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Observations From Paris
How Paris became one of the world's most beautiful cities, and what we we can learn from it
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Progressive Cities Aren't Living Up To Their Values
How Ideology is getting in the way of good city building
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Coby Lefkowitz
The Importance of Magical Places
Moving beyond the utilitarian in our cities & towns, and into the sublime
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Coby Lefkowitz
The Best New Buildings In North America, according to an Urbanist
A running list of some of the best new buildings in the US and Canada
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Coby Lefkowitz
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A Call To Build A Better World
Why Building The Places Of Our Dreams Is Common Sense, And Desperately Needed
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Coby Lefkowitz
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America’s Affordable Housing Problem
How America got to be so unaffordable, and what we can do to make it more affordable; an analysis of good-in-theory v. outcome based policies
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Why New York’s Rent is So Expensive
And How Well Intentioned Policy Is Making It Worse
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Why Every Main Street Looks The Same
How Municipal Policy & Financial Incentives turned Main Street Into Chain Street
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Our Built Environment
Exploring how to create better places for everyone in our shared built environment through the lens of urban planning, real estate development and placemaking.
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