Emily Hamilton

The economists are with the Europeans on this one

Little boys and shovels are amazing. I recently spent an afternoon digging "the biggest swimming pool of all time" with my four year olds

It’s official: NYC is no longer the walkability capital of America New York didn’t even crack the top five

FitFlop's Walkability Index should be called the Tourist Walkability Index www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Agreed

Would you say footnotes are on the rise?

The Double Duplex: One Response to Los Angeles’s Overcrowding Crisis Introduction  Even before the January 2025 fires, Los Angeles (LA) was suffering from an acute housing shortage, which resulted in high housing costs and overcrowding.[1] According to 2023 census data...

Great report by Valerie Wilke, @edmendoza.bsky.social, and @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social on the double duplex, an LA typology that is bringing back the SRO through a series of code hacks www.mercatus.org/research/pol...

I 100% think kids need to move more and P.E. is good, but they shouldn't have to do the Presidential Fitness Test until Trump does it on TV

We get it, law reviews love footnotes, but this is just going too far openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Its historic strip mall has got to go though

School bus death spiral

For sure! I think I started walking home to an empty house in like fifth grade? That's illegal in some states today

Is Dorman High School in Spartanburg, South Carolina the sprawliest school of all time?

This is a really informative report on school districts' incentives to build new schools on greenfield sites rather than renovating existing schools: www.saferoutespartnership.org/sites/defaul...

Great quote from a NoVA teen on the effects of school sprawl here:

I think an under-explored cause of people having fewer kids is the increasing logistical difficulties of getting multiple kids everywhere they need and want to be, in part due to fewer kids getting themselves to school independently or on a school bus.

Yeah, check the Critical Geography journals though

The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.

"It is hard to find a single study published in a single economic journal that plausibly claims that large homebuilders today are constraining housing supply. In lieu of careful findings, the space is filled with confident assertions."

www.derekthompson.org/p/the-anti-a...

Episode 95: Low-Rise Multifamily with Tobias Peter - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies Seattle has built more than 20,000 townhomes over the past 30 years. We discuss their impacts on affordability, homeownership, and more.

In the latest episode of UCLA Housing Voice, we talk to Tobias Peter about his case study on Seattle's low-rise multifamily zones, which have produced over 20,000 townhomes since 1994. Some key findings in the thread below. www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/07/30/9...

Staying in a hotel in Manhattan seems like the kind of thing to me that, intuitively, you do when you have like a couple million in wealth and make $400,000 a year. But absolutely normal people do it all the time! Blows me away

No joke, I think watching Sesame Street is what made me a city person from a very young age

When it's not serving a health/safety purpose, I think it should be

From the discussion of Chinese laundry regulations in Stuck! by Yoni Appelbaum

We used to be a country, a proper country

Totally failed at n=2

It’s probably been on there

Surely

You will always get exactly the hangover you deserve, even if you shell out $10/vial of Zbiotics

Perhaps you’ve heard about this product from a centrist neolib podcaster who you trust, but I’m here to tell you this is snake oil.

True, we have been to the building museum a couple of times

Fortunately that’s not a frequent stop for us

Same.