Tweets for the Week of 2018-09-02 to 2018-09-08

@ericmbudd le sigh in reply to ericmbudd 23:02:54, 2018-09-08
@laurafish1 @CostaSamaras @DrChrisClack @MBazilian Sure, email might be better: zane.selvans@gmail.com in reply to laurafish1 10:46:00, 2018-09-08
@CostaSamaras @laurafish1 @DrChrisClack @MBazilian What kind of work are you interested in? I'm wandering now but s… https://t.co/2Mroiax4UT in reply to CostaSamaras 09:42:48, 2018-09-08
@JerryB17480215 In the long run I think it would probably be good, but on its own I don't think it would address th… https://t.co/l7CLgbUNiM in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:22:50, 2018-09-08
@JerryB17480215 But in a lot of cities where the question of a LVT comes up, land values are very out of line with… https://t.co/9VIG3fnf4K in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:18:25, 2018-09-08
@JerryB17480215 It seems as if a lot of things that people like about cities often get broken when things change qu… https://t.co/VBMykA2M8w in reply to JerryB17480215 01:16:04, 2018-09-08
@cmgosnell https://t.co/7L5Xi1Vuwx 17:16:43, 2018-09-07
@JerryB17480215 I also wonder how discontinuous urban change affects the social fabric of the city. It feels like w… https://t.co/lK7iZbOAEg in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:00:54, 2018-09-07
@JerryB17480215 I don't disagree, but the rate and scale of change that a substantial LVT would result in is… ver… https://t.co/ohC9fnTpsm in reply to JerryB17480215 13:58:29, 2018-09-07
@TobiBernet @balcom_holly Is there something like this between the co-ops in Zürich? Or is the ongoing expansion dr… https://t.co/CIjp8OtLuG in reply to ZaneSelvans 04:57:24, 2018-09-07
@TobiBernet @balcom_holly It seems like some organizational structure that encourages or requires ongoing expansion… https://t.co/CtVkfkzCR8 in reply to TobiBernet 04:56:00, 2018-09-07
@JerryB17480215 But doesn't it feel like a totally inelastic supply or totally inelastic demand "market" is kind of… https://t.co/MB594mTXvt in reply to JerryB17480215 03:16:06, 2018-09-07
@star153891 Or does it tell you to hold on to the dairy farm in the Bronx and let the land value appreciate without… https://t.co/ceGjAgeL9I in reply to star153891 02:25:43, 2018-09-07
Another interesting urban failure mode. https://t.co/2BzxHm3Wm2 02:18:43, 2018-09-07
@taniki @udata_project Do you or others at @datagouvfr know anybody from the @rte_france open data portal? They've… https://t.co/g0TGc60DnF in reply to taniki 02:14:23, 2018-09-07
Morning in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Nice from the top floor *and* at street level. https://t.co/NETdSfhDyI 00:32:52, 2018-09-07
@sharethecities Awww. in reply to sharethecities 00:19:08, 2018-09-07
In the case of land, we can't make more, so there can't be a meaningful market. What non-market allocation mechanis… https://t.co/IJToXPIgUJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:16:52, 2018-09-07
The whole point of allowing the market price of a thing to rise is to incentivize creating more of the thing. If yo… https://t.co/ucxrm23XR5 00:09:22, 2018-09-07
Damn you can get a good falafel sandwich for €3 wandering around Berlin at midnight. Good, cheap, late night street… https://t.co/Fi9YNEC3pT 14:53:42, 2018-09-06
Are the older co-ops so much larger that they still dominate the public face of cooperation? Also this was funny si… https://t.co/qtzbEufq8k in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:41:38, 2018-09-06
When asked to compare CLTs to models existing in Germany, co-ops were called out as bureaucratic, inward looking (i… https://t.co/udE7gy86lN in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:41:37, 2018-09-06
@sharethecities So far these conversations feel eerily familiar, but with somewhat different existing conditions from the US. in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:25:37, 2018-09-06
@sharethecities Up tomorrow: what to do with the old House of Statistics on Alexanderplatz. in reply to sharethecities 13:24:35, 2018-09-06
The speaker seems almost embarrassed about having only 7% social housing in Brussels (coincidentally, also the fraction Boulder has). in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:09:48, 2018-09-06
It's interesting how attached people get to particular mechanisms of removing land costs. Kreuzberg already owns th… https://t.co/KYnnzgZTn7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:04:20, 2018-09-06
So that's still €65K per home… which seems like it would be difficult to scale to, say, keeping the housing of th… https://t.co/JVmCdvFcXp in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:59:31, 2018-09-06
