I can’t vote in NYC. But one thing I can do is get on French national morning news to talk about Zohran’s promising housing plan, and what it will take to make it happen, when he wins

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

@franceculture.fr @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Currently doing some work on Renée Gailhoustet and her pioneer work on French social housing. I put her in the same category of genius as Charlotte Perriand.

Any other names that should be included in that group in your opinion?

Any lead from people on their favorite platform for interactive data display: is it flourish, shiny apps, arcgis storymaps, something else altogether I’m not aware of?

spotted 👀 🔎: the book Pour en Finir avec le Grand Paris I co-wrote and published in September 2024, about rethinking Paris from its margins, on display at the Frances Loeb Library this summer @gsd.harvard.edu

For the first iteration of the course "At Home and Abroad: Housing in Comparative Perspective", students surpassed themselves as we looked into lessons from elsewhere to fix New York City’s housing crisis--in partnership with the @urbandesignforum.bsky.social.

▶️ www.gsd.harvard.edu/publication/...

Was at a terrific @yimbytown.bsky.social panel about the type of data-based research that practitioners & policymakers really need right now. This got me thinking: if you all could ask for one dataset or insight that’s not available yet, what would it be?

New from me: this podcast episode from @alexschafran.bsky.social’s podcast Housing After Dark. This conversation is a repeat of the panel for practitioners we held at @spur-urbanist.bsky.social San Francisco earlier this year, alongside Egon Terplan.

open.spotify.com/episode/1gY0...

Last month, we organized a Grand Parisian Night on the joint futures of the Parisian city center and its suburbs.

The roundtable included Lamia El Aaraje, Deputy mayor of Paris, as well as architecture historians, designers, and artists.

Video recording: www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/la-nui...

New paper on rental deserts, segregation and zoning, with Whitney Airgood-Obrycki + Sophia Wedeen:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We weave together: 1️⃣ a new "rental deserts" framework, 2️⃣ a new measure of segregation, and 3️⃣ a new approach to national zoning surveys
@uaanews.bsky.social