Autumn Florek
@PlanningAutumn
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Urbanist with a soft spot for legacy cities, maps, and housing. OCD survivor.
Connecticut, USA
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Stamford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford
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This is, shall we say, a flawed methodology.
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My friend sent me photos from Traverse City and freshwater beaches in the Midwest? I was not familiar with your game.
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If we're going to talk about people with disabilities, I suggest we don't impose a one-size-fits-all definition upon us.
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While I'm at it, 5 Most Overrated Cities:
(1) Austin
(2) Portland, Oregon
(3) Denver
(4) Atlanta
(5) Los Angeles
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Happy to unveil Big Apple Madness, a tournament to decide the best neighborhood in New York City.
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The public spaces in Downtown Portland (Maine!) are sublime.
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"We don't want a one size fits all solution."
We are not outright opposed to ADU's. But we do not need a one size fits all approach from Albany.
@lawler4ny
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It's almost like leftist language can be weaponized to oppose anything.
Finally, someone wrote a thread about the invisibilized violences of walkable cities. This is so important
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Mark Twain is trending, so I'm compelled to share his Hartford house.
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No, it would not be a good thing if car trips double.
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Happy Monday. Check out the Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse.
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It's almost like the gentrification narrative has been coopted by privileged early wave gentrifiers to promote their interests while comforting their ego.
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I intend to tweet a lot about Hartford's singular housing typology, the Perfect Six. And if you think this new gizmo is gonna stop me, you've got another thing coming.
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Twitter bracket time! 🎉🎉🎉
Get set for Chicago Madness, a Twitter tournament for people to decide the best Chicago neighborhood. 64 neighborhoods compete, but only 1 can be called the best.
First polls drop tomorrow, Thursday, December 8, at 6:00 pm EST/5:00 CST.
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Happy Friday. Here's the Powers Building in Downtown Rochester.
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Underappreciated fact: Public engagement is expensive. It's a huge time-suck for staff. It's an inefficient use of time in the public sector. And for private sector? It racks up those billable hours that consultants depend on to make bank.
A lot of public engagement by planners is worthless bc it starts with the wrong premise: finding out which plans or priorities "the community" prefers.
This is an unanswerable question and leaves everyone in the process feeling like their time has been wasted, because it has.
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I don't know. Maybe left NIMBYs could drop the market urbanism bugbear and explain why people living in the street is preferable to giving people a short-term option of living in an SRO.
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My 5 Favorite Cities
(1) Philadelphia
(2) Chicago
(3) Providence
(4) Portland, ME
(5) Pittsburgh
While I'm at it, 5 Most Overrated Cities:
(1) Austin
(2) Portland, Oregon
(3) Denver
(4) Atlanta
(5) Los Angeles
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Welcome new followers. I post a lot about perfect sixes, a Hartford specialty.
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This in Jacobin is 100% true
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It's all over! The voters have spoken: JACKSON HEIGHTS IS NEW YORK'S BEST NEIGHBORHOOD!
#BigAppleMadness
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New Jersey is much better than Connecticut and the suburbs listed are better than comparable suburbs in Connecticut
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Respectfully, fighting for SRO tenants doesn't mean there should be fewer SROs.
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So, my dad just asked me, "Do you know of an urban activist named Jane Jacobs?"
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My Trivia Pursuit victory was marred by an unfortunate incident.
I, the planner, got the question, 'What was the first planned suburb?' The card said Levittown. It was not Levittown. Chaos ensued, wrought entirely by me.
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@AryaSaj
The tourist attractions, such as they are, are all close together. But I searched the Perot Museum on Google Maps and found another flaw with just using distance.
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I don't think I'll ever understand why people get so upset because they have to park a block or two away from their destination.
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What Hollywood Backlots Tell Us About Safe Streets
Imagine spending $80,000 on a giant truck to let everyone know you're really masculine, and then it turns out Humphrey Bogart looks infinitely cooler on a bicycle.
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*taking photos*
Woman: Are you renting or buying?
Me: Oh. I just like apartment buildings.
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There is a huge anti-urban bias in US media, whether it's the left, right, or center.
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I was harassed while taking a photo of a perfect six yesterday. Perfect sixes are now a symbol of LGBTQ pride. I don't make the rules.
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Fun fact: Having more than 10,000 followers makes you stupid.
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Introducing DC Madness!!!!!!!! This is a 64-neighborhood tournament to determine the best neighborhood in and around the District.
1st Round voting starts at 5:00 pm EST today and will continue tomorrow. To vote, simply check my feed and vote in each 2-neighborhood poll.
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It's official: Uptown is the best neighborhood in Chicago!
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1. Buffalo
2. Cincinnati
3. Milwaukee
4. Grand Rapids
5. Albany
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I understand preferring social housing to market-rate housing. I do not understand opposing market-rate housing because it isn't social housing. It's like saying we people shouldn't be allowed to enroll in private insurance because we haven't passed Medicare for All.
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I'm not afraid of people who identify as "unmasked", but I cannot celebrate the unhealthy use of their bodies.
I'm not bigoted toward the "unmasked community". I just don't know how to explain their lifestyle to my children.
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Most underrated cities I've visited:
Baltimore
Buffalo
Capital Region, NY (Albany/Troy)
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Lowell, MA
New Bedford
Providence
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Do you have a problem with historic preservation? Why? I'd like to include it in a presentation to preservation students.
Respectful answers only. These are preservation students after all.
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I explored a city today. Not saying where, but it had these signs.
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1. Staycations are great.
2. You can plan a vacation to some maligned domestic place - the Rust Belt, Appalachia, Florida - that has more cultural value than a lot of international destinations.