€2M is for land and construction. Enough to make 30 homes a year, given the income targets. Funding ends this year.… https://t.co/qXCuYEYKNa in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:52:27, 2018-09-06
Only 9 units of housing complete so far, but €2M/yr in funding (operational?) 8 employees. 350 members that want to… https://t.co/Hymz78AoQU in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:39:27, 2018-09-06
Interesting to hear non-US people recount the Civil Rights movement. in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:32:42, 2018-09-06
Second attempt: community land trusts with long term ground leases. Common in Germany, but not really in Belgium. in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:23:23, 2018-09-06
Second part: much more concrete. Recounting the rise of housing costs in Brussels. Same story as Berlin, but no tra… https://t.co/zHQRDmLwBN in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:21:55, 2018-09-06
Okay maybe I'm boring but I'd love to hear more about actual policies one might use to steward urban common spaces… https://t.co/b11M3uumQN in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:49:15, 2018-09-06
Sharing food is the most basic and ancient experience of the Commons. To the point of being a widespread religious… https://t.co/oc8PAzUC3e in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:20:07, 2018-09-06
Lol "The other globalist movement." in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:05:27, 2018-09-06
Advocacy for the commons can't remain the realm of the "EcoBoBos" It has to be mainstreamed. It also can't go the r… https://t.co/4fS2U2yEEg in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:02:15, 2018-09-06
Do Commons work at the large city scale? Or globally? Can we generalize from small social systems described by Ostr… https://t.co/owUU0vwHYN in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:52:45, 2018-09-06
Book to check out: Rebel City by David Harvey. Based in academic work on the Commons by Elinor Ostrom (1st woman to… https://t.co/cx2HeK9mWt in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:51:08, 2018-09-06
Getting familiar with and practiced in managing Commons in the city can and needs to support managing the global Co… https://t.co/hUAgxaZUts in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:45:00, 2018-09-06
Commons as something that lies outside of or between the public and the private. And it is vast in the global conte… https://t.co/reU87xsRNB in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:42:45, 2018-09-06
10 years ago space seemed unlimited in abundance. Now suddenly it is a limiting constraint.
Now moving on to a mor… https://t.co/dyPUzKXyHH in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:31:55, 2018-09-06
Sounds like the city and it's sense of itself has changed dramatically in the last decade. Now a campaign to get a… https://t.co/FbEtp3KWHD in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:28:09, 2018-09-06
In 2009 when Princessengarten started, the city was liquidating publicly owned properties. The garden & community s… https://t.co/SeuLFuh7AV in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:26:04, 2018-09-06
Berlin doesn't have any CLTs, but there are a lot of cooperatives, the Mietzhauser Syndikat householders Union, and… https://t.co/1QDjv2SV9O in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:22:28, 2018-09-06
The whole theme of the Experiment Days 18 is "Kiez, Boden, Gemeingut" Community, Land, Trust. It's the first year t… https://t.co/S8wcN8JoHs in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:19:29, 2018-09-06
It's like, a community garden / food cart pod / music venue / activist space / biergarten. https://t.co/zfAnQxnbVR in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:00:50, 2018-09-06
At the Princessengarten milk crate community container garden, for a workshop on community land trusts. https://t.co/SWeAyFlgck 09:36:11, 2018-09-06
Lots of great open electricity system data from SMARD, the German electricity market information platform: https://t.co/9mdIZ5pcKW 07:08:44, 2018-09-06
Attending a meeting between open data advocates, energy modelers, electricity data providers and the German energy… https://t.co/9DRyJVMrki 02:48:12, 2018-09-06
@TobiBernet @balcom_holly Or was it built for the wealthy of the time, who could pay the large up front capital cos… https://t.co/zO5IKqx9qR in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:16:56, 2018-09-05
