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24 Aug, 6 tweets, 3 min read
the proliferation of this detail on seattle townhouses is... 🤢 Image
this is wrapping up right around corner from it. also - check out that sweet sweet vent stack Image
stepped townhomes - an opp to actually do something rather interesting in this city like this project in innsbruck: inspiration.detail.de/reihenhaus-in-…

instead it's a big, wet <fart noise> Image
the quality of construction in this country is so so so broken.

i have never seen a rowhouse development in the US anywhere on par with this baugruppe @bfcTHERMinator and i were absolutely floored by when walking around muenchen-riem

baunetzwissen.de/schiefer/objek…
the units in this mass timber rowhouse project were $500k with kitchen in 2006 in munich...

next to a massive park. school and kindergarten a few blocks.

inspiration.detail.de/9-solarreihenh…
and not a detached single family house in site... hmmmm Image

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wohnBAUMoffensive Profile picture
26 Aug
i write a lot about housing options & various housing forms. it's something i've been meaning to do a thread on for a while.

we don't have many options when it comes to housing in the US - our stock is largely detached houses or small apartments, and almost no social housing
our land use here is really spiky. most of seattle outside of the downtown core looks like this: car-dependent neighborhoods with detached houses as far as the eye can see. many of these neighborhoods don't even have sidewalks.
and then we slam apartment buildings in poorly planned/designed urban villages - and on loud, dangerous, polluted arterials. there is very little unit diversity in these buildings - most of them are small 1 BRs or studios.
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26 Aug
will note that none of the co-chairs of durkan's 'Seattle Affordable Middle-Income Housing Advisory Council' are middle class residents.

and at least half don't live in seattle.
missed this when it came out, this was just before we moved back from bayern...

but holy cow these recommendations are *pathetic*

@RayDubicki absolutely nailed the critique in the @UrbanistOrg

theurbanist.org/2020/01/30/the…
will note the basis for home prices in this table are the KC assessor - which runs well behind market rate. will also note how out of date these numbers already are in just two years

today, a single family home in seattle is over $1 million.
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wohnBAUMoffensive Profile picture
26 Aug
i think someone passed this along to me the other day...

but florian nagler's *second* mass timber passivhaus social housing project over parking in munich appears to be finished.

geil.

sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenc…
the basic rent for a 270 sf unit is 240EUR.

1,025 sf 4 bedroom unit, 1045EUR
here's a 5 minute video (in german, sorry!) on construction of nagler's first project for the developer. also a mass timber passivhaus social housing project.

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25 Aug
i don't see us making much headway on overheating in cities when we effectively have no solar protection industry outside of 'street trees'

businessinsider.com/heatwave-miami…
there's a whole ecosystem of solar protection in the EU that starts with first keeping solar gain from entering your window.

#FabricFirst

🧵 on how pathetic our options are here in the US, comparatively:
know what else exacerbates the urban heat island effect?

cars.

removing them from city centers is critical to not just reduce urban heat island effect - but also improve livability.
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24 Aug
the *entire* altstadt in landshut, where we lived in bayern, fits in this suburban parking hellscape in federal way

what in the f*ck are we even doing in this country
the town square of federal way v. car-free center of landshut
oh man. it gets better.

US urban planning (left) v. EU urban planning (right)

left is federal way town center, where light rail is going in

right is vienna's seestadt aspern

which one looks more livable?

which one has more open space?
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24 Aug
it is so unsafe on seattle's streets for people who get around by bike (thanks, @seattledot) that i know a number of folks who have given up riding for fear of being killed. i know people who have decided to move to live in cities w/ safe bike networks. broken down & bought cars
hell even my wife has stated she isn't opposed to moving back to europe because it's obvious that SDOT and mayor don't care about anyone but motorists.

there's no safe bike network

SDOT thinks plastic bollards save lives

and we're spending billions on car-only infrastructure
we're not building car-free neighborhoods near transit.

TOD is a complete joke in this city.

no streets are being redesigned to drastically drive down VMTs.

no consequences for motorists constantly breaking laws and endangering pedestrians and cyclists.

it's utter madness.
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