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The Deleted Scenes Top 10 of 2025
Continuity And Change In Silver Spring, Maryland
The Big House That Might Not Be Able To
I Love Christmas So Much I'm Glad There Are Two Of Them
Amazon, America, And The Christmas Song Business
Archive Dive: I'm From Walmart, New Jersey
What Kind Of Project Is A Daily Newsletter?
Sacramentalism And Consumerism
Who's Taking Care Of Business These Days?
Archive Dive: Plant-Based Patties, Italian Peasant Style
How Do We Know What's History?
Brother, Can You Spare An Oyster?
History, Uppercase And Lowercase
Are Roommates The Answer To The Housing Crisis?
An Accidental Month Without Driving
Hi, It's "They," We're The Problem
Part Of Why Everything Feels Like It's Always Getting Worse
Garage Sales As Cultural History
Okay, The Beatles White Album is *Kind Of* Haunted
On Not Rounding Down Short Tasks To Zero
A Little More On Seeing What You're Looking At
"We're Rich, We Can't Afford That"
Where No Star Trek Museum Has Gone Before
Is Cutting Off Robotaxis Good Urbanism?
The Olive Bar And The End Of Little Things
The Triangle And The Parking Problem
Elevators As (Public?) Transit
"Join This Club Or I'll Hit You Over The Head With It!"
More Thoughts On Video Games, Competition, Success, And Housing
Why Do So Many Companies Hate Their History?
Localism Must Not Be an Ideology of Soil
Wake Me When AI Can Produce Sgt. Pepper
"What Other Questions Can I Not Answer For You?"
It's Hard To Believe Some Things Were Invented
Things That Feel Like They're About Housing: Fighting Games Edition
How Do You Know When You're Seeing What You're Looking At?
Home Consoles Changed What Video Games Were
YIMBYs Want Their Problem Solved
A Museum That Feels Like An Elegy
How Should Urbanists And YIMBYs Think About Small Towns?
Gift Shops Are A Pleasant Step Back In Time
The Opposite of Safetyism Is Blasé Faire
What Does It Mean To Know A Place?
Some Thoughts On Crime In Cities
Do Interesting Suburbs Complicate Urbanism?
Do I Have A Right To Visit A Business?
The NIMBYs Are (Kind Of) Right
Modern Suburbia Turns Being Fully Human Into A Luxury
Why The Midwest Might Feel "Old-Fashioned"
A Little More On Zoning Preemption
One Man's Nuisance Is Another Man's Opportunity
"The Past Was So Old-Fashioned Looking"
In Tokyo, The Best Kind Of Screen Time
On Always Being An Amateur Critic
Maybe Cities Aren't A Beautiful Inconvenience
Ways Of Thinking About State Preemption Of Zoning
It's Harder To Just Impulsively Eat Out Now
Why Don't Local Governments Help Small Businesses More?
How Many Nuts Do We Have In This House?
Friction, Distance, Incidental Activities
Can You Really Buy A New Tube TV From China?
The French Revolution For Buildings
The All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Is Not Dead After All
"Spreadsheet-Brain Technocrats," Or A Good Rule Set?
Back To Basics On Small Towns And Urbanity
The Problem With Cars Is We Don't Get To Use Them
So What About Eating On The Train?
Backyard Coffee And Jazz In Kyoto, Japan
"This Town Is Great, Why Would Anyone Want To Live Here?"
People Who Live In Stone Houses...
Participating In The City Or Consuming It?
The Beatles White Album Isn't Haunted
A Dreary Day, Warm Tea, Deep History
Is There A "Correct" Urban Taxonomy?
Why Are Retro Games Cheap In Japan? (And Are They?)
Now You're Stuck, Now You're Not
Is There Opportunity In The Lack Of Opportunity?
I Live Here Because Of Winn-Dixie
Delivery Killed The Grocery Store (Maybe)
Workers Of The Town, Unite On Brown
Pokémon GO And The Built Environment
The Wonder Of A Small-Town Theater
"I Love Cars, Of Course I Hate Traffic!"
"Like Bringing Peruvian Chicken To Peru"
How Old Is Your Ordinary Product?
Is The Internet Dark, Or Are People?
They Don't Make It Like They Used To (Or At All)
More On Zoning And Subsidiarity
How Much Of Urbanism Is Being Social?
When Did Your Home Feel Like Yours?
New subscriber discount ends tonight
Why Aren't More Supermarkets Like This?
(Sub)urban Renewal In Colmar Manor, Maryland
Your Thoughts On Electronics And Physicality
No One Makes *Electronics* Anymore
The Revival Of The American Third Place?
What If Urban Public Officials Cared About Cities?
I Could Tell You (What This Building Used To Be), But Then I'd Have To...
Why Does It Matter If YIMBYs Are Annoying?
An Alexandria That Didn't Make It
Maybe You Fund The People Who *Will Start* Families
Solidarity Or Generational Theft?
"I Might Not Be Getting Anything Done, But At Least I'm Not Having Fun"
"European" Means "I Want To Walk"
More On Seeing What You're Looking At
If We Could Just Build What We Have
Why Does The Bad Guy Feel Like The Victim?
In Other Contexts, It's Called "Consumer Advocacy"
You Did The Right Thing, But You Shouldn't Have Had To
"I'm An Antisocial Urbanist Living In Suburbia, Ask Me Anything"
The Transition Is The Hard Part, Revisited
Whose Leftovers Are They Anyway?