I am still amazed by people who look back at these past 11 months and just keep repeating, "there was no other way." What does that even mean? Thousands of decisions were and are made every day. Humans have agency. There's *always* another way. Always.

The good thing about the excessive number of parking lots in North American cities is that they have incredible repurposing potential.

🧵1 of 3 I've now visited every neighborhood in St Louis! I'm finishing off where I started two months ago in downtown St Louis. I'm going to be posting highlights from my trip after this.

Got a comment on this post “But they don’t.” …But they could! This is what this block looked like last year.

If Kamala Harris is serious about stopping cartels from raising prices…

“There are more people who want to live in this neighborhood than there are available housing units. This gives landlords power over tenants like me. The only way to take this power from landlords is to build so much housing, landlords are competing for tenants.”

Milwaukee, 2024

Milwaukee, one year ago today

We’re running this ad on Fox News this morning for no particular reason

will be interesting to watch as wayfinding and advertising adapts as more and more people bike, walk and roll around our cities…

Symptom.

We will never rid these community meetings of their xenophobia, classism, and racism. We can, by zoning reform, remove these tirades from the housing-approval process.

NIMBYism is a disease

is it even possible to deeply study American history without becoming at least somewhat radicalized?