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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️

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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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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 11h

Total denial of traffic and specifically the automobile is a defining problem of City Beautiful

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 11h

Brother Renn is ready to be selling bean pies and Muhammad Speaks

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty brazen to describe the case against Columbus as "just another white guy." Buddy, he was anything but.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 11h

Aaron Renn's brain is pure everything app homogenate now. Sad!

While the idea of a war on Christmas is exaggerated, it is undoubtedly the case that institutions prefer to avoid recognizing the religious nature of the holiday, using terms like "Seasons Greetings" or "Happy Holidays." As is probably near universal now, our local school system refers to the Christmas break as "Winter Break."
There have also been explicit attacks against public symbols of the people they hate. The toppling and destruction of statues is a good example.
Monday is Columbus Day. Originally a holiday to provide symbolic recognition of Italian American immigrants, Columbus is now just another white guy, so naturally having a holiday named for him is intolerable. The left has counter-programmed with this with the so-called "Indigenous People's Day." Statues of Columbus are a frequent target of would be vandalizers.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 12h

“The design-build institute of America defines “design-build” as…”

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 12h

The email exchange with Duncan Stroik about delivery by next July is funny if you’ve ever built anything at all.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 13h

Classicists have been floating a triumphal arch for DC for approximately forever. Catesby Leigh pitched it most recently in December www.city-journal.org/article/trum...

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 12h

Me at the John Deere Headquarters

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13h

It would be funny if the goddess here is modeled on Bari Weiss but it’s probably Laura Loomer.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13h

Waiting for our podunk nazis to hand the keys back to Mitt when they realize that Mormons are the superior amalgamation.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13h

OK, so race mixing is good if it's between different kinds of white people but not when it's with anyone else? Sure, OK.

REED SMOOT.

It will not be disputed that the mingling of nationalities by inter-marriage has a ten-deney to improve and regenerate.
The highest type of white man is the composite
type, blending in one lineage the best qualities of many. The world-dominating Anglo-Saxon, with his physical, mental, moral and spiritual excellence, is a result of race amalgamation —a mixture of Celt, Briton, Saxon, Norman and Dane. The typical American is the joint product of the most enlightened peoples on earth, and history is but repeating itself in creating the typical son of Utah, by a union of forces and powers that are sure to make for the general betterment of mankind.
Senator Reed Smoot is a native of Utah, of all States in the Union the one which has done most to fulfill the ancient forecast of gathering her sons from far and her daughters from the ends of the earth. He descends from two great races, both composite in character, both famous for sterling qualities and the service they have rendered civili-zation. His father was of the Anglo-Saxon stock which peopled the shores of North America and founded the mightiest of human governments; while his mother came of a lineage more ancient still, her ancestors being the adventurous Norsemen, the first European discoverers of this continent.
Abraham Owen Smoot, a power in the found-
ing of Utah, and a social and financial pillar of the commonwealth, was born in the State' of Kentucky, and Anna Kerstina Morrison Smoot came from Brekka, Norway. They were of heroic mould and mettle, and their distinguished son has inherited many of their noble traits.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13h

the my dinner with andre game from the simpsons

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13h

I mean it's a traffic circle that's basically impossible to get to so sure.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13h

great detail that the Lincoln Memorial is rotated to be on the bridge axis.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13h

lol, lmao even

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14h

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 21h

Alright but I think these ladies are gonna want running skirts if they're gonna get a stake

A Phenomenal Sale of Walking Skirts
$3.98
$5.98
$7.98
Worth $6.00 to $15.00
The surplus stocks of two prominent skirt makers purchased at about 50c on the dollar. Including the famous "Lady
Fitwell" Skirts.
This is the time of year makers seek a quick outlet for their surplus stocks. Two of the leading skirt manufacturers of New York city, one of them the designer of the famous "Lady Fitwell" Walking Skirts, came to us with a proposition to take off their hands the surplus stocks left after filling regular orders. The inducements were so great that we quickly came to an agreement-and closed both deals in time to inaugurate this great double event for Saturday.
It is no exaggeration to state that the values' have never been equaled in our history. The high-class work-manship, the splendid materials and fine styles, all contribute to make this a sale of sensational proportions.
No woman who has the slightest need for a new Skirt, or expects to have this summer, can afford to ignore the opportunity presented tomorrow.
More than 2,000 Skirts in the Sale-divided into three lots.
LOT 1.
At $3.98
LOT 2.
At $5.98
LOT 3.
At $7.98

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 21h

I remember when the JCDecaux designs were proposed. They wanted to get rid of the tinting, benches, and more complete enclosures in order to prevent homeless people from setting up tents and make it easy to see into the shelters at night. Metro's shelters used to have those things.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 21h

Harland Bartholomew's indifference toward Black communities is well known now, but if you read his firm's output, like this pioneering recreation study for Orlando, see is an appealing vision of civic life. It's easy to see how people with good intentions could sign off on stuff like it. Even today.

CLASSIFICATION F POPULATION
FACILITIES WHICH SHOULD BE AVAILABLE
SMALL CHILDREN
HOME GROUNDS
INTERIOR BLOCK PLAYGROUNDS NEARBY CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS
& KINDERGARTENS
DRIVES
PROMENADES ) IN PARKS
SCHOOL CHILDREN
HOME GROUNDS
INTERIOR BLOCK PLAYGROUNDS
PLAY AREAS IN PARKS SWIMMING POOLS
HORSE SHOE COURTS
LAWN BOWLING
BOY & GIRL SCOUT CAMPS
SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS
PLAYFIELDS FOR ATHLETICS COMMUNITY CENTERS
OUTLYING NATURALISTIC DARKS
YOUTH
ADULTS
PLAY FIELDS
SWIMMING POOLS
HORSE SHOE COURTS
LAWN BOWLING
NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS
LARGE PARKS
COMMUNITY CENTERS
PLEASURE DRIVES
HARLAND BARTHOLO MEN & ASSOCIATES
CITY PLAN / LANDSCAPE ENGINEERS
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& RECREATION FACILITIES

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 21h

I agree with you but the complaints you have about "aesthetics" are really about perceptions of safety/disorderly behavior. I think we're seeing how a lot of that is in a sense aesthetic but it's not arbitrary.

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AmusedToDeath @amusedtodeath.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just here for the air conditioning memes

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps Ms. Perry would have found politics less stressful if she allowed department heads to exercise the powers delegated to them and their professional staffs. Oh well.