cities & land
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This is a type of traffic intersection I designed.
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How practical is using plastic in roads?
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Sometimes a concrete vision of a specific future is helpful, so I thought I'd describe a future lifestyle.
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The forest fires recently seen in California, Oregon, and southwest Canada could well happen every year.
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There are some basic principles for aesthetics of buildings. Recently, architecture has somehow managed to ignore them.
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Scott Alexander: Every new housing unit prevented saves one person from having to live in San Francisco.
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Taller buildings are not always more expensive.
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In theory, I like buses more than trains for moving people.
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Incomes are higher in big cities like NYC and San Francisco, so in the future everyone will live in megacities. Or will they?
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Four-way stops are common, but they seem inefficient. Maybe they can be improved by people just following different rules.