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34% complete! Derek Caelin has read 17 of 50 books.
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to …
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the …
Reading to my eight-year-old.
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in …
I'm glad I read it. There was a hot minute (hour) where I thought it all was going to end badly, which made me realize I really cared about it all.
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several …
@athena@bookrastinating.com no! Thanks
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea—“…reads like the retelling of a tale first …
The third book in the series of Howl's Moving Castle. When Charmain Baker agreed to look after her great-uncle's house, …
Strong Towns: A Bottom Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward …
It was interesting, but I don't think I've finished scratching the itch. I want to figure out how to make a better suburb.
Strong Towns: A Bottom Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward …
It is critical that every neighborhood in America be allowed, by right, to evolve to the next level of development intensity. That means empty spaces need to be allowed starter homes, even small houses, on footprints that can be expanded over time. It also means that single-family homes must be allowed to add accessory apartments, or convert to a duplex, without any special permitting, approval of neighbors, or added conditions. To become more financially productive, we need our neighborhoods to thicken up. Allowing all neighborhoods to evolve to the next increment of intensity is essential to creating positive feedback loops. No neighborhood can be kept under glass, prevented from chang- ing over time, without doing damage to the entire community. Stagnant, frozen neighborhoods are the deepest dysfunction the post-war developmnent experiment has created.
— Strong Towns by Charles L. Marohn Jr. (Page 163)
Strong Towns: A Bottom Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward …
The author of this book is blowing my mind. He argues that U.S. fascination with infrastructure amounts to a "cult" because the monetary value of maintaining it doesn't equal what is invested in it, but we all still believe it's critical.
I'm not saying I agree with this viewpoint, I'm simply flabbergasted that someone would argue it. It's the closest thing to a bipartisan position in the U.S. that the state must invest in infrastructure. I at least want to hear the argument.
Strong Towns: A Bottom Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward thinking ideas that breaks with …
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several …
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
