Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.

If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?

My post on why few people write about urban growth boundaries marketurbanism.com/2025/07/04/w...

I didn't write this but wish I had marketurbanism.com/2025/07/17/w...

The Natalist Case For Sprawl (And Why It Fails) Some commentators defend anti-urban government policies such as exclusionary zoning on the basis that homeowning suburbanites have high birth rates. But this doesn't seem to be true in recent decades.

another @planetizen.bsky.social post www.planetizen.com/blogs/134714...

The Trouble With QUIMBY The idea of “quality urbanism in my back yard” has its uses, but should not be used to limit housing supply.

www.planetizen.com/blogs/135041... another @planetizen.bsky.social post

Taking Green Amendments to the Street Several states have "green amendments" declaring that state residents have the right to a healthy environment. Could these amendments be used to challenge policies that increase car-related pollution?

my most recent @planetizen.bsky.social post

Deputy Chief of Staff at Open New York About Open New York Open New York (ONY) is a grassroots, non-profit organization advocating for abundant homes and lower rent. With an expected budget of $3M in 2025 and a staff of 11 (and growing), O...

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Requisito de parqueos ya no será obligatorio para permisos de proyectos - La Prensa Gráfica Comisión de la Asamblea emitió dictamen favorable a disposiciones para que los proyectos, tanto habitacionales como comerciales, ya no este obligados a incluir parqueos como requisito en sus construcc...

El Salvador is planning to eliminate parking requirements nationwide. The most shoupista country in the world? www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/R...

Seems like an ad hominem argument to me - also: even though birth rate concern is somewhat of a right-wing thing, I don't think it is as ideologically polarizing as immigration

And how many have non-gentrified ones lost?

Fact Check: New Housing Doesn't Lead to Overcrowded Schools Opponents of new housing often say schools can’t absorb all the students it will bring. But the data tells a different story.

Fact Check: New Housing Doesn’t Lead to Overcrowded Schools: shelterforce.org/2024/12/03/f...

Google Maps image going northbound on Conroy Road. Text and arrows point out the elements that make this a dangerous intersection.

Even when drivers do everything exactly right, bad street design can make a situation dangerous.

These are a few of the elements that the Ottawa Crash Analysis Studio found in their examination of Conroy Road and Lorry Greenberg Drive.

Man of Iron

By the way I read the Grover Cleveland book that mentions you!

True, especially for renting in condos and Co ops (in rental buildings I've had fewer issues except occasional brokers fee)

Must be a California thing- I have never paid anything but electricity and internet in nyc

Density and Disorder: The Imaginary Link A recent article tries to tie public transit and walkability to social disorder — but in fact, sprawling Sunbelt cities like Memphis are as likely to have high crime rates as transit-rich metropolises...

My latest @planetizen.bsky.social blog post

So which # is the number of Housing units?

Michael Lewyn Most of these videos are from my 2021 campaign for Manhattan Borough President. However, I hope to add more land use related videos in the future.

My Touro Land Use Institute video podcasts with @kevinerdmann.bsky.social and @sarabronin.bsky.social are now online at www.youtube.com/@michaellewy...

It's only one district court case, so I suspect we will see a lot more cases on both sides of issue before the Supreme Court gets to it

Cities and Test Scores The latest test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress suggests that student learning has not recovered from its COVID-era decline. Is this more true for urban school districts than for the rest of the United States?

Cities and Test Scores

I asked ChatGPT who I was and got a fairly accurate description. Gemini had no idea who I was, which didn't please me.

Building new homes at the top of the market induces at “moving on up” effect that quickly creates vacancies in the least-expensive homes.

Conversely, blocking new housing in high-demand places makes wealthy people move into and renovate existing, once-affordable homes, raising prices.

Did Brookings Get It Wrong? A recent Brookings study on the 2020 homicide wave tells a simple story: unemployment plus closed schools plus guns equals crime. But is the story accurate?

www.planetizen.com/blogs/133882...

Useful evidence for those that insist we need better public transit before pricing driving. Pricing driving *improves* public transit.

Microphone meme with "1.35M annual worldwide traffic deaths" without attention and "cyclists rolling through a stop sign" with dozens of microphones"

mainstream narrative.

Lessons From New York’s Congestion Fight “Car brain” is part of a broader syndrome, which we can’t ignore

Is NYC's congestion fee a regressive tax? No. Driving into Manhattan is expensive even w/o the fee, so very few low-wage workers do it. Plus the money will be used to improve the transit systems they *do* use paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

A third of Americans don't drive. So why is our transportation so car-centric? » Yale Climate Connections Anna Zivarts explains how reimagining transportation could benefit non-drivers and the climate.

It's not just NYC commuters who don't drive -- we must remember there are #nondrivers everywhere and we need to start building communities that don't require car dependency.
Read my Q&A in Yale Climate Connections:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/amer...

YouTube video by Rick Francona Casablanca Shocked

This is where I recall the words of my master and teacher Claude Rains www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMIy...

Let’s Talk About Soundview In New York City, one common argument against congestion pricing (or in fact, against any policy designed to further the interests of anyone outside an automobile) is that because outer borough res…

In which I respond to the "outer borough people all drive" argument against congestion pricing marketurbanism.com/2025/01/06/l...