One of my favorites. RIP
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Largest housing affordability package in a generation passes in the Senate
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/business/housing-affordability-bill-senate
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/business/housing-affordability-bill-senate
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Tall buildings lead to more compact and productive cities
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/tall-buildings-lead-more-compact-and-productive-cities
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/tall-buildings-lead-more-compact-and-productive-cities
Uneven Earth - The social ideology of the motorcar
https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-soc ... -motorcar/If the car is to prevail, there’s still one solution: get rid of the cities. That is, string them out for hundreds of miles along enormous roads, making them into highway suburbs.
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Speaking of our roads Quoted: On impending shortages, I’ve been waiting and haven’t seen this discussed yet so probably not really a thing but I seem to recall that when oil prices spiked before the 2008 financial crises, there was a shortage/big price increases for asphalt (bitumen) because refineries tweaked their operations to take advantage of high prices for other products. A quick read on Wikipedia shows that naturally the Middle East is a big supplier of bitumen. A summer or two (or more?) of deferred road work probably won’t spell disaster and may not occur in North America with the tar sands in Alberta but hydrocarbons really are everywhere in modern life.
Then again, America’s roads having been getting failing grades for years. Would even small delays in their repair and maintenance prove catastrophic?
Also, non linear effects. I understand road work to be a reliable source of low skill employment. If budget stressed local governments cut back on that source of income for working people with all the other pain coming down the road?
Then again, America’s roads having been getting failing grades for years. Would even small delays in their repair and maintenance prove catastrophic?
Also, non linear effects. I understand road work to be a reliable source of low skill employment. If budget stressed local governments cut back on that source of income for working people with all the other pain coming down the road?