Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️
@jgbollard.bsky.social
I am writing a book about the ways the founders of American urban planning experimented on the neighborhoods of Washington, DC before World War II. I am also a licensed architect.
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White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.
For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.
www.theatlantic.com
The only thing that has ever stood in the way of the president building a big gaudy ballroom, is an understanding that the powerful would defer to self-appointed experts.
And now we see what a bad system that was.
And now we see what a bad system that was.
Nobody has ever done the posting to policy pipeline like him 🫡
Paul’s at the forefront of American housing policy. Tying together YIMBYism, public finance, and public development, he’s building *the model* for American social housing.
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Nobody has ever done the posting to policy pipeline like him 🫡
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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The different lc "a" glyphs might be elegant variation—changing the form up for interest. As to the alphabet, possibly someone with training in lettering/drafting—see this sheet from the Olmsted firm's _Instructions to Draftsmen_, 1932.
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The different lc "a" glyphs might be elegant variation—changing the form up for interest. As to the alphabet, possibly someone with training in lettering/drafting—see this sheet from the Olmsted firm's _Instructions to Draftsmen_, 1932.
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#Architecture, Hybridity, and the Codex Mellon: Collaborative Design at St. Peter’s #earlymodern
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tickets.nga.gov/events/019a5...
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#Architecture, Hybridity, and the Codex Mellon: Collaborative Design at St. Peter’s #earlymodern
tickets.nga.gov/events/019a5...
tickets.nga.gov/events/019a5...
Lot of thoughts on this interview, but I'll lead with her best point: the indoor air quality standard in ASHRAE Standard 62.1, and incorporated into our model mechanical code, is essentially miasma theory (80% comfort with odorous effluent).
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Lot of thoughts on this interview, but I'll lead with her best point: the indoor air quality standard in ASHRAE Standard 62.1, and incorporated into our model mechanical code, is essentially miasma theory (80% comfort with odorous effluent).
The thing about moralizing content like this is that it provides plenty of opportunity for viewers to imagine exactly what that "cheap theatrical manager" was up to.
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The thing about moralizing content like this is that it provides plenty of opportunity for viewers to imagine exactly what that "cheap theatrical manager" was up to.
Crowds at the 1893 World's Fair left obsessed with one painting on exhibit: the departure of a fresh faced boy from his country home.
Called "Breaking Home Ties," its ambiguous sentimentality about the possibilities of urban living irritated conservatives and modern aesthetes alike. 🗃️
Called "Breaking Home Ties," its ambiguous sentimentality about the possibilities of urban living irritated conservatives and modern aesthetes alike. 🗃️
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Crowds at the 1893 World's Fair left obsessed with one painting on exhibit: the departure of a fresh faced boy from his country home.
Called "Breaking Home Ties," its ambiguous sentimentality about the possibilities of urban living irritated conservatives and modern aesthetes alike. 🗃️
Called "Breaking Home Ties," its ambiguous sentimentality about the possibilities of urban living irritated conservatives and modern aesthetes alike. 🗃️
Pretty sure that this isn't cubist architecture but who's to say? Nobody buy tiktok folklorists has ever researched the topic 😞.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Pretty sure that this isn't cubist architecture but who's to say? Nobody buy tiktok folklorists has ever researched the topic 😞.
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How dead inside do you have to be to do this to your brand?
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
How dead inside do you have to be to do this to your brand?
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SHE IS ROASTING COFFEE WHILE MARCHING IN THE PARADE this is why Silver Spring is the best Spring
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
SHE IS ROASTING COFFEE WHILE MARCHING IN THE PARADE this is why Silver Spring is the best Spring
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🚨 My latest blog post is on Bergpolderflat, Rotterdam - the 1934 modernist scheme that revolutionised social housing and provided the prototype of the postwar slab block:
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🚨 My latest blog post is on Bergpolderflat, Rotterdam - the 1934 modernist scheme that revolutionised social housing and provided the prototype of the postwar slab block:
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...
And it pains me to say, I was wrong
Love is not a symptom of time
Time is just a symptom of love
(Aquinas)
Love is not a symptom of time
Time is just a symptom of love
(Aquinas)
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
And it pains me to say, I was wrong
Love is not a symptom of time
Time is just a symptom of love
(Aquinas)
Love is not a symptom of time
Time is just a symptom of love
(Aquinas)
Thanks google, very AI
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Thanks google, very AI
The owners of the Spirit deserve credit for ditching the post-Bicentennial DC design tropes: making everything red white and blue, vaguely Americana, and polished and polite. We're lucky the red and burgundy was too iconic for the Commanders to change it like the Wizards. Just their own thing.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The owners of the Spirit deserve credit for ditching the post-Bicentennial DC design tropes: making everything red white and blue, vaguely Americana, and polished and polite. We're lucky the red and burgundy was too iconic for the Commanders to change it like the Wizards. Just their own thing.
A cornerstone of professionalization of architecture is that it makes us self-regulating. Even today, joining the AIA means agreeing to a code of ethics.
It's rare, but any member can charge another with a breach of this code, and it seems it might happen for the architect of the Epstein Ballroom.
It's rare, but any member can charge another with a breach of this code, and it seems it might happen for the architect of the Epstein Ballroom.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A cornerstone of professionalization of architecture is that it makes us self-regulating. Even today, joining the AIA means agreeing to a code of ethics.
It's rare, but any member can charge another with a breach of this code, and it seems it might happen for the architect of the Epstein Ballroom.
It's rare, but any member can charge another with a breach of this code, and it seems it might happen for the architect of the Epstein Ballroom.
Another interesting survey.
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Another interesting survey.
Lads, if we can all just pool our money, I think we've got a shot.
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Lads, if we can all just pool our money, I think we've got a shot.
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If you’re traveling through O’Hare’s Terminal 5 over the holiday season, stop to see @chicollections.bsky.social’s holiday tree between gates M18 and M20!
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
If you’re traveling through O’Hare’s Terminal 5 over the holiday season, stop to see @chicollections.bsky.social’s holiday tree between gates M18 and M20!
What a time to be alive
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What a time to be alive
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mom come pick me up, the fire pump company's horny again
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
mom come pick me up, the fire pump company's horny again
Someone posted in the main Waldorf facebook group about getting metro to Waldorf, and it brought out a multiracial coalition of people afraid of the bus. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ack...
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Someone posted in the main Waldorf facebook group about getting metro to Waldorf, and it brought out a multiracial coalition of people afraid of the bus. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ack...
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32 years ago today, we first witnessed the wonder of the My Dinner with Andre video game. “Boy-Scoutz ‘n the Hood” premiered November 18, 1993.
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
32 years ago today, we first witnessed the wonder of the My Dinner with Andre video game. “Boy-Scoutz ‘n the Hood” premiered November 18, 1993.