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Transportation, Urbanism and Planning
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Fares and (economic) equity
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Transit districts, where transit is spread equitably (a stop every two blocks, a frequent network grid, excellent coverage) can be funded by...
Monday, September 29, 2025
Securitization, Financialization, Loans, and Asset Classes
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Securities were initially things like stocks and bonds - functionally promises to pay. Modern securitization includes other such debts--mort...
Friday, September 26, 2025
Interest rates, planners, developers
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Real estate developers talk endlessly about interest rates, but they don't matter in a planning context. Developers make their living at...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Dangerous Densities
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Jane Jacobs noted that the essence of the city is that is is a place full of strangers, where social sanctioning simply doesn't work, a...
Monday, September 22, 2025
The limits of reciprocal restriction
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The whole basis of the legal argument FOR zoning is that while a property owner has been restricted from developing their own property, that...
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