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A few months ago, @turtlekiosk tweeted an idea that I keep thinking about: “In the future shoplifting won’t matter, not because loss prevention or surv…
Drew Austin
Aug 7
JANE JACOBS & URBAN DIVERSITY The Death and Life of Great American Cities, written by Jane Jacobs in 1961, is still the bible of urban planning, probab…
Drew Austin
Aug 6
First, a note about the title—I had no choice, given this week’s topic. But I’m not going to discuss the source of the phrase, because: MANHATTANISM “M…
Drew Austin
Jul 30
Reminder: I launched a premium tier of this newsletter and the first issue went out on Wednesday! I discussed ghost kitchens, the new eminence of food …
Drew Austin
Jul 24
Welcome to the first premium issue! I’m excited to kick this off. GHOST KITCHENS Anna Wiener’s recent New Yorker essay about ghost kitchens and food de…
Drew Austin
Jul 22 6
I’m taking a break from regular programming to announce an offshoot of this newsletter that launches today: a subscribers-only weekly installment that …
Drew Austin
Jul 17
“Where should I live?” is a popular question to be asking oneself right now. Since long before 2020, Americans have demonstrated an inclination to deal…
Drew Austin
Jul 10
If you live in a large American city, you’ve probably heard a lot of fireworks during the past week or two, and you’ve possibly even poked around onlin…
Drew Austin
Jun 26
In recent years, I’ve tried to keep Twitter at arm’s length, limiting my time with the site and keeping the app off my phone. Until the pandemic starte…
Drew Austin
Jun 19 2
Judging by my ongoing informal survey of friends, family, and the internet, we’ve entered the pandemic’s doldrums phase. The peak period of widespread …
Drew Austin
Jun 12
The internet always pushes us to keep talking—when we stop talking online we vanish. That’s a problem during times like these, when listening to someon…
Drew Austin
Jun 5
The art critic Dave Hickey, praising his adopted hometown, wrote that “America is a very poor lens through which to view Las Vegas, while Las Vegas is …
Drew Austin
May 22
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