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Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.
If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?
If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?
Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.
October 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.
If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?
If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?
My post on why few people write about urban growth boundaries marketurbanism.com/2025/07/04/w...
Why isn’t urban containment a big deal anymore? – Market Urbanism
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July 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
My post on why few people write about urban growth boundaries marketurbanism.com/2025/07/04/w...
I didn't write this but wish I had marketurbanism.com/2025/07/17/w...
Why didn’t people sleep on the streets of US cities during World War II? – Market Urbanism
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July 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I didn't write this but wish I had marketurbanism.com/2025/07/17/w...
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Taking Green Amendments to the Street
Several states have "green amendments" declaring that state residents have the right to a healthy environment. Could these amendments be used to challenge policies that increase car-related pollution?
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July 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Want to help New York solve its housing crisis? Want to join the best team in housing advocacy?
Apply to be our Deputy Chief of Staff
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Apply to be our Deputy Chief of Staff
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Deputy Chief of Staff at Open New York
About Open New York
Open New York (ONY) is a grassroots, non-profit organization advocating for abundant homes and lower rent. With an expected budget of $3M in 2025 and a staff of 11 (and growing), O...
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July 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Want to help New York solve its housing crisis? Want to join the best team in housing advocacy?
Apply to be our Deputy Chief of Staff
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Apply to be our Deputy Chief of Staff
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El Salvador is planning to eliminate parking requirements nationwide. The most shoupista country in the world? www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/R...
Requisito de parqueos ya no será obligatorio para permisos de proyectos - La Prensa Gráfica
Comisión de la Asamblea emitió dictamen favorable a disposiciones para que los proyectos, tanto habitacionales como comerciales, ya no este obligados a incluir parqueos como requisito en sus construcc...
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July 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
El Salvador is planning to eliminate parking requirements nationwide. The most shoupista country in the world? www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/R...
Fact Check: New Housing Doesn’t Lead to Overcrowded Schools: shelterforce.org/2024/12/03/f...
Fact Check: New Housing Doesn't Lead to Overcrowded Schools
Opponents of new housing often say schools can’t absorb all the students it will bring. But the data tells a different story.
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May 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Fact Check: New Housing Doesn’t Lead to Overcrowded Schools: shelterforce.org/2024/12/03/f...
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Even when drivers do everything exactly right, bad street design can make a situation dangerous.
These are a few of the elements that the Ottawa Crash Analysis Studio found in their examination of Conroy Road and Lorry Greenberg Drive.
These are a few of the elements that the Ottawa Crash Analysis Studio found in their examination of Conroy Road and Lorry Greenberg Drive.
May 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Even when drivers do everything exactly right, bad street design can make a situation dangerous.
These are a few of the elements that the Ottawa Crash Analysis Studio found in their examination of Conroy Road and Lorry Greenberg Drive.
These are a few of the elements that the Ottawa Crash Analysis Studio found in their examination of Conroy Road and Lorry Greenberg Drive.
My latest @planetizen.bsky.social blog post
Density and Disorder: The Imaginary Link
A recent article tries to tie public transit and walkability to social disorder — but in fact, sprawling Sunbelt cities like Memphis are as likely to have high crime rates as transit-rich metropolises...
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March 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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My Touro Land Use Institute video podcasts with @kevinerdmann.bsky.social and @sarabronin.bsky.social are now online at www.youtube.com/@michaellewy...
Michael Lewyn
Most of these videos are from my 2021 campaign for Manhattan Borough President. However, I hope to add more land use related videos in the future.
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February 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
My Touro Land Use Institute video podcasts with @kevinerdmann.bsky.social and @sarabronin.bsky.social are now online at www.youtube.com/@michaellewy...
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Cities and Test Scores
Cities and Test Scores
The latest test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress suggests that student learning has not recovered from its COVID-era decline. Is this more true for urban school districts than for the rest of the United States?
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February 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Cities and Test Scores
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Building new homes at the top of the market induces at “moving on up” effect that quickly creates vacancies in the least-expensive homes.
Conversely, blocking new housing in high-demand places makes wealthy people move into and renovate existing, once-affordable homes, raising prices.
Conversely, blocking new housing in high-demand places makes wealthy people move into and renovate existing, once-affordable homes, raising prices.
Building market-rate/luxury housing relieves pressure on rents in lower-end housing. This is because absent the new luxury housing, wealthy people will move into older homes displacing lower income families. This process is called filtering. www.planetizen.com/news/2024/03...
