Working on creating better, more beautiful places to live in.
Brooklyn, NY
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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!!
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One of the biggest issues in American housing is that it only takes a few people to ruin the livelihoods of thousands of families simply because they feel like it.
We cannot allow our cities to fall apart because a few people don’t understand how maintenance & development works
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New York’s public housing stock is falling apart. There’s no money for maintenance (only ~1/5 of rent pays operating expenses, putting it in a deeper hole every month).
The only solution is to rebuild mixed-income, which will give thousands new homes!
thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/…
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At a certain point, the public need of hundreds of thousands of people has to prevail over the defiant uninformed naïveté of a few dozen.
Unfortunately, this dynamic pervades every inch of American society, making it impossible to fix our biggest problems.
Democracy does not demand unanimity. In fact, when a tiny minority of voices can usurp the desires of the many, that’s tyranny. We have to treat these cases as such.
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This is a perfect encapsulation of why art and architecture have lost relevance to the broader public.
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Want to reduce crime on the subway? Enforce the fares.
My latest for @WSJFreeEx
Free Expression
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The door at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Buenos Aires is not your ordinary door
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They're a massive driver for tourism and economic development, reduce urban heat island impacts, promote walkability, small business cultivation, and with enough instagram pictures maybe even fertility!!
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Look how much of a difference these interventions make, proof a better world is only a matter of setting one's mind to do it!
Of course, this is far easier to do on narrow buildings, furthering the importance of building fine-grained patterns
Didn’t realize Amsterdam’s experiencing a mini Art-Nouveau Renaissance.
(If only they’d do this in Brussels).
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There is no correlation at all between how much a school district spends and how well its students perform.
Notice the sleight of hand. Nationally this may be true, but in NYC the Fair Student Funding gives extra funding to schools with disadvantaged students. The school that Hannah Jones' daughter attends almost certainly is better funded than predominately white or Asian schools.
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Politician trying to get elected:
oh I don’t believe in [most ridiculous policy you’ve ever heard], times were crazy!
Politician 9 months ago:
I’ve never believed more passionately in [most ridiculous policy you’ve ever heard], I will imprison you & your family for disagreeing
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This is what a $3,000 monthly apartment looks like in Manhattan.
The city has massively failed its people by not building enough housing, and has failed the country too by forced hundreds of thousands of people away who might otherwise want to live here.
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Listing here (reposting because of wrong link!)
zillow.com/homedetails/335-W…
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