banner
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley
@snmarkley.bsky.social
910 followers 250 following 110 posts
Studying racially uneven sub/urban development with GIS, maps, #rstats, #rspatial https://scottnmarkley.github.io
scottnmarkley.github.io
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Reposted by Scott Markley
m-r-glass.bsky.social
Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 1d
Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉
For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal!
www.pennpress.org/978151282822...
1 12 19
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · 1d
Glad to see this new piece on quantification, counter-data, "evidence," and what we call "authoritarian counting" out now in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social with @itspangler.bsky.social, @emtl.bsky.social, and @marxist.af!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
1 5
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · 26d
More on the 608 program here: academic.oup.com/jah/article/...
Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America
On a hot afternoon in July 1954, Fred C. Trump sat as a witness before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. He had been subpoenaed for an investig
academic.oup.com
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · 26d
Fantastic new historical mapping resource on the FHA's Section 608 multifamily rental housing program from @brentcebul.bsky.social, Mike Glass, and their team. Complete with downloadable data! Incredible work

buildinginequality.us
Building Inequality
buildinginequality.us
1 1 2
Reposted by Scott Markley
brentcebul.bsky.social
Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social · 26d
Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...
Adding Value | Phenomenal World
Mortgage insurance has traditionally been the method the federal government has used to induce investment in owner-occupied housing. But for multifamily rentals, the history of mortgage-insurance prog...
www.phenomenalworld.org
2 29 84
Reposted by Scott Markley
sammillerbb.bsky.social
Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · Jul 19
this one
47 390 1.9K
Reposted by Scott Markley
bplmaps.bsky.social
Leventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social · Jun 30
An update on the future of the Allmaps project:

Sadly, on April 17, 2025, we learned that the federal government terminated many NEH grants, including ours. The notification stated that our grant’s termination was “necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.”
4 14 22
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 25
Why are all these people named Brian Johnson
kvue.bsky.social
KVUE @kvue.bsky.social · Jun 25
Brian Johnson, better known as the "Liver King," was arrested Tuesday and charged with Terroristic Threat after he allegedly made threats against Rogan on Instagram.
Image 1
1 3
Reposted by Scott Markley
brendelbored.bsky.social
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Jun 25
Voters: can you pay 50 cents more in taxes to pay for vegetables for children and agree not to defraud the elderly on their electrical bills

Wall Street Guy: OH LIKE THE KILLING FIELDS?!?! LIKE THE KHMER ROUGE?!?!
thetnholler.bsky.social
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 25
WATCH: “What about the rich? Do they get shot? It’s like they’re making Wall Streeters walk out onto the ice in the East River… class warfare… eat the rich.”

@cnbc.com hosts Joe Kernen & jim cramer hilariously struggle to process Zohran’s win — made inevitable by the greed they exalt.
70 620 3K
Reposted by Scott Markley
jbenmenachem.com
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Jun 25
crying, screaming, throwing up
"Hearing that real estate and business leaders in New York City are convening a 2 pm call to discuss The Zohran Situation"
130 560 5.5K
Reposted by Scott Markley
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 25
he's right and he's right to say it
screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."
170 6.5K 34K
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
As always, I am happy to share the pdf if you do not have access.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
We hope this intervention will help spark future deep dives into HOLC’s Area Descriptions, which really do provide a unique window into the development of what Charles Abrams called the "racist theory of value."
1
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
Moreover, we find that these Area Descriptions are rife with contradictory notions of what makes a place valuable. E.g., in Atlanta, HOLC's appraisers grade affluent Black neighborhoods low but nonetheless recommend investment.
1
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
Curiously, while the value narratives in these cities positioned Black residential presence as sign and source of obsolescence, respectively, they did not seem to anticipate Black population growth or mobility at all.
1
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
Temporal Narratives—prevalent in Milwaukee—situated neighborhoods in time, placing them along a past and projected value trajectory. Proximity Narratives—prevalent in Atlanta—situated neighborhoods in space, projecting value based on distance to certain dis/amenities, including racial composition.
1
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
Focusing on Milwaukee and Atlanta, we identify two cartographic narrative types present in the Area Descriptions: Temporal Narratives and Proximity Narratives.
1
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
In that way, this mapping program was less about directly steering property investment decisions and more about internal data gathering and assessment. We thus consider this mapping program as an early example of spatial data science in practice.
1
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
These detailed field notes provide an in-depth look into how real estate capital and the state were constructing a dynamic notion of neighborhood value that relied on estimated racial and class trajectories (though not always in consistent ways across places).
1
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
While HOLC’s colorful “redlining” maps from the 1930s have gotten a lot of attention in the last decade, we shift the focus to a much less explored component of the City Survey program: the Area Descriptions.
1
snmarkley.bsky.social
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social · Jun 18
📣 The last article from my dissertation is out!

In this piece, coauthor Anne Bonds and I dive deep into the contents of HOLC’s Area Description sheets.

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
HOLC Area Description for neighborhood D5 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin HOLC map for Milwaukee, Wisconsin HOLC map for Atlanta, Georgia
2 1 9
Reposted by Scott Markley
bencollins.bsky.social
Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 17
theonion.com/this-war-wil...
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
120 2.3K 12K
Reposted by Scott Markley
yairwallach.bsky.social
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jun 12
The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides
Rafah, 5 June 2025. Haaretz
11 350 710
Reposted by Scott Markley
notalawyer.bsky.social
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Jun 11
rubber bullets fly by my face. tear gas fills my lungs. a line of federal troops is marching toward me. i fire off an email to my focus group asking what i should do as a baton lands cleanly on my skull.
48 300 2.6K
Reposted by Scott Markley
kevinbaker.bsky.social
ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Jun 9
One consequence of viewing all politics through the lens of propaganda, disinformation, and the information war is that we've gotten to a place where that becomes the only rubric with which to judge anything. Politics is reduced to producing absolutely futile symbolic acts of debunking.
4 11 70