Dark | Light
[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]

# ![@UrbanCourtyard Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1795606048767610881.png) @UrbanCourtyard Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist

Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist posts on X about stockholm, copenhagen, euro, target the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1795606048767610881/interactions)
![Engagements Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::1795606048767610881/c:line/m:interactions.svg)

- X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +48%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +1,049%

### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1795606048767610881/posts_active)
![Mentions Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::1795606048767610881/c:line/m:posts_active.svg)

- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXX +251%
- X Year XXXXX +610%

### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1795606048767610881/followers)
![Followers Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::1795606048767610881/c:line/m:followers.svg)

- X Week XXXXXX +2%
- X Month XXXXXX +7.90%
- X Months XXXXXX +79%
- X Year XXXXXX +367%

### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1795606048767610881/influencer_rank)
![CreatorRank Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::1795606048767610881/c:line/m:influencer_rank.svg)

### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  #1820 [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[stockholm](/topic/stockholm) #232, [copenhagen](/topic/copenhagen) 6.06%, [euro](/topic/euro) #205, [target](/topic/target) 3.03%, [athens](/topic/athens) 3.03%, [parenting](/topic/parenting) 1.52%, [red](/topic/red) 1.52%, [poland](/topic/poland) 1.52%, [germany](/topic/germany) 1.52%, [fine](/topic/fine) XXXX%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@charlesaf3](/creator/undefined) [@giannisdrou1](/creator/undefined) [@_holidaycity](/creator/undefined) [@melissasavenko](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@appleogetics](/creator/undefined) [@ggraham](/creator/undefined) [@robertkwolek](/creator/undefined) [@waywardrabbler](/creator/undefined) [@waymo](/creator/undefined) [@vidstigningen](/creator/undefined) [@staalkrage](/creator/undefined) [@anonymanalyst](/creator/undefined) [@cstefan206](/creator/undefined) [@holidaycity](/creator/undefined) [@marchanthof](/creator/undefined) [@fattempo](/creator/undefined) [@themonke_king2](/creator/undefined) [@thetransitguy](/creator/undefined) [@dalrymple](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"the holy grail of parenting is living in a building where you can walk to shops cafes school etc. AND turn your little kids (under 8) loose to play outside"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1996413163047444495)  2025-12-04T02:56Z 16.5K followers, 6495 engagements


"Post the most delightful public space you can walk to from your home rn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1997016832440496202)  2025-12-05T18:54Z 16.5K followers, 1.6M engagements


"What do you even know about Christmas in Chicago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1997785103582281766)  2025-12-07T21:47Z 16.5K followers, 34.6K engagements


"How is it that Copenhagen's densest neighborhood has greater density AND more green space than LA's densest neighborhood On the left we have LA's densest neighborhood Koreatown. It has 42k people/ sq mile. The buildings are mostly low-rise and cover the entire lot (low floor area ratio and no green space). On the right Copenhagen's densest neighborhood Norrebro. It has 49k people / sq mi. The building are mostly five stories tall and are concentrated along the perimeter of lots where the area is the greatest. This allows it to have a greater floor area ratio and more green space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1997867960849821798)  2025-12-08T03:16Z 16.5K followers, 34.6K engagements


"Nows a good time to remind everyone: the U.S. is a global loser when it comes to supermarket access. We have almost no small-scale markets -- the kind that make northern European cities so convenient and walkable (orange SSM). Instead we rely on large (purple) and very large (red) supermarkets which are few and far between shared by far more residents who have to drive longer distances to reach them. Instacart and the whole grocery delivery industry exist because these stores are scarce and inconvenient"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1998565605457154297)  2025-12-10T01:29Z 16.5K followers, 18.5K engagements


"These euro glow ups are so depressing because the ugly before building is like an X or X in the US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1998970565567328721)  2025-12-11T04:18Z 16.5K followers, 290.6K engagements


"European urbanists are so spoiled. Theyre upset (ok understandably) because environmentalists want to remove the plaster ornament from buildings literally defacing their fine urban real estate. Meanwhile average US cities resemble postwar bombed-out landscapes patchworks of vacant lots and neglected buildings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999310759231389792)  2025-12-12T02:50Z 16.5K followers, 25.7K engagements


"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 tall buildings are often promoted as efficient responses to urban growth they carry social economic and environmental drawbacks that undermine their sustainability. Socially towers may reduce community interaction and isolate inhabitants (especially families and children) from ground-level street life neighborhood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1987571826625478969)  2025-11-09T17:23Z 16.5K followers, 2M engagements