How ‘Filtering’ Opens Up Affordable Housing
An analysis of 12 U.S. cities found that new market-rate construction often leads to more affordable units becoming available, but the effect varies across housing markets.
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January 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Building new homes at the top of the market induces at “moving on up” effect that quickly creates vacancies in the least-expensive homes.
Conversely, blocking new housing in high-demand places makes wealthy people move into and renovate existing, once-affordable homes, raising prices.
Conversely, blocking new housing in high-demand places makes wealthy people move into and renovate existing, once-affordable homes, raising prices.
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Useful evidence for those that insist we need better public transit before pricing driving. Pricing driving *improves* public transit.
“I see a difference, definitely,” said Tony, who has spent 18 years as a bus operator for the MTA.
“There have been no delays the entire week, and when I look to my left and right down the avenues I can see all the way down – I’ve never seen it like that.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/10/m...
“There have been no delays the entire week, and when I look to my left and right down the avenues I can see all the way down – I’ve never seen it like that.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/10/m...
MTA Drivers: Slowest Bus in Manhattan Is Faster Since Congestion Pricing
The slowest bus in Lower Manhattan is moving faster this week since congestion pricing began, bus drivers say.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Useful evidence for those that insist we need better public transit before pricing driving. Pricing driving *improves* public transit.
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mainstream narrative.
January 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
mainstream narrative.
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Is NYC's congestion fee a regressive tax? No. Driving into Manhattan is expensive even w/o the fee, so very few low-wage workers do it. Plus the money will be used to improve the transit systems they *do* use paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
Lessons From New York’s Congestion Fight
“Car brain” is part of a broader syndrome, which we can’t ignore
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Is NYC's congestion fee a regressive tax? No. Driving into Manhattan is expensive even w/o the fee, so very few low-wage workers do it. Plus the money will be used to improve the transit systems they *do* use paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
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It's not just NYC commuters who don't drive -- we must remember there are #nondrivers everywhere and we need to start building communities that don't require car dependency.
Read my Q&A in Yale Climate Connections:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/amer...
Read my Q&A in Yale Climate Connections:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/amer...
A third of Americans don't drive. So why is our transportation so car-centric? » Yale Climate Connections
Anna Zivarts explains how reimagining transportation could benefit non-drivers and the climate.
yaleclimateconnections.org
January 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It's not just NYC commuters who don't drive -- we must remember there are #nondrivers everywhere and we need to start building communities that don't require car dependency.
Read my Q&A in Yale Climate Connections:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/amer...
Read my Q&A in Yale Climate Connections:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/amer...
In which I respond to the "outer borough people all drive" argument against congestion pricing marketurbanism.com/2025/01/06/l...
Let’s Talk About Soundview
In New York City, one common argument against congestion pricing (or in fact, against any policy designed to further the interests of anyone outside an automobile) is that because outer borough res…
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January 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
In which I respond to the "outer borough people all drive" argument against congestion pricing marketurbanism.com/2025/01/06/l...
Urban planning peeps: is there a website out there that lists the number of census tracts every major city has? (I realize that I could go to data.census.gov and count the number of tracts from a list, but that is kind of time-consuming).
January 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Urban planning peeps: is there a website out there that lists the number of census tracts every major city has? (I realize that I could go to data.census.gov and count the number of tracts from a list, but that is kind of time-consuming).
My @planetizen.bsky.social posts for the year are at mlewyn.wordpress.com
December 31, 2024 at 4:11 PM
My @planetizen.bsky.social posts for the year are at mlewyn.wordpress.com
My marketurbanism.com posts from 2024 are collected at mlewyn.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/m...
Market Urbanism
Liberalizing Cities from The Ground Up
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December 29, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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Is Crime More Concentrated in Spread-out Cities?
Our nation's most transit-friendly cities have lower crime rates than many sprawling cities- yet some people seem to feel safer in sprawling cities because they believe that in sprawl, crime is concen...
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December 27, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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This disproves the common claim that only foreign oligarchs can afford super tall condos.
“$25 million to more than $30 million is now the top rung for Big Law partner pay. Most don’t believe it’s a bubble that’s going to pop anytime soon, and with demand and profits continuing, look for the lateral trends driving those numbers to accelerate in 2025.” www.law.com/americanlawy...
Partner Pay Enters a 'Whole Different World'
Rapid changes to partner pay in Big Law will continue. Among nearly 200 firms, more than one-third plan to make changes to their equity partner compensation models over the next two years.
www.law.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:31 PM
This disproves the common claim that only foreign oligarchs can afford super tall condos.