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The best way to say it is: "Peak oil isn't about running out of oil, it's about running out of CHEAP oil." Unfortunately our economy depends on cheap oil, but whenever we have an opportunity to steer it away from that, even to just some small degree, the efforts are thwarted.

It was an old church building of some sort that had been used for medical offices, or maybe it was originally built for that purpose, I'm not sure. Either way it was a fraction of the size of the new apartments, and buildings like that aren't generally convertible to residential (think a double-loaded corridor with numerous 8'x8' rooms on each side). More broadly speaking though, single-family homes are sacrosanct. The only place where building dense is allowed is areas where it's already allowed, so 4-plexes and small apartments get demolished and rebuilt as Texas donuts like this (I know technically it's not, but the overall scale is right), while the single-family homes are left untouched. The clash in scale causes opposition to any and all "density creep" into the single-family neighborhoods, but the supply constriction it causes results in greater pressure for denser development at whatever sites can be secured, so only large-scale projects are viable. This is why the large condo building at Observatory and Shaw in Hyde Park replaced a bunch of 4-plexes and a rather handsome art deco apartment on the corner that had at least eight sizable units, but I think the actual number was nearly double that. https://goo.gl/maps/GSsQ2kuGPCJ8m5bx6 The new building has 30 luxury units, replacing no less than 24 relatively more affordable units, and likely reducing the total density. It could've been built just a block away, or even closer to Hyde Park Square just in another direction, in the space occupied by 6-8 single-family homes, but we can't have that.

It's like they dusted off an old development plan from 1972 and said "this looks fine."

Exactly. You pedestrianize the narrowest and busiest streets, otherwise they become empty and foreboding.

^ But they play classical music on the sidewalk! How is that anything but good? ?

The CH&D Railroad information is weirdly spotty, and like Jake said it talks about cable cars that never ran to Northside, and then goes to streetcars, and it's done. Like they had four more paragraphs that were just deleted but the remaining ones weren't adjusted to compensate. I love the plan diagram though, that's great for an architect/map nerd, but it'll help normal people understand where the buses are coming and going from too. The dot matrix display is nice, and the benches, shelters, bathrooms, and are there bike racks? We just need to see a bin bag blowing in the breeze (I hope someone gets that reference).

Neat! Looks like they did a redress in the 1920s and the original huge double-hung windows just weren't the right fit for the new look, were too much of a heat loss (this is the north side of the building after all), or were too close to the ceiling.

Awesome!

Was the ability to insert hyperlinks removed from the toolbar, or was it never there? We can change normal text formatting, insert lists, emojis, justify, and even insert raw code, but what about basic linking? I know it can still be done with HTML or BBCode, but didn't there used to be a little link/chain icon so you could just select some text and then embed a hyperlink into it without having to break out <a href= or brackets?

I'm in 132 and Jake is 138. 133 on the airport is really good too. https://cincyshirts.podbean.com

I have no problem with it ? and thanks!

In a case like this I'd want to evaluate the design of the addition as if it was a totally separate building. That's basically the approach they're taking anyway, just that the floors happen to all line up. In a case like that though I think a bit of a height difference between the two buildings would be warranted. I hope they can keep as much of the south side of the old building exposed on the inside as they can, that buff common brick is really nice looking, and very uncommon here as opposed to places like Chicago. Even there it tends to have more black and red mixed in, depending on whether it's been cleaned or not. I'm curious where it came from.

And many of the companies with those low-wage jobs won't take someone so overqualified because they know they'll jump ship as soon as possible. Assistant night manager isn't a career path for them. Those jobs likely pay less than unemployment too.

That's fascinating, and these aren't at intersections either.

Those buildings always fascinated me. They're some of the few remnants of that corner of downtown's early industrial heritage, probably old textile mills or shoe factories. Maislin was built in 1860, which is quite old for a building of that size, and Barrister to the right is from 1885. I bet they're great loft spaces, without also being monstrously huge and difficult to repurpose.

"I recommend a slow, steady gorging process combined with assal horizontology."

Well there's design techniques and fabrication techniques. Design techniques would be the dovetails, mortise & tenon, pegs, etc., versus bolts, plates, rods, and screws. Fabrication techniques would be using the hand saws, axes, and chisels versus power saws, planers, routers, and sandpaper. You can match the old design using modern methods, but if you really want the hand hewn finish and slight variances in joints from the original, then those antique fabrication techniques are probably the way to go too. They certainly look good on the camera, but I haven't heard about them adding sprinklers, firewalls, or other improvements that could prevent this from happening again. It seems way too emotionally charged and illogical.

Fingers crossed I guess?

Read back through the history of this thread and you'll see him rehash the same "vehicular cycling is the only true way" and "X road is super easy to ride on we don't need bike infrastructure" arguments over and over while everyone else points out that if that were the case then why are only low single-digit percentages of people riding here versus places that have decent bike infrastructure, etc. It repeats every couple of years.

Madison Road.

All the pandemic has done is reduce the number of listings, so prices haven't budged. Empty lots and fixer uppers are all being bought by flippers and speculators looking to be a middleman. I've been looking for 2-3 years now and haven't seen any sign of the market cooling off, which is a real downer. Even if it does, then these people will just sit on those properties indefinitely. There's two houses at the end of my street that are not in good shape but could be fixed up, yet they've been abandoned for at least half a decade now awaiting some sort of windfall.

That article was written in 2008, at which point the house had been languishing unfinished for 28 years. Incredible.