#dwellings — Public Fediverse posts

e542 with Michael, Andy and Michael - Stories and discussion on #ProgrammingLanguage #localization, #VirtualBoy #hardware & #emulation, #AR & #LaserKeyboard, #LEGO terrestrial & orbital #dwellings and a whole lot more. https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/02/09/e542-vibe-coding-vowels/

#shownotes for @gamesatwork_biz #podcast e542 with are done while watching #SuperBowlLX & the #Olympics. Publication set for Monday 9 Feb on https://www.gamesatwork.biz together with @michaelrowe01 and @andypiper. Find e542 on @Spotify @overcastfm @YouTube and all your favorite podcast feeds! Stories and discussion on #ProgrammingLanguage #localization, #VirtualBoy #hardware & #emulation, #AR & #LaserKeyboard, #LEGO terrestrial & orbital #dwellings and a whole lot more.

Pulling together the #shownotes during #SuperBowlLX & #Olympics in #ChapelHill for Monday’s posting of @gamesatwork_biz episode e542 with @andypiper, @michaelrowe01 and yours truly. Stories and discussion on #ProgrammingLanguage #localization, #VirtualBoy #hardware & #emulation, #AR & #LaserKeyboard, #LEGO terrestrial & orbital #dwellings and a whole lot more. Check out earlier episodes, chock full of #AI #metaverse #AR #VR #gamification and so much more on https://www.gamesatwork.biz

My pick for “Best Planning Book” published in 2025

Now and then one comes across a book that sets new standards for excellence in print. It may be due to its content, the context, the impact of the publication on society, or a defining aspect of the book that sets it apart from others. In this particular case, Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture solidly achieves at least three of the aforementioned pinnacles, with its rich and defining illustrations being beyond exemplary.

Chicago Homes by Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson succeeds in telling the history of one of America’s greatest and most-beloved cities through its housing heritage — specifically the styles and trends in housing that shaped Chicago’s residential development from a lonely outpost at the forks of the Chicago River through World War II. This contextual relationship between Chicago’s housing biography and the city’s overall urban history is tremendously informative and is filled with many interesting tidbits and anecdotes.

Too often as planners, we get tied up in the scale of scope of large projects, whether they be towering skyscrapers, enormous transportation projects, placid and serene parks, or large commercial and industrial developments. Meanwhile, it is the individual house, the home, a dwelling unit, or an apartment that in unison form the largest proportion of the communities we serve. As a result, it is their relationship to the overall city that can largely shape one’s sense of place.

” Chicago was built on change. we’re still culturally the same old city, and our homes are still extensions of who were are, individually and collectively. Architecture is politics. Architecture is whimsy. Architecture is people.”

Source: “Chicago Homes,” page 298.

The icing on the cake to Chicago Homes is the stunningly detailed and gorgeous illustrations provided throughout the book showing the progression of architectural trends, styles, and decorative features that developed over time for residential dwellings throughout the city. The amazing illustrations prepared by Mr. Thompson’s Wonder City Studio alone could be framed and sold in galleries across the country they are so beautiful.

As the book addresses Chicago’s housing history up to and including World War II, more recent trends (both good and bad) are not incorporated in the book except with brief references in the epilogue and elsewhere. This aspect in no way detracts from the book and would make for a fascinating sequel publication in the future.

This retired planner strongly recommends this book, and not only to existing, former, or wannabe Chicagoans and architecture geeks. For Chicago Homes transcends both geography and genre in a manner that should captivate most any reader with its fascinating content, its broadly appealing context, and its truly defining illustrations.

Peace!

#apartments #art #CarlaBruni #Chicago #ChicagoHomes #cities #dwellings #geography #historicPreservation #history #homes #housing #illustrations #landUse #neighborhoods #PhilThompson #planning #residences #travel #WonderCityStudio

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skf0zyxleg

From Deepfakes to fake dwellings

Ξεκίνησαν οι επενδύσεις σε start-ups που «θα αντιμετωπίσουν» τις απάτες που τροφοδοτούνται από την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη.
Απάτη με ΤΝ: Θα βλέπεις φώτο, με νεο-επισκευασμένο (από το 1970) σπίτι, ένα AI πανέμορφο χρέπι με εικονικά ντουλάπια και πόρτες, να ενοικιάζεται για 350 ευρώ (4-5 μήνες μπροστά)

#AI #EU #PropTech #RealEstate #residential #RealEstateTech #homes #rentals #DeepFake #dwellings #housing #scams #ΤΝ #ακίνητα #κατοικία #σπίτια

Poetically, One #Dwells
[[#Dwellings of the Philosophers]]
Twitter.com/PoeticDweller/status/1520094404878417921

National vacancy rate from metered electricity consumption was 4.3% in Q4 2021
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/fp/fp-viec/vacantdwellingindicatorsbasedonmeteredelectricityconsumption2021/?utm_source=TW&utm_medium=TW&utm_campaign=VacantDwInMEC2021
#CSOIreland #Ireland #Dwellings #VacantDwellings #VacancyRate #MeteredElectricity #ElectricityConsumption

@icedquinn
It seems that people who just want to ensure decent #housing today are, at every opportunity (ie. opportunistically), out-competed by #rentseekers that pile multiple #dwellings on a block with no #restorative, private outdoor space.

Our #Australian govt and #legacyMedia have been active #perpetrators of this #sociopathy

It needs to stop. We thought covid would bring these issues into focus but they are doubling-down on #distraction as they #printMoney for themselves.