@TobiBernet @balcom_holly So, obviously historically housing has been built *somehow* but how? When was Kreuzberg b… https://t.co/ntCxnnzh69 in reply to TobiBernet 16:14:51, 2018-09-05
@TobiBernet @balcom_holly sci-hub is your friend. in reply to TobiBernet 16:12:44, 2018-09-05
@ericmbudd The data exfiltration is one thing. The attention piracy is another. in reply to ericmbudd 16:07:43, 2018-09-05
@ericmbudd Since 2015 that invasive POS isn't getting anywhere near my pocket. in reply to ericmbudd 15:42:38, 2018-09-05
I'm not sure this is really what's happening, but I'd never thought of this potential combination of dynamics befor… https://t.co/nTRQMjhHrI in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:14:31, 2018-09-05
So, what's the best ownership structure for permanent affordability? Which kind of steward is the most reliable ove… https://t.co/3c9lD5yrpQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:51, 2018-09-05
This is an interesting contrast to Red Vienna, where the public housing (that makes up much of the city) has been r… https://t.co/iVZiuDo8Th in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:50, 2018-09-05
In the German case there's a special frustration, since a huge amount of publicly owned housing was privatized afte… https://t.co/j5U0IfsKBs in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:50, 2018-09-05
But at the same time, there's little business incentive to create additional housing if you can't rent it out price… https://t.co/XOJDwRcL5q in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:49, 2018-09-05
In some ways this is unfair, since the cost of providing that housing isn't necessarily increasing — it exists by… https://t.co/Gg7GEu17De in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:49, 2018-09-05
So now that demand for housing here has caught up with the extensive pre-existing supply, and the city has become a… https://t.co/eUXIWharxK in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:49, 2018-09-05
The existence of this durable but depreciated housing stock in conjunction with the rent controls thus depresses re… https://t.co/IEFDyaS7FJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:48, 2018-09-05
Which may mean (again, I'm just trying to wrap my head around how things work here) that in some cases the allowed… https://t.co/eeIgJ5pvay in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:48, 2018-09-05
The existing building stock also seems like it was built to last much, much longer than buildings in the US. So if… https://t.co/kx69sFB0yf in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:48, 2018-09-05
In Germany rent control is pretty universal — housing is kind of like a regulated utility. If a landlord puts mone… https://t.co/EvwVMlfJlV in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:12:47, 2018-09-05
So it sounds like Berlin is also having a hard time producing additional housing as demand to live in the city star… https://t.co/5T3hCfJB9H 09:12:47, 2018-09-05
@mattsebastian @AndyKnny omg in reply to mattsebastian 08:52:25, 2018-09-05
@TheCharlier Meanwhile in Zürich the city's sex boxes are also doing well. https://t.co/cYhisaNuNd in reply to TheCharlier 08:50:46, 2018-09-05
Neukölln has been a more affordable and diverse neighborhood for a long time, but the cost of housing is now rapidl… https://t.co/Rsfw32343k in reply to ZaneSelvans 05:02:18, 2018-09-05
Had a quiet morning walk across Berlin's Neukölln neighborhood. Quiet, leafy, no traffic, lots of families, largely… https://t.co/47FNj6nsd2 04:58:44, 2018-09-05
Dynamo powered bicycle lights twinkling in the distance, laughter bubbling through the deep twilight. Summer evenin… https://t.co/X8l0imTofd 12:44:24, 2018-09-04
Perfect late summer weather for a picnic in the park after our open utility data meeting at TU-Berlin. Now I just n… https://t.co/cVM76bIOxr 12:02:53, 2018-09-04
@rosettaproject @longnow https://t.co/PLQrCju8zQ 05:21:37, 2018-09-04
@seancllns I thought the trains were going to be too expensive, but there are some good options. This is seats all… https://t.co/TyongqrKjd in reply to seancllns 15:34:58, 2018-09-03
@TobiBernet Yeah…. I probably wouldn't post our house meeting notes online either. in reply to TobiBernet 14:31:04, 2018-09-03
@seancllns @ICEgov I'm on a "Nightjet" — all long haul overnight intercity routes run by the Austrian national rai… https://t.co/PxJ9QWEhms in reply to seancllns 14:28:23, 2018-09-03
@TobiBernet Ugh. I keep wanting to believe it's just the US that has this problem.
