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In “a successful city district”, “Some of the old buildings, year by year, are replaced by new ones – or rehabilitated to a degree equivalent to replacement.

Presentation given for Welcoming Neighbors Network, based on a forthcoming article submitted to Greater Greater Washington (will be updated in the future with a link).

[DC Council Committee of the Whole testimony] Gladstone Cooperative, Washington DC Thank you for providing the opportunity to testify regarding Bill 26-227, the One Front Door Act of 2025.

Two presentations given at YIMBYtown 2025: Expanding Infill Affordable Homeownership Pathways 2.

Presentations given at CNU, 13 June 2025 Payton Chung Alex Dickson Joel van der Weele

Seeing a photograph of streetlights on during the day in Pittsburgh prompted me to investigate how bad air pollution really was back then.

Presentation given at the Smart Growth America Equity Summit, March 2025.

Apartment buildings have lower population densities than other land uses, so office to residential conversion could reduce overall population density.

Wee Japanese fire trucks, as some Stateside auto enthusiasts have discovered, are adorably, I-wanna-pinch-your-cheeks tiny.

Earlier, I’ve written about how high-rise residential buildings have higher construction costs, land costs, floorplan efficiency, and maintenance costs than low-rise buildings.

Here’s a Google-translated ad for new houses for sale in suburban Hiroshima; just this one small advertisement for new houses required a lot of research and explaining to make sense!

A short presentation with an overview of commercial real estate (specifically housing construction) development finance, illustrated with examples drawn from ULI case studies.