If the word "family" appears, let's see evidence that families will actually be housed in what's produced. missionlocal.org/2025/04/candid… via Mission Local

Over in Berkeley, District 2 is the favored dumping ground, as Terry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 recently pointed out. missionlocal.org/2025/04/an-oli… via Mission Local

"Risks state disapproval" speaks directly to a shift in power from our region's cities to the state. This is a direct reflection of our political weakness. More new housing and real local control are not an oxymoron. The current diktat takes urbanity off the table.

Judging from reports of people with valid visas and clean records getting deported, Palantir is clearly getting lots wrong. Not that this would bother those in charge.

It's called a homily.

I foresee ferry rides to witness public executions.

I wrote this tribute to Chuck Davis, architect of Monterey Bay Aquarium (and my cousin). johnjparman.medium.com/chuck-davis-an…

The professional class of my generation, influenced by their predecessors, assumed and worked for its continuity. I don't see that changing.

One more summer reading list.

Will Elon Musk move himself and his businesses to China? Stay tuned. theguardian.com/technology/202…

Surely there's a cult out there that hungers for exactly this sort of building.

Posting for Chris Elmendorf - Exhibit A. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Posting this for MissionLoco, who will appreciate the many, many ironies (via The Berkeley Scanner) berkeleyscanner.com/2025/07/24/com…

Entire digital version of the new print issue of "ARCADE," which I co-edited with Camilla Szabo. arcadenw.org/all-magazines/…

Blanket 7 stories is the problem with SB79 - density should be accommodated on an area-wide basis, with area planning to accompany it that puts the existing context back in the picture. Also, SB79 is not just about transit stations, IDoTheThinking.

"I don’t have any reason to doubt your data, but it is a story. And if that story is going to be useful, it needs to be richer." (Posting for IDoTheThinking) nytimes.com/2025/08/23/bus…

Did you know that X pulled its HQ out of Lower Hayes Valley?