@keithzg To some degree, the canopy of your neighbourhood is probably a function of its age; but often in North Ameica the most pleasant neighbourhoods predate zoning, and indeed would be forbidden by current zoning rules.
You might be interested by:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/09/home-from-nowhere/376664/
@ink_slinger I listened to a podcast about this very topic last week: https://www.thepodcastbrowser.com/hard-words-why-arent-our-kids-being-taught-to-read/
From the comments, what if big business hated your family? - Marginal REVOLUTION
"Would it mean requiring long delays on family formation while you got credentialed, worked with little remuneration while getting your foot in the door, and then place huge amounts of time and effort on career growth rather than investing in your family?" etc.
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Négocié depuis 2009 dans la plus grande discrétion, le CETA mobilise enfin l’attention, à la veille de son adoption au creux de l’été.
A New Interactive Visualization of the 165,000 Most-Frequently Assigned Texts in College Courses
http://www.openculture.com/?p=1067166 https://t.co/lZaUIzrX6P
"Assuming no shade as the ideal, the framers of modern zoning set out to design a system of regulations that make many naturally cooling design elements practically illegal."
Good planning is better than bad planning, of course. But so much modern North American urban planning was worse than no planning at all.
A Plea For Shade | The American Conservative
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/a-plea-for-shade/
#DebConf19 starts today in Curitiba https://bits.debian.org/2019/07/debconf19-starts.html
#GospelToday (Lk 10:40-42)
Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me."
The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her."
Montreal is an open air Museum of mural art.
Damnit Captain. I'm a computer hardware engineer, not a childcare worker!
@bgcarlisle You know, life is normally more complicated than good guys and bad guys.
Both sides could be bad, for instance. In the case of paramilitaries, I think that's normally the case.
📷@evablue
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Today is the #DebConf19 Open Day! See the schedule and follow the live streaming https://debconf19.debconf.org/schedule/?day=2019-07-20
REM: la ligne Deux-Montagnes achetée sous sa valeur comptable: https://lp.ca/wkaLH3
USSR's Communist authorities quietly drop their campaign of religious persecution: in face of Nazi invasion, Russia needs any friends it can get.
#PearlsBeforeSwine by #StephanPastis for July 20, 2019 - GoComics
"Ghosts of Brest-Litovsk" are starving & in hiding, stalking German sentries through the fortress's corridors with bayonets.
Deep inside Brest-Litovsk fortress, a surviving Soviet soldier inscribes a defiant message, 3 weeks after Red Army surrendered the stronghold: "I'm dying, but I won't give up! Farewell Motherland. 20.VII.41"
@fitheach I see trees!