Mastodawn

Someone from Marin County California sent me this picture from their local street... where the median home value is 1.3 million dollars....

Not only do NIMBYs prevent people from having an affordable place to call home, they also guarantee perpetual car-dependent society.

1/ The author @[email protected] of the original axios article, where the data for this figure comes from, reached out to me saying that @[email protected] didn't use the data appropriately, therefore creating a misleading figure. Let me explain how the figure is misleading:

2/ In the original axios article the authors measured the ratio between the bed and the interior space of the cab (starting from the end of the front windshield to the back windshield), excluding the hood. https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history

Pickup trucks have gotten bigger, higher-tech — and more dangerous

America has a unique love affair with pickup trucks — the Ford F-150, for instance, has been the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. for more than 40 years. During that time, pickups have changed significantly: they’ve become bigger, more high-tech — and more dangerous.

4/ On the left is the original figure in the axios article. You can see that @[email protected] used the same truck sketches found in the axios article, but they distorted their length to fit with their false cab proportion numbers. This creates a very misleading figure.

3/ @[email protected]'s figure made the mistake of using data for interior cab space to refer to cab space + hood space. Creating a false percentage number considering their figure clearly labels the hood space as "cab".

Here are the floorplans. This is the Atrio building in Zurich.

I love the personal lobby in front the kitchen. I like the idea of walking down the external corridor and seeing your neighbors cook supper, perhaps they might even invite you for supper as they see you walk down!

This is a great example of a newly built apartment building with a pro-social design. I'm pretty sure this one would even be legal to build in North America!

I loved staying in my friend's apartment building in Germany as it had 2 beautiful spiral staircases. They served as the main socializing space. For example, neighbours would have morning coffee together before going to work. I wish we had more pro-social apartment design in NA.