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