Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline.org, here in Portland OR. Views here: mine, all mine.
Michael Andersen
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one of the reasons transit should have fares is to reduce the chance of service cuts during times of great need & rising ridership
obviously that's not a cure-all but it'd be worse without them
oWOW, the Oakland-based mass timber developer, is publicly claiming to have hit $243/gsf for their latest 284-unit 11-story project.
Incredibly impressive if accurate
New York is a creedal enterprise, something you belong to by valuing and believing in a set of ideals—urban pluralism, mutual tolerance, aspiration and surprise—and that’s why it’s the greatest & the quintessential American city, model of everything beautiful about the national project.
Work from home may be bad for single people's mental health.
www.science.org/doi/...
Trump take egg
I'm very into this chart:
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
These rules were prompted by the awful death of a kid who *was* being supervised by an adult, not to mention by city lifeguards.
Been thinking lately that it’d be nice if Oregon’s governments were less dependent on external media to identify their bad ideas. We need to reward internal BS detectors
Hey, I’m back to work at @sightline.org today after my 3-month sabbatical! Attempting reentry without email bankruptcy but feel free to hit me up now
What Oregon did with its top-down plan was create a system that forces underperforming cities to upzone. I hope it actually happens as written & personally I’d have preferred to skip the paperwork but IMO this was a way to turn a plan to action www.sightline.org/2025/12/03/n...
