# ![@2024dion Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1341784178938028033.png) @2024dion Dion

Dion posts on X about in the, kansas city, this is, kansas the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  5.26% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  3.95% [countries](/list/countries)  3.29% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  2.63% [stocks](/list/stocks)  2.63% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  1.97% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.32% [nfl](/list/nfl)  0.66% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  0.66% [financial services](/list/financial-services)  0.66%

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 18.42%, [kansas city](/topic/kansas-city) #22, [this is](/topic/this-is) 5.26%, [kansas](/topic/kansas) 5.26%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 4.61%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 4.61%, [country](/topic/country) #1942, [to the](/topic/to-the) 3.95%, [more than](/topic/more-than) #317, [st louis](/topic/st-louis) #34

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"The real reason Brightline kills at such a high rate is because cities along its corridor are allowed to designate quiet zones where it cant blow its whistle. More than half of all deaths are pedestrians who didnt hear it coming. Spending a quintillion dollars to tunnel the train under these fucked up looking arterial crossings wouldnt improve things all that much. If you ever wondered why Brightline killed [--] people a week just a reminder Florida built all four of these intersections AFTER the rail was already there https://t.co/jK2wW4RXJF If you ever wondered why Brightline killed [--] people a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022805696073334977)  2026-02-14T22:50Z [----] followers, 89.1K engagements


"An early look at Truman Sports Complex after the Chiefs and Royals leave Breaking news: The Kansas City Chiefs have informed administrative officials that they will announce their move to Kansas today according to sources who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Read the developing story: https://t.co/EtmFcOokRc https://t.co/YZsIMiYEn2 Breaking news: The Kansas City Chiefs have informed administrative officials that they will announce their move to Kansas today according to sources who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2003204796682223799)  2025-12-22T20:43Z [----] followers, 381.7K engagements


"The downfall of St Louis in nearly every way needs to be studied Its not like Detroit where the city collapsed but the suburbs are doing wellthe whole region seems washed Total mayhem at 11:08 am Saturday at Lambert Airport in St.Louis. We used to be a HUB. In the words of Fred Willard in Waiting for Guffman - wha happened Same action theyre getting in Blaine Missouri I would imagine. https://t.co/9zuzIE5UnU Total mayhem at 11:08 am Saturday at Lambert Airport in St.Louis. We used to be a HUB. In the words of Fred Willard in Waiting for Guffman - wha happened Same action theyre getting in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2012633988028944845)  2026-01-17T21:11Z [----] followers, 3M engagements


"@TheMindScourge The critics had a point. It's garish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2017211789008658451)  2026-01-30T12:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Even midsized American airports are becoming quite luxurious. Kansas Citys new terminal designed by SOM is among the finest Ive flown through America and NYC especially has really upped its airport game. I don't understand all the complaints about the supposed degradation of the air travel/airport experience. America and NYC especially has really upped its airport game. I don't understand all the complaints about the supposed degradation of the air travel/airport experience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2017244718019625032)  2026-01-30T14:33Z [----] followers, 285.6K engagements


"I've long thought the best place for a new American megalopolis is at the mouth of the Susquehanna River Maximal HSR potential and no Connecticut NIMBYs We really need to fill in that gap between Boston and NYC. Connecticut is NOT pulling its weight in the northeast megalopolis. https://t.co/qfeTsTGMGu We really need to fill in that gap between Boston and NYC. Connecticut is NOT pulling its weight in the northeast megalopolis. https://t.co/qfeTsTGMGu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2017363934135689321)  2026-01-30T22:26Z [----] followers, 96.2K engagements


"Not enough discussion on here about how at some point this spring we're going to inaugurate a major new bridge (on a new alignment) in the US for the first time in [--] years. Likely the last for many many decades too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2017646430370861093)  2026-01-31T17:09Z [----] followers, 402.6K engagements


"@AviationStl Yeah but that was just a replacement span. We replace existing bridges all the time. The Gordie Howe is a new alignment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2017668937337405890)  2026-01-31T18:38Z [----] followers, 31.6K engagements


"It's also somewhat remarkable that an infrastructure project that demolished a Black neighborhood (albeit one with serious vacancy issues) survived peak woke without even a hint of backlash Not enough discussion on here about how at some point this spring we're going to inaugurate a major new bridge (on a new alignment) in the US for the first time in [--] years. Likely the last for many many decades too https://t.co/mwCVFeBm0U Not enough discussion on here about how at some point this spring we're going to inaugurate a major new bridge (on a new alignment) in the US for the first time in 16"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2017781696272212355)  2026-02-01T02:06Z [----] followers, 55.7K engagements


"How do you advertise your [--] million ft2 industrial park thats in a converted limestone mine [---] underground By hosting a temperate foot race (its 65-70 degrees down there) in the dead of winter A uniquely Kansas City experience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2018018267885904178)  2026-02-01T17:47Z [----] followers, 135.6K engagements


"My recent posts about Kansas Citys industrial landscape have gotten a surprising amount of reach. The people yearn to hear more about Americas logistics metropolises How do you advertise your [--] million ft2 industrial park thats in a converted limestone mine [---] underground By hosting a temperate foot race (its 65-70 degrees down there) in the dead of winter A uniquely Kansas City experience https://t.co/SpDRUjMou1 How do you advertise your [--] million ft2 industrial park thats in a converted limestone mine [---] underground By hosting a temperate foot race (its 65-70 degrees down there) in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2018334036603641891)  2026-02-02T14:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Theres an abandoned parking garage catty-corner from here and the most significant abandoned building in St Louis (the Railway Exchange) is a block away. But the Wainwright has been preserved in part because its now used as a state office building. The role of public sector offices in historic preservation in depressed urban cores is really underrated. So many iconic American skyscrapers would be at risk of at least degradation if not outright demolition but for state legislators taking an interest in them and passing laws to put state offices downtown. I recently had the pleasure of visiting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2018517498589483144)  2026-02-03T02:50Z [----] followers, 21K engagements


"Random point here but this isn't true at least not for men. You can go for a jog in even the most violent neighborhoods and so long as you're doing it during daylight hours no one will bother you. @2024dion What's wrong with it There are a lot of suburbs where it isn't safe to go jogging. @2024dion What's wrong with it There are a lot of suburbs where it isn't safe to go jogging"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2018931232747274465)  2026-02-04T06:14Z [----] followers, 32.8K engagements