"@appleogetics It put all the neighborhood hardware stores out of business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999176204557947124)  2025-12-11T17:55Z 16.5K followers, 2927 engagements


"@the_transit_guy How many people work in data centers I guess if I were working in one I would want one in my neighborhood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999616267863400768)  2025-12-12T23:04Z 16.5K followers, 4983 engagements


"I need help identifying this location"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1998121848572088428)  2025-12-08T20:05Z 16.5K followers, 88.3K engagements


"so I'm FASCINATED by the new courtyard blocks going up in south Stockholm. Any dev who is interested in the kind of LARGE FAMILY-FRIENDLY units that single stair enables can check these out (and DM me for full sets). Check out the 4BD unit in the lower right corner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1998473334464696740)  2025-12-09T19:22Z 16.5K followers, 4175 engagements


"I want to understand in precise obsessive detail how Hamburg got an IKEA in a dense walkable neighborhood (left) instead of off of a tollway many miles from a population center (right Schaumburg IL)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999632893908320572)  2025-12-13T00:10Z 16.5K followers, 2998 engagements


"@ggraham @Dalrymple I dont disagree my view is that bad planning has harmed US cities. But it doesnt follow that no planningis the best solution. Ideally you have a good plan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999845738700734807)  2025-12-13T14:15Z 16.5K followers, XXX engagements


"I post a lot about Soldermalm a fantastic courtyard block neighborhood in south Stockholm. WELL let's be happy for Soldermalm because they're getting even more courtyard blocks and you can watch them go up on Google Maps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1996789306057220405)  2025-12-05T03:50Z 16.5K followers, 19.3K engagements


"So the Swedish YIMBYs back in 2012 started pushing for return to courtyard block planning have had major success with public and policy makers. Their efforts are now bearing fruit the new courtyard blocks Ive been posting about in south Stockholm as one example"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1998748506807312526)  2025-12-10T13:35Z 16.5K followers, 1524 engagements


"I dont hate Lowes. I hate having to drive to the hardware store. I would like to walk to the hardware store. Urban planners and road engineers have structured the built environment in ways that make the drive-to warehouse model of Lowes Target Home Depot etc the most profitable option. When the public sector subsidizes auto-oriented access through wide arterials abundant surface parking and segregated land-use zoning it steers businesses toward cheap peripheral commercial plazas. If people want a walkable MAHA-style environment then the built environment must be tweaked so that ground-floor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999318525677129728)  2025-12-12T03:20Z 16.5K followers, 3748 engagements


"Cities are always wrestling the live by density die by density dilemma. Density is indispensable for all Good Things that happen in cities (the agglomeration of economic cultural social networks that generate the relationship and collaborations and partnerships). But density also concentrates all the bad stufflike traffic and particulate pollution. So any tool that reduces the negative externalities of density without proportionally diminishing its positive agglomeration effects is fundamentally aligned with the urban mission Sounds like congestion pricing is such a tool for NYC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999321891299897583)  2025-12-12T03:34Z 16.5K followers, 10.5K engagements


"@kyle_ferriter I agree. He was suggesting that Copenhagen/Paris model would be more feasible than a high rise. But that model would require expropriating a lot of land"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999559778981359999)  2025-12-12T19:19Z 16.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Lets review the argument that family-friendly density is best achieved through courtyard blocks that balance floor area with green space creating aspirational city homes for households of all ages stages and income levels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1982083900349300860)  2025-10-25T13:56Z 16.5K followers, 31.5K engagements


"These courtyard blocks in the Piazza Verbano quarter of Rome are not even XXX years old Everyone is constantly telling me that I can't compare US urban neighborhoods to ancient European urban neighborhoods because they are so much older and more mature than US cities. But most of the Euro courtyard block neighborhoods that I post about were built in the late 19th century--during the same period that legacy US cities were being built out. And these 1931 courtyard blocks in Rome are TWENTY YEARS younger than my 1911 building in Chicago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999606360703483975)  2025-12-12T22:24Z 16.5K followers, 21K engagements


"@RobertKwolek @Joseph_Paul_V Right. I dont think its impossible that a charismatic and smart politician gets elected in SF on the promise of using eminent domain to turn sunset into Paris or Copenhagen. Not likely but not impossible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999853064858247358)  2025-12-13T14:45Z 16.5K followers, XX engagements


