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Coby

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Coby

@Cobylefko

Working on creating better, more beautiful places to live in. Developer, Writer, Urbanist, Professor, Optimist. Check out my writing below!

Brooklyn, NY

buildingoptimism.substack.com

Joined September 2018

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Coby
@Cobylefko
Nov 19, 2024
Replying to @Cobylefko
It's a hopeful work about our ability to create places today that are as good as have ever existed. Our best days are not behind us. All it takes is a little bit of Optimism to get started! Check out the link on Amazon below!! shorturl.at/2sOW0
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jan 26, 2023
All I ask is for one city in the US to look like this. Just one!
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jun 1, 2025
This is how cities were meant to look
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jul 20, 2023
Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard. For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue!
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jul 13, 2022
What people What environmentally think environmentally friendly actually looks friendly looks like ❌ like ✅
Coby
@Cobylefko
Jan 30, 2023
The fact that it's impossible to walk somewhere as simple as a coffee shop nearly anywhere in the US, because we've made it illegal, is really one of the craziest things about modern America. We have to build walkable cities!
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jan 26, 2023
Replying to @Cobylefko
And for a state or city to let me be the one who develops it, thanks in advance! This city in this picture is Rovinj, Croatia, a place whose beauty and charm defy imagination. I mean, look at it!
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Apr 19, 2023
Apartment buildings save nature, tell a friend!
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jan 15, 2023
A near perfect street in Valencia. Tree lined, narrow street with buildings right up to the property line in a variety of styles, but all at a human scale, and some with commercial uses on the ground floors. This is a street for people!
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jan 1, 2023
One of the more underrated buildings in New York, The American Radiator Building!
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jul 26, 2023
A perfect city corner
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Mar 27, 2023
Exciting News: San Diego's City Council has unanimously approved the creation of a 7-block pedestrian plaza in the heart of the city!
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jun 27, 2023
A perfect little piece of city life
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Coby
@Cobylefko
Jan 8, 2023
The average suburban street should look like this
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