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Why Small Developers Are Getting Squeezed Out of The Housing Market
A repost with a few more pictures and a bit more text
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Coby Lefkowitz

May 2023

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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Coby Lefkowitz
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April 2023

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

February 2023

The Importance of Magical Places
Moving beyond the utilitarian in our cities & towns, and into the sublime
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Coby Lefkowitz

December 2022

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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September 2022

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
2

August 2022

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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Coby Lefkowitz
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June 2022

Why New York’s Rent is So Expensive
And How Well Intentioned Policy Is Making It Worse
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Coby Lefkowitz

May 2022

Why Every Main Street Looks The Same
How Municipal Policy & Financial Incentives turned Main Street Into Chain Street
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Coby Lefkowitz

March 2022

Why Building Better Places Isn’t About Money
Debunking the myth that good design is too expensive
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Coby Lefkowitz

February 2022

On Building Optimism
The need for hope in the future of our built environment
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Coby Lefkowitz

January 2022

Fixing America Starts With How We Live
How restoring The Missing Middle can fix our polarized society
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Coby Lefkowitz
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