"Kansas City has three signature park projects underway right now (riverfront Barney Allis Plaza south loop cap). I think people underestimate how much they will re-center the urban core in the regions collective imagination. Exciting times The @thekccurrent + @KansasCity + @kcstreetcar + Missouri River continue to build the national model for sports facility-adjacent development in the heart of our region connected to transit walkable to diverse communities and engaged with nature. https://t.co/jBmy9CpmlG The @thekccurrent + @KansasCity + @kcstreetcar + Missouri River continue to build the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2019120849903661213)  2026-02-04T18:48Z [----] followers, 14.4K engagements


"Scenes of Picher Oklahoma an abandoned and disincorporated lead mining town on the Kansas border. Once home to [-----] people it was declared a superfund site in the 2000s because of contamination and its residents were relocated. Fewer than ten buildings remain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2019461089713352783)  2026-02-05T17:20Z [----] followers, 49.3K engagements


"The idea that recycling is a scam is super popular on here but is complete bullshit. Rejection rates for recycled items in the US vary between 15% & 40%. And the amount of US recycling that ends up in the ocean is infinitesimally small. Functionally zero. Worse is Better: Landfills When I was a child I thought that landfills were terrible. Just dumping everything in one spot seems so messy and contrary to the legibility and order that we think of as good. Not to mention the environment: isn't it bad just to put all the garbage Worse is Better: Landfills When I was a child I thought that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2020573005961625765)  2026-02-08T18:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@tnertz I dont doubt that clip exists but there are good studies on this; that guy isnt representative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2020592625305395348)  2026-02-08T20:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Disagree. NFL stadiums are a giant blank-walled dead zone 95% of the time. Theyre a waste of our extremely limited supply of prime transit-accessible urban land from an urbanism perspective i think its a no-brainer to route for the seahawks here https://t.co/o2JQ6UKPzd from an urbanism perspective i think its a no-brainer to route for the seahawks here https://t.co/o2JQ6UKPzd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2020620003649933355)  2026-02-08T22:05Z [----] followers, 64.5K engagements


"Unless youre looking for it its really easy to miss how pervasive video doorbells have become. Every owner-occupied home on my blockand most others that Ive paid attention tohas one now. There isnt a residential street in America you can walk down now without being watched by someones little microsurveillance network. What about this ISN'T terrifying https://t.co/nnNjnxSfYH What about this ISN'T terrifying https://t.co/nnNjnxSfYH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2020876376048349665)  2026-02-09T15:04Z [----] followers, 255K engagements


"One interesting view of the segregation line in Kansas City is through Strava's running heat map. Very few KC joggers ever stray more than a few blocks east of Troost It's astonishing how hard the Troost Wall (in black) still is in Kansas City https://t.co/MrCm1wZWOL It's astonishing how hard the Troost Wall (in black) still is in Kansas City https://t.co/MrCm1wZWOL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2020923371295473932)  2026-02-09T18:10Z [----] followers, 13.7K engagements


"@AZinCLE In towering piles yeah. They ring the (now empty) streets of the town like a series of low hills. Really bizarre place; so glad I stumbled upon it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021046225156669617)  2026-02-10T02:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@GarrettMoots Hey man respect that's cool and a great topic but I can't sub; it's obvious when you switch over to fully gpt prose and I can't deal with it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021403533090971728)  2026-02-11T01:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@GarrettMoots Alright fair enough; if you say you wrote it I believe you. Still a few paragraphs at the end are remarkably similar to the default chatgpt prose. I've consumned too much gpt slop to read things written in that style anymore. Apologies and have a good one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021420476418212279)  2026-02-11T03:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Some is yeah but most employers are at least hybrid. Very few people are full time remote. Many do have offices on the periphery but that's often because the 'center' of the region is no longer so. True here in Kansas City for example where the best commute access to maximize white collar workforce availability within 1/2hr is now somewhere in the southwestern suburbs not the core https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021420985241452902 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021420985241452902"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021420985241452902)  2026-02-11T03:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Municipal boundaries in the US are weird. El Paso is the 23rd largest incorporated city but only the 69th largest metro area (measured by commuting ties) and the 53rd largest urban area (measured by built up area). And its airport is 65th by passenger volume. MSAs and UAs are generally much more useful for comparing city sizes. My preferred default is UAs which strip away our culturally contingent understandings of city limits (what's the city What's a suburb) and measure them the way archeologists would: as an area of continuous built up settlement. Forget the airport closure for a moment."  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021586599230767232)  2026-02-11T14:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Municipal boundaries in the US are weird. El Paso is the 23rd largest incorporated city but only the 69th largest metro area (measured by commuting ties) and the 53rd largest urban area (measured by built up area). And its airport is 65th by passenger volume. MSAs and UAs are generally much more useful for comparing city sizes. My preferred measure is UAs which strip away our culturally contingent understandings of city limits (what's the city What's a suburb) and measure them the way archeologists would: as an area of continuous built up settlement. Forget the airport closure for a moment."  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021590574013288573)  2026-02-11T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ubisuntamerica The criteria could use some flexibility for human judgment yeah. Kansas City has two UAs -- KC and Lees Summit -- that are like 95% of the way to meeting the join criteria and are obviously contiguous but for one protected stream valley"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021623485249012142)  2026-02-11T16:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Narrative violation: as of [----] we're still spending more money building office buildings than data centers per @JosephPolitano"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021661343154397614)  2026-02-11T19:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I'm not sure what the state could do really. There's no demand for anything but industrial space which they have already done a nice job of capitalizing on. It's just a very depressing place to live with no obvious draws for new residents. And any local investment (say for policing) would be swamped by Detroit's problems bleeding across the line"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021707211471298899)  2026-02-11T22:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The one thing they have really nailed across the decades is the buildout of a phenomenal waterfront trail system. It knits the city to the river quite nicely; as a Kansas Citian I'm jealous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021708391714795562)  2026-02-11T22:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@growing_daniel Bad at digging"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021782135737082277)  2026-02-12T03:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"fyi you can still fight back against the decline of this platform by retweeting cool shit into your friends' feeds Watch as a massive crack forms in the ice on Lake Erie. An impressive view captured by GOES-19 earlier on Sunday. https://t.co/aLrlw97ncu Watch as a massive crack forms in the ice on Lake Erie. An impressive view captured by GOES-19 earlier on Sunday. https://t.co/aLrlw97ncu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2020989881183502479)  2026-02-09T22:35Z [----] followers, 301.1K engagements


"Down goes Highland Towers one of the most visible symbols of Highland Park's dramatic decline in fortune over the past seventy years. The Detroit enclave city where the moving assembly line middle class automaker wage and the Chrysler Corp were all created has lost 85% of its peak population. Photos from detroiturbex Highland Park is tearing down the Highland Towers on Woodward Ave. While the building holds sentimental memories for some it has become a structure that puts our citizens at risk HP Mayor Glenda McDonald says. https://t.co/kksyatXvJq Highland Park is tearing down the Highland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022313195323498681)  2026-02-13T14:13Z [----] followers, 29.5K engagements


