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I sometimes appreciate when other writers-on-the-internet give a ‘start here’ list. I’ve tried a few different ways to build this list, and so far have not found a format that I like. I can easily see different eras of my life in my own writing, I do less ‘tying things together’ than I once did!

I’m on a big roads and mobility focus these days, for reasons that feel in part (annoyingly) unavoidable.

I’ve posted on a substack, zoning norms very different than ours to tease out some “roads stuff”.

or just read the full list of blog posts below. There’s no pagination, this is the full list, all ~275 of them across many years.

Some of my favorite, or ‘favorite’ pieces are:

  • I did a pretty detailed write-up of a marketing pamphlet from 1922. it was created by the mayor of Atlanta, and is the founding document of virtually all of American/American-style zoning. It’s horrifying and actionable to behold. It’s the origination of r1 housing, ‘single family’ housing, ‘the suburbs’. 😬
  • I have not yet done a write-up on this mobility data rendering project. it’s interesting lines on a map. it connects to virtually all of the writing I’ve done on zoning, land use regimes, mobility networks. It’s a simple rails app that fetches my activity data from Strava and renders all the data at once on a map. TODO: add the writeup for the mobility-data project.
  • On Bollards This is one of my favorite pieces. In it, we (me and the reader) share appreciation for a wonderful piece of infrastructure.
  • My most recent ‘recommended reading’ book list Books mean ‘ideas’, and ideas are, well, at least occasionally relevant. Dive in.

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