Architecture and Design
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"The Architecture of Adult Entertainment," CityLab
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"8 Buildings By Frank Lloyd Wright Added to UNESCO World Heritage List," CityLab
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"Is This Red, White, and Blue Elephant Worth Saving?" CityLab
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"In the Face of Climate Change, Architects Must Consider Local Ecology and Social Context," Metropolis
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"Meet Seattle's Snazzy New... Electrical Substation?" CityLab
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"Bjarke Ingels Group and WXY Reimagine Downtown Brooklyn," CityLab
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"A Field Guide to California Urbanism," The Urbanist
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"A New Plan to Save NYC from Flooding Would be a Disaster. Here's Why," Architectural Digest
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"Enough with the 'Feel Good' Architecture," Fast Company
Transportation
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"What Happened When I Rented an E-Scooter for (Almost) a Month," CityLab
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"With Trains Like the Schwebebahn, No Wonder Germans Love Public Transit," CityLab
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"CityLab University: Induced Demand," CityLab
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"Why Little Vehicles Will Conquer the City," CityLab
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"Five Breakthroughs That Could Make You Love the Bus," CityLab
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"The Unhelpful Ways Cities Talk About Bike Helmets," CityLab
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"Is Streetcar Rage Justified?," CityLab
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"How Park(ing) Day Went Global," CityLab
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"What Keeps Bike Share White," CityLab
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"Why is it so hard for the Bay Area to Build Megaprojects," SF Curbed
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"These maps show what transit in the Bay Area could look like in 2040," SFGate, based on a longer Medium post
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"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
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"There's Something About Scooters," Slate
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"Why is it so hard to kill this freeway?" CityLab
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"America's newest transit system starts to take shape," Fast Company
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"Biden Made Big Promises About Fixing America's Racist Highways. What Happened?" Fast Company
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"The Bay Area still needs a bridge toll to fund transit. Here's what it should look like," San Francisco Chronicle
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"Robotaxis Are Here. It's Time to Decide What to Do About Them," MIT Technology Review
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"Robotaxis Should Be a Wakeup Call for Cities," Slow Boring
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"The Dream of a Texas Bullet Train Lives On," CityLab
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"A Highway Cap Divides the City It Was Meant to Reconnect," CityLab
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"LA Votes for Bus, Bike, and Pedestrian Fixes as Deaths Rise," CityLab
Housing
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"Why Cities Must Tackle Single Family Zoning," CityLab
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"The American Housing Crisis Might Be Our Next Big Political Issue," CityLab
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"Meet the PHIMBYs," CityLab
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"How Transit Oriented Development Can Prevent Displacement," CityLab
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"The Global Housing Crisis," with Richard Florida, CityLab
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"In California, Momentum Builds for Radical Action on Housing," CityLab
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"What Will it Take to Fix San Jose's Housing Crisis?"CityLab
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"Liberal America's Single Family Hypocrisy," The Nation
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"What We Talk About When We Talk About Urban Change," The San Francisco Chronicle
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"Bringing Equity to the Forefront of Urban Planning," Shareable
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"Fix California's Housing Crisis, Activists Say. But Which One?" CityLab
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"How to Make a Housing Crisis," CityLab (review of Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty)
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"How Gentrification Became a Dirty Word," Fast Company
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"Jane Jacobs Would Support 'City of Yes,'" Vital City
Business and Technology
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"Snapchat's Foray Into the Future of Maps," CityLab
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"How Google Can Help San Jose Become a Model of Inclusive Urbanism," with Richard Florida, CityLab
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"The Quiet Rise of the Downtown Tech Campus," CityLab
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"From the Ruins of a Retail Meltdown, Post-Industrial Playgrounds Emerge," The Atlantic
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"The Ultimate List of Top Contenders for Amazon HQ2," with Sarah Holder and Alastair Boone, CityLab
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"The Second Life of Sears's Massive Distribution Centers," The Atlantic
Arts and Culture
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"In 'Neo Yokio,' Dystopia Looks All Too Real," CityLab
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"Jerry Paper," Rare Candy
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"The Meta World of Cole Kush," Impose
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"The Evolution of Airline Safety Videos," CityLab
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"Social Cyborgs," The Baffler
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"Digital Dualism Enters the Museum," SC Exhibitions Showbiz Culture Magazine
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"It's Everyday, Bro," Back Talk
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"Remembering Julia Vinograd: the Bubble Lady," Street Spirit
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"Bloody Thursday: how people's park became a battleground," Street Spirit
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"Experience Overload," Real Life
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"The Loneliness of Howie Bling: An American Jew Out of Time," Film Daze
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"'Practice Tantric Exodus:' Tuning in to Burning Man'" The Paris Review
Politics and Policy
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"What Ed Lee Did for San Francisco," CityLab
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"What San Francisco's Mayoral Race Says About the City's Progressive Soul," with Alastair Boone, CityLab
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"What Just Happened in San Francisco," with Alastair Boone, CityLab
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"Homelessness takes center stage in Berkeley's City Council race," Street Spirit