"The prompt was to go 2x the density with historical architecture. The results are fascinating because they show how the detached single family and very small multifamily of San Francisco dont scale upunlike the perimeter blocks with medium multifamily of limerick. Perimeter blocks building alignment and masonry solve a lot of problems here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1996003343668322815)  2025-12-02T23:47Z 16.4K followers, 13.4K engagements


"@Vidstigningen are you able to find out what the construction cost per square meter is for these"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1996794247530594659)  2025-12-05T04:10Z 16.3K followers, XXX engagements


"This is an important point: if we focus on helping more young couples have their first or second kid in the City we create a greater share of population with a strong vested interest in those schools being better In many cases the failing local school can be saved by dramatically increasing (through strategic development) the number of families in the neighborhood and creating that critical mass of vested parents who will avalanche their kids their volunteer hours their pro-social energies into the local school. Adding an IB program or accelerated program to local school will make any urban"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1997037514675089774)  2025-12-05T20:17Z 16.4K followers, 4580 engagements


"Tell me your opinions on lamp posts (and please share the below lamp post design competition link with someone who is into urban design) Since it gets dark around 4:30 this time of year in Chicago (thanks to being on the far eastern edge of the Central Time Zone) Ive been thinking a lot about the importance of LAMP POSTS in cities. When the sun disappears so early the quality placement and design of street lighting become impossible to ignore. They determine how safe streets feel how willing people are to be out and about after dusk. We have good lighting in our local business corridor. Just"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1997313359633416264)  2025-12-06T14:33Z 16.4K followers, 7423 engagements


"Copenhagen has more green space because the city restricted lot coverage and mandated courtyards--for quality of life sanitation and ventilation reasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1997867965086077356)  2025-12-08T03:16Z 16.4K followers, 3562 engagements


"@RamiJai123 we had parking minimums"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999103575545266339)  2025-12-11T13:06Z 16.3K followers, 2074 engagements


"Heres one of the few remaining ace hardware in Chicago. Wish there were one in Lincoln Square"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999318904905343342)  2025-12-12T03:22Z 16.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@cstefan206 @appleogetics Agree its complicated. Especially for small towns. But theres no reason why Chicago should let Home Depot and Target put on massive box stores in neighborhoods. It kills neighborhood commercial real estate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999453265122214002)  2025-12-12T12:16Z 16.4K followers, XX engagements


"@_HolidayCity Athens is OK. It's not a model of "family-friendly urbanism" for the US as the US cities try to regain population lost to the suburbs. Copenhagen and Stockholm are much better models"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999886638630261106)  2025-12-13T16:58Z 16.4K followers, XX engagements


"@_HolidayCity Agree and I make that point all the time. The problem with Athens is not that it's ugly but that it doesn't balance density and green space like better planned perimeter blocks to (which create far more livable urban environments in Copenhagen Stockholm etc)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1999887051962122645)  2025-12-13T17:00Z 16.5K followers, XX engagements

[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]

@UrbanCourtyard Avatar @UrbanCourtyard Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist

Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist posts on X about stockholm, copenhagen, euro, target the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

Engagements: XXXXX #

Engagements Line Chart

  • X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
  • X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX%
  • X Months XXXXXXXXXX +48%
  • X Year XXXXXXXXXX +1,049%

Mentions: XX #

Mentions Line Chart

  • X Week XX -XX%
  • X Month XXX -XX%
  • X Months XXXXX +251%
  • X Year XXXXX +610%

Followers: XXXXXX #

Followers Line Chart

  • X Week XXXXXX +2%
  • X Month XXXXXX +7.90%
  • X Months XXXXXX +79%
  • X Year XXXXXX +367%

CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #

CreatorRank Line Chart

Social Influence

Social category influence travel destinations XXXXX% stocks XXXX% currencies #1820 countries XXXX% technology brands XXXX% social networks XXXX% automotive brands XXXX% finance XXXX%

Social topic influence stockholm #232, copenhagen 6.06%, euro #205, target 3.03%, athens 3.03%, parenting 1.52%, red 1.52%, poland 1.52%, germany 1.52%, fine XXXX%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @charlesaf3 @giannisdrou1 @_holidaycity @melissasavenko @grok @appleogetics @ggraham @robertkwolek @waywardrabbler @waymo @vidstigningen @staalkrage @anonymanalyst @cstefan206 @holidaycity @marchanthof @fattempo @themonke_king2 @thetransitguy @dalrymple

Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"the holy grail of parenting is living in a building where you can walk to shops cafes school etc. AND turn your little kids (under 8) loose to play outside"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:56Z 16.5K followers, 6495 engagements

