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Ask A City Nerd #5: Why Don't Urbanists Ever Talk About (x)
Welcome to Ask a City Nerd. Got a question you want answered? Or chopped up into bite-sized pieces so I can just answer the parts I'm interested in? (This is sort of what I did today — you've been warned.) Submit it here! Submissions are lightly
Coming Soon(-ish): Raleigh and NYC
Just a heads up for everyone on a couple upcoming events. Raleigh, NC I'll be in Raleigh in mid-November during the YIMBYTown conference. Probably won't be at the conference itself much, because I'm planning to be out and about filming content for a
The Car As Dining Room
If you spend any amount of time at all in American suburbs, you can't miss it: the ongoing proliferation of ever more ingeniously designed restaurant drive-thrus. Multi-lane Chick-Fil-As and In-N-Outs. Raising Cane's and Dutch Bros. drive aisles with iPad-wielding
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Ask a City Nerd #4: Career Opportunities
Welcome to Ask a City Nerd. Got a question you want answered? Or not answered at all and instead I pivot to something I actually want to talk about? Submit it here! Submissions are lightly edited for typos, grammar, clarity, and a reasonable amount of anonymity. Now to today'
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The Education of a Toy Store Elf
City life, model trains, and muddling through to adulthood in Seattle's Pioneer Square Here's how the interview went. The four of us sat on the hardwood floor of a second story office just above Magic Mouse Toys, a shop on First and Yesler in Seattle'
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Gerrymandering Is Anti-City. Let's Fix It.
Note: this piece is adapted from, and expands on, my recent video on House apportionment, gerrymandering, and structural pro-rural bias in our congress. It's not strictly necessary, but you might want to watch here on Nebula, or embedded below on YouTube (with ads and sponsor content, though)
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Ask a City Nerd #3: Commuter Rail, Boomer Walkability, and...CityVisit Halifax?
Welcome to Ask a City Nerd. Got a question you want answered? Or a story I can use as a jumping-off point for lengthy digressions on things I wanted to talk about in the first place? Submit it here! Submissions are lightly edited for anonymity and conciseness. This week
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