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There’s an enduring genre of urbanist Twitter content in which people juxtapose photos of old, dense, well-preserved cities (usually European) against…
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First, thanks for a fun year—sending this newsletter is rewarding because you read it (even if you stop reading after this sentence), and in 2021 I…
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The best book I read this year was John Stilgoe’s 1982 book Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845. As I wrote in an earlier post, the book describes…
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Which topic are we talking about today? The metaverse, COVID-19, cryptocurrency…how about all of them. I wish I was joking. I really hate it. Next time…
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A year ago I tweeted that when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like a software update is being pushed to everyone's brain.” I’d recently noticed…
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The art critic Dave Hickey passed away earlier this month at 82. Among the many memorable passages he wrote, this one has increasingly stood out to me…
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Despite the enduring use of terms like IRL or “real life” to distinguish the physical world from the digital, most people have finally come to…
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Whenever supply chains become a topic of mainstream discussion, as they have lately, we all become aware, however briefly, of our own individual…
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Max Read just started a newsletter that seems like it’s going to be good. Max has written some of my favorite recent tech criticism, such as this…
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One of my favorite pieces of architecture writing is Rem Koolhaas’s 2001 essay Junkspace, as you may be aware if you’ve been reading this newsletter for…
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In an apparent effort to provoke a large swath of my age group, Pitchfork announced earlier this week that it was revising its numeric ratings for 19…
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Alex Pareene wrote a post last month about a recent Pew survey indicating that the majority of Americans prefer car-oriented sprawl to dense, walkable…
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