Will house prices and rents stay high forever?

Are planning and zoning rules the main cause of high rents and prices?

Yes is the clear answer to the second question from academics who study the numbers. If you restrict the…

I find that the current approach to understanding how algorithms shape urban environments (and our experiences of them) is largely focused on evaluating output, and ensuring open-source ‘fact checking’ by stakeholders along the way. But building algorithms is a design process, and much of the assumptions built into them are embedded precisely at the…

Change Machine

Unlike the City of Seattle, I find change to be mysterious and elusive. The Four Seasons stands on the block where The Lusty Lady once was, across from the Seattle Art Museum. In 1994, when I arrived, the central location of the Lusty Lady was as baffling to me as the patient pedestrians refusing to…