Charlie Colasurdo
@CRColasurdo
ชาร์ลี คอลาสเซอร์โด | Urbanist + developer. @DukeU + @DukeKunshan '23. Director @YUSEA_insights. Ex @DukeUUrban @DukeChronicle
New obsession: Indonesia's Kampungs (villages), high-density, low-rise urban forms—including this set of acupuncture-like additions to Yogyakarta's Kampung Mrican: a library, playground, public space, flood-control post, a community garden, a bridge, and a sidewalk system.




for @thenation i wrote about the beauty (and virality) of Iranian brickwork thenation.com/article/cultur…
157 million people live on this island and it's slightly smaller than Arkansas.
very strange how the transportation secretary keeps fearmongering about one of the safest forms of transportation and is silent about the fact that America has the most dangerous roads of any developed country
New Yorkers should not be forced on dangerous subways to avoid paying an elite tax. Lawmakers’ NYC congestion pricing scheme is textbook class warfare and @USDOT is fighting to end it.
สัมภาษณ์พิเศษ Matt Hunt ติดตามได้เร็ว ๆ นี้ทาง youtube.com/@WritingByMatt ที่มา: FB Abhisit Vejjajiva
Who is the most gorgeous Redhead... I'll Start: Amy Adams.
Who is the most gorgeous Redhead... I'll Start: Amy Adams.
Actually, most Americans are not free to choose living in a walkable (car-light) neighborhood. That’s what urbanists and YIMBYs are trying to change. More choice of housing types for more people.
I’m all for people making money in a free market Doesn’t mean I should want a shitty small lot house in densely populated area Now.. you are free to want anything you like I’m not bothered
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The latest from Wrapped in a Banana Leaf—our publication spotlighting young people’s perspectives on Southeast Asian urbanism. wrappedinabananaleaf.substack.com/p/thinking-sma…
Factories and offices will always generate far more wealth than hotels and restaurants. Growing tourism is a sign of economic stagnation not dynamism. Europe needs to learn: no country ever got rich off tourism—nor will stay rich. Read the new article by @mmjukic (link below):
Houses on smaller lots are less expensive. Houses on smaller lots make better use of infrastructure Houses on smaller lots permit density And smaller lots don’t prevent those who want bigger lots - or rural lots on govt land - from living there. They just create more…
No idea why anyone would want / desire SMALLER dwellings or lot sizes. (points 3,5,6,7).. Priority one.. free up government locked land for the citizens to live on.
Thailand’s Long-Delayed High-Speed Airport Rail Faces Yet Another Construction Delay Final contract still under legal review, new timeline pushes start to September 2025 After nearly six years of delays, the long-anticipated High-Speed Rail project linking Bangkok’s three major…