"Something like this is what Trump should be building for our 250th not his meaningless traffic circle flourish. Centralize the federal office district at LEnfant Plaza into a supertower and turn the rest into a grand extension of the mall. @2024dion American wannabe-Shenzhen needs its own Ping An Finance Centre https://t.co/30jRmR3oZH @2024dion American wannabe-Shenzhen needs its own Ping An Finance Centre https://t.co/30jRmR3oZH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022748491802349835)  2026-02-14T19:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Extremely rare Kansas City view: looking down the Blue River from the disconnected pedestrian area on the Blue Parkway bridge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022810912646676727)  2026-02-14T23:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Everyone now recognizes that it costs too much to tunnel for mass transit in this country. Fewer people are aware that road tunneling has the same cost problems. And tunneling roads would be extremely impactful in the US where our cities are chopped apart by big roads that we will (with a few exceptions) never have the political will to remove Madrid has some of the best roads of any city in the world. This one for example has not been deleted but just moved underground: a nice win win. I think they even widened it when they dug the tunnel. Madrid has some of the best roads of any city in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022838896183128242)  2026-02-15T01:02Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements


"@2WordWisdom Its basically the same reason that subway tunnels are so expensive: regulatory mess falling construction productivity and lack of state capacity/muscle memory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022840616560865657)  2026-02-15T01:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Itwasmeaustin3 Odd to blame urban planners for thatthe RR has exited there for a hundred years. Hard and expensive to build crossings now. I think the operator deserves the lions share of the blame for failing to fence off their facility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022870892800360494)  2026-02-15T03:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The principal reason that American airports are somewhat middling despite the USs enormous wealth is that Congress caps the per-ticket fees airports can charge to fund their capital projects. Its a consumer protection effort to limit status seeking excess by cities and airport authorities. Lift the cap and we would build wonders. I know its a narrative violation for the hordes of foreigners who have been dunking on my jetbridge post this week but the US is neither poor nor an unfettered capitalist hellscape. I thought airbridges that you can see out of are normal I thought airbridges that you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2000551239809933379)  2025-12-15T12:59Z [----] followers, 107.3K engagements


"It's worth noting that we spend far more on our high schools today than we did when those masterpieces were constructed. Much like with single family homes our revealed preference is to spend every marginal dollar on additional floorspace and amenities not exterior ornament. Our high schools are ugly not because we are poor but because we don't care. We used to build high schools to look like palaces. Now we build high schools that look like prisons. This and housing are my Roman Empire. https://t.co/NRreSI0Rjs We used to build high schools to look like palaces. Now we build high schools that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2018367058824847449)  2026-02-02T16:53Z [----] followers, 99.4K engagements


"Just encountered this horrifying Burger King playspace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2019474377280991416)  2026-02-05T18:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""modern farmhouse""  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2019785733297373546)  2026-02-06T14:50Z [----] followers, 84K engagements


"The correlation isn't perfect but impoverished urban neighborhoods tend to have a high female-to-male population ratio. Here's maps of DC Baltimore Chicago and St Louis from Google Earth Engine. Lots of variation in the suburbs but poor inner-city neighborhoods have a very strong female skew and the exurbs and rural areas seem to be somewhat male-dominated. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019799474197942750 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019799474197942750"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2019799474197942750)  2026-02-06T15:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ZaxxonGalaxian The racial dividing line. A product of racist housing/real estate practices school district politics and a substantial policing and gun violence problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2019888960299000152)  2026-02-06T21:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"An interesting thing I noticed visiting Pittsburgh recently is that you can trace the history of postindustrial 'urban revitalization' thinking by looking at its redeveloped waterfront steel sites: -An 'urban tourism' district popular in the '70s and '80s at Station Square -A 1990s style 'research park' at Technology Center -A 'we can win back suburbanites' strip retail power center from the early 2000s at the former Homestead Works -A 2010s mixed-use new urbanist residential neighborhood at Southside Works -A contemporary 'sustainability focused' mixed use office district with a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021697080402596071)  2026-02-11T21:25Z [----] followers, 57.5K engagements


"@tnertz Sure but youre looking at a neighborhood anchored to the largest white collar job cluster in the Midwest. Brightmoor is on the outskirts of a struggling city and poorly connected to suburban job clusters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021985519257952730)  2026-02-12T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Woah East Cleveland is fucking crazy. Not even Detroit has whole blocks of abandoned apartment buildings like this. Also nuts that you can walk to a light rail station from here. American cities man. @2024dion There are neighborhoods in East Cleveland where they've literally just closed the streets off. https://t.co/UVaqzM1Lut @2024dion There are neighborhoods in East Cleveland where they've literally just closed the streets off. https://t.co/UVaqzM1Lut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021995258998141172)  2026-02-12T17:10Z [----] followers, 19.2K engagements


"@jimbrightwell People always say this to me when I point this out. How many terrorists are getting their ideas from random idiots on Twitter though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022079915890516093)  2026-02-12T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@14655116677A Ag commodity trade isnt the biggest problem though ofc it would be one. Its the petrochemical complexes in cancer alley the port of New Orleans downriver water infrastructure major pipeline and power line breaks on the Atchafalaya etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022090611642577146)  2026-02-12T23:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ive posted about this before but a truck bomb blowing up the old river control structure is probably the most consequential low-complexity terror threat the global economy faces today. It wouldnt kill many people but itd monumentally fuck up a whole bunch of critical systems. The Mississippi River is trying to change course and engineers are actively holding it in place. For over a century the river has been slowly pulling toward the shorter steeper Atchafalaya River route to the Gulf. If it ever fully switches major ports like Baton Rouge and New https://t.co/4y7viGxZ7J The Mississippi River"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022072968718037075)  2026-02-12T22:18Z [----] followers, 61.7K engagements


"there should be another major northeast corridor city at the mouth of the susquehanna river"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1923455631022850114)  2025-05-16T19:08Z [----] followers, 124.5K engagements


"The new Kansas City airport is the first in the country to have windows on all its jet bridges. It's a little thing but makes boarding the planes feel modestly more dignified"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1999529836235125127)  2025-12-12T17:20Z [----] followers, 4.9M engagements


