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Gov. Pritzker's BUILD plan, a slate of six bills to address Illinois' housing crisis, is going to a Senate hearing this week!

Learn about the package and contact your legislators to support here: buildforil.org

The first one

Two staircases that wrap around each other like a helix, instead of requiring two stairs separated by a hallway. Much more space-efficient

Like, ways to make them easier? They were already allowed, no?

The next round of cut the tape should require the clerk to only post OCR'd pdfs

Chicago has introduced building code reform to allow scissor stairs in multifamily by right up to 15 floors/150 feet: chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/Matter/?matt...

two main reactions--

1. Pterodactyl isn't a dinosaur

2. I want to see the list for people who dislike dinosaurs

pleased to be in the top 2%

In the meantime, Americans can at least be glad to be better than Japan at one urbanism thing. I have never seen a rich country with such pathetic playgrounds!

End of Japan thread! I’m finally home next week, after seeing a friend in Manila then a few days in Singapore. (Send me tips for SIN.)

I'm doing my first linocut class tomorrow! Any tips???

Wilbur Wright College, Chicago USA r/brutalism

Build!

Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.

“We create our own authority for projects based on the level of seriousness that goes into them.”

A secret of success of the posting to policy pipeline, among other things

Love that

Good question. Probably? Here’s a little article about the architects, who did a number of very similar complexes achicagosojourn.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/c...

I haven’t looked it up but it 100% has to be the same architect, plus of the Winchester Hood coop and Parkway, right? I’m not sure if you can see but it has identical square cement animal motifs

I found a lovely courtyard building (really a small complex of three buildings) by one of my favorite Chicago architects just north of downtown Evanston

There are some (large) special cases, eg condos, where there probably need to be some reforms. Open to arguments that smaller buildings need some additional consideration bc of lower ability to handle administrative friction of ARO and AHSAP

IZ is good if it's funded and low-friction, the proactive upzones are a good way to make the ARO lower friction, the Affordable Housing Special Assessment Program is a good but not perfect way of funding the requirements and could probably use some fine tuning.

It is worth noting that ELI units are 30% AMI, and ARO units are averaged at 60% AMI--literally double the rent

I actually think the front is pretty but could use some furniture or something

Front view showing townhouses on either side of a shared walkway

The rear side of the townhouse is showing garages on both side sides of a 20 foot wide driveway; each townhouse has a two car garage attached

The two sides of the townhouse development coin in Chicago: small and hard to use yards in the front; cars, asphalt, and heat in the back

Also I’m not sure why we would be getting rid of well used express services

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.

www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

That's not true--there are express buses on NLSD that run within ~2 blocks of the Red Line their entire non-express length

A very early -- and cheap -- priority for NITA should be identifying every location where a bus terminates within half a mile of a train station without providing a direct transfer and fixing that. Lots of Metra stations have unused ticket agent booths that can be repurposed into bus operator relief

The specifics here are about Toronto, but the gist of it, that a lot of N. American planners don't really think about housing markets and unplanned change, applies in your city and mine