Mike Eliason

viz of the day.

This feels like the bar chart version of the election results by county, for which the retort is that "land doesn't vote".

What would this look like, weighted for population?

The Vegas Loop carried 16,400 passengers per day during the expo.

For context, London’s Elizabeth Line carries ~800,000 per day.

Even Victorian steam trains in 1860s London moved 3–4× more people per hour than Elon.

In case you didn’t already know: cars in tunnels aren’t the future of transit…

single stair solves this

even the drain would be precast! uff da

floor plan

4-bedroom homes?

in this economy

Common Woods | Space&Matter | Archello On the edge of the historic Nimmerdor forest in Amersfoort lies Common Woods, a circular, nature-inclusive neighbourhood of 56 homes, including detached vill...

gorgeous

archello.com/project/comm...

The Reef Waterfront Living | KCAP | Archello 2018–2024 – King's Dock, Keppel Bay, Singapore: KCAP's 429-unit development for Mapletree and Keppel Land brings the concept of...

housing?

on water?!?

seattle could never

archello.com/project/the-...

Nancy Social Housing / ABC Studio Completed in 2025 in Maxéville, France. Images by Cyrille Lallement, ABC Studio. In Maxéville, next door to the eastern French city of Nancy, ABC delivers 20 social housing units for seniors on the Ha...

sick six story single stair social housing ftw

www.archdaily.com/1039365/nanc...

Map snapshot depicting the predicted relative anomalousness of surface temperatures from the ECMWF ensemble over the Western U.S. in about a week from now. A a huge region of bright orange and red colors (depicting extremely high warm temperature anomalies) is centered right in the middle of the map, and covers essentially the entire region.

Lots of buzz online about an upcoming major March heatwave for the American SW & California. And in this case, it does indeed appear increasingly likely than an extremely anomalous and even record-breaking heatwave may envelop much of the SW about a week from now.

lower cost, re-usable, allows for affordable maintenance and rehab work - plus the public realm doesn't look like sh*t

Pictures of how the paver happy Dutch reuse materials when doing underground utility work:

the homeowners in the story saw a large increase in their wealth because the underlying land was gifted to them.

imagine if we did that for renters.

What's notable to me about these challenges to #waleg incumbents (Sabio-Howell taking on Pedersen, Ron Davis taking on Gerry Pollet, Rep. Cindy Ryu taking on her seatmate Sen. Jesse Salomon, etc) is these are well-connected political insiders mounting the challenges. Not radical outsiders.

he thinks real life is a milton bradley board game

The Sound Transit board hasn't voted to eliminate Avalon Station yet, but OPCD is already leaving it out of their station area planning survey. Ouch. bit.ly/StationAreaSurvey

The State Senate just approved Washington's elevator reform bill 41-6 after it was amended in the House, sending it to the Governor's desk.

The House's amendments removed language around international harmonization but it still represents a major reform for elevators in smaller buildings.

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

Bob Ferguson signed a whole slate of housing bills this morning, including HB 2304 on condo reform, HB 2228 on scissor stairs, and HB 1678 (being signed here) allowing cities to aid social housing developers under the Housing Cooperation Law.

Here’s the bill signing in action !

It happened ! HB 1687, was signed, sealed and delivered ! Thanks to @houseourneighbors.bsky.social & @staterepjuliareed.bsky.social !

Hostile architecture is all like "How can I make this public space less appealing?" And we wonder why our public space is so unappealing.

Plans for a new ICE prison outside of Atlanta show a catastrophe waiting to happen www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

(PDF) Vélomobility - A critical analysis of planning and space PDF | The purpose of this doctoral study is to bring a spatial dimension into the research on urban mobilities and connect the spatial dimension to the... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

This article by Till Koglin is a great comparison between Copenhagen and Stockholm, looking at the historic and socioeconomic reasons why one became a cycling city but the other didn't:

(PDF) Vélomobility - A critical analysis of planning and space share.google/EcIpZq2zXxYn...

i'm not convinced council cares about this after several conversations but... we'll see!

Wow wish we had a landmark piece of legislation that helped to fund transit, weatherization, and energy alternatives so that a volatile fossil fuel market didn't impact our households so much right now

An act to reduce inflation, if you will

Minnesota lawmaker Katie Jones rode in a cargo e-bike to the hospital for her baby's birth. Her husband, Peter Schmitt, pedaled the two miles there.

On the return journey, their son Hans – all 8 pounds and 1 ounce of him – was bundled up and handled it just fine, Jones said.

Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Chicago "The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

single stair auch, glaub ich

rendering of a 5 storey building complex

rendering of community space

earth building, affordable, inclusive, baugruppe ... in Munich. TERRA VIVA bauimpuls.info

This new building advertises that it has more bicycle parking spaces than car parking spaces (as required by law).

www.newspace.ag/projekte/p-k...

cc: @holz-bau.bsky.social