"Interesting observation from @KelseyTuoc this morning. Many prominent people may underestimate AI progress because when you have leading-edge expertise in a non-verifiable domain (which is what makes you prominent) and you test a frontier model on that domain it'll seem significantly worse than you. But of course so will most humansincluding many who are doing economically valuable but not leading edge work in that domain https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022340311524003878 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022340311524003878"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022340311524003878)  2026-02-13T16:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Nowooski people do it here in Kansas City where our water source is the Missouri River You'd have to cover the surface of half the state with DCs before you started to strain the muddy mo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022340700109742470)  2026-02-13T16:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Nowooski Opus [---] with thinking turned on passes this test: https://claude.ai/share/7109aa80-f019-40e2-a426-e1f8beca911a https://claude.ai/share/7109aa80-f019-40e2-a426-e1f8beca911a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022397503522640190)  2026-02-13T19:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TheMindScourge Yes. Itll never happen obviously. But the height act will be altered in the next few decades. Its inevitable. Question is by how much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022756290456326363)  2026-02-14T19:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@causeiexist Im not sure what you are talking about here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2023050785920008475)  2026-02-15T15:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I went jogging this morning in one of those treeless snout house subdivisions in suburban Oklahoma. This is what urbanists picture when they talk about how bland the suburbs can be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2018703204435763642)  2026-02-03T15:08Z [----] followers, 1.5M engagements


"A modified Kansas City Colonnade on Linwood. The sheer number of KCCs in our urban core gives a distinctive flair to Kansas City urbanism. Everywhere you turn a temple-fronted apartment building"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2020621921021481123)  2026-02-08T22:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Picher from above. Those piles of crushed ore (known as 'chat' in the region) are the waste product of lead and zinc mining. It's no mystery why Picher is one of the very few towns in the world to have been completely evacuated for environmental reasons. Scenes of Picher Oklahoma an abandoned and disincorporated lead mining town on the Kansas border. Once home to [-----] people it was declared a superfund site in the 2000s because of contamination and its residents were relocated. Fewer than ten buildings remain. https://t.co/QgCkNZwD8B Scenes of Picher Oklahoma an abandoned and disincorporated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021016984910254476)  2026-02-10T00:22Z [----] followers, 43K engagements


"I have beef with this random skyscraper in Kansas City. Swagless pile of crap. What a shit way to bring to an end the era of downtown office tower construction here. Didnt realize that was the Trump Tower so I thought she just had beef with a random skyscraper Didnt realize that was the Trump Tower so I thought she just had beef with a random skyscraper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021245960320344438)  2026-02-10T15:32Z [----] followers, 25.7K engagements


"There are places within Detroit that are like this too. You'll be driving through a tree canopied neighborhood of lavish historic homes and three blocks later you're in a savanna of vacant lots. Here's Indian Village: @2024dion Its a bizarre place because youll be driving in Detroit and its okay and you cross the border and like holy shit. @2024dion Its a bizarre place because youll be driving in Detroit and its okay and you cross the border and like holy shit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021949868747702725)  2026-02-12T14:09Z [----] followers, 65.1K engagements


"What is the future of urban neighborhoods like this one It is genuinely hard to imagine. The population just keeps dropping until no one is left Brightmoor Detroit Parts of Detroit have totally returned to wilderness its hard to realize the scope of it if youve never been Parts of Detroit have totally returned to wilderness its hard to realize the scope of it if youve never been"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021979092451770744)  2026-02-12T16:05Z [----] followers, 306.2K engagements


"You know what else you can walk to from here The Euclid v Ambler site https://x.com/2024dion/status/1902727018543800645s=20 One fun footnote about euclid v ambler the supreme court case that legitimized zoning--which was brought by a company barred by a zoning ordinance from building an industrial facility--is that the site today looks like this https://t.co/I6jAivvFpN https://x.com/2024dion/status/1902727018543800645s=20 One fun footnote about euclid v ambler the supreme court case that legitimized zoning--which was brought by a company barred by a zoning ordinance from building an"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2021996364457210196)  2026-02-12T17:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It is very bad for skyline aesthetics that the tallest buildings under construction in every US city except NYC are now residential instead of office towers. Residential towers are almost inevitably either bland or weird looking. Austin is a great example of this: most of its tallest buildings are now apartments but skyline shots still draw your eye to the Block [---] building because it's the only tower with any real architectural distinction This cluster literally didn't exist [--] years ago. Now Austin's Rainey district has the tallest tower in Texas is home to thousands of new residents and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022394021675761941)  2026-02-13T19:34Z [----] followers, 130.8K engagements


"One of Kansas Citys finest institutions. Glad to see them doing well. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is expanding at its historic Kansas City roots returning to the very place where the league began over a century ago. Discover the big plans https://t.co/e3IqubDgOH https://t.co/OD0WXa18TC The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is expanding at its historic Kansas City roots returning to the very place where the league began over a century ago. Discover the big plans https://t.co/e3IqubDgOH https://t.co/OD0WXa18TC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022671377426452764)  2026-02-14T13:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The St. Regis brutally framemogs Austins jestermaxxing residential supertalls @2024dion The St. Regis is by far my favorite new skyscraper of the last [--] years and it's residential https://t.co/qCCvumDxiM @2024dion The St. Regis is by far my favorite new skyscraper of the last [--] years and it's residential https://t.co/qCCvumDxiM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022672076876976582)  2026-02-14T13:59Z [----] followers, 31.1K engagements


"@tex_alt11847 Im headed to Austin for the first time this spring Any decent architecture or does it all look like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022786551109812298)  2026-02-14T21:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fascinating that Kansas City is almost a full century younger than St Louis. You can really see this reflected in our political culture I think Today St.Louis turns [---]. Founded by Pierre Laclede on 02/14/1764 https://t.co/KeiJ8bvY3E Today St.Louis turns [---]. Founded by Pierre Laclede on 02/14/1764 https://t.co/KeiJ8bvY3E"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022803011634958781)  2026-02-14T22:39Z [----] followers, 25.1K engagements


"Economically we never attracted corporate hqs like St Louis did. In part because all of our growth was post-railroad and telegraph so communications with larger cities were good enough that outside firms could do business here. One example that comes to mind is the Armour planta Chicago firm that was super influential here https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022820573836202459 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022820573836202459"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022820573836202459)  2026-02-14T23:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@2WordWisdom Ive long thought that if I lose my job and things look grim for a bit Ill try to start a parallel institution to the transit costs project but focused on road construction. Things have gotten quite bad in that sector"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022840844638671012)  2026-02-15T01:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AgileJebrim Idk about where you live but in every city Ive lived in downtown commercial has been the core of the property tax base"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2022855286235464015)  2026-02-15T02:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The railroads created Kansas City. Me my local followers our [---] million neighborsall of us live where we do because of the choices of a few railroad men their financiers and a half-dozen ambitious local political elites more than a century and a half ago We dont tell the history of railroads enough We dont tell the history of railroads enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2023022958969770416)  2026-02-15T13:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's astonishing how hard the Troost Wall (in black) still is in Kansas City"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2019883528310387036)  2026-02-06T21:18Z [----] followers, 80.7K engagements


