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@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-09-15 06:56:10

Stylish Prefab Home Can Be ‘Dropped’ into Flooded Areas or Anywhere Housing is Needed goodnewsnetwork.org/prefab-hom

Prefab Home Can Be ‘Dropped’ into Flooded Areas or Anywhere Housing is Needed
To cope with rising sea levels, architects in Indonesia designed the Drop Pod, a stylish modular structure that is “quick to install.”

@scott@carfree.city
2025-07-10 23:43:51

No one wants to live on Van Ness because it's a loud car sewer. Condo listings with a Van Ness address will tell you in all-caps if the unit doesn't face Van Ness. There's also no green space there. It makes housing on the corridor a passing-through place rather than somewhere to set down roots.

Van Ness Is ‘In Crisis.’ Revival Plans Hinge On Housing Towers and Chain Stores
This main SF thoroughfare once had grand houses and auto palaces. Now there’s a great bus line, but empty storefronts. Can it again be a place to live and linger?

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2025-07-10 19:24:52

i saw this in a krugman post:
Recently the West Side Rag, my ultra-local news source, ran an article titled “The Upper West Side: A Neighborhood for Independent Minds.” Lots of interesting history, but frankly my first reaction was “Yeah, independent minds who can afford to pay $1600 a square foot for housing.”
meanwhile my next door neigbor just got halfway-to-new-york-ridiculous per sq ft. in ann arbor for pete's sake

This is a real estate marketing image showing a historic brick building that has just been sold. The building is a classic 19th-century commercial structure with green-painted brick exterior, featuring ornate architectural details including decorative cornices, arched windows with white trim, and ground-floor storefronts. The property is located at 111 S 4th Avenue #2/3 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and sold for $1.75 million according to the Christie's International Real Estate and @properties mark…
@imprs_solar@academiccloud.social
2025-09-03 19:29:15
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Thank you so much to @… for hosting us today and showing us around some of the fascinating venues on Telegraphenberg in the Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein as well as your Potsdamer Babelsberg site! We saw the impressive Great Refractor, the famous Einsteinturm, and enjoyed a very inspiring talk by Prof. Poppenhaeger.

View from the back of a large modern seminar room to the front of the room with the title slide of an exoplanets talk projected. A group of people are sitting on chairs in the room, anticipating the start of the talk.
Inside a large cupola with a wooden roof, a group of people are looking at a large refractor telescope. It's two very long tubes on a mount, painted dark green. The instrument is huge in comparison to the people standing underneath it.
People posing for a group picture in a large cupola with a wooden roof housing a large refractor telescope.
People posing for a group photo at the entrance of a historical building. It's round and extends upwards beyond the frame of the image.
@scott@carfree.city
2025-07-25 01:33:05

Great reframing by Malcolm Harris at 52:50 here: When a capitalist says they need more profit to invest in something socially beneficial like housing, that profit is a fee they collect from the public, and a blockage that exists *because* there's a capitalist class that controls the money we need. That's really insightful and I'd never thought of it that way.

Actual Abundance w/ Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, Paul Williams
Featuring Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, and Paul Williams on Abundance. A debate and discussion of: the book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions of how we make the affordable housing, green energy, and fast trains we need; and how actual capitalist social relations appear to us in mystified form as “supply” and “demand.”