit-served) neighborhoods.
December 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
the best way to have more housing is to have more (mixed-use, dense, walkable, transit-served) neighborhoods.
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It's time to end the era of the car.
We tried it. It burned the planet. Made everybody miserable.
We know what it takes to build a good city: walkable cities with dense housing and plenty of space for green space and mass public transit.
We tried it. It burned the planet. Made everybody miserable.
We know what it takes to build a good city: walkable cities with dense housing and plenty of space for green space and mass public transit.
January 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It's time to end the era of the car.
We tried it. It burned the planet. Made everybody miserable.
We know what it takes to build a good city: walkable cities with dense housing and plenty of space for green space and mass public transit.
We tried it. It burned the planet. Made everybody miserable.
We know what it takes to build a good city: walkable cities with dense housing and plenty of space for green space and mass public transit.
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The year is 2045. PBOT just finished their seventh public outreach survey about painting sharrows to a residential street that’s been in the works since 1995. I get hit while biking across a high-crash intersection. My insurance claim is denied because of a Bluesky post I made two decades ago.
August 26, 2026 at 12:54 AM
The year is 2045. PBOT just finished their seventh public outreach survey about painting sharrows to a residential street that’s been in the works since 1995. I get hit while biking across a high-crash intersection. My insurance claim is denied because of a Bluesky post I made two decades ago.
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building dense housing near transit doesn't destroy anything
June 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
building dense housing near transit doesn't destroy anything
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"Make cities better" may be the best direction for climate action in these grim times. 80% of Americans live in urban areas. Creating neighborhoods with reliable, frequent public transit, protected active transit, and dense, affordable housing could make US cities *so much better to live in* while..
Watching a panel on "urbanism as climate action." This is a huge, burgeoning field/idea/movement, but the desiccated boomer counsels who decide where climate funding goes are *clueless* about it and so it has to seek funding elsewhere.
September 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"Make cities better" may be the best direction for climate action in these grim times. 80% of Americans live in urban areas. Creating neighborhoods with reliable, frequent public transit, protected active transit, and dense, affordable housing could make US cities *so much better to live in* while..
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or maybe we could work together on shared goals: more public transit/bikes, more dense public housing, fewer ICE raids etc
January 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
or maybe we could work together on shared goals: more public transit/bikes, more dense public housing, fewer ICE raids etc
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This Ravensburger Puzzle (for ages 4+) has more vision than most North American cities
May 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This Ravensburger Puzzle (for ages 4+) has more vision than most North American cities
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Right. Do you want Tokyo levels of order? Offer cheap, dense Tokyo housing and public transit.
December 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Right. Do you want Tokyo levels of order? Offer cheap, dense Tokyo housing and public transit.
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We're going to build so many new dense walkable transit rich neighborhoods no one will even need to have roommates to afford housing.
February 22, 2026 at 1:46 AM
We're going to build so many new dense walkable transit rich neighborhoods no one will even need to have roommates to afford housing.
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Things that make me most pessimistic about urbanism in North America:
1. Gov’t attempts to pause/remove bike infrastructure (TO, HFX, Edmonton)
2. Building code hostility to family-friendly dense housing
3. Transit construction costs
4. Urban NIMBYism making walkable neighbourhoods more exclusive
1. Gov’t attempts to pause/remove bike infrastructure (TO, HFX, Edmonton)
2. Building code hostility to family-friendly dense housing
3. Transit construction costs
4. Urban NIMBYism making walkable neighbourhoods more exclusive
June 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Things that make me most pessimistic about urbanism in North America:
1. Gov’t attempts to pause/remove bike infrastructure (TO, HFX, Edmonton)
2. Building code hostility to family-friendly dense housing
3. Transit construction costs
4. Urban NIMBYism making walkable neighbourhoods more exclusive
1. Gov’t attempts to pause/remove bike infrastructure (TO, HFX, Edmonton)
2. Building code hostility to family-friendly dense housing
3. Transit construction costs
4. Urban NIMBYism making walkable neighbourhoods more exclusive
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If you try to build transit and active transportation infrastructure: Nobody is going to use this stuff, because everyone here drives!
If you try to build the dense housing that will support a transit/active transpo network: We don’t have the transportation infrastructure to support density!
If you try to build the dense housing that will support a transit/active transpo network: We don’t have the transportation infrastructure to support density!
January 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
If you try to build transit and active transportation infrastructure: Nobody is going to use this stuff, because everyone here drives!
If you try to build the dense housing that will support a transit/active transpo network: We don’t have the transportation infrastructure to support density!
If you try to build the dense housing that will support a transit/active transpo network: We don’t have the transportation infrastructure to support density!
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People (especially men) who think they’re the smartest in the room and/or who need to believe they’ve earned their places solely through merit will always dive head first into eugenics. It is the logical endpoint of the Special Boy belief system.
There are dozens of academics signing this open letter to defend the American Eugenicist Nathan Cofnas from the consequences of his own actions.
