Henry Grabar

Daytona. Why?

legalize it

there's a lot of competition but i think this is the most vapid idea for a website i have ever encountered nationaltoday.com/our-mission/

got quoted in an AI-generated story for the first time today -- the story is about something i've never talked about (street design in Vienna) but the bot dug up some other quote and stuck it in there

i'm sort of surprised this is not specified on the event page... i guess Pensacola people just know the deal with this site?

Henry Grabar: How Parking Explains the World Join CivicCon for a free public event featuring Henry Grabar, journalist and author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Know someone in Pensacola who is interested in urban planning? This is on Monday! www.eventbrite.com/e/henry-grab...

America Just Lost Another of Its Great Institutions. This One Was a Filmmaker. Frederick Wiseman leaves behind a body of work as massive as all the institutions he chronicled.

I wrote about Frederick Wiseman, for whom most superlatives don't go far enough, and the most important thing he did that wasn't making movies.

well i guess the ONE WAY you can escape, as the thread explains, is by following through on complete streets infrastructure

this is kind of spectacular -- you can't escape your hydrological destiny

my big takeaway from experimenting with claude code is that a lot of coding for me, so far, is finding ways to get around anti-bot scraping tech embedded in the web

Book cover titled "The Story of Cement: The Magic Powder" by Earl J. Hadley. The illustration shows a large, stylized figure bending over and pouring white powder from their hands, which streams down into a cityscape with tall buildings and a bridge.

Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

kind of amazing that a bunch of random outfits that own warehouses have more moral backbone than the CEOs of brand-name companies www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

"We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

People Who Don’t Understand Downtowns Are Destroying Downtowns A far-fetched plan to demolish Dallas’s seat of government reflects the city’s diminished role in the region.

"Dallas City Hall might ultimately be razed for a casino—a perfect symbol for our era of civic impoverishment and gambling addiction." A striking story about the apparent implosion of downtown Dallas. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

yeah this is gonna be a tough one

secret mall apartments?

thank you! the feeling is mutual!

People Who Don’t Understand Downtowns Are Destroying Downtowns A far-fetched plan to demolish Dallas’s seat of government is threatening the city’s role in the region.

Dallas may tear down its IM Pei-designed City Hall for a development site for the Adelsons, "raising the possibility that City Hall might ultimately be razed for a casino—a perfect symbol for our era of civic impoverishment and gambling addiction."

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Oh yeah, that’s in the piece too

everything's bigger in texas, including:
-downtown vacancy rates
-lack of respect for brutalist architecture
-pro sports owners' hold on urban politics

The Eclipse of Dallas The city’s core is losing its central role in the region.

Sure your downtown has problems. But at least you’re not getting ready to demolish your iconic City Hall for a billionaire‘s stadium-casino complex.

New from me: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Wildest Ride at Epcot: Keeping Day Drinkers From Getting Trashed The fan-made “Drinking Around the World” challenge has made the park a draw, but things can go from magical to messy in a hurry.

from www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

we're all trying to find the guy who did this

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

*don henley voice* out on a run today saw a Palestinian Flag on a frat house

Today marks one year since Don Shoup died. I put on a jacket I didn’t realize I wore last at our memorial lunch, pockets stuffed with Kleenex.

In Don’s memory today, think about how you commit yourself to change and leave a legacy of passion and love behind.

it's a big tent

This is where I’m coming down - it’s Pascal’s wager, why *not* believe in the power of land use restrictions?

who has the best synthesis of the debate about this paper arguing that supply constraints do not explain housing prices?

www.frbsf.org/wp-content/u...

The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

dark times for journalism www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...