"People act like its obvious why malls are disappearing but I actually find it quite surprising. Retail spending is dramatically higher today than a few decades ago and e-commerce only accounts for 15% of sales. Strip malls and big box stores didnt fall off. Experiences are more important in the consumer market than everrestaurants have gotten more texture target has ikeafied escape rooms and the like have had huge waves etc. Mall death seems more mysterious than its made out to be Four scenes from the abandoned (and nearly completely demolished as of today) Century III Mall near Pittsburgh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2023164331358372028)  2026-02-15T22:35Z [----] followers, 13.9K engagements


"America needs a canal city bad Not having a dense jumble of buildings lining narrow waterways is a sign of our great cultural malaise The canals of Bruges https://t.co/UAwTwBMNql The canals of Bruges https://t.co/UAwTwBMNql"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1931863435555586148)  2025-06-08T23:58Z [----] followers, 1.9M engagements


"All city parks should be bordered by multifamily housing. You get the benefits of density + immediate access to green space for apartment dwellers. YIMBY king Ron Swanson https://t.co/LiGJXMhtLL YIMBY king Ron Swanson https://t.co/LiGJXMhtLL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1408533091631648775)  2021-06-25T21:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I can top that (Detroit) A terrible picture befitting one of the worst parking to residential unit ratios Ive ever seen https://t.co/6bKs6y9xXK A terrible picture befitting one of the worst parking to residential unit ratios Ive ever seen https://t.co/6bKs6y9xXK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1605990352699068417)  2022-12-22T18:15Z [----] followers, 129.9K engagements


"The Aviation Subdivision neighborhood on the Detroit-Dearborn border has some of the wildest intersections you'll ever see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1617573452222763008)  2023-01-23T17:22Z [----] followers, 126.6K engagements


"Only allowing new apartment buildings in a narrow line along an arterial road in order to spare SFH neighborhoods from any infill development is a terrible strategy from both an urban design and public health perspective. No wonder LA is both car dependent and unaffordable LA might have Houston beat for some of the craziest land-use oddities. There's so much going on in this image. https://t.co/jfOBGICPtH LA might have Houston beat for some of the craziest land-use oddities. There's so much going on in this image. https://t.co/jfOBGICPtH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1625547647321882650)  2023-02-14T17:28Z [----] followers, 121.6K engagements


"As an introvert whos lived in big cities and small towns theres something very freeing about the general anonymity of city life. You can wander all day without feeling perceived but then when you need to socialize your friends are never more than a mile or two away Something Im learning: People who have never lived in the city dont think its possible to live a good life as an introvert here Something Im learning: People who have never lived in the city dont think its possible to live a good life as an introvert here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750935233019424818)  2024-01-26T17:34Z [----] followers, 85.6K engagements


"The biggest irony in transportation policy in this country is most cities requiring that bars provide enough parking for all their patrons to drive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1763550444423442784)  2024-03-01T13:02Z [----] followers, 596.1K engagements


"Likely an unpopular opinion but I think when all is said and done many of these 2010s 5-over-1s will age quite nicely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1784726966848922084)  2024-04-28T23:30Z [----] followers, 218.7K engagements


"Daylighting intersections is one of the most no-shit public safety interventions out there. Enormous difference at basically no cost San Francisco is eliminating over [------] parking spaces. We cant park in many spaces now or get a ticket. This is one of the dumbest new laws. Do they do this in other states or countries https://t.co/02rK57Cjsh San Francisco is eliminating over [------] parking spaces. We cant park in many spaces now or get a ticket. This is one of the dumbest new laws. Do they do this in other states or countries https://t.co/02rK57Cjsh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1789819373676294623)  2024-05-13T00:46Z [----] followers, 68.5K engagements


"I semiseriously think megachurches are one of the drivers of declining religiosity. Not b/c they're unpopular--rather they're so popular that many people's 1st experience of religion is a (frequently scammy) half-concert half-ted talk in a drab postmodern conference center"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1793282781780299949)  2024-05-22T14:08Z [----] followers, 135.5K engagements


"This tiny triangle of land will soon be home to [---] affordable homes. No your city is not 'full' NoMa's Flatiron Apartment Project Lands Construction Financing https://t.co/cFYWrs3E6J NoMa's Flatiron Apartment Project Lands Construction Financing https://t.co/cFYWrs3E6J"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1805614375035605400)  2024-06-25T14:49Z [----] followers, 930.3K engagements


"Zooming in on google maps on literally any Pennsylvania town:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1808489635611336912)  2024-07-03T13:15Z [----] followers, 109.8K engagements


"It took until my very last day here but as of this morning I have run every single street of the nation's capital. All [----] of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1809234990594433244)  2024-07-05T14:36Z [----] followers, 3.1M engagements


"Not including highways of course. Or Obama's street which the secret service keeps blocked off. Oh and bonus: I got to the start of every single one of these on foot bike or transit. Didn't use a car a single time even when I was running 10+ miles from home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1809235447513542808)  2024-07-05T14:38Z [----] followers, 139.6K engagements


"@realChuckWagonx ncap becomes a limited access freeway there unfortunately"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1809277056741445727)  2024-07-05T17:23Z [----] followers, 48.7K engagements


"Cars are too big. Their headlights are too bright. The screens in them are too distracting. All are new problems in the last [--] years or so but regulators don't seem particularly interested in solving any of them it rocks how basically everyone agrees car headlights are too bright but nobody wants to do anything about it it rocks how basically everyone agrees car headlights are too bright but nobody wants to do anything about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1827359071269191887)  2024-08-24T14:55Z [----] followers, 164.9K engagements


"Forget 'wrong side of the tracks'. The places that are truly screwed are those on the wrong side of a state boundary river"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1829231581187452996)  2024-08-29T18:56Z [----] followers, 81.6K engagements


"Following Josh has convinced me that Cincinnati is Americas greatest what if city You can tell how dense it was built when you realize that basically the entire 3-4 square mile basin was built with few exceptions of Italianate and similar style 3-5 story homes one after another with narrow streets https://t.co/5Kks0FBM4P You can tell how dense it was built when you realize that basically the entire 3-4 square mile basin was built with few exceptions of Italianate and similar style 3-5 story homes one after another with narrow streets https://t.co/5Kks0FBM4P"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1831452073491337354)  2024-09-04T21:59Z [----] followers, 309.5K engagements


