bob's burgers urbanist
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Murdering people is bad.
September 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Murdering people is bad.
Prior to five minutes ago, I had seen absolutely nothing about the protests on Twitter. I'm sure the brain worms currently occupying Elon's brain had nothing to do with that.
April 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Prior to five minutes ago, I had seen absolutely nothing about the protests on Twitter. I'm sure the brain worms currently occupying Elon's brain had nothing to do with that.
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Interested in why assessment, maybe the biggest objection to Land Value Tax – the least bad tax – might not be such a problem?
Check out my new working paper: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations.
Thread!
github.com/drussellmric...
Check out my new working paper: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations.
Thread!
github.com/drussellmric...
March 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Interested in why assessment, maybe the biggest objection to Land Value Tax – the least bad tax – might not be such a problem?
Check out my new working paper: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations.
Thread!
github.com/drussellmric...
Check out my new working paper: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations.
Thread!
github.com/drussellmric...
West Philadelphians appear to be worried that an apartment building is gonna gentrify this neighborhood of $600k homes.
February 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
West Philadelphians appear to be worried that an apartment building is gonna gentrify this neighborhood of $600k homes.
Land value tax would (have) solve(d) this
one for the Housing Theory of Everything: this man lost the Presidential election by less than a percent to the martial law proclaimer Yoon bc 1) a real estate scheme he was embroiled in 2) huge urban discontent in inner Seoul at rising rent prices
Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.
December 3, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Land value tax would (have) solve(d) this
Local homeowners and "left" NIMBYs have successfully killed the 48th/Chester "poop building". Congratulations to "Protect Squirrel Hill" on blocking a mixed-income, mid-sized apartment building, including 15 affordable units, in favor of a set of luxury homes.
July 16, 2023 at 8:57 PM
Local homeowners and "left" NIMBYs have successfully killed the 48th/Chester "poop building". Congratulations to "Protect Squirrel Hill" on blocking a mixed-income, mid-sized apartment building, including 15 affordable units, in favor of a set of luxury homes.
Greetings, new followers
July 2, 2023 at 12:08 AM
Greetings, new followers
I would simply do a Red Vienna, and I would do it without residency requirements, means testing, cross-subsidy, raising anyone's property taxes, replacing any existing buildings, imposing unwanted noise or density, exacerbating parking or traffic problems, casting any shadows,
May 30, 2023 at 4:24 AM
I would simply do a Red Vienna, and I would do it without residency requirements, means testing, cross-subsidy, raising anyone's property taxes, replacing any existing buildings, imposing unwanted noise or density, exacerbating parking or traffic problems, casting any shadows,
The year is 2030. Zoning overlays have made it illegal to build apartments in West Philadelphia. The median home price tops $1 million. UPenn professor Valerie Ross leads a successful campaign to prevent Clark Park from adding a public bathroom, for fear that it might gentrify the neighborhood
May 13, 2023 at 5:49 PM
The year is 2030. Zoning overlays have made it illegal to build apartments in West Philadelphia. The median home price tops $1 million. UPenn professor Valerie Ross leads a successful campaign to prevent Clark Park from adding a public bathroom, for fear that it might gentrify the neighborhood
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities.
May 12, 2023 at 4:51 PM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities.
Feels wild that the centrist neoliberal trickle-down YIMBYs are the ones who want to build affordable housing with taxpayer money whereas the radical revolutionary Marxists are the ones who favor messy neoliberal kludges like inclusionary zoning mandates
May 10, 2023 at 7:28 PM
Feels wild that the centrist neoliberal trickle-down YIMBYs are the ones who want to build affordable housing with taxpayer money whereas the radical revolutionary Marxists are the ones who favor messy neoliberal kludges like inclusionary zoning mandates
Housing Twitter is people who are left of 95% of the electorate and people who are left of 98% of the electorate calling each other fascists
May 10, 2023 at 1:39 PM
Housing Twitter is people who are left of 95% of the electorate and people who are left of 98% of the electorate calling each other fascists
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loving the blue skies, but this made me realize how badly I’m missing urbanist twitter over here.
can’t wait to get my mass transit / pedestrian / bicyclist infrastructure gang on here.
can’t wait to get my mass transit / pedestrian / bicyclist infrastructure gang on here.
May 3, 2023 at 6:56 PM
loving the blue skies, but this made me realize how badly I’m missing urbanist twitter over here.
can’t wait to get my mass transit / pedestrian / bicyclist infrastructure gang on here.
can’t wait to get my mass transit / pedestrian / bicyclist infrastructure gang on here.
In lieu of "tpot" I propose the term "eigenrobot cinematic universe"
May 3, 2023 at 5:58 PM
In lieu of "tpot" I propose the term "eigenrobot cinematic universe"
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The socialism we need: Capitalism has failed to build badly needed housing
The socialism we have: Capitalism has built enough housing
The socialism we have: Capitalism has built enough housing
May 2, 2023 at 6:12 AM
The socialism we need: Capitalism has failed to build badly needed housing
The socialism we have: Capitalism has built enough housing
The socialism we have: Capitalism has built enough housing
People will argue that "gender is just chromosomes" but also ardently insist that God, a spiritual entity who does not have any DNA, is male
May 2, 2023 at 3:40 PM
People will argue that "gender is just chromosomes" but also ardently insist that God, a spiritual entity who does not have any DNA, is male
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This building is still in litigation hell, because of course it is
May 2, 2023 at 3:31 PM
This building is still in litigation hell, because of course it is
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This is how I'm handing out invites
April 30, 2023 at 9:16 PM
This is how I'm handing out invites
go ahead. post another "take".
no, seriously, do it, there is a severe lack of takes on this site
no, seriously, do it, there is a severe lack of takes on this site
May 1, 2023 at 2:31 AM
go ahead. post another "take".
no, seriously, do it, there is a severe lack of takes on this site
no, seriously, do it, there is a severe lack of takes on this site
We're so back
April 28, 2023 at 6:37 PM
We're so back
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Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes
April 28, 2023 at 5:32 PM
Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes