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It's honestly fascinating to watch unzoned Houston continue to incrementally density in the way that basically every other city did...before they adopted zoning.https://twitter.com/HeikoPierre/status/1389982610244440070 Like even in any

Rest in peace Jim Pagels. Jim was a lot of things—a flowering economist, a first-class writer, and a passionate urbanist. But to me, he was a really dear friend. Love

Our system of selling ambassadorships has major 'empire in decline' energy.https://twitter.com/CarterRubin/status/1309187820003553281 I suppose I am a bit of a soulless technocrat but shouldn't the people who have dedicated thei

Excited to share that my paper on Houston's 1998 subdivision reform with @AA_Millsap is out today in the Journal of Planning Education and Research! Here are some of our high-level

Have you heard the good news about bike culture in Huntington, West Virginia? Dang this Morgantown redevelopment is on point. Solid street widths too. (Thanks, land scarcity.) Any questions? Your

One way to bail out the Post Office: allow it to build a ton of new housing on all of its underutilized real estate! My latest with the great @NickZaiac

Alright, can someone explain Mormon temple architecture to me? Because I'm intrigued. It feels at once retrofuturist and Arthurian and I want to understand why. Inexplicably, in a design tradition

What's a non-English word that has incorporated into regular English speech? No places or foods! I am especially curious to learn about words from non-Western languages that have been incorporated.

It still cracks me up that McDonald's vastly outperforms landscape architects and urban designers in creating spaces that regular people actually want to hang out.https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1246072821308153857 An award winning public