Category: Urban Planning
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Embracing Complexity Politics
I’m cross-posting here so that you can find all of my writing in one place. Please visit the South Seattle Emerald to read the full essay. As an immigrant from an increasingly oppressive state, make no mistake — I love getting to have elections. But I sure hate election season. I used to feel ignorant…
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Paradise for Productivity
This is one of two essays that I wrote in Charles Mudede’s Writing the City class at the Hugo House in 2018. I didn’t quite know what to do with it then. I’d submitted it to a few places and they didn’t want it. So, fuck it, I’m publishing it here, without edits, in late…
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In support of inefficiency
This was once posted on Crosscut, but I’m posting here as that link is now broken. This reposted essay ends somewhat abruptly, as I truncated the ending, which transitioned into amplifying Crosscut’s fundraising campaign in 2014. In discussing the merits of urban growth, we sometimes forget to distinguish between two very different kinds of density:…