China's ancient water pipe networks show they were a communal effort with no evidence of a centralized state authority: set to maximum Kropotkin. (phys.org)
Minneapolis cannot proceed with 2040 Plan, court rules (www.startribune.com)
The 2040 plan is mainly an ending of single-family zoning. Anecdotally, I’ve seen a lot more apartments going up around the Twin Cities in the last few years. The Frey regime are neoliberal ghouls, and this is a classic YIMBY approach to tackling housing shortages. The opponents of this plan are somehow even worse, an...
The End of Airbnb in New York (www.wired.com)
Local Law 18, which came into force Tuesday, is so strict it doesn’t just limit how Airbnb operates in the city—it almost bans it entirely for many guests and hosts. From now on, all short-term rental hosts in New York must register with the city, and only those who live in the place they’re renting—and are present when...
Birmingham effectively declares bankruptcy, time to slash services! (www.bbc.com)
Disgusting BBC article goes happily along with the framing that this is due to equal pay settlements, nothing to do with the dozens of real-estate-industry backed money pits that took the place of building infrastructure for anywhere besides the city center. Nothing to do with the pandemic. Nothing to do with decades of...
I present: terminal carbrain. Someone in my major US city owns one of these (www.apocalypse6x6.com)
How in the FUCK are these allowed on the roads? I saw one go by me with my own two eyes and it was the BIGGEST thing on a regular old road I’ve ever seen, hands down.
Another Major Home Insurer To Limit Business in California (sfstandard.com)
Hochul's torpedoing congestion pricing in lower Manhattan (archive.is)
I knew it wasn’t going to happen, because libs refuse to ever do anything good, but I figured it would be Adams, not Hochul.
Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16321714...