3. Plan your itinerary around the proximity of coffee shops. You'll thank me later.
What’s a travel opinion that will have you in a position like this?
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Presenting Philadelphia Madness, a Twitter ‘tournament’ where 128 Philly neighborhoods face off to decide which is the city’s best. Each round will last 20 hours, beginning at 5:00 pm and ending the next day at 1:00 pm.
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Detroit's white-hot growth between 1910 and 1930 is astonishing. So much of the city's built landscape comes from that era.
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I'm starting to think people have trouble grasping the basic contours of their local housing market.
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Few things would improve communities more than having a grocery store within walking distance.
SB 50 but for grocery stores. Unironically.
I'm willing to argue that access to groceries is more important than access to commuter stations. So many supermarkets are located in low density residential areas with huge parking complexes. Would upzone to 10 stories w/in a 1/2 mile
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I'm visiting Portland, Maine, and what in the Sam Hill is going on.
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Utah and Connecticut have roughly the same percentage of residents that live within 1 mile of a train station.
14.5 percent of Utah residents live within a mile of a train station
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Like I said, single-family zoning is heteronormative.
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I demand Chicago legalize the Perfect Six and remove all zoning and building regulations on them forthwith.
Advocates are calling upon Mayor Brandon Johnson to nominate a Zoning Committee Chair who will tackle common-sense zoning reforms that will make it easier to build housing for all Chicagoans: 🏘️
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THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN: ST. LOUIS' FOREST PARK IS THE BEST LARGE URBAN PARK IN AMERICA!
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Breaking into my photo archive and doing a thread:
1 like = 1 photo of a Philly building
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"The people who live in new buildings aren't from here so they don't count. Real New Yorkers live in old housing."
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I've been looking at Milwaukee on Streetview since it's been voted the best city in America. 🧵
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@louisafloftus
Yup, in 1930 the architecture field got together and went, 'wouldn't it be cool if we demoralized everyone'
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What's a neighborhood that's not well known nationally but has great urbanism?
I'll start: Frog Hollow in Hartford.
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Oooh look at me. I'm Autumn and make impromptu trips to cities just to photograph old apartment buildings.
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What's the best place in Metro Boston? Introducing The Hub: The Tournament, a March Madness-style Twitter tournament to decide the best place in the Boston region.
The 1st part of Round 1 starts today, Thursday, at 5:00 pm EST with Part 2 beginning tomorrow.
#TheHubTournament
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A personal update: I'm going to work for the City of Hartford. I accepted a Senior Planner position and I'm very excited to live and work in the community.
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Impossible to take a bad picture of the Goodwin Hotel.
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What I thought Jersey City looked like vs What Jersey City looked like when I got there.
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@Cobylefko
I think I need to mute you because you're making me depressed to live in America.
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Bok Technical High School. 1938. Irwin Catharine.
East Passyunk Crossing, Philadelphia.
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Coping with soccer anxiety by looking at apartment buildings in Norfolk.
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What a wonderful housing typology courtyard apartments are.
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IT'S ALL OVER!!!!! JAMAICA PLAIN IS THE BEST PLACE IN THE GREATER BOSTON METRO.
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My father-in-law is a builder. He is insanely gifted. We were walking past a playground in Fairfield County years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build today. I will never forget his answer...
"We can't, we don't know how to do it."
This kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities
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This begs the question: What city neighborhood have suburbanites told you to avoid because of crime?
I'll start: East Rock in New Haven; Old City in Philadelphia; Anywhere in Jersey City
The chicago subreddit is the gift that keeps on giving
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I try not to make it too personal when ordinary folk are NIMBYs since many haven't spent a lot of time thinking about land use.
But planners who are NIMBYs? I get very judgey very quickly.
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People On Here were shocked Connecticut has to add opt-out provisions to pass ADU and parking reforms. People underestimate how suburban planning culture is taught as if its God-given. Most suburbanites think as if single-family zoning has been in place since Plymouth Rock.
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Question: If you had to live in a suburb but had the freedom to choose, where would you live?
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I don't want to dunk, but prioritizing "the people who live in a neighborhood" can be a hugely problematic paradigm.
They hope that if they can brand you with the NIMBY label, with its echo of segregationism, they can avoid having a serious discussion of questions like: should the people who live in a neighborhood, or the money of developers, decide whether existing residents are displaced?
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Flushing defeats East Village/Alphabet City for 3rd place. NEW YORK'S TOP THREE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE IN QUEENS.
#BigAppleMadness
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*picks up takeout*
"Here's your takeout order, Autumn"
*person approaches*
"Excuse me. Are you the Autumn that posts the architectural photos on Twitter?"
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Simsbury has a median household income of $123,000, far higher than the $75,000 in Hartford County. The town didn't care about preserving this land until a developer proposed affordable housing. This is segregation that lets rich people pat themselves on the back for Dr. King.
Former Simsbury Tobacco Field Where MLK Jr. Worked to Be Preserved
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I need to tweet more about the many, many, many 3-story apartment buildings built in Hartford in the 1910s and 20s.
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@the_transit_guy
I mean, it makes since symbolically to descend to the lower depths since you're going to Long Island.
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A planning classmate once said, "I have no idea why any developer would need a profit (NOI) higher than 7%.", and I memtally screamed fifty different problems with that opinion.
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This attitude explains in part why voices for transit and bike-ped infrastructure are so marginalized. You're considered a loser if you don't have a house in the suburbs and drive everywhere.
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Today was the worst day on Twitter I've had as a trans person in a very long time (maybe ever?). It sucks to see people call you a sick demon who might shoot up a school.
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