Benjamin Schneider

Architecture and Design

  • "The Architecture of Adult Entertainment," CityLab

  • "8 Buildings By Frank Lloyd Wright Added to UNESCO World Heritage List," CityLab

  • "Is This Red, White, and Blue Elephant Worth Saving?" CityLab

  • "In the Face of Climate Change, Architects Must Consider Local Ecology and Social Context," Metropolis

  • "Meet Seattle's Snazzy New... Electrical Substation?" CityLab

  • "100 Years of Designing for U.S. National Parks," CityLab

  • "The Rise and Fall of the Exuberant Airline Map," CityLab

  • "Bjarke Ingels Group and WXY Reimagine Downtown Brooklyn," CityLab

  • "A Field Guide to California Urbanism," The Urbanist

Transportation

  • "What Happened When I Rented an E-Scooter for (Almost) a Month," CityLab

  • "With Trains Like the Schwebebahn, No Wonder Germans Love Public Transit," CityLab

  • "CityLab University: Induced Demand," CityLab 

  • "Behold San Francisco's $2 Billion Bus Station," CityLab

  • "Why Little Vehicles Will Conquer the City," CityLab

  • "Five Breakthroughs That Could Make You Love the Bus," CityLab 

  • "The Unhelpful Ways Cities Talk About Bike Helmets," CityLab

  • "Is Streetcar Rage Justified?," CityLab

  • "How Park(ing) Day Went Global," CityLab

  • "What Keeps Bike Share White," CityLab

  • "Why is it so hard for the Bay Area to Build Megaprojects," SF Curbed

  • "These maps show what transit in the Bay Area could look like in 2040," SFGate, based on a longer Medium post

  • "This map shows what transit could actually look like in San Jose and Silicon Valley in the 2040s," SFGate, based on a longer Medium post

  • "There's Something About Scooters," Slate 

  • "Scooter Ridership Surged in 2019. What Now?" CityLab

Housing

  • "CityLab University: Shared Equity Homeownership," CityLab

  • "Why Cities Must Tackle Single Family Zoning," CityLab

  • "The American Housing Crisis Might Be Our Next Big Political Issue," CityLab

  • "Meet the PHIMBYs," CityLab

  • "How Transit Oriented Development Can Prevent Displacement," CityLab

  • "The Global Housing Crisis," with Richard Florida, CityLab

  • "In California, Momentum Builds for Radical Action on Housing," CityLab

  • "What Will it Take to Fix San Jose's Housing Crisis?"CityLab

  • "Liberal America's Single Family Hypocrisy," The Nation

  • "Bringing Equity to the Forefront of Urban Planning," Shareable

  • "Fix California's Housing Crisis, Activists Say. But Which One?" CityLab

  • "How to Make a Housing Crisis," CityLab (review of Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty)

Business and Technology

  • "Snapchat's Foray Into the Future of Maps," CityLab

  • "How Google Can Help San Jose Become a Model of Inclusive Urbanism," with Richard Florida, CityLab

  • "The Quiet Rise of the Downtown Tech Campus," CityLab

  • "From the Ruins of a Retail Meltdown, Post-Industrial Playgrounds Emerge," The Atlantic

  • "Your Entire City is an Instagram Playground Now," CityLab

  • "The Ultimate List of Top Contenders for Amazon HQ2," with Sarah Holder and Alastair Boone, CityLab

  • "The Second Life of Sears's Massive Distribution Centers," The Atlantic

Arts and Culture

  • "In 'Neo Yokio,' Dystopia Looks All Too Real," CityLab

  • "Jerry Paper," Rare Candy

  • "The Meta World of Cole Kush," Impose

  • "The Evolution of Airline Safety Videos," CityLab

  • "Social Cyborgs," The Baffler

  • "Digital Dualism Enters the Museum," SC Exhibitions Showbiz Culture Magazine

  • "It's Everyday, Bro," Back Talk

  • "Remembering Julia Vinograd: the Bubble Lady," Street Spirit

  • "Bloody Thursday: how people's park became a battleground," Street Spirit

Politics and Policy

  • "What Ed Lee Did for San Francisco," CityLab

  • "What San Francisco's Mayoral Race Says About the City's Progressive Soul," with Alastair Boone, CityLab

  • "What Just Happened in San Francisco," with Alastair Boone, CityLab

  • "Homelessness takes center stage in Berkeley's City Council race," Street Spirit

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