Addison Del Mastro Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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After painting Kathy Hochul’s housing plan as radical and suspect, Kevin Williamson approvingly quotes "Arbitrary Lines" by Nolan Gray, in which Gray calls for the abolition of zoning. Huh. https://t.co/U6lIFcQeGJ

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@rachelvetica The Future Is Analog, by David Sax

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@ear2thepavement Most "stroad repairs" are very deliberate projects, that is true. But read Charles Marohn's most recent book, "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer." He explains in detail how the traffic engineering profession has codified this stuff into best practices.

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Those photos of museum exhibits say the following: In 1912, Culpeper had an opera house. In the early 20th century, it became the first settlement between Alexandria and Charlottesville to install electric lights. And it once set a Guinness World Record.

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What I did was engage in abstract guesswork, trying to reverse-engineer where this bizarre conflation of tradition urbanism with *lockdowns* and *imprisonment* came from. In his Strong Towns podcast, Charles Marohn did the same thing. Interesting. But maybe we didn't need to.

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@policyfailure I think you're right. If this topic interests you check out "Secondhand" by Adam Minter. It's a fascinating book on the global thrift/reuse industry!

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@bgoldst Sort of related, Main Street to Miracle Mile by Chester H. Liebs (on the evolution and, a little bit, the preservation of American roadside commercial architecture)

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I'm in @BulwarkOnline with a review of/thoughts on @LangeAlexandra's "Meet Me By the Fountain," an excellent history of the American shopping mall and its surprisingly close relationship to the American city https://t.co/jXxBPnIsGM

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