Alex Pemberton
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Alex Pemberton
@yellowbrickurban.com
Real estate bro on a planner/researcher detour. Focus on how real estate markets build cities, how regulation shapes real estate markets, and how urban battlefields entrench segregation.

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No, Neil. It was the skincare routine and lack thereof. We're talking about skincare routines.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My wife is a year younger than me. When we met, she looked ~three years younger than me and now we look like Nuzzi+RFK, Jr.
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm not sure, man. It's hard to see the subject of that sentence with the sun reflecting off half-empty apartments with names like Albion, more spawn of Satan than seed of their namesake.
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
You absolutely must read the whole thing:

www.theblaze.com/frontier/the...
The Bookstore Time Forgot | Blaze Media
Inside a temple of Southern Literature, where the ghosts of Agrarian poets still wander the aisles.
www.theblaze.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Sorry, Neil. I'm still going to be Restoring Western Culture by learning how to write the worst prose anyone has ever read at that time. Please in the future try to schedule around events which change the course of human history.
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sorry, I'm going to be rebuilding Western Culture through art, community, and curated live experiences at that time.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I MEAN COME ON
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Right? Boundless treasures for anyone masochistic enough to read early 20th Century Hochdeutsch in Fraktur.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The making of a UNESCO World Heritage site, Kontorhausviertel.

Little remains of Hamburg's Gängeviertel. Now they're the most beloved districts in the city: Speicherstadt, Portugiesenviertel, Mönckebergstraße.

The exception: Neustadt, which the Nazis cleared to run out the Communists, sucks bad.
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hamburger Kulturgut Digital
Hamburg und seine Bauten
digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I don't think NU has failed to scale. It's the supermajority of greenfield development; hegemonic in planning schools and RED master's programs.

It's more that NU has reached the limits of its potential within the existing systems of finance, infrastructure spending, etc. and it still sucks a lot.
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I thought he did better when he characterized zoning reform as an example of the continued post-Civil Rights Acts efforts toward the dissolution of segregation.
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I AM THE POWERS THAT BE
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I mean, imagine being afraid of this absolute dork. @rollinhorton.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Brother I know these numbers by heart.
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Right. Whether they're fiscally positive or negative is irrelevant. By virtue of regulatory capture, they're getting a discount on the purchase of their preferred housing type and an annual discount on property taxes.
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM