Danny Gold

(via @madisonminus.bsky.social/@citycastmadison.bsky.social)

Historic preservation has its place and I think brutalism, despite deserving plenty of hate, gets more than it deserves, but... come on

I feel much safer without all of these dangerous small business owners with legal status running around (via @citycastmadison.bsky.social)

This is a good time to remember that the original B line BRT plans included lane and parking reductions on S Park, but the city caved to reactionary pushback in favor of maintaining high speeds and throughput. The carnage will continue for as long as the city decides motorist convenience is worth it

I'm too busy to be so shaken by the mixed doubles curling final

Novel set of arguments against infill apartment development

Madison's Common Council continues to stay focused on sensible, well-aligned transit and housing policy. It's hard to even keep track of everything they've done in just the past few years

I see. I think I was interpreting “acceptable” more broadly

I’d be curious to hear more about how you’ve concluded that the income elasticity of each acceptable hatred is positive. I can buy it with some but for others, I’m skeptical

Mayor Scott signs controversial housing laws in effort to spur growth A suite of housing and zoning reforms, once pie-in-the-sky dreams for some advocates, are now law in Baltimore, with Mayor Brandon Scott signing four bills Monday in a City Hall ceremony.

#Baltimore has now removed all minimum parking mandates, citywide. It’s going to become a city with more affordable housing, fewer homeless people, less traffic, and less pollution.

Happy Tuesday!

Guess the place

Shoutout to the indie diva that controls the aux cord in Bandit Coffee in Madison, WI

We're getting more of a throwback now with Cake's "Comfort Eagle", released in 2001. Still completely on theme

one of the other patrons is wearing a Young The Giant shirt. Maybe I actually stepped through a portal

They're playing early 2010's alt radio in this coffee shop, and it's making me wistful for when I had a car in college with no ability to play my own music. I don't think I've heard a single song in here that was released before 2007 or after 2013

Great stuff

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting"

By Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic, & Alexander Willén

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky #publiceconomics #gendergap

The problem with trying to regulate building aesthetics to ensure “good design” is that you have 3 bad choices of how to do it:

- prescriptive design rules that kill creativity
- subjective design review that empowers NIMBYs
- an appointed individual with authority that can be wielded capriciously

Madison Common Council Approves Housing Proposals Immediate Release July 15, 2025 Tonight, the Madison Common Council unanimously approved three proposals designed to make it easier to build a range of homes, increase flexibility for homeownership, a...

Local policy is ground zero for the housing crisis (shared closely with state policy). I'm glad to see Madison continuing to take action, year after year, to ensure that this city has enough room for everybody www.cityofmadison.com/news/2025-07...

here's another

anytime I enter a prescription on glasses websites, I get called a weirdo

Qué partido es?

Using data from UW Medicine facilities, including Harborview Medical Center, the study counted 282 injuries from e-scooter use between 2018-23. The people injured tended to be younger and more likely to be women, and the vast majority of injuries were from falling.

E-scooters are remarkably safe: Seattle had fewer than 300 injuries in more than 4 million rides.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Politics and the Federal Reserve do not mix! It's not just bad for the Fed's reputation, it's also bad for the economy. Investors will be less willing to buy US assets if they can't trust the Federal Reserve to do its job without political interference.

cc: @regmonkey.bsky.social

This is art

It's probably an unpopular opinion, but the more I do research, the more I realize that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to do transparent and reproducible research without strong programming skills.

What I love most about studying urban housing development is that this counts as data validation
(Whittier Heights, Seattle, 1 home in 2011 ➡️ 4 homes in 2017)

Why Madison’s housing gatekeepers are getting uncomfortable The argument that neighborhood preservation is a civic virtue treats structural exclusion as an unfortunate but immovable byproduct of planning. That narrative deserves scrutiny.

"Yes, change can be uncomfortable. But equity was never about comfort—it’s about a city willing to realign its practices toward shared access, stability and dignity." isthmus.com/opinion/opin...

We're so close to fixing key drivers of California's housing crisis:
✅️ SB 79 would legalize apartments near transit.
✅️ AB 130 would end frivolous litigation against infill.
✅️ AB 253 + AB 1308 would prevent permitting/inspection delays.
➡️ Here's how you can help.