Oscar Sims

awesome - have you got sample input and output files? would be cool to make a port of this in javascript so it could be turned into a little web tool

what does the reduplication mean in this context?

Madrid's metro system in 1994 - diagram of metro lines

Madrid's metro system after 2007 - diagram of metro lines.

Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years, faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world.

Left: in 1994
Right: after 2007

Cost per mile: £64–91 million

(around 7x cheaper than London's Jubilee & Northern line expansions & 14x cheaper than Toronto's Ontario line)

as a Kiwi-Finn I am twice-offended!

I got this as well. Evil!

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I'm thankful for all the cool people all over the world working to build better cities. 👍🦃

Copilot has gone from "a neat curosity" to "I will find another profession if I cannot use this" this year for me.

(I imagine if it keeps getting better I will have to find another profession anyway, but)

Spoken like a true American, I bet you even believe they drink Foster's in Australia

'Australian Bar' seems to increasingly be a category of this, which has proved very useful for watching rugby and cricket matches while I've been travelling the world

In this working paper that was published today, Matthew Maltman and I review some of the economic evidence on the effects of ✨upzoning✨in Auckland in 2016.

tldr: We find remarkably robust evidence that upzoning led to more housing and lower rents in Auckland. Wow!
www.motu.nz/our-research...

Of the 10 of us in my main 'University of Auckland friends' group chat, only two will be living in New Zealand next year (both in public-sector jobs). The human capital flight from NZ is unbelievable

Brutalism is tight but we need to be lairmaxxing in 1980s-90s High Tech buildings.

estonian politician rain epler

in Estonia, they call this the 'Rain Epler' cut

Obviously there are geopolitical concerns with MTR corp now, but they've definitely been doing a better job than TfL themselves have at running the Underground

Yes several people I have met here who have lived in Australia have said this

The houses are warm! A revelation!

Every day in Tallinn now is colder than the coldest day I ever experienced during a New Zealand winter. It snowed this morning.

It is such an indictment of NZ's housing stock that I can sit in my apartment in shorts - something that was never possible in the house I grew up in

Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Not sure if I shared this but I agree with the recommendations in this guide by @georgiststeve.bsky.social

stephenhoskins.notion.site/Steve-s-Sing...

one of my favourite spots in the entire world

Building off my AusCities feed, I've put together a starter pack of urban thinkers, advocates and journalists across Australia and New Zealand.

Daytrip to Helsinki. I am going into the lucrative Christmas lights business

City fringe, new build, rent is half what I paid in Auckland. A better world is possible

I live in a six storey apartment block with ground floor retail, a housing typology that is essentially nonexistent in New Zealand and still difficult to build cheaply

I think you might be right about this yeah

I think outsiders (and some insiders) overrate internal party politics as a difficulty relative to just like, raising money and running a competent mostly-volunteer organisation

I know they're passé, but I'm a single issue voter on building The Tunnel

YouTube video by NZ Builder // Josh Chapman Am I Ruining Neighbourhoods With My Infill Housing Projects?

Great video from Josh Chapman, a Kiwi Builder, about why infill housing is important and why he builds it. 🏠

Thanks for sharing Coalition for More Homes. Source; X

youtu.be/ky8zguKcq-k

AU/NZ suggestions: me, @grugstan.bsky.social @jonobri.bsky.social @pleasedontatme.bsky.social @abundanthousing.org.au @greatercanberra.org.au @sydney.yimby.au @yimbymelbourne.bsky.social @greaterbrisbane.bsky.social @oscarsims.bsky.social, @urbanistfromwhk.bsky.social @greater-otautahi.bsky.social