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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'
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)
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