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Dwelling on Earth: A Q&A Interview with Stefan Al

By George! Can a Land Value Tax Work in Gotham?

Public Housing: A View From the 21st Century

Skynomics Blog Post Series: Revisiting Robert Moses

The Jenney Myth: How the Home Insurance Building Falsely Became the “First Skyscraper” (Part II)

Is Decay Contagious? Building Code Violations across New York City

Why Has Gotham Been in a “Housing Emergency” for 80 Years? (Part I)

Harming Tenants: The Impact of the 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act on New York’s Affordable Housing

Why Has Gotham Been in a “Housing Emergency” for 80 Years? (Part II)

The Housing Twenties: New York’s Biggest Building Boom and Its Lessons for Today

Busting Skyscraper Myths

Welcome to the FAR Dome: By How Much is Gotham Allowed to Grow?

Why Do We Build Cities in the Sky?

The Plot Thickens (Part II): Sticky Gotham

Long Live the Skyscraper

To Boldly House Where no Housing has Gone Before (Part II): Land Reclamation and World History

The Power Author: Robert Caro, Robert Moses, and the “Fall” of New York

Broken Clockism: The “Skyscraper Curse” is Bogus

The Jenney Myth: How the Home Insurance Building Falsely Became the “First Skyscraper” (Part I)

To Boldly House Where no Housing has Gone Before (Part I): New York’s Land Reclamation History

Saint Jane and the Moses Myth: Revisiting the Robert Moses-Jane Jacobs Debate

The Birth and Growth of Modern Zoning (Part II): The FARsighted Great Depression

Skynomics Blog Post Series: The Manhattan Grid Plan of 1811

How Gotham Got Its Grid (Part IV): Green and Greensward

How Gotham Got Its Grid (Part III): The Great Unfurling

How Gotham Got Its Grid (Part II): Seeding the Nexus of the Universe

How Gotham Got Its Grid (Part I): From Mannahatta to Manhattan

The Birth of Height: What was the World’s First Skyscraper?

The Plot Thickens (Part I): Do High Land Values Reduce Housing Affordability?

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Our Economic Future (Part I): How Come We’re Not Getting Happier?

How Deadly Were Gotham’s Tenements? Infectious Disease in the 19th Century (Part I)

How Deadly Were Gotham’s Tenements? Infectious Disease in the 19th Century (Part II)

Does Upzoning Work?

Robert Moses and the Zoning of New York (Part II): 1944

Book Review: Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong. Basic Books, 2022

Robert Moses and the Zoning of New York (Part I): Killing the Master Plan

Exciting versus Boring Skylines: Which Countries Build Up?

Gotham Needs a Master Plan for the 21st Century

The Missing Bottom: Filtering and Housing Affordability

Ugly Architecture: 130 Years of Manhattan Skyscraper Complaints

Book Review: Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities by Alain Bertaud. The MIT Press, 2018

Left Hand Meet the Right Hand: New York’s Failure to Implement Transit-Oriented Development

Revisiting 1916 (Part III): New York’s First Zoning Resolution and the Roots of NIMBYism

Book Review: Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek by Manu Saadia. Pipertext, 2016

Book Review: Star Trek, History and Us: Reflections of the Present and Past Throughout the Franchise by A.J. Black. McFarland, 2021

Take a Walk on the Supply Side: New Evidence on Housing Construction and Rents

Mitchell Bites Lama: The Unintended Consequences of a Housing Program