The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated vividly the need for cities to be able to collect and act on data. Bad information, both about the pandemic itself and its relationship to cities proliferated online and in the media, while a lack of…
My article “How to Retrofit Your Neighborhood to Save Urban Civilization” was published at The American Conservative on June 26. It’s about how American cities and towns can redevelop around walking, biking and “15 minute neighborhoods” that are more resilient…
In “The American Condservative, I addressed the fear mongering that dense urban living was responsible for the spread of the Coronavirus and concluded that it wasn’t. Many writers blamed not only density (which isn’t really a thing in this country),…