Thread on the experiences of the Governor of Afghanistan’s central bank (DAB), in trying to get out of Kabul:

I hope you can join me tomorrow for 'Measuring Recent Urban Expansion: How do we measure urban expansion and why it matters,' Session 1 in NYU Marron's new Urban Expansion webinar series. Registration: bit.ly/3sKliVh #urbanplanning #SDG11

As the World Bank discontinues the Ease of Doing Business reports, it is worth reiterating the popular version of Goodhart's Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

🚨🚨New Pod!!🚨🚨 The great great Ed Glaeser joins Samuel Moyn 🔭 and me to talk about his new book, health in cities, the efficiency of infrastructure spending, working from home, the value of machine politics, and many other things!

Sitting in a sustainable transport event at #COP26 and wondering how electric vehicles will work out in #cities where people lack driveways and park on the street. What happens if you can’t find an open spot with a charger? Sounds like a job for #urbanplanning.

It's illegal to build normal apartment buildings in 94% of San Jose residential neighborhoods.

Love the 15-minute city? Join Marron Institute at #WUF11 to learn why it might not work in the global south.

#WorldUrbanForum fue un gusto moderar y participar del evento de "New Land for Migrants" de Marron Institute y Cities Alliance, junto a expertos como Patrick Lamson-Hall. De aquí a 2050 puede haber 200 millones de migrantes climáticos en el mundo, por lo que es un reto urgente MinAmbiente Colombia

Room 6 in the multifunction hall at #WUF11 - simple plans for rapidly growing cities, the case of Villavicencio using land swaps to protect biodiversity.

Getting back to basics at #WUF11 Urban planning is mostly about organizing public lands

Honestly refreshing to hear clear and basic messaging

#WUF11 was amazing. So many great conversations! Big thanks to Nicolás Galarza and María Mónica Salazar Tamayo for documenting my badly formatted (but very informative!) presentation on planning in the global south.

Amazing work coming from my favorite Indian startup!

Lovely reminder that another world is possible.

Welcome 👋to the official #Africapolis account, a tool used to map and analyse African urbanisation. Follow us to learn how to make the most out of Africapolis data and analysis. This account will feature maps, figures and facts related to the work of SWAC OECD on urbanisation.

Hugely grateful to Scott Alexander for this ACX grant to help establish a new African School of Economics campus in Zanzibar, anchoring The Charter Cities Institute's flagship new city project -- Fumba Town!!! thread 🧵 astralcodexten.com/p/acx-grants-r…

Patrick Condon's housing model is wrong. But it's wrong in some pretty interesting & pseudo-Georgist ways. So let's go through them. 🧵

An amazingly comprehensive and civil thread demolishing the claims of the “new housing makes cities less affordable” crowd.

In 2019 Massimo Mazzone invited nuforpui and I to design his new charter city, Ciudad Morazan. It’s become one of the projects I’m most proud of. We created a place that works for low-income Hondurans, supporting entrepreneurship in a safe and affordable community.

Nuria and Patrick at fittedprojects.com are the best urban planners I had the fortune to get to know. Everything in their work is firmly based on the economics and trade-offs of the clients. One-stop shop for market-based urbanism and architecture.