Tag: Infill
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Infill coincidence?
On this morning’s walk, after a GOOD sleep that got my brain back in gear, I was noticing a pattern in some of the familiar sights. From 2008 to 2021 there were several Infills in the neighborhood. Vacant houses were expanded into McMansions. Long-vacant lots got new houses, and three big lots were subdivided formally…
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Natural growth
Following on previous item about Sailer contours. Our homeless camps remain camps, with uncontrolled fires and craziness. They’re strictly illegal, not allowed to settle. In countries with softer governments, poor people build casual houses in their camps, and the houses gradually become more permanent, turning into barrios or favelas and gradually acquiring infrastructure. A similar…
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Contours
Reading the constant flow of ‘reported brush fires’, really homeless campfires gone out of control, I was struck by the perfection of Sailer’s altitude rule. Height = status. The homeless occupy the floodplain and hillsides next to the river. The urban Democrat types are on the first shelf near downtown. The working class and retired…
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Liminal ramps
I enjoy the Liminal Spaces section on Reddit. The term is defined visually, not verbally. Seems to be long narrow repetitive views, like hotel halls or stairways or sewers. Many of the pics are from night-shift workers who have more responsibilities than duties. I used to work such jobs and enjoyed patrolling the rooms and…
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