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            <title><![CDATA[Test]]></title>
            <link>https://travisgilbert.me/essays/untitled-essay-28</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi my name is Travis Gilbert. This a test]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Test 2]]></title>
            <link>https://travisgilbert.me/essays/untitled-essay-27</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi I’m travis, this is a test]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Against Legibility in Public Space]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What if the push to make every public space 'readable' is actually erasing the complexity that makes cities worth living in?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The crosswalk that leads nowhere]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Found a crosswalk in downtown Flint that deposits you on a curb with no sidewalk. Just grass and a fence.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Maintenance Question]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Every design decision is also a maintenance decision. We almost never talk about it that way.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Materials that age honestly]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Brick weathers. Vinyl pretends nothing happened. What does that say about the values embedded in material choices?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who Decides Where the Bench Goes?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The placement of a single bench encodes more political decisions than most people realize.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why I started this project]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The origin story of this project: why design essays, and why now.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Parking Lot Problem: How Minimum Requirements Shaped American Cities]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Parking minimums quietly became the most powerful force in American urban design. Then cities started repealing them.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On the typography of warning signs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Noticed something walking through the airport today about how we communicate danger through letterforms.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Sidewalk Tax: How Curb Cuts Changed Everything]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A 3-inch ramp became one of the most impactful design decisions in urban history.]]></description>
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