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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 18h

Oh no I love it. So long it's like a quadruple A.

Cross-laminated & Skinned her 👻 🦇 🎃 @nickhasthoughts.com · 18h

🚨 A-frame alert 🚨

look at those timber and steel buttresses I think I'm in love 🥰. I look forward to the bidding war @langealexandra.bsky.social 😈, it's gonna take Dow money

www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 19h

Love this since I actually wrote that ALL urban leaders should be doing that www.politico.com/interactives...

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‘stina is a scary spectral one 👻 @stinapag.bsky.social · 20h

BTW, the Chronicle is polling folk on Metro's decision, if anyone wants to give them input:

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 19h

Catalog here if you can't make it mitpress.mit.edu/978026204489...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 19h

Great segment @wnyc.org on Designing Motherhood at MAD. I wrote the foreword for the catalog and can attest, it's a great show www.wnyc.org/story/how-de...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 23h

It was Richard Haag in Seattle in the 1960s (sorry if you were hoping for someone contemporary, this was for book research)

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 23h

Reading about a famous landscape architect who camped out in a sleeping bag all over the site when he was working on the masterplan. Who is doing it like that now?

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

I lurk there for the sports! Sports media and chatter has not moved at all

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

I think I talked to someone about Bayfair last year (even I get the malls mixed up) and it did seem like a site that should be a TOD no-brainer

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

My dad just sent me the one millionth article on San Francisco Centre I really think the reporters need to get out more

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 2d

Loved reading this @timothyaschuler.bsky.social piece about the Erie Canal’s first 200 years … and what’s next (bridges! trails! art!) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Long Comeback of the Erie Canal

One of America’s first major public works projects is marking its 200th anniversary — and seeking a path to the future.

www.bloomberg.com

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 2d

yes, us! here you go:

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 2d

??? I'm seeing mid-major publishing house but I suppose the font-first logos had to get phased out eventually. In 10 years everything will be geometric symbol again.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 2d

Keri Russell = Brooklyn neighbor, kids the same age, AND also allergic to success (I broke out in hives for the first time ever after I won the Pulitzer) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

TIL about Baby Park in Queens and I am fully on board with the Restore Baby Park movement www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/07/b...

How Queensbridge’s “Baby Park” Became an Orphan and a Battleground for LIC Rezoning

Public housing residents want to bring back a once beloved, New Deal-era strip of playgrounds under the Queensboro Bridge. Local Councilmember Julie Won said she won’t approve the rezoning plan withou...

www.thecity.nyc

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 8d

@skpawlicki.bsky.social was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

Women's History Illuminated

Women's History and the National Historic Landmarks Program

storymaps.arcgis.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 6d

More nuanced than most writing on this topic! The social aspect of gaming, and the social currency of knowing about games, should not be overlooked (balance is everything)

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 6d

How Video Games Are Shaping a Generation of Boys, for Better and Worse www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

How Video Games Are Shaping a Generation of Boys, for Better and Worse

www.nytimes.com

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 6d

It would be poetic if Benjamin Franklin Parkway went pedestrian ... they did it for the Bicentennial!

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 6d

"At a time when families are leaving cities for the leafy suburbs, open streets show how kids can play, bike, and run around the city — particularly if we reduce car lanes."

Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 6d

“There are a number of reasons to think that we have a unique window of opportunity to make more pedestrian streets permanent right now,” writes Diana Lind. “We shouldn’t squander this moment.”

Can Pedestrian Pop-Ups Go Permanent in the U.S.? — Streetsblog USA

Can temporary pedestrian pop-ups spur permanent change?

buff.ly

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 6d

Lots of people equate charisma with what movie stars have but there are lots of different kinds ...

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 6d

My favorite thing to listen to right now is Michael Bise's trove of Gap in-store playlists from the late 1990s to early 2000s. He's been hunting for these pieces of ephemera for 20 years! www.theverge.com/report/79080...

The quest for every Gap store playlist ever

Gap Playlists is an exercise in data collection and nostalgia.

www.theverge.com

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 7d

As I freelancer I am not on a payroll so I guess I have that at least!

Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for this response! Not trying to start a fight, it is just that this is my crossing and there was an SUV parked in it yesterday afternoon which caused me to ?!?!

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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 7d

Great example of how tariffs harm broad economic segments but benefit narrow niche interests: housing analysts + NAHB worry (rightly) that tariffs on cabinets will slow housing production. Who's happy? The American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

New Tariffs Could Worsen America’s Housing Crisis

www.nytimes.com

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