They are calling him a “whistleblower”
They are calling him a “whistleblower”
As academics, we are concerned that Ghent University's disciplinary proceedings against Dr Cofnas appear to constitute retaliation, at least in part, for publicizing academic misconduct that occurred in British universities.
johnarmstrongmaths.com
August 23, 2026 at 3:33 AM
People (especially men) who think they’re the smartest in the room and/or who need to believe they’ve earned their places solely through merit will always dive head first into eugenics. It is the logical endpoint of the Special Boy belief system.
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Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).
But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.
But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.
which then begs the question of why you want flying cars instead of whatever mass transportation equivalent you imagine
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).
But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.
But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.
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I showed up in support of condos near my house. And I was the only one saying like "yeah... We should build dense housing 500m from the new transit hub in the city". A bunch of old farts whined about shadows and traffic and so... We did not build dense housing 500m from transit.
December 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I showed up in support of condos near my house. And I was the only one saying like "yeah... We should build dense housing 500m from the new transit hub in the city". A bunch of old farts whined about shadows and traffic and so... We did not build dense housing 500m from transit.
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High quality public transit & dense, transit-oriented housing are symbiotic.
Great transit allows for sustainable, dense housing. Dense housing provides ridership for transit.
Having both means less traffic, lower carbon emissions & less sprawl.
That’s why we’re focusing so intensively on both.
Great transit allows for sustainable, dense housing. Dense housing provides ridership for transit.
Having both means less traffic, lower carbon emissions & less sprawl.
That’s why we’re focusing so intensively on both.
January 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
High quality public transit & dense, transit-oriented housing are symbiotic.
Great transit allows for sustainable, dense housing. Dense housing provides ridership for transit.
Having both means less traffic, lower carbon emissions & less sprawl.
That’s why we’re focusing so intensively on both.
Great transit allows for sustainable, dense housing. Dense housing provides ridership for transit.
Having both means less traffic, lower carbon emissions & less sprawl.
That’s why we’re focusing so intensively on both.
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Urban transit stations be like: The Stadiums, The Symphony, The Nightlife District.
Suburban transit stations be like: Your Suburban House, Your Suburban Job, A Parking Lot.
Suburban transit stations be like: Your Suburban House, Your Suburban Job, A Parking Lot.
August 21, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Urban transit stations be like: The Stadiums, The Symphony, The Nightlife District.
Suburban transit stations be like: Your Suburban House, Your Suburban Job, A Parking Lot.
Suburban transit stations be like: Your Suburban House, Your Suburban Job, A Parking Lot.
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would be cool if in the future this was the carrot cities got in exchange for embracing dense and low parking infill — legalize new housing and in return you get better transit connectivity within your city (and better intercity rail!)
December 17, 2024 at 12:45 AM
would be cool if in the future this was the carrot cities got in exchange for embracing dense and low parking infill — legalize new housing and in return you get better transit connectivity within your city (and better intercity rail!)
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This needs to include sweeping changes to zoning, development, and taxation across the country.
Rural/suburban areas would be more efficient and economically productive if the towns there were more dense. They need more public transit, more multifamily housing, more walkable mixed-use areas.
Rural/suburban areas would be more efficient and economically productive if the towns there were more dense. They need more public transit, more multifamily housing, more walkable mixed-use areas.
July 15, 2026 at 7:43 AM
This needs to include sweeping changes to zoning, development, and taxation across the country.
Rural/suburban areas would be more efficient and economically productive if the towns there were more dense. They need more public transit, more multifamily housing, more walkable mixed-use areas.
Rural/suburban areas would be more efficient and economically productive if the towns there were more dense. They need more public transit, more multifamily housing, more walkable mixed-use areas.
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That is the contradiction. An air resources board cutting funding for the two sectors that most reduce emissions. Transit and dense housing are the infrastructure of decarbonization. Defunding them while claiming climate goals is policy incoherence.
May 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
That is the contradiction. An air resources board cutting funding for the two sectors that most reduce emissions. Transit and dense housing are the infrastructure of decarbonization. Defunding them while claiming climate goals is policy incoherence.
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Mostly it’s a marketing and a lack of housing choice. My BIL asked me if I was going to “up my game” after my other SIL moved 40m outside of Boston to a house with no sidewalk or transit or bike lanes, with a sneer at our dense neighborhood. I just looked at him like “and leave this walkability!?!”
July 19, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Mostly it’s a marketing and a lack of housing choice. My BIL asked me if I was going to “up my game” after my other SIL moved 40m outside of Boston to a house with no sidewalk or transit or bike lanes, with a sneer at our dense neighborhood. I just looked at him like “and leave this walkability!?!”
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Portlanders have testified how this proposal addresses housing and venue district activation issues, the opportunity to replace a “failing, empty property” with a dense neighborhood, and how replacing parking lots with transit-oriented development is not bad for the environment .
June 25, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Portlanders have testified how this proposal addresses housing and venue district activation issues, the opportunity to replace a “failing, empty property” with a dense neighborhood, and how replacing parking lots with transit-oriented development is not bad for the environment .