Climate change means the US must start building big things again

Before we criticize existing homeowners for rejecting reasonable compromises, I think that we need to actually offer them reasonable compromises.

It seems to me that there's a huge difference between construction that an architect designed to be aesthetically pleasing, interesting, and compatible with the existing environment and just building some soulless concrete or glass & steel structure.

I love that picture. It’s a testament to California’s California-ness. Thinking it’s Europe, but realizing it’s America, with a monument to failure looming over the very people who voted against HSR.