There's a lot of good stuff in… https://t.co/DkXkAwkFpu in reply to TobiBernet 11:25:47, 2018-09-03
Beginning an overnight train trip to Berlin to meet with other open energy system data nerds, and also learn about… https://t.co/wPfP7D5ILq 11:21:55, 2018-09-03
@TobiBernet Do you know the Kanthaus folks in Wurzen? It looks a little bit crazy but also fun. 10:00:20, 2018-09-03
This sweat-equity co-op outside of Leipzig looks like it could be interesting to visit and participate in: https://t.co/FfDZ6G5Dce 09:59:37, 2018-09-03
RT @opendatacoop: We’re looking for politically and technically aware colleagues who can help organisations, big and small, to effectively… 05:06:28, 2018-09-03
@AaronBrockett12 @ericmbudd @boulderlandmark @notFromShrek This *would* be apropos Landmarks Board. in reply to AaronBrockett12 01:11:30, 2018-09-03
$6,700 in 1898 adjusted for inflation is $200,000 today. https://t.co/fXFpozVLcQ 14:57:11, 2018-09-02
RT @MLiebreich: @Gen_Atomic @Arne_JJ @peteraltmaier @ArminLaschet @igbce Here's what Germany could have achieved had it kept it's nuclear r… 13:36:47, 2018-09-02
Red Vienna between the world wars built a *lot* of social housing. 60,000 flats — enough to house 220,000 people.… https://t.co/efMWfz6c4I 09:21:06, 2018-09-02
I really appreciate that my social universe is so cut off from TV that somehow I never heard about @whoismrrobot un… https://t.co/n3bChuvbqP 06:44:44, 2018-09-02
I made a little blog post out of this thread: https://t.co/9d3ZVe9oKf in reply to ZaneSelvans 06:00:43, 2018-09-02
@CHThiem Oh look, this @Wikipedia article needs some love… https://t.co/xrbxNKuLt9 03:59:40, 2018-09-02
"Ultimately, it granted them the right to the city, the right not merely to live in the city, but to participate in… https://t.co/dkFCayYxlG in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:10:02, 2018-09-02
"The individual apartments [were] only a small part of the actual dwelling space provided by the city. The individu… https://t.co/Bpj20UhF8Z in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:10:02, 2018-09-02
"the Gemeindebauten show that what something looks like, is not necessarily how it operates. The Gemeindebauten loo… https://t.co/kvxL7q9mMe in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:10:01, 2018-09-02
The polar opposite of the Tower In A Park public housing. Mid-rise, mixed-use, mixed-income, woven into the existin… https://t.co/sWgPAtaOrY in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:10:01, 2018-09-02
Mid-rise, mixed use.
"Part dwelling space, part institutional space, part commercial space; they are multi-functio… https://t.co/xuj7YC1CzK in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:10:00, 2018-09-02
cf Co-housing! @bryanlbowen "[the Gemeindenbauten] choreographs entry… from the public space of the street, into… https://t.co/9bo58VnQUV in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:10:00, 2018-09-02
"the Gemeindebauten were sharply criticized at the time by architects of the modernist avant-garde and by architect… https://t.co/63u2iFK4wF in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:10:00, 2018-09-02
"The Gemeindebauten… were urban apartment blocks inserted into the existing urban fabric… At first glance [they… https://t.co/xAqEAQ7sB9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:09:59, 2018-09-02
"Austro-Marxist theory held that the city offered positive cultural and social advantages to the proletariat. It w… https://t.co/1C6s7gt0I6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:09:59, 2018-09-02
“Capitalism cannot be abolished from the Town Hall. Yet it is within the power of great cities to perform useful in… https://t.co/B5HK2o7tRW in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:09:59, 2018-09-02
"…the municipal project of Red Vienna was not a housing program, but an urban program. It was a comprehensive urb… https://t.co/p8n0Uu2eu1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:09:58, 2018-09-02
Re-visiting Red Vienna is a brief look at the origin of that city's century long experiment with urban social democ… https://t.co/nuojIE6Lqd 03:09:58, 2018-09-02

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