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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 · 28m

Can’t afford solar panels on a project because alteration requires reinforcement to meet 2021 IBC snow loads requiring the burning of more gas leading to less snow. Profit???

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 7h

The Merced River making me say “mercy!”

Sentinel dome reflecting into the tree-lines Merced River

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 7h

Who is she?

Pile of soil and rocks labeled “sandy loam”

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 7h

Also

Do you have a moment to talk about Unitarianism? No, the other one

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 7h

Et in Arcadia, ANSI

Head height edge protection rails on a boardwalk

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 7h

The ACA worked tightly with Mather—and even more so his deputy Horace Albright, since Mather seems to have had bipolar disorder and was frequently out of commission—and while they preferred more rustic concessions, Harlean James recognized the political value.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 7h

Basketcore

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 7h

Bringing high-end hospitality to National Parks was a pet project of its first director, Stephen T. Mather. Besides being a fancy boy borax magnate, he wanted to attract wealthy and influential people to ensure the longevity of the infant National Park Service.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 7h

Under the influence of the American Civic Association, the early National Park service developed a niche micro-style of rustic architecture. Yosemite’s Ahwahnee hotel is one of the defining examples, a fun hybrid of arts and crafts details, beaux-arts composition and art deco detailing.

Rustic hotel nestled among trees in a solid granite valley

Native inspired art deco mantelpiece mural over a fireplace

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 20h

Mods asleep, post hALF-dome

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 20h

Yes

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 20h

No notes.

Half dome from the floor of Yosemite valley

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 20h

Mods asleep, post hALF-dome

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 20h

More granite

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 20h

Dawn across Half Dome, taken from Olmsted Point. Named after the son, but, as always, blurring things a bit.

A valley of solid granite in blue gloam, with a pointy peak in the distance, grazed by warm light on one side.

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

Oh you too

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

It asked a lot of questions about unions so I wonder if one of them is sponsoring it to capitalize on mamdanimentum

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

It’s like every time we think the thing happened. Even if there’s some disappointment it didn’t. It’s still a good time, because it’s inevitable.

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

Vote splitting? It’s ranked choice brother

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

No other options offered. Hmm.

Poll:

* Now, if the June 2026 Democratic Primary election for Mayor of D.C. were today, who would you vote for if the candidates
were:
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Janeese Lewis George
Muriel Bowser

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

lib owning techniques as well archive.org/details/sim_...

In the actual working out of his lovely theories we believe Professor Chamberlain would be much like the New England gentleman who visited West Point some years ago to see his son, who was a cadet.
A colored cadet was then
at the Military Academy.
When the visitor saw the Superintendent and
patronizingly said he was "glad, glad, indeed, sir, to see that this great school is broad enough to waive all considerations of color." "Ah." replied the Superinten-dent, with a suspicious twinkle in his eyes, "you have just arrived in time. We have had trouble in finding a cadet to room with the colored man, but now we'll arrange to have him room with your son. Thank you very much." The Superintendent turned around as if to give an order, but the visitor interrupted with a sputter of mos aton a no, that protester dow int
became of his fine-spun theories when he faced the actuality.

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

The rap against woke universities hasn't changed a lick since 1911.

Our institutions of learning are developing a set of men who entirely lose
sight of the concrete conditions of
human environment in contemplating the beauty of abstract propositions of generalized truth. Such a kind of man is Prof. Alexander F. Chamberlain, assistant ofessor, spartment a anterne New Xork Times
Worcester, Mass.
In a letter to the
published on March 10, this instructor of youth not only came out boldly for the indiscriminate mixing of the races, but denounced the present segregation of whites and blacks, saying: "This final breed of mankind will comprehend the black man by the same right as the yellow, the red, the brown and the white. The perpetual segregation of the negro democratic America fortunately,
as
impossible as it is absurd, unjust and
unscientific.
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Let no one believe that anthro-
pologists are of opinion that the white race is going down to destruction
through miscegenation."
Professor
Chamberlain can give his theories a practical test right at home. Let him urge Clark to throw open its doors and give equal social equality to negroes and whites.

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

loll 100%. I did appreciate that the piece subverted the alienation and fetishization of the glass that's so central to Apple's products. Origins and labor erased by exacting machinery and chemistry.

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

The one cool thing to see there was Mirage, a sculpture by Katie Paterson consisting of 400 glass cylinders, each cast from sand from a different desert, and varying in hue and clarity as a result. mirage.place/information/

Medium grasses surrounded by undulating glass cylinders in different hues of green

Six course glass tubes distorting the view

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