"-dedicated bike paths -continuous crossings -bulb outs -narrow lanes and turning geometry -directional lighting; generous street trees -RAISED INTERSECTIONS South Bend is now doing streetscaping work that would be a novelty in 99% of bigger wealthier US cities South Bend keeps winning South Bend keeps winning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1841293188838900003)  2024-10-02T01:44Z [----] followers, 64.5K engagements


"a parking garage with a house glued to the side"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1846657329904722095)  2024-10-16T20:59Z [----] followers, 79.4K engagements


"Stephen A going on dumb guy political debate shows is like the menswear guy joining twitter; he cut his teeth in a medium so belligerent & so vacuous hannity has no frame of reference for it Stephen A. Smith to Hannity: "I know you're not talking about someone being lucid and cogent and enunciating their thoughts with clarity and you're bragging about Donald Trump. We can't be watching the same stuff if that's what you're doing" https://t.co/PY0MfjJTs5 Stephen A. Smith to Hannity: "I know you're not talking about someone being lucid and cogent and enunciating their thoughts with clarity and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1849653746260726169)  2024-10-25T03:26Z [----] followers, 2.4M engagements


"@laterbacon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1849665756436590787)  2024-10-25T04:14Z [----] followers, 131.3K engagements


"Downtown Saint Louis on a Saturday is a mausoleum. The deadest big city downtown Ive been to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1857887145115136099)  2024-11-16T20:43Z [----] followers, 728.7K engagements


"@CYBERY0NGIE median household income in the US (the literal middle) is $80k"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1859349146324566176)  2024-11-20T21:32Z [----] followers, 83.4K engagements


"He ruined two children's lives and threw away his own over a meme-level understanding of the US healthcare system. If it wasn't so sad I'd call this pathetic Luigis Manifesto https://t.co/LEMheHeMB8 Luigis Manifesto https://t.co/LEMheHeMB8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1866596980337611226)  2024-12-10T21:32Z [----] followers, 219.7K engagements


"The American Dream is alive and well in Kansas City Missouri"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1867704374903926889)  2024-12-13T22:53Z [----] followers, 343.3K engagements


"Billionaires have essentially tried to do this with Detroit: -Dan Gilbert has fixed up a dozen downtown skyscrapers and built a signature tower -Bill Ford Jr pushed Ford to buy and reoccupy Michigan Central Station -John Hantz is growing the country's largest urban tree farm on the east side All of these are basically patronage projects; none make sense as pure investments. Gilbert in particular has plowed billions into downtown Detroit and sponsored a huge number of neighborhood improvement projects If I were a billionaire I'd pick a poor depressed town in the Adirondacks and become its"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1869863710560313597)  2024-12-19T21:53Z [----] followers, 303.1K engagements


"Urban Planning is a strange field because it's full of lefty do-gooders attracted to it by the idea they can shape the world in their image but the rules they end up writing create places like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1878185649422958791)  2025-01-11T21:02Z [----] followers, 702K engagements


"This Providence before/after is the best I've seen in its genre. It's not unrealistic to think Grand Walnut and Wyandotte could all look like this someday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1878920848050139416)  2025-01-13T21:43Z [----] followers, 112.2K engagements


"In what world are people gonna be protesting the inauguration at this freeway interchange shopping mall four miles from downtown dc "Better safe than sorry." This Northeast DC PetSmart (close to the DC/MD line) is boarding up ahead of #Inauguration2025 https://t.co/gdKW7Zi0ww "Better safe than sorry." This Northeast DC PetSmart (close to the DC/MD line) is boarding up ahead of #Inauguration2025 https://t.co/gdKW7Zi0ww"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1880342122005733651)  2025-01-17T19:51Z [----] followers, 117.7K engagements


"Whats stopping you and your [--] best friends from pitching in $25k each to bring back one of the countrys most decayed streetcar suburbs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1889542940227207193)  2025-02-12T05:11Z [----] followers, 72.6K engagements


"@sam_d_1995 "I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion. But it was never going to be me" goes so hard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1890445334830080202)  2025-02-14T16:57Z [----] followers, 26.5K engagements


"I have been here for six months now and I still can't get over the Kansas City freeway loop. An incredible amount of prime urban land wasted on a system that's hopelessly outdated confusing and dangerous to drive on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1895584353142652962)  2025-02-28T21:18Z [----] followers, 73K engagements


"Narrowing urban rivers is a lost art. In the 19th century Paris narrowed the Seine London the Thames and Rome the Tiber. These projects stitched the urban fabric together with short bridges added land in crowded urban cores and created iconic outdoor spaces and vistas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1901659680792862909)  2025-03-17T15:39Z [----] followers, 259.8K engagements


"Americans are so car brained that we run freeways through our university campuses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1905634961081692162)  2025-03-28T14:55Z [----] followers, 52.2K engagements


"This same type of post goes viral every few months but it's not close to true. 90% of businesses in these small industrial parks are home services like pool maintenance HVAC termite control etc. They're some of the lowest productivity firms in our economy. 80% of the real GDP of this country is created in buildings that look like this https://t.co/HqAzg8lErO 80% of the real GDP of this country is created in buildings that look like this https://t.co/HqAzg8lErO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1906790493972758821)  2025-03-31T19:27Z [----] followers, 220.4K engagements


"Oh I see this guy is British. nvm he's probably right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1906791497380364527)  2025-03-31T19:31Z [----] followers, 10.9K engagements


"One of my most trad urbanist views is that suburbanization was spiritually toxic for religious communities. Your church belongs at the heart of your neighborhood not off the side of some highway somewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1910754364618399831)  2025-04-11T17:58Z [----] followers, 262.1K engagements


"Lets play a game called 'what does this Kansas City building look like today' answer in the first reply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1911433130294104569)  2025-04-13T14:55Z [----] followers, 180.2K engagements


"Stumbled across this surrealist oil painting and assumed I was looking at Dallas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1922361269903896812)  2025-05-13T18:40Z [----] followers, 1.8M engagements


"The list of the fastest shrinking US cities since [----] starts with some of the most economically depressed violent and and physically dilapidated places in the country. And of course San Francisco the richest and most economically dynamic city in the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1923856720196989122)  2025-05-17T21:42Z [----] followers, 33.5K engagements


"@StatisticUrban China blockades US pledges help but cant bring itself to strike first Taiwan runs out of fuel What happens next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1924275403088175549)  2025-05-19T01:26Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements


