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Cities are supposed to be where you go to chase your dreams. But if you dream of solving housing, they’re often where ambition goes to die. The barriers are just too high. Making housing allowed has somehow become a bigger challenge than building it. It shouldn’t be this way.

There’s a well-known idea in the nonprofit world: Your nonprofit should be trying to work itself out of a job. That’s the marker of true success. I think a similar idea is true about urban planning. The goal of urban planning should be enabling a city to build itself.

Few people are thinking about hospitality (especially farm hospitality) at Isaac’s level. If you listen to him talk for even a couple minutes, it’s impossible not to walk way with a renewed passion for welcoming people in. Make sure to check this out at 2pm CT! ⤵️

Have a pair of Audible credits to use. What’s your favorite book (nonfiction or fiction!) you’ve *listened* to lately?

Urbanism will only be as successful as its ability to democratize access to great places. We already build them. We just have a class of people that want to make them walled gardens. Urbanism has to be as skilled at politics as it is smart on policy.

WILLIAMSON COUNTY TENNESSEE, RISE UP

I'm a big child-friendly cities guy. But I’ve started to see more and more "build for kids, not dogs”-type content. Think whatever you want about dogs, but I’m just going to tell you right now: Urbanism does not want to be the “anti-dog” movement. Would be a total own goal.

Bruin rejects your dog-hostile cities takes.

You get to send one urbanist on Theo Von to make the case. Who are you sending?

This is huge news! CA urbanists and YIMBY's: Make sure to give the folks that made this happen a huge round of applause. When bills pass that we know to be common sense, we often respond with a very “it’s about time” type of tone. But if we want politicians to put forth more

Not a single building over 5-10 stories in the foreground here. Skyscrapers have their place. But can build remarkable, dense places without turning them into cavernous concrete jungles.

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America is the land of opportunity. The beautiful thing about that is that opportunity exists in all circumstances. Even in a moment like now when things may feel dark or bleak, there’s opportunity to fight back. To rebuild. So much of the darkness in our country and our