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Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways: "1/3 of the effect of freeways on central city population decline can be attributed to freeway disamenities" direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a… Ungated [PDF]: jlin.org/papers/BL-FR.p…

It was worth making economy go brrr even if it now means that a guac-less burrito costs as much today as a burrito with guac five years ago.

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Worth saying this is the result of a specific policy reform Houston made, allowing very small lots in parts of the city. You can generate a lot of housing within a SFH framework if you do this.

Before renumbering or renaming streets, politicians should really think of the researchers. In related news, if anyone happens to have compiled or knows about a crosswalk or other way of linking late-19th century Chicago addresses to post-1909 addresses, I'm all ears.

🎙️ New Densely Speaking podcast interview coming early next week! Subscribe now to have it delivered automatically to your handheld mind-control device.

Hats off to the “Power Angels”! nytimes.com/2024/09/19/nyr…

"Dr Newman showed that the highest rates of achieving extreme old age are predicted by high poverty, the lack of birth certificates, and fewer 90-year-olds."

Maybe I'll start a tweet thread labeled "8-K forthcoming"

It was a delight to chat with Greg Shill’s Corporate Governance & Control seminar Iowa Law yesterday about Purpose & Nonprofit Enterprise (co-authored with Dorothy Lund). Sadly no Webster the Duck🦆 cameo (you have to be an OG Greg fan to get this ref) but still fun.

Thanks to KU School of Law and the organizers for hosting Midwestern Law & Economics, and to all the participants for feedback! Great to see old friends and make new ones.

Fun to hear Paul Krugman reflect on economic geography #econtwitterirl *regional gaps started widening again ~1980 *data are better on showing manufacturing clustering; probably understating service clustering *agglomeration is not just about productivity; amenities matter too

“Since 2020, the Federal Transit Administration has paid out $70 billion across the country to struggling agencies, allowing them to cover operating expenses and labor costs during the height of the pandemic — something that had never been done before at the federal level.”

Coming tomorrow (Monday)!