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One of the defining images of the urban environment during the past year has been restaurant and retail interiors suddenly repurposed as makeshift stor…
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One broad narrative about Western urbanism over the past several centuries is that cities have continuously grown cleaner, quieter, and more appealing …
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I got a new iPhone last week after four years with an iPhone 7 that felt barely functional by the end of my time with it—I’m one of those people who wa…
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One last reminder that tomorrow (March 20th) at 2PM EDT, I’ll be on Clubhouse chatting with Salman Ansari about cities, technology, and the future of u…
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Next Saturday, March 20th @ 2PM EST, I’ll be on Clubhouse chatting with Salman Ansari about cities, technology, and the future of urbanization—basicall…
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Next Saturday, March 20th @ 2PM EST, I’ll be on Clubhouse chatting with Salman Ansari about cities, technology, and the future of urbanization—basicall…
Drew Austin
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Right now, artificial scarcity is everywhere, and as it flourishes (can scarcity flourish?) it’s harder than ever to distinguish from real scarcity, wh…
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I’m looking forward to the newsletter issue when I don’t have to frame the topic I’m discussing in terms of how the pandemic has accelerated it or kill…
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It’s already hard to fathom, but one of the defining trends of the era immediately preceding the pandemic was overtourism, the growing influx of visito…
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Several years ago, a friend told me, “I wish I was the type of person who could go 12 hours without noticing a text message” (he’d been waiting for a r…
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Feb 19CommentShare
During the past year, the centrality of COVID-19 in our collective attention frame has been a slight (and unwelcome) distraction from another ongoing c…
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There were a couple of entertaining articles last month about people tragically losing access to Bitcoin wallets containing tens of millions of dollars…
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