"the onion nailed this trope a decade ago Schrodingers Leftist: you move to a poor Black and brown neighborhood youre an evil gentrifier if you DONT move to a poor Black and brown neighborhood youre a racist incredible https://t.co/q7apT9gYMi Schrodingers Leftist: you move to a poor Black and brown neighborhood youre an evil gentrifier if you DONT move to a poor Black and brown neighborhood youre a racist incredible https://t.co/q7apT9gYMi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1924485600628904218)  2025-05-19T15:21Z [----] followers, 63K engagements


"I get why people move to the Florida beaches and coastal cities. Beaches are nice. Miami is incredible. I do NOT get why people are moving to the Florida interior which is somehow home to [--] of the [--] fastest growing MSAs in the country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1924818836198412760)  2025-05-20T13:25Z [----] followers, 161.6K engagements


"This has got to be the least efficient geography of any major city in the world. Imagine if Midtown Manhattan was forty miles from the Financial District and there was only one bridge and one subway tunnel to Brooklyn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1925651014541058256)  2025-05-22T20:32Z [----] followers, 58.1K engagements


"Kinda agree with this. If jobs for college educated [--] somethings actually start to dry up there's gonna be a huge upswell of resentment against the 'you will work in a factory and be happy about it' politics that the right is leaning into with tariffs right now i think that were going to see a pretty strong sort of reaction to the fact our politics has been focused on white working class people in the midwest for a decade. and i think college graduates are going to be super super into it. i think that were going to see a pretty strong sort of reaction to the fact our politics has been"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1927799553970843709)  2025-05-28T18:50Z [----] followers, 327.4K engagements


"Detroit's new skyscraperits first in decades and likely last for decadesis extremely pretty. One of the finest new towers in the country. CoPa on film https://t.co/J9s5cdVNlI CoPa on film https://t.co/J9s5cdVNlI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1928080432144252979)  2025-05-29T13:26Z [----] followers, 93K engagements


"The scale of activity we lost from our urban cores to malls is hard to believe. The Hudson's in Detroit peaked at [--] floors (410'). It had [--] escalators and [--] elevators one of which was large enough to drive a semi trailer into. Its restaurants averaged [-----] meals per day. It really is crazy this whole building was just a single store https://t.co/d0A8b3JPJk It really is crazy this whole building was just a single store https://t.co/d0A8b3JPJk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1932919636594434333)  2025-06-11T21:55Z [----] followers, 33.8K engagements


"This is such a dogshit way to build cities man Arlington Rosslyn-Ballston🤝Toronto North York🤝Midtown Atlanta https://t.co/X42j5GSAem Arlington Rosslyn-Ballston🤝Toronto North York🤝Midtown Atlanta https://t.co/X42j5GSAem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940484077129515225)  2025-07-02T18:53Z [----] followers, 1.5M engagements


"It's convenient to blame Brightline but the railroad was there before these insane arterial intersections were built; these deaths are at least equally the Florida government's fault NEW: @MiamiHerald / @WLRN investigation reveals [---] people have been struck and killed by Brightline trains. While key safety measures are delayed Brightline remains the deadliest passenger train in U.S. We compared with other railroads to explain why. https://t.co/13UnfCFoPl NEW: @MiamiHerald / @WLRN investigation reveals [---] people have been struck and killed by Brightline trains. While key safety measures are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1945233482940112929)  2025-07-15T21:26Z [----] followers, 49K engagements


"'bars in grocery stores' is a trend I'll admit I did not see coming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1948780475662676440)  2025-07-25T16:20Z [----] followers, 595.5K engagements


"timely powerful reporting from the onion 'bars in grocery stores' is a trend I'll admit I did not see coming 'bars in grocery stores' is a trend I'll admit I did not see coming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1948795786612904382)  2025-07-25T17:21Z [----] followers, 599K engagements


"Woah why did Americans stop recycling aluminum cans WSJ: "More than $1 billion worth of beverage cans were dumped in U.S. landfills just last year the trade group estimates. By weight that was similar to all the primary aluminum produced by U.S. smelters." https://t.co/4bS29gpOAx WSJ: "More than $1 billion worth of beverage cans were dumped in U.S. landfills just last year the trade group estimates. By weight that was similar to all the primary aluminum produced by U.S. smelters." https://t.co/4bS29gpOAx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955337189555835247)  2025-08-12T18:34Z [----] followers, 130.1K engagements


"Let's play a game called 'what does this Kansas City building look like today' answer in the first reply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1960015697146491093)  2025-08-25T16:25Z [----] followers, 62K engagements


"It's impossible for most people to have cheap traditional weddings (invite all your family and friends dinner dancing etc) because the institutions that made that happen (churches social clubs) have been hollowed out. So you either do the high end thing for a half-year's salary or do an alternative quirky "exchange rings at the beach and then grab a pizza" thing I cut my guest list in half because the venue's "required vendors" quoted me $60000 for a food/bev program. A tent is $4000. I am doing literally no florals yet somehow greenery and some candles is still $3000. Chairs are $10 a pop. I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1960764336730677548)  2025-08-27T18:00Z [----] followers, 134.2K engagements


"Gaze with horror upon the 1970s renovation that covered up and stripped off the terra cotta detailing on KC's Oak Tower Missouri's tallest building from 1929-1931"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1971608143311556939)  2025-09-26T16:09Z [----] followers, 34.7K engagements


"The more I push around a baby in a stroller the more I think the push for the ADA and disabled rights generally was the most underrated civil rights movement In Columbus the Ohio State University Marching Band forms a handicapped symbol in support of disability rights. https://t.co/xyIhKvPGxD In Columbus the Ohio State University Marching Band forms a handicapped symbol in support of disability rights. https://t.co/xyIhKvPGxD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972142035630280877)  2025-09-28T03:31Z [----] followers, 1.2M engagements


"One of the easiest ways to go viral on here is to point out how badly we fucked up kansas city for cars Downtown Kansas City: Yellow is surface parking green is parking garages https://t.co/Qt69Tb4OZo Downtown Kansas City: Yellow is surface parking green is parking garages https://t.co/Qt69Tb4OZo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1973514936753295748)  2025-10-01T22:26Z [----] followers, 50.4K engagements


"This is what happened to Biden with the Afghanistan withdrawal. He did what everyone had promised for a decade and the press (the only remaining bastion of American neoconservatism) ate him alive for it and his poll numbers collapsed and never recovered A lesson I've learned from reading history is that sometimes something just needs to be done for everyone's sake but nobody wants to be the one to do it. Whoever ends up actually doing it is very very *very* rarely rewarded for his or her integrity and is usually punished. A lesson I've learned from reading history is that sometimes something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1976299812694663350)  2025-10-09T14:52Z [----] followers, 44.6K engagements


