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21/05/2025

Home building is business so it needs to make money yet in-demand states like California bureaucratize profits away, effectively preventing development

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19/05/2025

Every walkable and transit-accessible place needs to implement congestion pricing

When drivers have to pay for all the harm it causes everyone else, driving does go down. A car-free achievable when we ramp up the congestion pricing that only the necessary trips happen in private cars.

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18/05/2025

Imagine trying to recreate this in a suburban subdivision

The excerpt is from "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs, as she describes how this kind of services cannot be formalized and provided by private enterprises specializing in these or public institutions. "The service must be given as a favor by someone with an unshakeable understanding of the difference between a person's key and a person's private life, or it cannot be given at all."

03/05/2025

More streets in America should look like this

St. Marks Place in East Village, NYC

27/11/2024

To achieve perfect parking, we sacrifice everything

from Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise

26/09/2024

Detroit is coming back to life!

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24/09/2024

"What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? What if we are prevented from catalyzing workable and vital cities because the practical steps needed to do so are in conflict with the practical steps demanded by erosion? [...] In that case we Americans will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubles men for millennia: What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable: The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles." —Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

30/08/2024

28/08/2024

The fact that we don't think twice about taking the car to the parking lot to the escalator to the treadmill in order to walk is one reason why we now have the first generation of Americans expected to live shorter lives than their parents

Excerpt from Walkable City Rules by Jeff Speck

25/08/2024

The Obvious Answer to Homelessness: Allow More Housing To Be Built

Excerpts from The Atlantic article "The Obvious Answer to Homelessness and Why Everyone's Ignoring It" by Jerusalem Demsas

25/08/2024

The scarcity of housing causes homelessness—not anything else

Excerpts from The Atlantic article "The Obvious Answer to Homelessness and Why Everyone's Ignoring It" by Jerusalem Demsas