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Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
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Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
@UrbanCourtyard
Courtyard Urbanist is a research and development platform dedicated to improving US cities through family-friendly courtyard block design.
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Jul 1
    Hi, Central Illinois! Courtyard Urbanism is coming to Bloomington-Normal (home of Rivian and one of the most promising downtown-repair opportunities in the Midwest) on Thursday, July 23. Across the Midwest, towns and small cities are asking the same question, "How can we grow
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Dec 30, 2024
    Americans excel at walkable, mixed-use development when they’re designing ski resorts.
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Dec 9, 2024
    Edinburgh, Scotland, shows that when you stack apartments, join them wall-to-wall, and build them right up to the property line to form courtyard blocks ...
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    May 30, 2025
    In the suburbs, they don’t let fathers have hobbies or friends. If fathers are caught doing anything besides yard work, they are executed.
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    Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬
    @lymanstoneky
    May 28, 2025
    sorry, i'm gonna go hard on this an hour a day for your hobbies basically 365 is insane. if you're doing that you should instead work more or have more children.
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Jul 15, 2025
    The abundance we need / the abundance we have
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    O.W. Root
    @owroot
    Jul 15, 2025
    Water bottle culture was a mistake
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Apr 19, 2025
    To their credit, Barnes & Noble learned the lesson that drive-to box stores have no future.
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    StripMallGuy
    @realEstateTrent
    Apr 18, 2025
    The Barnes & Noble comeback is one of the greatest stories in the history of retail. They’re expanding all over America!
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Jul 23, 2025
    Can’t stop thinking about the big box store that uses a facade to present itself as a fine-grained, dense, mixed-use street
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Nov 9, 2025
    If anyone is interested in understanding why so many people dislike super-tall luxury towers, you can read this publicly available paper on the topic written by Dr. Kheir Al-Kodman (Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois Chicago). The paper argues that while
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    Katerina Dimitratos
    @KDimitratos
    Nov 7, 2025
    I hate this building so much.
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Jul 6, 2025
    My impression is that a lot of younger millennials and gen z are interested in the Neo-pastoral lifestyle , so I encourage them to do a summer as a farm hand and discover if running a dairy operation in the sticks is what they want out of life.
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    Valentino
    @EuroValentino
    Jul 5, 2025
    I’m incredibly close to dropping everything and going to work on a dairy farm in the Swiss alps for the whole summer. Is this a good idea?
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Jul 6, 2025
    Paris lapping other major metro on so many metrics. This time, having public swimming locations in its main river
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    Jonathan Berk
    @berkie1
    Jul 5, 2025
    After a $1.6 billion investment and years of hard work, the Seine River, which was once heavily polluted, is now clean enough for swimming for the first time in over a century. The city has also invested in three public swimming locations. 📍 Paris 🇫🇷
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Apr 13, 2025
    Replying to @Eric_Erins
    Wow. Can’t believe how bad that looks.
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Jan 9, 2025
    When LA is ready to rebuild, it should consider framing city blocks with stacked units, joined wall to wall, and built right up to the propriety line so that a courtyard block is formed.
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    Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
    @SukritGanesh
    Jan 9, 2025
    Much of San Francisco was completely rebuilt - buildings and infrastructure - just 5 to 6 years after the 1906 earthquake and fire completely devastated vast swaths of the city. In 2024, the planning process for a single large apartment complex or water main can take as long.
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Oct 13, 2024
    In my dream Chicago courtyard block, I get to play euchre with my friends on a balcony while my kids run around with their friends in the courtyard playground.
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    Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
    @UrbanCourtyard
    Dec 9, 2024
    Replying to @UrbanCourtyard
    ... you give families the "big house with a yard" (and fantastic floor plan!) without sacrificing the density needed to ...
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