"Post the most delightful public space you can walk to from your home rn"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:54Z 16.5K followers, 1.6M engagements

"What do you even know about Christmas in Chicago"
X Link 2025-12-07T21:47Z 16.5K followers, 34.6K engagements

"How is it that Copenhagen's densest neighborhood has greater density AND more green space than LA's densest neighborhood On the left we have LA's densest neighborhood Koreatown. It has 42k people/ sq mile. The buildings are mostly low-rise and cover the entire lot (low floor area ratio and no green space). On the right Copenhagen's densest neighborhood Norrebro. It has 49k people / sq mi. The building are mostly five stories tall and are concentrated along the perimeter of lots where the area is the greatest. This allows it to have a greater floor area ratio and more green space"
X Link 2025-12-08T03:16Z 16.5K followers, 34.6K engagements

"Nows a good time to remind everyone: the U.S. is a global loser when it comes to supermarket access. We have almost no small-scale markets -- the kind that make northern European cities so convenient and walkable (orange SSM). Instead we rely on large (purple) and very large (red) supermarkets which are few and far between shared by far more residents who have to drive longer distances to reach them. Instacart and the whole grocery delivery industry exist because these stores are scarce and inconvenient"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:29Z 16.5K followers, 18.5K engagements

"These euro glow ups are so depressing because the ugly before building is like an X or X in the US"
X Link 2025-12-11T04:18Z 16.5K followers, 290.6K engagements

"European urbanists are so spoiled. Theyre upset (ok understandably) because environmentalists want to remove the plaster ornament from buildings literally defacing their fine urban real estate. Meanwhile average US cities resemble postwar bombed-out landscapes patchworks of vacant lots and neglected buildings"
X Link 2025-12-12T02:50Z 16.5K followers, 25.7K engagements

"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 tall buildings are often promoted as efficient responses to urban growth they carry social economic and environmental drawbacks that undermine their sustainability. Socially towers may reduce community interaction and isolate inhabitants (especially families and children) from ground-level street life neighborhood"
X Link 2025-11-09T17:23Z 16.5K followers, 2M engagements

"@appleogetics It put all the neighborhood hardware stores out of business"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:55Z 16.5K followers, 2927 engagements

"@the_transit_guy How many people work in data centers I guess if I were working in one I would want one in my neighborhood"
X Link 2025-12-12T23:04Z 16.5K followers, 4983 engagements

"I need help identifying this location"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:05Z 16.5K followers, 88.3K engagements

"so I'm FASCINATED by the new courtyard blocks going up in south Stockholm. Any dev who is interested in the kind of LARGE FAMILY-FRIENDLY units that single stair enables can check these out (and DM me for full sets). Check out the 4BD unit in the lower right corner"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:22Z 16.5K followers, 4175 engagements

"I want to understand in precise obsessive detail how Hamburg got an IKEA in a dense walkable neighborhood (left) instead of off of a tollway many miles from a population center (right Schaumburg IL)"
X Link 2025-12-13T00:10Z 16.5K followers, 2998 engagements

"@ggraham @Dalrymple I dont disagree my view is that bad planning has harmed US cities. But it doesnt follow that no planningis the best solution. Ideally you have a good plan"
X Link 2025-12-13T14:15Z 16.5K followers, XXX engagements

"I post a lot about Soldermalm a fantastic courtyard block neighborhood in south Stockholm. WELL let's be happy for Soldermalm because they're getting even more courtyard blocks and you can watch them go up on Google Maps"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:50Z 16.5K followers, 19.3K engagements

"So the Swedish YIMBYs back in 2012 started pushing for return to courtyard block planning have had major success with public and policy makers. Their efforts are now bearing fruit the new courtyard blocks Ive been posting about in south Stockholm as one example"
X Link 2025-12-10T13:35Z 16.5K followers, 1524 engagements

"I dont hate Lowes. I hate having to drive to the hardware store. I would like to walk to the hardware store. Urban planners and road engineers have structured the built environment in ways that make the drive-to warehouse model of Lowes Target Home Depot etc the most profitable option. When the public sector subsidizes auto-oriented access through wide arterials abundant surface parking and segregated land-use zoning it steers businesses toward cheap peripheral commercial plazas. If people want a walkable MAHA-style environment then the built environment must be tweaked so that ground-floor"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:20Z 16.5K followers, 3748 engagements

