Very few things piss me off quite so much as people who fight against #AffordableHousing and places of commerce to attract #immigration and building #density because they figure that if they want to be near other people, they can just get in their god-given car and pollute the #environment to drive to where other people are. #urbanism #NIMBYism
75% lease-up at downtown Victoria's newest rental tower a nod to strong demand in city centre victoria.citified.ca/news/75-leas... #yyj #urbanism

75% lease-up at downtown Victo...
75% lease-up at downtown Victoria's newest rental tower a nod to strong demand in city centre | Citified.ca

119-unit 825 Fort tower has generated significant interest among tenants since hitting the market in early 2026.

Citified Victoria

Friday Links 26-07

Today is a weird one, so much in engineering is about AI.

Check out the live coding trance video and pretty Stockholm metro videos.

https://christof.damian.net/2026/02/friday-links-26-07.html

#fridaylinks #friday #links #engineering #urbanism #environment

Friday Links 26-07

Today is a weird one, so much in engineering is about AI. Check out the live coding trance video and pretty Stockholm metro videos. Engineering Extremely Lazy and Immensely Curious - I still think it makes you dumb. Mediations #35: Learning. Again. And Again. - learning how AI fits in and how we fit in. Implementing a clean room Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code - is it clean code if Claude probably had access to a Z80 emulator at some point?

Christof Damian

Si je suis moins présent ces temps-ci, c’est parceque je prépare une espece d’essai ou de manifeste sur un système de ville idéale appelé __Polis__.

#utopie #villeNouvelle #urbanism #architecture #politics #politique #municialité #democratie #democracy #citéIdiale #idealCity

Transport #Scotland is running a virtual exhibition room for the public to respond on what to do with the Woodside Viaduct: https://www.pinpointcloud.co.uk/M8WoodsideViaducts/

Please check out the proposals and let them know of your preferred solution.

Option 3 involves removing the ageing & expensive structure and reconnecting the neighbourhoods ripped apart by the motorway, it’s the only way to go in my eyes.

#scotland #glasgow #transport #urbanism #uk #scotpol #ukpol #travel

PinPoint ConnectALL

A really excellent outsider’s perspective on urbanism — from my favourite encyclopaedic podcast #urbanism #coreurbanism

https://youtu.be/nDb66pFyO_o

15-Minute Cities – How Urban Design Entered the Culture War | Origin Story

YouTube

From a comment on this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm4de6-eTg)

'Whenever someone says, "SUVs are safer than sedans", I reply, "I stand up in movie theaters because the view is better" '

I'm stealing that and will be using it all the time now. #urbanism

How Boomers Ruined Cars

YouTube
Plan to pedestrianise London’s Oxford Street given official go-ahead

Sadiq Khan promises to create ‘world-leading urban space’, with remaining traffic removed this summer

The Guardian