Evan Roberts

Arguments in the pub, morning tea table, or faculty club, which social media substitutes for in academia, had their downsides too. But those venues generally encouraged more give and take than firm lines being drawn.

10,000 sq ft per house? Or multiple cottages on the lot?

Belsky et al Origins of You (also second the recommendation of Living on the Edge)

Some planners, I think, find the cottage court an interesting puzzle for revising zoning codes. You can get close to stacked flat density with separate title.

Cottage courts do kind of throw up some challenges to “off the shelf” zoning rules because a big appeal of the design is separate property title. But these are tiny lots, and some of the regulation of e.g. impervious surface needs to take into account the common space.

Cottage courts are one solution to the financing/size/noise/density/ownership/open space hexlemma. There are many others that should also be legal everywhere.

Steve Ruggles, Vernon Burton and others listen as Margo Anderson leads the tribute to Andy Beveridge at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Social Science History Association.

Emma Diduch and Matthew Sobek listen as Steve Ruggles leads the remembrance and tribute to Andy Beveridge at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Social Science History Association.

Participants at the 50th meeting of the Social Science History Association take a moment to remember the great Andrew Beveridge. Steve Ruggles, Margo Anderson and Vernon Burton led the appreciation!
www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...

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My favorite piece of content today.

Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Mr Poirot in Mischief on the Nile SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Little Kiss Marple in Muddle at the Vicarage SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time

This account is truly amazing. The sort of thing that makes you say “oh, THIS is why the Internet exists.”

Minnesota Zoning Atlas — National Zoning Atlas The Minnesota Zoning Atlas is a project of the National Zoning Atlas, which aims to digitize, demystify, and democratize information about zoning conditions in more than 30,000 U.S. jurisdictions. The...

TCRG thanks @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social and Natalia Uro-DeLeon for their presentation this week on the Minnesota Zoning Atlas.

A WebEx recording is here: metrocouncil.webex.com/metrocouncil...

The presentation PDF is: drive.google.com/file/d/18pt8...

Living through Brexit made visceral something that is easy to appreciate intellectually: bad policies can just make everything worse without a cathartic moment of accountability or even clarity. You won’t lose an election on deer health, it will just be part of an overwhelming sense of decline.

Pratt Community Education Center (1992)
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When I'm in Phoenix I use waymo, and unlike your average Minnesota driver they come to a complete stop for pedestrians.

Exactly!

I know this is all in good humor, but the extent to which all cities systematically made it hard to live close to work is the real fault here. Hate the game, not the players who are just looking for a home that's allowed by law

Also Minneapolis. They don’t ring fence them across the border.

People may not care about it, but a bunch of people have to commute into and out of it every day.

Bloomington is added by the Census Bureau as it has enough inflow for jobs to be counted as a core part of the central metro area. The census based area stretches further, based on thresholds of share of people from the outlying area commuting into areas contiguous with the core.

People will say it's the lack of enforcement, and that's a factor, but we also have technology to limit phone use while driving and our automakers and leaders refuse to implement it. It's a choice to allow distracted driving. And all the deaths and injuries that result are because of that choice.

There's a guy in NZ who might be worth connecting with on this (not me 😀) I can make the connection if you're interested

Particularly in Ireland and New Zealand, any serious grappling with the household formation issue along the lines of this paper might also try to address the migration valve. It’s been a long day, but I think that’s probably its own distinct form of collider bias.

I would add to the broader points made in this thread that two of the Anglophone countries with the worst housing affordability issues — Ireland and New Zealand — are also two countries that have seen significant out-migration to proximate and distant countries with moderately better housing markets

This is a good paper that @jensvb.bsky.social and @lausterna.bsky.social did all the work on, and I’m pleased to have a teeny weeny bit of stolen glory in saying it’s in a forthcoming journal issue I edited. The approach they use could be straightforwardly replicated in other countries.

Great discussion that has been going on for serval days now up and down this thread and in the quotes (up and down). Metrics matter, and some of our main metrics in the housing discourse simply aren't responsive to the issues: Standard affordability metrics suffer from massive collider bias.

Crimes Against Urbanity

Greater Longfellow and Northeast winning the greatest diversity award: only meaningful neighborhood areas to contain all four quadrant of the data

Somebody in the audience pointed out something that I didn’t know, which is that Queensbridge Houses, the largest NYCHA project in the city (and thereby largest public housing complex in North America), is single-stair. platform-affordable-dwelling.bk.tudelft.nl/database/201...

It's hidden out of sight in PUD negotiations, but even in the exurbs developers are often trying to get lot sizes for single family homes down to 5-8,000 square feet. That's resisted by cities, leading to large drainage ponds and other stuff that gets managed by HOAs.