"Cities are always wrestling the live by density die by density dilemma. Density is indispensable for all Good Things that happen in cities (the agglomeration of economic cultural social networks that generate the relationship and collaborations and partnerships). But density also concentrates all the bad stufflike traffic and particulate pollution. So any tool that reduces the negative externalities of density without proportionally diminishing its positive agglomeration effects is fundamentally aligned with the urban mission Sounds like congestion pricing is such a tool for NYC"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:34Z 16.5K followers, 10.5K engagements

"@kyle_ferriter I agree. He was suggesting that Copenhagen/Paris model would be more feasible than a high rise. But that model would require expropriating a lot of land"
X Link 2025-12-12T19:19Z 16.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Lets review the argument that family-friendly density is best achieved through courtyard blocks that balance floor area with green space creating aspirational city homes for households of all ages stages and income levels"
X Link 2025-10-25T13:56Z 16.5K followers, 31.5K engagements

"These courtyard blocks in the Piazza Verbano quarter of Rome are not even XXX years old Everyone is constantly telling me that I can't compare US urban neighborhoods to ancient European urban neighborhoods because they are so much older and more mature than US cities. But most of the Euro courtyard block neighborhoods that I post about were built in the late 19th century--during the same period that legacy US cities were being built out. And these 1931 courtyard blocks in Rome are TWENTY YEARS younger than my 1911 building in Chicago"
X Link 2025-12-12T22:24Z 16.5K followers, 21K engagements

"@RobertKwolek @Joseph_Paul_V Right. I dont think its impossible that a charismatic and smart politician gets elected in SF on the promise of using eminent domain to turn sunset into Paris or Copenhagen. Not likely but not impossible"
X Link 2025-12-13T14:45Z 16.5K followers, XX engagements

"The prompt was to go 2x the density with historical architecture. The results are fascinating because they show how the detached single family and very small multifamily of San Francisco dont scale upunlike the perimeter blocks with medium multifamily of limerick. Perimeter blocks building alignment and masonry solve a lot of problems here"
X Link 2025-12-02T23:47Z 16.4K followers, 13.4K engagements

"@Vidstigningen are you able to find out what the construction cost per square meter is for these"
X Link 2025-12-05T04:10Z 16.3K followers, XXX engagements

"This is an important point: if we focus on helping more young couples have their first or second kid in the City we create a greater share of population with a strong vested interest in those schools being better In many cases the failing local school can be saved by dramatically increasing (through strategic development) the number of families in the neighborhood and creating that critical mass of vested parents who will avalanche their kids their volunteer hours their pro-social energies into the local school. Adding an IB program or accelerated program to local school will make any urban"
X Link 2025-12-05T20:17Z 16.4K followers, 4580 engagements

"Tell me your opinions on lamp posts (and please share the below lamp post design competition link with someone who is into urban design) Since it gets dark around 4:30 this time of year in Chicago (thanks to being on the far eastern edge of the Central Time Zone) Ive been thinking a lot about the importance of LAMP POSTS in cities. When the sun disappears so early the quality placement and design of street lighting become impossible to ignore. They determine how safe streets feel how willing people are to be out and about after dusk. We have good lighting in our local business corridor. Just"
X Link 2025-12-06T14:33Z 16.4K followers, 7423 engagements

"Copenhagen has more green space because the city restricted lot coverage and mandated courtyards--for quality of life sanitation and ventilation reasons"
X Link 2025-12-08T03:16Z 16.4K followers, 3562 engagements

"@RamiJai123 we had parking minimums"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:06Z 16.3K followers, 2074 engagements

"Heres one of the few remaining ace hardware in Chicago. Wish there were one in Lincoln Square"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:22Z 16.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@cstefan206 @appleogetics Agree its complicated. Especially for small towns. But theres no reason why Chicago should let Home Depot and Target put on massive box stores in neighborhoods. It kills neighborhood commercial real estate"
X Link 2025-12-12T12:16Z 16.4K followers, XX engagements

"@_HolidayCity Athens is OK. It's not a model of "family-friendly urbanism" for the US as the US cities try to regain population lost to the suburbs. Copenhagen and Stockholm are much better models"
X Link 2025-12-13T16:58Z 16.4K followers, XX engagements

"@_HolidayCity Agree and I make that point all the time. The problem with Athens is not that it's ugly but that it doesn't balance density and green space like better planned perimeter blocks to (which create far more livable urban environments in Copenhagen Stockholm etc)"
X Link 2025-12-13T17:00Z 16.5K followers, XX engagements

@UrbanCourtyard
/creator/twitter::UrbanCourtyard