"Detroit [----] Everything in red and yellow was demolished with federal freeway and urban renewal money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1976350017095954512)  2025-10-09T18:12Z [----] followers, 65.6K engagements


"Kudos to Ford for spending a literal billion dollars to renovate this building theyll never be able to fill Michigan Central Station at golden hour https://t.co/EgsoWLoytE Michigan Central Station at golden hour https://t.co/EgsoWLoytE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1977213764106670358)  2025-10-12T03:24Z [----] followers, 122.8K engagements


"The supersizing of American rec facilities like the supersizing of American high schools is an underrated sprawl driver We've shifted from building parks that everyone can access to ones you can only reach by car. https://t.co/1WdhNuUzNJ We've shifted from building parks that everyone can access to ones you can only reach by car. https://t.co/1WdhNuUzNJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978461180541665767)  2025-10-15T14:01Z [----] followers, 51.5K engagements


"I-85 / I-20 Atlanta GA I-85 / I-75 Atlanta GA https://t.co/uC35oyd3ka I-85 / I-75 Atlanta GA https://t.co/uC35oyd3ka"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978548669545672742)  2025-10-15T19:48Z [----] followers, 126.4K engagements


"Atlanta is so carbrained they have a whole freeway cap that just holds an intersection and two parking lots I-85 / I-20 Atlanta GA https://t.co/JbBda6uK7K I-85 / I-20 Atlanta GA https://t.co/JbBda6uK7K"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978567578864812373)  2025-10-15T21:04Z [----] followers, 110.9K engagements


"It's almost too on the nose that U.S. Steel Tower is now emblazoned with the logo of a university hospital system U.S. Steel Tower (1971) Pittsburgh PA Pittsburghs tallest building designed for the steel giant by the NYC firm Harrison & Abramovitz. https://t.co/pZDoQJwIkM U.S. Steel Tower (1971) Pittsburgh PA Pittsburghs tallest building designed for the steel giant by the NYC firm Harrison & Abramovitz. https://t.co/pZDoQJwIkM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/1980617108108066857)  2025-10-21T12:48Z [----] followers, 56.2K engagements


"Ten thousand people working on just [---] acres of land. The modern skyscraper is a technological and organizational miracle. JPMorgan Chase is cutting the ribbon on its new Midtown East tower [---] Park. Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to speak Mayor Eric Adams is skipping it. The bank is one of the citys biggest private employers if not the biggest. https://t.co/DZR4hxH6Ax JPMorgan Chase is cutting the ribbon on its new Midtown East tower [---] Park. Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to speak Mayor Eric Adams is skipping it. The bank is one of the citys biggest private employers if not the biggest."  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980680680854942079)  2025-10-21T17:00Z [----] followers, 246.3K engagements


"It's easy to forget how fucking disgusting America's industrial cities were within living memory @JoshLipnik Pitt power-washed the building in [----] (a multi-million dollar project). The before and after pic really showcases how much the city has changed. Your view of a gleaming building against a brilliant blue sky would have been a rare sight for most of its history https://t.co/uu12veZncO @JoshLipnik Pitt power-washed the building in [----] (a multi-million dollar project). The before and after pic really showcases how much the city has changed. Your view of a gleaming building against a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1981823019694616868)  2025-10-24T20:40Z [----] followers, 62.2K engagements


"Thing about Kansas City is that Kansas smells different then Missouri. Completely different aroma once you cross the river Thing about Kansas City is that Kansas smells different then Missouri. Completely different aroma once you cross the river"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1982937078561419765)  2025-10-27T22:26Z [----] followers, 137.7K engagements


"The median distance Americans live from their mother is [--] miles If you want to keep your kids in your life after they reach adulthood you have to live in the Northeast Megalopolis. Its the only region with a high enough density of jobs to keep them close they arent going to stay in your low cost of living sun/rust belt city https://t.co/1VbacBElEY If you want to keep your kids in your life after they reach adulthood you have to live in the Northeast Megalopolis. Its the only region with a high enough density of jobs to keep them close they arent going to stay in your low cost of living"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983246946580971664)  2025-10-28T18:58Z [----] followers, 332.7K engagements


"we should build a major city here I love this angle of it. https://t.co/aW1FSzjsLQ I love this angle of it. https://t.co/aW1FSzjsLQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983915173883572504)  2025-10-30T15:13Z [----] followers, 2.8M engagements


"A chicken burrito at my local Chipotle sells for $8.30 today which is $0.61 cheaper in real terms than that [----] price Chipotle menu prices in Florida circa [----] This is what they took from you https://t.co/EbDxioGeaK Chipotle menu prices in Florida circa [----] This is what they took from you https://t.co/EbDxioGeaK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985470344443113933)  2025-11-03T22:13Z [----] followers, 191.5K engagements


"What this exercise has taught me is that people really dont understand the drivers of urban growth either historically or today The best answer for a new greenfield city is Cairo Illinois: it sits at the intersection of the Mississippi Tennessee and Ohio rivers and is practically uninhabited. The best answer for an existing city is probably https://t.co/fegUW6ZOdO The best answer for a new greenfield city is Cairo Illinois: it sits at the intersection of the Mississippi Tennessee and Ohio rivers and is practically uninhabited. The best answer for an existing city is probably"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1987358419636965531)  2025-11-09T03:15Z [----] followers, 315.3K engagements


"Stolen valor this is at best two rivers not one but three rivers in pittsburgh thats sort of the whole point https://t.co/yuxWh2aLKe not one but three rivers in pittsburgh thats sort of the whole point https://t.co/yuxWh2aLKe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1989880038804635953)  2025-11-16T02:15Z [----] followers, 154.6K engagements


"I continue to believe transit ridership would jump if maps incorporated the average time it takes to park at your destination into this travel time estimate This is how you drive transit ridership. Not fares not gimmicks like wi-fi. Speed matters. Probably just as much as frequency. This is how you drive transit ridership. Not fares not gimmicks like wi-fi. Speed matters. Probably just as much as frequency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1990909778663485933)  2025-11-18T22:27Z [----] followers, 173.2K engagements


"@xwanyex A city-county-county-county merger would work better than a simple city county I think but thats fantasy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2013369336363180304)  2026-01-19T21:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I've finally given in and moved my blog over to substack. Posts are longer form takes on KC urban development and economic geography. I'll be reposting old content for a while but have some fun new ideas in the drafts. Please subscribe http://kcisms.substack.com http://kcisms.substack.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/2024dion/status/2015514694660808707)  2026-01-25T19:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

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