Definitely listened to some age-inappropriate Prince songs back in the day.

To be fair, it doesn’t work ad well in bigger cities such as Seattle.

Only FIFA is vastly more corrupt than the NFL.

Much more than that, but yes.

If anyone thinks that way, they should spend 15 minutes in a bus hub of an automobile-dependent city.

We’re in an urgent global housing crisis, and Switzerland has some of the least affordable housing—even relative to income—in the world. People are really suffering, and this seems extraordinarily tone deaf in that context.

The way crepes are used kinda proves this

I’m seeing 280 Broadway. Not sure what the significance is?

My point isn’t to argue about the Equitable Building.

It’s that In 1915 only Manhattan—and maybe Chicago—had the conditions to build many 40-story, zero setback towers. Yet the entire country blindly applied that zoning. The strange part wasn’t NYC regulating itself, but everyone else copying it.

FAR was created to solve problems that emerged in Midtown Manhattan about 100 years ago. And for some reason, we decided to apply it to Wyoming and Mississippi.

More broadly, the fact that NYC’s early zoning model was copied across the entire country—as if NYC wasn’t a total outlier—is bizarre.

Bro, what are you on about?

Wait til he finds out that even Texas is facing an acute and growing housing crisis. Yes, even rural Texas. And the parts of the country that are being spared…probably won’t be for very long.

Wow. A doctorate in a STEM field from one of the very best universities in the world, and the haters *still* come out. I wonder what they’ve done?

I still see it as a novelty record, despite its influence.

Honestly, I’m most struck by how much housing was built in the 30s and 40s, and how it compares to later decades. How can a city build less housing than they did through the Great Depression???